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☆ Did Police in Kenya Catch a Serial Killer or Coerce a Confession?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Abdi Latif Dahir | Brian Otieno | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A 26-year-old hair braider named Josephine Owino disappeared one morning last month in the sprawling shantytown of Mukuru Kwa Njenga in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, after going out suddenly to see someone who had just phoned. Ms. Owino’s younger sister, Peris Keya, was desperate to find her, and went to three police stations pleading for help. But nothing happened until Ms. Keya said she had a startling dream one night: Her sister appeared, led her up a hill and begged her to search in a pool of water. The dump was searched only because Ms. Keya, 24, beseeched some local men to help, paying them for the grisly task. On Monday, the Kenyan police announced that they had arrested a suspected serial killer, who they said had confessed to killing 42 women, including his own wife, in the past two years, and throwing them into the dump.

Persons: Josephine Owino, Owino’s, Peris Keya, Keya Organizations: Kenyan police Locations: Kwa, Kenya’s, Nairobi

☆ Biden won't drop out, campaign insists in a new memo
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Josephine Rozzelle | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

U.S. President Joe Biden looks on at the 115th NAACP National Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., July 16, 2024. "Joe Biden has made it more than clear: he's in this race and he's in it to win it. Moreover, he's the presumptive nominee, there is no plan for an alternative nominee," the memo said. "In a few short weeks, Joe Biden will be the official nominee. Biden campaign chair Jen O'Malley Dillon said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Friday that the president will be back on the campaign trail next week.

Persons: Joe Biden, Joe Biden's, Biden, Biden's, he's, Sen, Jon Tester, Sean Casten, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump, Kanninen, Jen O'Malley Dillon, Joe Organizations: 115th NAACP National, Democratic, NBC News, Montana, Illinois, 21st House Democrat, Biden, Trump Locations: Las Vegas , Nevada, U.S, Montana, Rehoboth , Delaware

☆ VP Kamala Harris and Democratic donors discuss 'urgent, emerging needs' in the race, with Biden campaign in crisis
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Josephine Rozzelle | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Vice President Kamala Harris joined a call with major Democratic donors Friday afternoon to discuss what the hosts called "urgent, emerging needs." The call came as more Democratic lawmakers publicly call on President Joe Biden to drop his bid for reelection. A Biden campaign official told NBC News that the president's advisers asked Harris to do the call, which Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman, the billionaire LinkedIn co-founder, planned to join. The organizers repeated claims first made in a Biden campaign memo earlier on Friday, saying that voters still wanted Biden, even if donors and Democrats in office do not. "We know which candidate in this election puts the American people first: our President, Joe Biden," Harris said.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Biden, Harris, Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman Organizations: Democratic, NBC News, LinkedIn, NBC, Biden Locations: North Carolina

☆ Harris hits the campaign trail under spotlight as Biden faces mounting pressure to drop out
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Josephine Rozzelle | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

And more than 1,000 factories closed under his watch," Harris said in Fayetteville. "Meanwhile, President Joe Biden and I have created nearly 800,000 new manufacturing jobs — so much so it's been described as a manufacturing boom." The vice president's remarks come amid intense pressure from top Democrats for Biden to drop out of the presidential race. According to media reports, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have both told Biden that his bid for reelection could endanger the party's electoral chances in both chambers of Congress. And while Democratic megadonors pressure Biden to step aside, donor events that feature Harris have started to sell out.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Biden, Donald Trump, Harris, it's, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Barack's Obama's Organizations: Democratic, America, NBC News Locations: North Carolina, Fayetteville

The third day of the Republican National Convention is focusing on foreign policy and military issues, and is featuring the first speech by Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as the running mate of former President Donald Trump. Trump, who survived an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania over the weekend, has long expected to face President Joe Biden in November's election. Biden has adamantly refused to drop out of the contest since his disastrous debate against Trump in late June. As the convention was getting underway in Milwaukee Wednesday, the White House announced that Biden tested positive for Covid. CNBC's TV and digital reporters are covering the convention live from Milwaukee, Washington, and New York City.

Persons: Sen, JD Vance, Ohio, Donald Trump, Trump, Joe Biden, Adam Schiff, Biden Organizations: Republican National Convention, California Democrat, Senate, Biden, Trump, Milwaukee Wednesday, White House Locations: Pennsylvania, November's, California, Milwaukee, Milwaukee , Washington, New York City

The second day of the Republican National Convention will feature remarks from a bevy of Republican lawmakers and other prominent political figures, including multiple former Trump campaign rivals. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, who ran against Trump in the 2016 presidential primary and was recently a finalist to be his running mate, is set to speak. Also on the schedule: Trump's former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, who challenged Trump in the 2024 GOP primary and did not immediately endorse him when she ended her presidential campaign. Haley said in an exit speech that Trump would have to "earn the votes" of Republicans who did not back him. Ron DeSantis, who was once seen as Trump's most formidable challenger in the primary, is also on the list.

Persons: Sen, Marco Rubio, Trump, JD Vance, Rubio, Nikki Haley, Haley, Ron DeSantis, Lara Trump, Kari Lake, Elise Stefanik, Vivek Ramaswamy, Kevin Breuninger Organizations: Republican National Convention, Republican, Trump, United, GOP, Florida Gov, Republican National Committee, Senate, House Republican Locations: Marco Rubio of Florida, Ohio, United Nations, Arizona, New York

☆ Video: Shooter seen by some attendees at least one minute before Trump was shot
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Josephine Hitchings | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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Trump could be seen on video contracting his body to the right, clutching his ear and dropping to the ground. What appeared to be blood could be seen on the right side of Trump's head. One spectator from the rally is dead, and a second is in serious condition, according to the Butler County district attorney. President Joe Biden delivered remarks on Saturday evening, saying "There's no place in America for this kind of violence." CNBC's politics reporters, video team and breaking news reporters will be covering this story live from New York and Washington, D.C.

Persons: Trump, Joe Biden Organizations: Secret Service, NBC Locations: Butler County, America, New York, Washington

☆ Opinion: For Black people, there’s an important history of flight as fight
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Opinion Kellie Carter Jackson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

All throughout African American history, leaving has been a form of refusal — something Black people have done in response to White supremacy for centuries. Flight is one of the most common actions in the history of Black resistance. Everything in the South depended on enslaved labor. Cities were already fragile from White flight: White families that were not interested in integration left cities for the suburbs decades earlier, in the 1940s and 1950s. But in America, as a Black American, what is home?

Persons: Kellie Carter Jackson, Michael, Denise Kellen ’, “, Read, ” Marvin Germain, Thomas Jefferson, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Ida B, Wells, Jackson, Paul Robeson, James Baldwin, Du Bois, Josephine Baker, Mabel, Robert Williams Organizations: of Africana Studies, Wellesley College, CNN, American, Poor, Mortgage, realtors, Act, Europe, NAACP, Black Panthers Locations: Canada, Ghana, Portugal, Charleston, Georgia, Virginia, Midwest, Northeast, West Coast ., masse, White, United States, States, Europe, Cuba, China, Detroit, Tanzania, Algeria, America

☆ The fastest-growing city in America has 2 things everyone wants, its mayor says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Alcynna Lloyd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Instead, it's a small town in the South that only welcomed its first Starbucks in 2022: Celina, Texas. Celina mayor Ryan Tubbs told Business Insider that he believes people are drawn to two main things about Celina: its relative affordability and its tight-knit community. According to the city, from 2010 until June 2024, 15,062 single-family permits have been issued for Celina. Michelle Clifford, her husband, and children are moving to Celina, Texas, in July. Courtesy of the city of CelinaTo preserve Celina's friendly vibe, the city puts on events, especially in its downtown square.

Persons: —, Celina, Ryan Tubbs, Tubbs, Taylor Morrison, Toll, Michelle Clifford, Clifford, Celina —, Antonio — Organizations: Service, Business, Census, Highland Homes, North Texas Tollway, Texans Locations: New York, Franciso, Celina , Texas, Celina, Dallas, Collin County, Texas, California , Florida, Georgia , Illinois, Missouri, Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe, Highland, Celina ., California, Prosper , Texas, San Diego, Preston, New Braunfels, Austin

☆ Biden touts cooling inflation, slams Trump tariffs at press conference
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Josephine Rozzelle | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

President Joe Biden on Thursday trumpeted the latest inflation report in the opening remarks of his highly anticipated solo press conference in Washington. "Just this morning, we had a great economic report showing inflation is down," he said. Biden then criticized former President Donald Trump's proposed economic policy, which includes a 10% baseline tariff on all U.S. imports. "Meanwhile, Trump's calling for a 10% tariff on everything Americans buy, including food from overseas, vegetables and other necessities," he said. The press conference was a high-stakes event for the president, who has been facing calls to drop out of the 2024 race after his performance last month at the first debate with Trump.

Persons: Joe Biden, Biden, Donald Trump's Organizations: U.S . Department of Labor, Trump Locations: Washington

☆ With Chevron reversal, Supreme Court paves way for a 'legal earthquake'
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-10 | by ( Josephine Rozzelle | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A general view of the U.S. Supreme Court as justices issue rulings in pending cases on the final day of the court's term in Washington, U.S., July 1, 2024. This batch of cases may be the first indication of the legal upheaval that could play out across the United States judiciary now that one of the most widely cited Supreme Court opinions has been reversed. "The majority's decision today will cause a massive shock to the legal system," Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissenting opinion. It also called into question the fate of the more than 19,000 past federal cases which cite the precedent. The Supreme Court protected agencies' past actions, Coglianese explained, but it said little about the agencies' past interpretations of laws, leaving the door cracked open for prior cases to be challenged.

Persons: Raimondo, Elena Kagan, John Roberts, Roberts, Cary Coglianese, Coglianese Organizations: U.S, Supreme, Loper Bright Enterprises, Chevron, United, Natural Resources Defense, University of Pennsylvania, Penn Locations: Washington , U.S, United States, Chevron v

☆ Tense exchange with reporter and White House press secretary over name of neurologist
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Josephine Hitchings | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Video shows a Ukrainian children’s hospital struck by missile
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Josephine Hitchings | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Hear Jamie Foxx address details of his health scare in new video
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-02 | by ( Josephine Hitchings | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Former Trump aide Steve Bannon begins four-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Josephine Rozzelle | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Steve Bannon, former top advisor to Donald Trump, greets supporters as he arrives to speak with media before he reports to prison at the U.S. federal correctional institution in Danbury, Connecticut, on July 1, 2024. Steve Bannon, a former aide to Donald Trump, reported to prison on Monday to begin a four-month sentence for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena. Bannon entered the federal correctional institution in Danbury, Connecticut, around 12:00 p.m., NBC News reported. Bannon was greeted by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and a mixed crowd of supporters and protesters when he arrived at a press conference across the street from the federal correctional institution in Danbury. He told reporters he was "proud to go to prison" and had "no regrets," shortly before reporting to begin his sentence.

Persons: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, Bannon, Marjorie Taylor Greene Organizations: U.S, NBC News, D.C, U.S . Capitol Locations: Danbury , Connecticut, Washington, Danbury

Birds fly outside the U.S. Supreme Court on the day justices issue orders in pending appeals in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2024. Republican lawmakers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce praised the Supreme Court decision Friday overturning the so-called Chevron Doctrine, which for four decades led judges to defer to how federal agencies interpreted a law when its language was not clear. GOP lawmakers said the 6-3 decision by the Supreme Court undid a precedent that they argued had unjustly strengthened the power of unelected government officials. "After forty years of Chevron deference, the Supreme Court made it clear today that our system of government leaves no room for an unelected bureaucracy to co-opt this authority for itself," McConnell said. "It's a huge blow to the administrative state in Washington, D.C. No one elects bureaucrats to make these decisions," Cotton said of the decision, which overturned the Supreme Court's ruling in 1984 in a case known as Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council.

Persons: Mitch McConnell, McConnell, Suzanne Clark, Clark, Jeff Holmstead, Bracewell, Holmstead, Chevron, Sen, Tom Cotton, Raimondo, Cotton Organizations: U.S, Supreme, Republican, U.S . Chamber, Commerce, GOP, Air, Environmental Protection Agency, Fox News, Loper Bright Enterprises, Constitutional, Chevron, Natural Resources Defense Locations: Washington , U.S, Ky, Washington ,

☆ Presidential debate live updates: Biden faces Trump in Atlanta
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Dan Mangan Kevin Breuninger Christina Wilkie Brian Schwartz Rebecca Picciotto Josephine Rozzelle | Dan Mangan | Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are squaring off in their first debate of the 2024 White House race in Atlanta on Thursday night. NBC News Now will stream CNN's Presidential Debate live. The 90-minute debate comes as Trump faces two pending criminal prosecutions over the Republican's efforts to overturn his defeat as president in the 2020 election to the Democrat Biden. There will be no studio audience for the debate, and each candidate's microphone will be muted when it is their opponent's turn to speak. CNBC's team of politics and economics reporters will be covering the candidates, the lead-up and the debate live from Washington, D.C.; CNBC Global Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey; and New York City.

Persons: Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Democrat Biden, Jake Tapper, Dana Bash Organizations: White, NBC, Trump, Democrat, CNN, Washington , D.C, CNBC Global Headquarters, New Locations: Atlanta, Washington ,, Englewood Cliffs , New Jersey, New York City

☆ Trump Media closes up nearly 8%, continuing post-sell-off rally
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Josephine Rozzelle | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group closed up nearly 8% on Wednesday, adding to the stock's post-sell-off rally. Trump Media, which trades under the ticker "DJT," plummeted nearly 50% in the three weeks following the felony conviction of former President Donald Trump, Trump Media's majority shareholder. Shares of Trump Media closed at $26.75 last Thursday, its lowest level since April, but began rebounding on Friday. Trump Media, the parent company of social media platform Truth Social, started publicly trading on March 26 after merging with a special purpose acquisition company. The former president owns a nearly 65% stake in Trump Media, but he cannot sell any of his 114,750,000 shares until a postmerger lock-up period ends in late September.

Persons: Donald Trump, — Trump Organizations: Trump Media & Technology Group, Trump Media, Trump, U.S . Securities, Exchange Commission, Social Locations: Thursday's

☆ New photos show Trump's 'haphazard' storage of classified documents, special counsel says
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Josephine Rozzelle | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Documents and materials seized during a search of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and social club are pictured in this undated handout picture obtained by Reuters on June 25, 2024. Federal prosecutors in Donald Trump's classified documents case released new photos showing what they called the "haphazard manner" in which Trump stored boxes of documents that federal agents later seized from Mar-a-Lago in August 2022. The filing came in response to Trump's most recent motion to dismiss the case that argued that the FBI agents destroyed "exculpatory evidence" by failing to keep the documents in the same order in which they found them. Pointing to the photos — some of which show documents spilling onto the floor, while others show various items such as clothing and newspapers in the boxes — prosecutors said Trump's motion to dismiss should be denied without a hearing. "Against this backdrop of the haphazard manner in which Trump chose to maintain his boxes, he now claims that the precise order of the items within the boxes when they left the White House was critical to his defense," prosecutors, led by Special Counsel Jack Smith, wrote in the filing submitted Monday evening.

Persons: Donald Trump’s Mar, Donald Trump's, Trump, Jack Smith Organizations: Reuters, Trump, FBI, White Locations: Mar, Lago

☆ Melinda French Gates endorses Joe Biden for president
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Josephine Rozzelle | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Melinda French Gates arrives at Elysee Palace for the Generation Equality Forum hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron on July 01, 2021 in Paris, France. Melinda French Gates, a philanthropist and the former wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, announced Thursday that she will vote for President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election, writing in an op-ed that "the stakes for women and families couldn't be higher." In her explanation of her endorsement, French Gates focused on the two candidates' track records when it comes to women's issues — the subject of much of French Gates' philanthropic work. French Gates announced in May that she would be resigning as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, almost three years after she and her ex-husband announced their separation. French Gates did not say in her endorsement on Thursday whether she plans to donate to Biden's campaign.

Persons: Melinda French Gates, Emmanuel Macron, Bill Gates, Joe Biden, I've, Gates, Donald, Trump's, I'm, Biden, French Gates, That's, Trump, Melinda Gates Organizations: Palace, Generation, French, Microsoft, CNN, Trump, CNBC, Melinda Gates Foundation, Bloomberg Locations: Paris, France, French

☆ DJT shares tumble 13% as Trump Media stock sell-off accelerates
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Josephine Rozzelle | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group dropped more than 13% on Tuesday, continuing the stock's tumble following the conviction of former President Donald Trump, the company's majority shareholder. Trump Media shares, which trade under the ticker "DJT," are down about 40% since May 30, when a New York jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. But the registration statement notes that holders of Trump Media warrants can exercise them on a "cashless basis" starting Tuesday and until the registration statement becomes effective. The warning comes just weeks after the former president — who uses Truth Social almost exclusively to make his public statements — joined the social media app TikTok. Trump Media & Technology Group disclosed a net loss of $327.6 million and total revenue of $770,500 in the first quarter of the year on its most recent earnings report, filed in May.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Tuesday's, Donald J, — Organizations: Trump Media & Technology Group, Trump Media, New, Securities and Exchange Commission, Trump, SEC, Truth Locations: New York, TMTG

☆ Trump allies scramble to explain after he calls Republican National Convention host Milwaukee a 'horrible' city
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Josephine Rozzelle | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

In a meeting with House Republicans on Thursday, former President Donald Trump called Milwaukee — the host of the 2024 Republican National Convention — a "horrible" city and said it is overrun by crime. The Trump campaign denied that he called the city "horrible," writing in a press release that the reports are a "total lie." "President Trump was explicitly referring to the problems in Milwaukee, specifically violent crime and voter fraud," the campaign said in its statement. Republican Rep. Bryan Steil, of Wisconsin, replied to a post on X that reported Trump's comment that Milwaukee is a "horrible" city. "We'll see that at the RNC — and then again in November, when Wisconsinites send Donald Trump packing."

Persons: Donald Trump, Punchbowl's Jake Sherman, Trump, Bryan Steil, Steil, Derrick Van Orden, Joe Biden, Biden, X, Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson, Garren, MAGA, Randolph Organizations: Capitol, National Republican Senatorial, Republicans, Milwaukee, Republican, Convention, NBC News, Capitol Hill Club, Trump, RNC, Democrat, Republican Party, CNBC, Milwaukee Bucks, White, Milwaukee Mayor, Garren Randolph , Wisconsin Democratic, MAGA Republicans Locations: Washington, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Garren Randolph , Wisconsin

☆ Biden touts 'great American comeback' after better-than-expected May jobs report
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Josephine Rozzelle | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the economy at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 26 union, in Lanham, Maryland, on Feb. 15, 2023. President Joe Biden touted the far better-than-expected May jobs report, boasting about "the great American comeback" and calling out Congressional Republicans' economic plan in a statement on Friday. The unemployment rate rose from 3.9% to 4% at the same time, and the labor force participation rate decreased slightly to 62.5%. "The great American comeback continues, but we still have to make more progress," Biden said. "On my watch, 15.6 million more Americans have the dignity and respect that comes with a job.

Persons: Joe Biden, Dow Jones, Biden Organizations: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Republicans, payrolls, U.S . Department of Labor, Federal Reserve Locations: Lanham , Maryland, U.S

☆ Toddler goes viral helping mom graduate on stage at Princeton
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Josephine Hitchings | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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