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Rescues, reunions, remarkable survival stories, but also the sad reality they might be the exceptions not the rule in the wake of Nepal’s increasingly deadly flood. 

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A frantic search is underway for more than 1,300 people missing after catastrophic flooding swamped a China-Nepal border region Wednesday, dozens of Americans are among the at least 700 foreigners unaccounted for. Anderson talks with an American doctor, whose parents had traveled to the region for a Hindu pilgrimage and are now unaccounted for, along with their entire tour group.

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Catastrophic flash flooding hit China and Nepal on Wednesday, with more than 150 people confirmed killed and the toll is likely to rise as hundreds remain missing. They are missing after a landslide sent a wall of water and mud several stories high, sweeping through towns. Plus, Anderson's exclusive conversation with Bill Gates, who is sounding the alarm on AI, warning about its potentially dire consequences and saying it should be "the world's top priority" to address them.

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Tonight, we remember the remarkable life of Dolly Parton, who died at the age of 80 after a brief battle with cancer after seven remarkable decades on stage, on screens, and in recording studios. Parton captured the American experience, penning more than 3,000 songs, and her bubbly, quick-witted personality and signature Tennessee twang captured the hearts of millions.

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A Supreme Court ruling that could inject turmoil into the midterm elections, just over two months from now. Today's emergency ruling says President Trump can go forward with his recent executive order directing the Postal Service and Department of Homeland Security to take part in deciding who can or cannot vote by mail. Plus, the president's latest argument that he needs the ballroom for the new bunker that will go beneath it, and some new reporting from The Washington Post about a bunker that already exists under the White House. 

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Tonight, the latest test of the president's political clout. He is in Myrtle Beach, SC campaigning for Darline Graham, sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, who is trying to turn her caretaker role in his former seat into a full-time job. Senator Graham faces a primary runoff next Tuesday. Plus, the is Navy considering taking the name of a decorated black WWII hero off one of upcoming new supercarriers, and possibly replacing it with the President's name. Is this another case of the administration whitewashing history? 

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Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's onetime lawyer and fixer, whose testimony helped make his old boss a convicted felon, is now doing all he can to win back the President. This evening, Cohen released a portion of a radio interview he did with the President, the man Cohen not too long ago called a racist and a con man. Plus, what awaits the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan, when they return to the U.K., from the press and public alike.

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Tonight, a complete change of course for Britain's most famous royal exiles. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex-- Prince Harry and Meghan-- and their two young children, are ending six years of self-imposed exile from the U.K. and their royal duties, announcing they are planning to move back to Britain. Plus, what appears to be some of the most promising news in a long time in the war on cancer. A new vaccine that can be tailor-made to fight an especially aggressive, and deadly form of skin cancer. 

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It is election night in America once again, and there are key primaries and special elections in four states tonight: Alaska, California, Wyoming, and Florida, the one state where polls are now closed, and the votes are counted fast. Plus, breaking news on the war in Iran, and what President Trump is telling his envoys about negotiations. 

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President taking aim, on several fronts, at friends of the United States, and cozying up to longstanding adversaries. Plus, the feud between the President and Georgia Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff. What Ossoff said about the president's priorities including, he says, the ballroom and traveling with a close female aide.

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When a Russian-born American citizen named Ilya Beloozerov is gunned down by the FBI in 2024, the authorities refuse to say why they’d killed him. CNN’s Isabelle Chapman embarks on a sprawling investigation that takes her from the Mississippi parking lot where he died to Washington, D.C. to unravel the mystery: Why did Ilya abruptly leave his family and his job and head for the border with laptops and cash? Why is there still no official explanation of his death? And maybe most importantly: Was Ilya a spy? 

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Today, the man accused of murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Midtown Manhattan sidewalk, admitted he did it, and described the crime in chilling detail. Plus, the president dismisses concerns about conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, whose sailors and Marines are enduring a record-long stretch at sea.

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Two months ago, a judge said only Congress could change the name of the Kennedy Center and ordered President Trump's name removed. But today, The Kennedy Center's board, which the president handpicked and chairs, voted to put his name back up, though in a different form. Plus, food shortages, contaminated water, and living conditions reportedly so grim aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Iran war zone that mental health is suffering and sailors have been trying to jump overboard. What the Defense Secretary is saying about the reports, what the Navy is doing about the problem and...

Tonight, an encounter, just outside Washington, which saw a U.S. citizen and mother of two looking down the barrel of an angry ICE officer's gun. Plus, the new challenge to the plan to charge early access to the president's social media feed.

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It's primary night in America, and once again the Democratic Party's progressive wing could score significant gains. There are key races in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and a crowded primary in South Carolina for the state's next full Senate term featuring Sen. Darline Graham, the late Senator Lindsay Graham's sister.  Plus, all we've been learning since news broke last night about the president's airplane switch up in the face of Iranian threats.

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According to the Washington Post, amid a threat from Iran, President Trump secretly switched planes using an airport catering truck and left the NATO summit in Turkey last month aboard a military aircraft. Plus, what it's like on the still-unsteady ground in Colombia, after the worst earthquake to hit the country in a decade.

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A federal appeals has ruled that President Trump’s  controversial White House construction project is illegal without congressional approval. The president says he will take his fight to the Supreme Court. Today’s ruling is the latest chapter in a saga that started last October when the Trump administration began demolishing the East Wing of the White House. Plus, after weeks of uncertainty the Senate is poised to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general, perhaps as early as tonight. 

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According to a source, Republican party officials are engaged in an intense effort to push Ohio Rep. Max Miller to drop out of his race in the face of abuse allegations. Allegations he denies. Plus, AI has created 16 new viruses. Some scientists herald it as a major medical breakthrough, while others worry it could eventually pave the way for a computer-generated pandemic.

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Rep. Max Miller remains defiant in the face of a growing chorus of calls for him to step down amid abuse allegations, which he denies. And he is not the only Republican congressman facing allegations and an investigation. All of it has anxiety spiking in the GOP for fears they could lose seats because of mounting scandals and potentially, control of the House. Plus, new details on a man arrested outside a Trump golf course in California. Authorities say he was armed, days before the president was set to arrive there. 

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It's Election Night in America with primaries in Michigan, Virginia, Washington state, Missouri, and Kansas. Plus, Jake Tapper joins on his exclusive interview with embattled Republican Congressman Max Miller. The congressman is facing allegations of spousal abuse and calls by some in his own party to step down. He is denying the allegations and vowing to stay in the race. 

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New reporting that President Trump is furious with the US Attorney for Washington, DC Jeanine Pirro, who also happens to be a longtime friend and former Fox personality, over a Justice Department conclusion that problems with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool stemmed from a flawed renovation rather than vandalism, two people familiar with his thinking told CNN. Plus, tens of thousands of people evacuated as wildfires burn across Washington state.

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The Justice Department is admitting that President Trump’s $14 million renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was “botched,” and it is dropping the criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn that accused him of vandalizing the pool, according to a new court filing from DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro. Plus, the White House says the president held the first-ever live, televised cabinet meeting at Camp David today. We look at the key moments over the years at the presidential retreat. 

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Tonight, two Republican senators holding up Todd Blanche's confirmation as full-fledged attorney general are still at it, even after a late-day meeting with him aimed at settling their differences. Plus, what the father of one of the Idaho college murder victims has to say about the convicted killer now wanting to pull his guilty plea and face trial. 

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The US military has launched more strikes against Iran tonight. In a post on social media, US Central Command described the attacks as “a powerful response to yesterday’s attempted Iranian attacks” on US forces. Plus, what new court filings reveal about the government's case against former FBI Director James Comey. 

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The US military intercepted multiple ballistic missiles fired by Iran in an attempted “surprise attack” on US forces in the Middle East, US Central Command said this evening. The attack came roughly a day after President Trump said the US had halted strikes on Iran. Plus, the president's meeting today with Israel's prime minister, especially given their lingering differences over the war.

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Tonight, President Trump wants the Supreme Court to take emergency action to let him restrict mail-in voting. Plus, after two weeks of strikes and threats of far worse from the president, it's all on hold tonight with Iran.

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According to a new report, the president is weighing a massive new attack in Iran. Meanwhile, two sources say U.S. intelligence assesses the current bombing campaign is unlikely to get Iran to give in. Plus, what the Trump administration is doing in response to a report that Vice President Vance’s Secret Service detail is "fed up" with being used for personal and family travel. 

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Today, the part of the job President Trump says is the hardest: being on hand to welcome home America's war dead. But hours later at a political rally, the president suggests his fight with Iran isn't really big enough to be called a war.  Plus, Jake Tapper's new exclusive CNN investigation - 18 Days in Minnesota: The Killings of two Americans, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, by federal agents.

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Tonight, new U.S. airstrikes on Iran. This comes after America’s top defense official was asked to explain how the Iranian military he said was "destroyed and made combat ineffective" just days into the war is still a deadly threat now. Plus, it was the crash of a Pan Am flight nearly 75 years ago that led to the mandatory safety briefings we get before every takeoff. Now, that long-lost wreckage has been found. 

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The Pentagon now says that nearly 100 troops have been hurt in just the last two weeks of war with Iran. That is on top of the at least three service members killed over the weekend, and new strikes and counterstrikes are underway tonight. Plus, what authorities in New York have revealed about the Army veteran they say lit a fire, set off fireworks, and brandished a rifle outside a federal building in Lower Manhattan.

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The Trump administration is now turning the president's words on election security into concrete action, and threatening prison time for officials who resist. Michigan's Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, the chief election officer of a state President Trump singled out in his speech last night, joins.  Plus, new details on the moments leading up to last week's fatal ICE shooting in Houston. An attorney for victim’s brother, who witnessed the shooting, talks about the case. 

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White House aides tell CNN that the speech will be forward looking and that the presentation will include newly declassified documents the president will say proves more has to be done to protect American elections. Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock is from Georgia, where the president famously called up the secretary of state and demanded he "find” him 11,780 more votes. The senator joins to talk about what is expected in the speech.

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Jay Clayton, President Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, avoided a clear answer on who won the 2020 presidential election during a confirmation hearing Wednesday. One of the lawmakers who questioned him, Democratic Senator Mark Kelly from Arizona, joins to talk about the hearing.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been directed to largely suspend vehicle stops until further notice, marking a major reversal in recent tactics. Trump's border czar Tom Homan says it is just a pause in policy. John Sandweg, the former acting director of ICE,  joins to talk about the updates.

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The Department of Homeland Security breaks nearly 12 hours of silence on a deadly ICE shooting in Maine, saying the officer was "fearing for public safety.” However, the statement did not explain why that ICE officer thought the driver was a threat. Maine Independent Senator Angus King joins to talk about what he knows about the shooting and what he hopes to see with the investigation.

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According to new reporting by the New York Times, the new Air Force One does not have the same defensive countermeasures as the old one, including its advanced antimissile capabilities. Anderson gets perspective from former Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall.

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Israel shared intelligence with the United States that Iran had recently devised a new plan to assassinate President Trump, two sources familiar with matter told CNN, adding another layer of tension as a ceasefire deal between the countries comes under strain.

Plus, FBI Director Kash Patel is now at the center of a congressional investigation into his alleged abuse of FBI airplanes and other perks of the office.

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Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner said in a video statement Wednesday he was suspending his campaign, taking aim at the Democratic establishment while clearing the way for the party to select a new candidate to take on Republican Sen. Susan Collins in one of the most important contests of November’s midterm elections. “It’s not the false allegations though that have brought us to where we are. It’s the fact that they are being used by the political establishment to put structural pressure on us,” Platner said. Plus, growing questions about the new Air Force One, which the...

A second woman goes on camera with her allegations against Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, as his staunchest supporters tell him to leave the race. Platner calls the allegations "categorically false" and says they come “from a person with a well-documented political agenda.”  Plus, new American airstrikes on Iran. “This is punishment,” a US official told CNN. “It won’t be over for a bit.”

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A woman said Monday that Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maine, entered her home without permission and raped her while he was heavily intoxicated nearly five years ago when they were in a casual dating relationship, an allegation Platner denies. The woman, Jenny Racicot, spoke to CNN's Jake Tapper and said the attack occurred in 2021, two years after she and Platner began casually dating. Jake joins Anderson with the exclusive conversation. 

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