Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa has declared an “internal armed conflict” in the country, ordering security forces to “neutralize” several criminal groups accused of spreading extreme violence in Ecuador.
As winter storms track across the central and eastern United States, more than 40 million people are under a severe storm threat — with at least thousands of them having lost power.
An attempted art heist in Scottsdale, Arizona ended with a dramatic rooftop takedown of a suspect trying to make off with a haul of high-end artwork, including some of the biggest names in the world of art. While police made the arrest, one piece is still missing.
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Elizabeth Wolfe, Robert Shackelford and Joe Sutton, CNN
A wide-reaching winter storm continues to pummel much of the eastern half of the country as it journeys from the Midwest up through the Northeast this week, knocking out power in several states and prompting the closure of highways, schools and government offices. Here’s the latest:
The fourth round of documents from a lawsuit connected to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted pedophile who died in jail before he could face trial on federal sex-trafficking charges, were publicly released Monday morning.
At least 11 people are reported injured following an explosion that scattered debris in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth Chief Communications Officer Reyne Telles said. CNN's Ed Lavandera has more.
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Federal officials examining the horrifying midflight blowout of part of an Alaska Airlines aircraft’s fuselage said the lost piece has been found – a key detail in the investigation of what happened during the plane’s “explosive decompression,” as certain Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft are now grounded nationwide.
Responding to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s private hospital stay, Pence wished Austin well but slammed his lack of transparency as “totally unacceptable.”
Nearly 70 million people across the Gulf Coast and Southeast are at risk for severe weather, including tornadoes, damaging wind and flooding rain on Monday and Tuesday, according to the Storm Prediction Center.
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Sara Smart, Sharif Paget, Pete Muntean and Raja Razek, CNN
Alaska Airlines says emergency inspections of its fleet of Boeing 737 Max 9 planes mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration “will take more time,” warning flight disruptions will likely continue after the terrifying incident aboard one of its flights in which a section of the plane blew off the aircraft mid-flight.
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Previously secret court documents are being unsealed related to Jeffrey Epstein, the jet-setting financier who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
A Japanese coast guard aircraft which collided with a passenger plane at Tokyo’s Haneda International Airport was instructed only to “taxi to holding point” and had not been cleared for takeoff, an official transcript of air traffic control communications released Wednesday suggests.
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At least 103 people were killed Wednesday and 141 injured in the Iranian city of Kerman after twin blasts near the burial site of slain military commander Qasem Soleimani.