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U.S. Special Operations forces rescued an American hostage and her Danish colleague in Somalia early Wednesday in the kind of daring raid that the Obama administration has said will be the hallmark of future U.S. military missions. Officials said the raid, by members of the Navy SEAL Team 6 unit that killed Osama bin Laden in May, demonstrated President Obama's focus on the narrow, targeted use of force after a decade of large-scale military deployments. The mission is "yet...

ATLANTA — CNN anchor Zoraida Sambolin says she has breast cancer and is getting a double mastectomy. Sambolin, who anchors CNN's "Early Start" morning show, talked about her condition on the show Tuesday while discussing the recent double mastectomy of actress Angelina Jolie. Sambolin said wanting to be there for her children helped her make the decision. In a New York Times op-ed, Jolie announced she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it...

Nick Charles, a onetime Washington sportscaster who became CNN's first sports anchor in 1980, died June 18 of bladder cancer at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 64. Mr. Charles began broadcasting at CNN on the news network's first day, June 1, 1980. "In those early days, when I came back to work each Monday," Mr. Charles told The Washington Post in 1986, "I wasn't sure if the station would still be there or if it would be a dry cleaning store. " For years, he was teamed with Fred Hickman on "Sports Tonight," a nightly roundup...

NEW YORK — Tamerlan (TAM'-ehr-luhn)and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) are two names that CNN anchor Chris Cuomo says he avoids saying on the air. Cuomo, the anchor for much of CNN's daytime coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing, said Friday he purposely avoids using the names of the two suspects to avoid giving them more attention. He said he isn't trying to hide news, since he knows others in the media have used the names often. He also said he's not much interested...

CNN celebrated a ratings victory among cable news networks for coverage of Monday's inaugural festivities. More than 3 million people tuned to CNN when President Obama took the oath of office and delivered his address to the nation. An additional 2.3 million watched on MSNBC, and 1.3 million caught the occasion on Fox News Channel, which is typically the cable news front-runner. CNN was also the ratings Cinderella at the inaugural balls, which occurred in prime time. From 8 to 11 p.m., CNN attracted about 3.6 million viewers,...

CNN will reportedly buy social media blog Mashable for more than $200 million, according to Reuters blogger Felix Salmon . Salmon said that a source told him that CNN will announce the deal on Tuesday. We are checking with Mashable for confirmation but are unable to confirm anything at the moment. If true, it would be the latest marriage of old and new media in a changing landscape of internet news. The deal price is a big one, considering that Mashable was founded by Pete Cashmore from his home in Aberdeen,...

BEIJING, April 17 -- Ratcheting up a campaign against what it calls Western media bias, China demanded a "sincere apology" from CNN for comments made by an on-air personality who called the Chinese "goons and thugs" last week. CNN had offered an apology Tuesday, but the Chinese rejected it as inadequate. CNN's Beijing bureau chief was summoned to a meeting at the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday night, and on Thursday a ministry spokeswoman said the global news network needed to do more to...

The polls were closed and the results were flooding in from the Florida presidential primaries last week when CNN host Anderson Cooper turned to correspondent John King for an analysis of the voting. It was time, in other words, for CNN to crank up the Magic Wall. Standing in front of an oversize monitor, King began poking, touching and waving at the screen like an over-caffeinated traffic cop. Each movement set in motion a series of zooming maps and flying pie charts, which King was then able to position around the screen...

John thinks he's a major media figure on the Internet , but we all know that he's just a dude that likes to review sex toys. Good thing CNN didn't know that when they showed up at his front door with a camera and a list of Windows 7 questions. His spot starts at 1:38, BTW.Video after the jump.

A couple days ago, actor Ashton Kutcher stated his goal to beat CNN to be the first Twitter user with a million followers. He promised to punk CNN founder Ted Turner if the Internet made it happen. Yesterday, CNN anchor Larry King fired back at Kutcher saying that one man couldn't take down a whole network. Kutcher was still trailing CNN by tens of thousands of followers, so he upped the ante by offering his one millionth follower the popular game Guitar Hero. A pretty weak offering for a movie star.

NEW YORK — CNN is planning an unscripted series about Chicago that will be executive-produced by Robert Redford. The eight-part series, "Chicagoland," will premiere in 2014. CNN said Wednesday that "Chicagoland" will explore where politics and policy meet people's lives in the quintessentially American city. Redford called Chicago a city with "a rhythm all its own" and said he is "honored" to play a part in telling its story. "Chicagoland" comes from Sundance Productions.

Correction: The article incorrectly implied that anchor Ali Velshi was dismissed by the network. Velshi left voluntarily for a position elsewhere. This version has been corrected. For a few minutes the other night, the hot topic on CNN was . . . bacon. The panel on a new prime-time show called "(Get to) The Point" came out boldly in favor of it. "I had a double order this morning at breakfast," confessed Jason Taylor, the pro-football-player-turned-"Dancing With the...

NBC News has re-upped David Gregory as anchor of its Sunday Beltway show "Meet the Press. " Gregory's been the show's host for the past four years. He replaced Tim Russert, who had the gig for 16 years until he died on the job in June 2008 . This TV season, "Meet the Press" is averaging 3.2 million viewers — second to the CBS Sunday Beltway show "Face the Nation" (3.3 million). The first half is, anyway. CBS News breaks its show into two programs for ratings purposes because, as it has...

CNN celebrated a ratings victory among cable news networks for coverage of Monday's inaugural festivities. More than 3 million people tuned to CNN when President Obama took the oath of office and delivered his address to the nation. An additional 2.3 million watched on MSNBC, and 1.3 million caught the occasion on Fox News Channel, which is typically the cable news front-runner. CNN was also the ratings Cinderella at the inaugural balls, which occurred in prime time. From 8 to 11 p.m., CNN attracted about...

If Lance Armstrong truly came clean and confessed to Oprah Winfrey in a two-part interview (part one to be aired tonight) that he used performance-enhancing drugs, will he really see a financial comeuppance? I doubt it. Even if Armstrong has to return substantial funds to his sponsors and others, the famed cyclist who won seven Tour de France titles spent years reaping financial rewards from his cheating. At one time, Armstrong was so popular he could command $20 million a year in sponsorships, reported CNN. Armstrong's...

ABC News senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper becomes the first major on-air personality to make an announced switch to the newly Jeff Zucker-ed CNN. He'll anchor a new weekday program that'll debut next year. He'll also become chief Washington correspondent at the Time Warner cable news network that's wrapping up 2012 with fewer viewers than either Fox News Channel or MSNBC. "With CNN's impeccable reporting during the elections and the exciting changes in the works for the network,...

"Do you know how big we are? Do you know what CNN is?!" Them fightin' words ¿ from longtime CNN host Larry King to Ashton Kutcher. King sent out the YouTube video (below) responding to the challenge Kutcher laid out yesterday to beat CNN to become the first Twitter user with a million followers. So far, it's not working all that well for Kutcher . He is gaining followers at a remarkable rate ¿ he now has over 870,000 followers ¿ yesterday he had under 850,000. But CNN is gaining them just as quickly.

After three days of "careful consideration" and increasing pressure, CNN suspended political contributor Roland Martin for a series of Super Bowl tweets that GLAAD and other groups condemned as homophobic and promoting anti-LGBT violence. "Roland Martin's tweets were regrettable and offensive," CNN said in a statement Wednesday announcing the suspension. "Language that demeans is inconsistent with the values and culture of our organization, and is not tolerated. We have been giving...

Candy Crowley, the moderator for Tuesday's second presidential debate, isn't backing down. The CNN reporter and host said Monday that she intends to take an active part in the town-hall-style debate, despite efforts by the campaigns of President Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney to curtail her role. The campaigns told the sponsoring Commission on Presidential Debates they were concerned that Crowley would ask the candidates follow-up questions after a pre-selected group of voters posed theirs.

I delivered the Boston Herald when I was a kid. It was a way to make a little money. And I started out with a small route, but it expanded over time where I actually had a pretty good little enterprise going. When it snowed, I would still do it on my bike as much as I could, even though the snow sometimes would be up to my hips. But that was my first introduction to actually having the paper in my hands every day. And I would sometimes sit on the front porch and read — if there was...