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CNN's Harry Enten and Dana Bash examine why former President Donald Trump is falling in the polls and what this might mean for mid-term elections and the 2024 race.

Scientists say climate change and pollution have contributed to a rise in the jellyfish population, creating a swarm in Haifa Bay, Israel.

Stephen Miller: The Democrat Party is in a complete state of crisis because they don’t have one viable national leader.

As a grown bear watched from behind a car, two bear cubs went paw-to-paw on the lawn of a cabin in California.

After the University of Michigan failed to reconsider the keynote speaker for their white coat ceremony, medical students walked out in protest. Dr. Kristin Collier, an assistant professor of medicine, spoke at the Sunday white coat ceremony, an event in which new medical students are welcomed and given a lab coat. Before the ceremony, more than 340 incoming and current University of Michigan medical students signed a petition opposing Collier as the keynote speaker, according to The Michigan Daily. The petition states: “This is not simply a disagreement on personal opinion; through our demand we are standing up in solidarity against groups who are trying to take away human rights and restrict medical care.” Collier has shared her opinion about abortion publicly. “Holding on to a view of feminism where one fights for the rights of all women and girls, especially those who are most vulnerable. I can’t not lament the violence directed at my prenatal sisters in the act of abortion, done in the name of autonomy,” she shared on social media earlier this year.

From California to Vermont, Americans across the country are trying to learn how to beat this year's heat wave. More than 50 million people in the Northeast are at risk of severe storms Monday as a strong cold front brings a crashing halt to the extreme heat wave that set records across the region. Boston broke a daily record high temperature Sunday of 99 degrees as an "extremely oppressive" heat wave intensified in the Northeast, forecasters said, leading to at least two heat-related deaths over the weekend. Meanwhile, the persistent, sizzling heat in the south-central U.S. will last a few more days, and a heat wave will build across the northwestern U.S., the National Weather Service said. Daily record highs are expected to be broken Tuesday from Northern California to the metro areas of Seattle and Portland, Oregon. Daytime highs will surpass the 90s each day and even eclipse the century mark in the Columbia River Gorge and Columbia River Basin, the Weather Service said.

"Law & Order" star Paul Sorvino, whose daughter is Academy Award-winning actor Mira Sorvino, died of natural causes. n his over 50 years in the entertainment business, Paul Sorvino was a mainstay in films and television, playing an Italian American communist in Warren Beatty's "Reds," Henry Kissinger in Oliver Stone's "Nixon" and mob boss Eddie Valentine in "The Rocketeer." He would often say that while he might be best known for playing gangsters, his real passions were poetry, painting and opera.

President Joe Biden has been isolating at the White House while battling COVID. His symptoms were evident during one virtual event. resident Joe Biden's symptoms have "almost completely resolved" after testing positive for COVID-19 last week, his physician said Monday. At this point, Biden is only reporting some residual nasal congestion and minimal hoarseness, Kevin O'Connor, physician to the president, said in a letter. The president's symptoms have steadily improved each day since he tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday. Biden's pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate and temperature remain "absolutely normal," O'Connor said. "The president continues to tolerate treatment well," he said. "He will continue Paxlovid as planned. He is experiencing no shortness of breath at all."

President Biden praised the 'brave' Jan. 6 officers during a pre-recorded message to the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives. Law enforcement officials faced brutal attacks on the front lines defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. More than a year later, four of them are on the front lines again — this time, playing a central role in the room where a House committee shares its findings on the insurrection. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn, former D.C. police officer Michael Fanone, Washington Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges, and Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell were the first witnesses to publicly testify before the Jan. 6 committee, a year ago this week. They've been a near-constant presence in the Cannon Caucus room for each of the committee's eight hearings this summer. The four men faced career-ending injuries, trauma and racist insults on Jan. 6 that they've been forced to relive during the hearings. Still, they feel a duty to attend – to remind the committee and everyone watching of the human toll of the attack on the Capitol.

A woman was arrested after firing a handgun inside Dallas Love Field Airport. She was shot by an officer, arrested and taken to the hospital. The woman, 37, entered the airport’s ticket counter area around 11 a.m. CDT, walked into a bathroom and came out wearing different clothing, said Dallas Police Chief Edgardo Garcia. She then opened fire, he said. An officer shot the woman in her "lower extremities" to stop her, Garcia said. Nobody else was injured. Garcia said the woman was arrested and taken to a hospital. Her name has not been released, and it’s not clear why she fired the shots at the ceiling.

Man shoots himself... Mistakenly.

India gets its first-ever tribal woman as President. President-elect Droupadi Murmu took oath of office of the highest constitutional post of the country on Monday which was followed by a 21-gun salute.The ceremony was held at the central hall of Parliament where Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana administered the oath of office to her.

We can see further into the history of the universe than ever before. It's taken decades and hundreds of millions of dollars to invent and deploy the technology we needed to get a better look into the cosmos. But why are scientists going to all this trouble? What are they hoping to achieve? And how will the latest revelations change our understanding of the universe?

Elon Musk reportedly had an affair with the wife of his longtime friend and Google co-founder Sergey Brin.

Twitter saw a fall in quarterly revenue and a net loss of 270 million dollars. The social media giant blamed Elon Musk backing out of the acquiring Twitter for the loss, they also blamed the weakening of the digital advertising market. Social Media giant Twitter blames Elon Musk for millions of losses

Team Courage Rising" climbed all 19,341 feet of Mount Kilimanjaro to raise awareness for burn survivors.

A state of emergency has been declared in California's Mariposa County as the largest active wildfire in the United States spreads rapidly.

China has launched a rocket taking a new module to its Tiangong space station. It blasted off from the island province of Hainan.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s pre-war address attacking Ukraine’s history has brought an unexpected windfall for bookstores. It has motivated Ukrainians to find out more about their past, leading to a surge in sales of history books. Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher reports from Kyiv, Ukraine.

U.S. officials are weighing whether to declare monkeypox a public health emergency. WATCH THE FULL EPISODE OF 'WORLD NEWS TONIGHT':

The Pope apologized for the church’s role in what was done to indigenous families in the 19th and 20th centuries.

This is the true story of a 27-year-old Texas woman and her abortion. She recently overcame a challenge that millions of other girls and women in the United States now face: getting an abortion in a state where lawmakers are closing off access to the procedure. Texas enacted a law outlawing most abortions in September 2021, so women there have navigated obstacles that many more women across the country are now starting to encounter. In the Opinion video above, the woman describes her struggle this year to figure out how to have an abortion on her own, using medication and without leaving Texas. It’s a lonely, confusing and at times scary journey, which she recounts in her own words. She feels compelled to tell her story, knowing it will be relevant to many Americans now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade. She hopes others will learn from it. She did so at great risk. By taking abortion into their own hands, women face very real legal and personal jeopardy — prosecutors are already finding creative ways to punish people who terminate their own pregnancies. She requested anonymity to protect herself, and those who helped her, from the possibility of criminal prosecution. With the woman’s consent, a model was filmed to visualize key moments of the story while maintaining the woman’s anonymity. Her message is one of defiance, determination and even hope. ----------

As more U.S. states move to criminalize abortion, activists in Mexico have been inundated with calls from women seeking abortion medication. Our cameras went inside their distribution effort.

San Diego Comic-Con was back in full force after two years of going virtual due to the Coronavirus pandemic. And the cosplayers showed up big in 2022. Here are some of the coolest ones we saw.

Vladimir Putin, especially these days, is widely reviled. To some he’s a war criminal, to others he’s a dictator, and to many he’s simply a very bad man. But it wasn’t always this way. We trawled through video footage from 20 years of international summits, speeches and news conferences and discovered a man who once basked in high regard: the one who went fishing and dancing with George W. Bush, who fell into warm embraces with Tony Blair and whose jokes had NATO’s leaders rolling on the floor with laughter. As the Opinion Video above starkly reveals, Western leaders once considered Vladimir Putin not just an ally, but also, apparently, a friend. Even if they were simply giving him the benefit of the doubt for political purposes, they were taking a naïve gamble of historic proportions: Be nice to Putin, and maybe he would be nice back. It’s true that this brand of personal diplomacy scored some significant security victories. Arms control treaties were signed, and Putin allowed U.S. jets to strike the Taliban from bases in Russia’s satellite states. But as Russian tanks rolled into Georgia in August 2008, Bush learned that his eight-year friendship with the Russian leader had earned him zero leverage over Putin’s territorial ambitions. While it’s debatable whether Western governments could have foreseen the bloody horizon of Putin’s vision, let’s now be clear about one thing: Personal diplomacy doesn’t work when you need it most.