Category: CNN

Federal transportation officials are considering a range of options to enforce President Joe Biden’s new face mask requirement for interstate travelers, including the possibility of fines in the thousands of dollars, multiple sources told CNN.

Source: CNN, Officials are considering various options to enforce the requirement for interstate travelers, including the possibility of thousands of dollars in fines, sources say

Authorities in Chile have expressed regret for spreading panic with a mistaken tsunami warning calling for people to get out of coastal areas following an earthquake in Antarctica.

Source: CNN, Chile triggers national panic by mistakenly sending tsunami warning after quake

On the surface, Wuhan bustles like a city that has never known a paralyzing 76-day lockdown.

Source: CNN, A year from lockdown, Wuhan returns to normal life, but is still haunted by emotional scars

Sarah Sanders, President Donald Trump’s former press secretary, is expected to announce Monday that she is running for governor of Arkansas, a source familiar with the plan told CNN.

Source: CNN, Sarah Sanders expected to announce bid for Arkansas governor on Monday

President Joe Biden is expected to repeal former President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender individuals serving in the military as early as Monday, according to a source familiar with the plans.

Source: CNN, White House expected to lift transgender ban in military as early as Monday

President Joe Biden is planning a new wave of executive orders and actions this week as he looks to further dismantle many of former President Donald Trump’s policies and address a slate of Democratic priorities as quickly as he can.

Source: CNN, The orders scheduled for this week will build on 30 executive actions President Biden signed in his first three days in office

Five people and an unborn child were killed Sunday after an early-morning shooting in Indianapolis’ northeast side, police said — an incident the mayor called “a mass murder.”

Source: CNN, Five people including a pregnant woman were killed in Indianapolis’ ‘largest mass casualty shooting’ in more than a decade

During the Covid-19 pandemic, there have been well-intentioned calls to honor our health care workers. But to truly honor them, we need to keep them safe. Keeping health workers safe is not just a moral imperative — it is a practical one as well. Our lives depend on it.

Source: CNN, Opinion: How we can keep health care workers safe

See the Super Bowl rings | Super Bowl MVPs

Source: CNN, Tampa Bay Buccaneers are heading to the Super Bowl

Former President Donald Trump remains committed to reelecting Republicans and is not currently considering launching a third party, a senior Trump adviser said Sunday while noting that things could change.

Source: CNN, Trump adviser says former President is not considering launching a third party

More than three dozen Capitol Police officers have tested positive for coronavirus since the Capitol riot on January 6, the union representing the Capitol Police told CNN Sunday.

Source: CNN, 38 Capitol Police officers test positive for Covid-19 after riot

Europeans got more of their electricity from renewable sources than fossil fuels for the first time last year, according to an annual report from Ember and Agora Energiewende.

Source: CNN, Renewable energy surpassed fossil fuels for European electricity in 2020

The installation of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States was a welcome relief from four years of Donald Trump’s constant demonization of Latinos, from separating immigrant children from their families to building his border wall to tossing paper towels at hurricane-ravaged Puerto Ricans. Inauguration Day featured the New York-bred Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, of Puerto Rican heritage, swearing in Vice President Kamala Harris, fellow Nuyorican Jennifer Lopez quoting the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish, and the revival of “La Casa Blanca,” the Spanish-language page on the White House website.

Source: CNN, Opinion: What Latinos want to hear from Biden

• The face mask that could end the pandemic
• US just marked 25 million Covid-19 cases
• Analysis: Biden urges patience as frustration grows over vaccines

Source: CNN, Biden to reinstate Covid-19-related travel restrictions lifted by Trump

Chicago teachers have voted to defy the school district’s orders to return to the classroom on Monday over safety concerns stemming from the coronavirus pandemic.

Source: CNN, Chicago delays in-class start after teachers union votes to continue remote work

In an interview with CBS, Dr. Deborah Birx said she saw President Donald Trump presenting graphs about the coronavirus pandemic that she never made and claimed that someone either outside or inside the administration was creating a parallel set of data to show to Trump.

Source: CNN, Dr. Deborah Birx: Donald Trump presented graphs I never made

The Arizona Republican Party’s actions on Saturday night sum up so well what we’re seeing from much of today’s GOP. Slam those who dare to criticize Donald Trump but don’t criticize him for inciting an insurrection.

Source: CNN, Arizona Republicans still backing Trump are wrong

Foreign companies are turning their backs on the United States, taking advantage of China’s booming economy and superior management of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Source: CNN, Foreign companies are giving up on the United States and betting big on China, report says

Tampa Bay quarterback Tom Brady dropped a hype video shortly before his team took the field Sunday against the Green Bay Packers in the NFC title game.

Source: CNN, Tom Brady releases a hype video ahead of NFC Championship

Can you do 28 tricks in a minute? Two border collies named Wish and Halo can, and they have set the world record.

Source: CNN, Two dogs from California just set the world record for most tricks performed in a minute

President Joe Biden attended Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington, DC’s Georgetown neighborhood, his first time attending Sunday Mass since taking his oath of office.

Source: CNN, Biden attends first Sunday Mass as President

• Live updates: US surpasses 25 million cases
• The face mask that could end the pandemic
• Analysis: Biden urges patience as frustration grows over vaccines

Source: CNN, As US passes another Covid milestone, new variants could pose further challenges

In the aftermath of a divisive election, a riot at the US Capitol and the unprecedented final days of the Trump administration, the Supreme Court kept many controversial issues in a holding pattern of sorts, sticking to Chief Justice John Roberts’ objective of keeping his branch of government out of the political spotlight.

Source: CNN, The Supreme Court’s run out of excuses to avoid controversial issues

President Joe Biden’s top economic official is holding a call with a group of senators Sunday afternoon to discuss a Covid-19 relief package, two sources familiar with the plans told CNN, as the White House pushes for bipartisan support of the proposal.

Source: CNN, White House holding call with senators to drum up bipartisan support for Covid-19 relief

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the incoming chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said Sunday that Democrats would use a rare procedural tactic to pass major parts of a Covid-19 relief package if Republicans refuse to move on the measure.

Source: CNN, Sanders says Democrats will use reconciliation ‘as soon as we possibly can’ to pass Covid-19 relief package