‘I'm willing to die': Baseball coach says he defended kids from ICE
CNN's Erin Burnett talks with Youman Wilder, a youth baseball coach in New York City, who says that he protected his students from ICE agents.
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'I'm willing to die': Baseball coach says he defended kids from ICE
CNN's Erin Burnett talks with Youman Wilder, a youth baseball coach in New York City, who says that he protected his students from ICE agents.
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MTG warns of 'big' blowback in MAGA world over handling of Epstein case
CNN's Manu Raju spoke with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) who is demanding "transparency" from President Donald Trump's administration when it comes to information related to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and warned that the issue could stoke "significant" blowback from the right wing of the party.
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Man shoots woman in the street in Guadalajara
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Assisted facility resident describes terror in burning building
CNN's Jason Carroll reports from the scene of the Gabriel House fire in Fall River, Massachusetts, where a blaze that broke out Sunday night killed 9 residents of the assisted living facility.
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Trump demands Russia reach peace deal within 50 days
President Donald Trump made several announcements on Monday aligning him more firmly with Ukraine's defense against Russia's invasion than ever before. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh breaks down the two main developments that could drastically impact the ongoing war.
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Hackers post about Jeffrey Epstein on Elmo's X account
Hackers took over Elmo's X account and posted expletive-filled antisemitic and anti-Trump statements. The posts have since been deleted. A spokesperson for Sesame Workshop told CNN they are working to restore full control of the account.
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Watch: Trump stays on stage at FIFA Club World Cup final
President Donald Trump stayed on stage to celebrate the trophy raise with FIFA Club World Cup final winners, Chelsea. He was also met with boos from some audience members as he presented the squad with medals.
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Trump announces novel plan to send weapons to Ukraine
In an Oval Office meeting, President Trump announced that the US will sell weapons to European nations who will then send them to Ukraine. The president also threatened new trade consequences if no peace deal is reached with Ukraine within 50 days.
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Canadian kindness breaks the internet
A viral ad campaign from the Eastern Townships Tourism Association has a message for American travelers hoping to come to Canada.
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Deadly fire at Massachusetts assisted living facility
Nine people died Sunday night after an assisted living facility caught fire in Fall River, Massachusetts, officials said, with elderly people begging for help from first responders as smoke poured out of the building.
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Trump hasn't ruled out funneling longer-range missiles to Ukraine
As President Donald Trump hardens his position toward Moscow and seeks new ways to bring the conflict to an end, he is leaving open the prospect of allowing shipments of longer-range missiles to the country that would allow it to strike deeper into Russia, according to officials familiar with the matter. In conversations with European allies over the past several weeks, Trump has not ruled out allowing certain offensive weapons into Ukraine, including products Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has previously requested from the United States but not yet received, the officials said. Trump has also asked about Ukraine's ability to carry out strikes deep inside Russia in recent weeks in an effort to increase pressure on the Kremlin to drive an end to the war, according to a source briefed on the conversation. In a recent phone call with Zelensky, Trump asked about Ukraine's ability to hit both Moscow and St. Petersburg, the source said, a question first reported by the Financial Times. A US official and a White House official said the question was one of many the president asked about the conflict on the call, and seemed to be raised in passing. But the Ukrainians were stunned and took Trump's ideas seriously. Zelensky said that the strikes could be carried out if the Ukrainians had the weapons needed, the first source said. After the conversation, there has been follow-up discussion between Ukraine, other European countries and the US about long-range systems that could be given to Ukraine, the source said. Ukraine has already been reaching Moscow and the St. Petersburg area with drone strikes. After the Financial Times reported on Trump's question, the White House said Trump's words had been taken out of context. 'President Trump was merely asking a question, not encouraging further killing. He's working tirelessly to stop the killing and end this war,' press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN. The episode underscores the current dynamic between the two countries, as Zelensky works tirelessly to get Trump's ear and does not want to squander what might be limited support and engagement from the United States. On Monday, Trump's NATO envoy Matt Whitaker said the immediate focus on shipping weapons to Ukraine was on defensive systems, like the Patriot missile batteries. But he didn't rule out providing offensive weapons. 'All weapons are both offensive and defensive,' he said. 'Obviously an air defense system is important and critical for the situation, but at the same time we're not taking anything off the table.' At the end of his term, President Joe Biden allowed shipments of powerful long-range Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missiles to Ukraine for use inside Russia, though those weapons would not be able to reach the two cities Trump reportedly questioned Zelensky about in his phone call. Trump called the move 'stupid' and a 'big mistake,' and questioned why he wasn't consulted as he was preparing to take office. Ukraine has also previously requested — but not yet received – Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles, or JASSMs, which are fired from F-16 fighter jets. European nations have previously provided those jets to Ukraine. For now, however, the priority appears to be getting Ukraine air defense systems — namely, the Patriot batteries that can intercept Russian ballistic missiles. Those products will be the first to enter the new weapons pipeline that Trump announced Monday involving European nations purchasing the products and then transferring them to Ukraine. The weapons will be available to ship quickly from existing stockpiles in Europe, and will likely be backfilled by new purchases from the US by European nations. 'When it comes to ammunition and missiles, we will work on this from now on, every hour, making sure that the stuff gets into Ukraine. But of course, we know it's not only Patriots,' NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told CNN's Jake Tapper on Monday, citing other systems used to intercept cruise missiles as essential to Ukraine's defenses. 'This is really discussing everything the US can still deliver without hurting the defense of the US itself,' he said.
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Trump flails as Epstein storm rages around his government
CNN — Donald Trump very rarely loses control of his own story. But the Jeffrey Epstein saga is beyond his powers to quell. It's a new twist for the president, being at odds with the loudest and most conspiratorial faction of his MAGA movement. For once, he's becoming the victim of an out-of-control conspiracy, not the initiator of one. He looks like the insider covering up, not the ultimate outsider and deep-state destroyer. Some of MAGA's most visible personalities are speaking up. Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene warned Monday of 'significant' reverberations in the movement over what some Trump supporters see as a cover-up. 'It's just a red line that it crosses for many people,' she told CNN's Manu Raju. Tensions boiling between Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and Patel's deputy, Dan Bongino, are rekindling memories of the chaos and dysfunction that scarred Trump's first term but have been less obvious in his more prolific second presidency. analysis 4 big questions about Trump and Epstein If anyone ought to know that the government can't issue statements of reassurance and make conspiracy theories disappear, it's Trump. He spun some of the most notorious fake intrigues in the history of American politics, from the racist fantasy about President Barack Obama's birthplace to the democracy-corroding tale that he won the 2020 election — which helped vault him back to power in 2024. But Trump's mastery of the conspiratorial didn't help attempts to squelch the Epstein drama. The Justice Department last week issued a memo insisting that there was no evidence the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender kept a client list or that he was murdered in prison. But as the president could have told Bondi, telling people there is no there there only lights the fire of conspiracy. That left the president in a worse spot Monday, as CNN reported he was increasingly frustrated about a controversy that has now gone on for almost a week and is overshadowing what the White House sees as a growing list of wins at home and abroad. The political fallout One big question is whether Trump risks damage in his own political coalition if he can't quiet the furor over the Justice Department's Epstein memo. Trump has for a decade been the most dynamic right-wing figure in the country. He's built a brand by tearing things down and crushing Washington rules. But if even he can't end a MAGA media revolt, perhaps he's entering a rocky period with a force that has long sustained him. Still, it would be unwise to underestimate his power. Trump transformed the GOP in his populist, nationalist image. Lawmakers who challenge him are often excommunicated. At Trump campaign rallies, the trust and devotion he inspired among his followers was palpable. MAGA media influencers who criticize him seem to understand that their status in the movement relies on the reflected glory of its megastar: Before Trump's recent strikes on Iran, many of them warned that he risked splitting his base by launching foreign wars — but most fell back into line when the bombs started falling. 'Donald Trump has a very significant hold on the Republican Party, and I think anybody that thinks that this is the end of Donald Trump's hold on the GOP is wrong,' Kristen Soltis Anderson, a Republican strategist and CNN contributor, told Kasie Hunt on 'The Arena' on Monday. Still, Anderson added that this flap could be more problematic for Trump than the ideological battles that he's forced on the GOP because it involves the issue of trust with his supporters and his outsider status. But in next year's midterm elections, when Trump won't be on the ballot, any falloff in enthusiasm among grassroots Republicans could have an impact. Steve Bannon, a Trump first-term political adviser who now presents the 'War Room' podcast, argued at the Turning Point USA conference on Friday that it wouldn't take much erosion in the MAGA base to have a dramatic effect. He said that if 10% of the movement was disaffected, the party could lose 40 House seats. That would mean a Democratic majority. What will Trump do next? It's worth watching to see whether Trump senses he's under pressure. If so, a president who is an expert at distraction may seek to stage-manage new controversies. Trump has often returned to the issue embedded in the DNA of the MAGA movement — hardline positions on immigration — to bring the gang back together. So it was not surprising to see border czar Tom Homan and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem talking tough on Sunday news shows. But those MAGA administration favorites still couldn't disguise the rumblings over Epstein, which intensified all weekend. Those rumblings were initiated in the first place by Bondi hinting earlier this year on Fox News that there could be a big reveal in the case. Trump has made strong show of support for his AG in recent days, including appearing with her at the FIFA Club World Cup Final on Sunday. She is also valuable to him and has transformed her department into a de facto personal legal firm for the president. Still, if she can't quell the noise from the political base, there will be more whispers in Trump's ear about her performance. The president has soured on his Cabinet picks in such circumstances in the past. Trump wrote on social media over the weekend that Bondi was 'great' and should be allowed to do her job. But loyalty usually only works one way in the Trump administration. And one way of getting on the right side of the story would be for the president to distance himself from Bondi. CNN's White House team reported, meanwhile, that while the president doesn't want to lose Bongino over this issue because it would make his Cabinet look split, some expect the deputy FBI director will not remain in his job long term. House Speaker Mike Johnson told Raju on Monday that he still had faith in Bondi and that he trusted the president to do the right thing about the Epstein issue. The fact that the Louisiana Republican is prepared to entertain such questions shows the attorney general is under pressure. The conspiracist-in-chief True to form, Trump sought to extricate himself from the mess by starting new conspiracy theories blaming Democrats for failing to release the files years ago. This has often worked in the past to bind his coalition together. But it's not working this time. The president merely opened the way for Democrats to heap scrutiny on his decisions. 'The American people deserve to know the truth, the whole trust and nothing but the truth as it relates to this whole sordid Jeffrey Epstein matter,' House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters Monday as he tried to widen MAGA splits. 'This was a conspiracy theory that Donald Trump, Pam Bondi and these MAGA extremists have been fanning the flames of for the last several years, and now the chickens are coming home to roost.' Top conservative influencers at the Turning Point conference and on Monday podcasts continued to demand answers about Epstein, where he got his money, who he was linked to and who was covering for him. All this shows that the Epstein controversy is unlikely to go away quickly. One reason why is that it's become central to an argument that Trump and his aides promoted for years that the United States is under the control of a 'deep state' of intelligence agencies, billionaire financiers and shady political forces that are orchestrating events behind the scenes. Trump tapped into this false mythology to build his own power — portraying himself as a victim of CIA and FBI plots and weaponized justice because he was the avatar of the hopes of MAGA followers across the country. Now it looks like he's siding with such supposedly rotten institutions, not bringing them down. How the Epstein storm could hurt the country But this is not just about the president and his movement. Given his position, and the chaos gripping the Justice Department, there are implications for the country. The controversy is offering a damning insight into modern politics and the contribution of a fractured media environment to the shattering of the concept of truth. The refusal of MAGA media personalities to accept that the facts do not support a cover-up around Epstein's alleged client list and his death in prison reflects an extreme version of a powerful trend — the desire of increasing numbers of citizens to choose curated truths that support what they want to believe. Trump has done more than any other politician to promote this. analysis MAGA media's conspiracy theories put Trump in power — and now they're coming back to bite him The corrosive nature of Trump's conspiracy-consumed government also threatens to damage the Justice Department and FBI. Vitriol ricocheting through the management suite risks detracting from the core missions of the DOJ and the bureau — which include the fair administration of justice and the protection of Americans against violent crime and terrorism. It also shows that when the purpose of such agencies is tainted by politics — as it has been under Trump — the ramifications can sometimes spin out of control. And no one in MAGA media is talking about one key issue. Many of those who voted for Trump in his more-diverse-than-usual Republican coalition last year weren't hardcore MAGA conspiracists. They were Americans frustrated with the cost-of-living crisis: the price of groceries, rent, child care and education. How is this political saga over a wild conspiracy about a dead and accused sex offender going over with them? It seems unlikely it will be top of mind when they show up at the polls next November to decide the fate of Republican congressional majorities.
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27 minutes ago
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American accused in murders of mother and baby appears before Italian judge after extradition
A 46-year-old American man accused of the murders of a 29-year-old woman and her baby has faced a preliminary legal hearing in Rome after being extradited to Italy. The California native, named in an international arrest warrant and by Italian police as Francis Kaufmann, was extradited from Greece over the weekend. Italian police say he previously used an authentic US passport in the name of Rexal Ford and an Italian identity card in the name of Matteo Capozzi. The preliminary hearing took place in Rome's Rebibbia prison on Tuesday. According to the Rome prosecutor's office, Kaufmann exercised his right not to answer any questions and did not respond to the charges against him. He was questioned by investigating judge Flavia Costantini and Rome prosecutor Giuseppe Cascini, and was represented by lawyer Carlo Ludovico Favino, the prosecutor's office said. The bodies of Anastasia Trofimova and her 11-month-old baby were found separately in overgrown areas of Rome's Villa Pamphili park on June 7. The baby had been starved and strangled, but the cause of her mother's death has still not been determined, police said in early July. The victims' identities were unknown for more than a week before an Italian TV show that highlights missing persons ran photos released by police of Trofimova's extensive tattoos, which her mother in Moscow recognized after a friend sent them to her. Subsequently interviewed for the missing persons show, Trofimova's mother said her daughter had met a man she knew by the name Rexal Ford in Malta, where she was studying English. She had never met her granddaughter, but was in sporadic touch with the couple and child, she told Italian investigators and Italian media. Kaufmann, who has denied involvement in the murders, was arrested on the Greek island of Skiathos on June 13. He fought extradition through a local lawyer who no longer represents him. Italian police say his DNA was found on the black garbage bag in which Trofimova's body was found. DNA testing to determine if Kaufmann is the baby's father will be carried out now that he is in Italy. Kaufmann, who promoted himself as a film producer and screenwriter, used his Rexal Ford alias to scout movie locations, including several rooftop terraces in Rome, Cascini said in a press conference last week announcing Kaufmann's impending extradition to Rome. Italian police said in a press conference on June 11 that Kaufmann, Trofimova and the baby lived rough in various parks in Rome and ate at the city's soup kitchens, despite him having multiple credit cards and often taking potential film investors to expensive restaurants. CNN's Antonia Mortensen contributed to this report.
