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FRIDAY! @andersoncooper on @Jeopardy! Power Players Week

ssheetrit — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:23:39 +0000

ON Friday, June 18th, Anderson Cooper competes against New York Time’s Thomas L. Friedman and NBC News’ Kelly O’Donnell during Jeopardy! Power Players Week. The winner of each game will earn a minimum of $50,000 for the charity of their choice, while each of the other contestants will receive $10,000 for their special cause. Anderson played for the Trevor Project, the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ youth.
Tune in to see who wins!

Representative Charles Rangel: My career will end in dignity

cljones1 — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:20:41 +0000

Representative Charles Rangel (D-NY) talks to CNN's Kyra Phillips about his opponents, past scandal, and why he is running for a 22nd term.

Keeping Them Honest: CNN follows up on the Mississippi pardoned felons

bridgetleininger — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:34:56 +0000

After months of reporting on the felons pardoned by out-going Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, CNN's Ed Lavandera (@edlavaCNN) follows up on one of the men. A Pontotoc County, Mississippi grand jury has charged Harry Bostick with drunken driving leading to a death, felony drunken driving and fleeing the scene of an accident where a death occurred. The accident happened in October.

Madeleine Stowe: 'I tend to be a bit obsessive;' 'I had a very peculiar upbringing'

vanscottcnn — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:21:04 +0000

On Starting Point Actress Madeleine Stowe opens up about getting in and out of character for her wicked role as Victoria Grace on hit TV show “Revenge” and her philanthropic efforts in Haiti.

On viewers relating to seeking revenge, Stowe says, “I think it’s a pure animal instinct. You know and it’s something that we either overcome or we don’t. I certainly have my moments.”

On her character, Stowe states, “She’s a little Lady Macbethish, you know what I mean and I tend to be a bit obsessive. So it’s kind of easy to kind of slip in there. Coming out is a little bit more of a trick. And sometimes when you are on set, you know, you have to make sure that you’re not in that place because it’s highly misinterpreted I think at times.”

She adds, “And so I take off and I go down to Haiti and have this other and I’m deeply immersed actually in a day-to-day basis with this remarkable organization led by a man who is a doctor. He happens to be a priest. And they take care of 900,000 people a year, which is astonishing through what’s probably the premiere pediatric hospital in the country.”

“I’ve had a very - I had a very peculiar upbringing, you know,” Stowe says. “And my father was very sick. So I think that this is just a place to - I was ineffectual as a child. That is what I felt. And I think this is the way to kind of help.”

Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien airs weekday mornings from 7-9am ET on CNN.

Eli Manning on Peyton, SNL, Super Bowl, off-season, pranks + BOKS nonprofit work

vanscottcnn — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:39:23 +0000

New York Giants' quarterback and 2012 Super Bowl champion Eli Manning visited CNN’s Starting Point to talk Peyton, Super Bowl ring, Saturday Night Live performance, off-field pranks, taking a month off and his work with nonprofit Build Our Kids Success before-school program.

Manning says, “You know, it's one of those deals in New York. You win a Super Bowl, but I'm the third most talked about quarterback right now between Mark [Sanchez] and Tim [Tebow] and I. That's the way I like it.”

Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien airs weekday mornings from 7-9am ET on CNN.

VIDEO – @AC360: New Evidence in #TrayvonMartin Case

ssheetrit — Wed, 16 May 2012 02:45:36 +0000

Could new revelations in the Trayvon Martin case help the defense? Tonight on AC360°, senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin and Ben Crump, attorney for the Martin family, weigh in on the new medical evidence that’s surfaced. Crump, who has no doubt that George Zimmerman was the aggressor, has Toobin asking how he knows exactly what happened that night.

Shane Bitney Crone: Video meant to humanize the issue

cljones1 — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:13:59 +0000

Shane Bitney Crone discusses his video about his late partner, Thomas Bridegroom, with CNN's Suzanne Malveaux and how the events following Thomas' death could have been different if same-sex marriages were legalized.

Piers Morgan Tonight: Katherine Jackson opens up about her feelings towards Conrad Murray

megmcpartland — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:42:00 +0000

Last night Piers Morgan welcomed Katherine Jackson into the studio for a candid and revealing face to face interview.

Joining "Piers Morgan Tonight" for an hour long, worldwide exclusive, Michael Jackson's mother addresses her son's legal troubles and prescription medication use, evaluating the role each may have played in the stars 2009 death:

"I think a lot of that was exaggerated, about the different things that he was taking, because I've been to my son's house unannounced and I've been there announced," explains the 82-year-old matriarch. "I have never seen him in that way. I know he was taking painkillers, because he got burnt on the top of his head. Very painful. But all this other stuff they added to it, I don't know if that was the truth or not. But I don't think that have anything to do with the way he died."

Asked by the host about Conrad Murray, Jackson responds:

"You know what, I can't even describe the way I feel about him. He did a terrible thing," she says of Michael's former personal doctor. "For a person's life, four years in jail is not enough. I'll never see my son again. But he can get out and he'll enjoy his children."

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison endorses Romney

cljones1 — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:35:30 +0000

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison tells CNN’s Carol Costello that she is endorsing Mitt Romney and calls "war on women" argument a made-up gender issue.

CNN to Host the Second Annual iReport Awards

April Andrews — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:01:55 +0000

Nominees to Appear on CNN Newsroom and Participate in First-Ever Awards Weekend

CNN announced today its second annual awards program to celebrate the most compelling stories of 2011 from CNN iReport’s participatory journalism community. Recipients of an iReport Award, selected from more than one million members worldwide, will be announced during the first-ever iReport Awards Weekend June 22 – 24, 2012. Hosted at CNN’s World Headquarters in Atlanta, GA, attendees of the weekend-long event will be treated to exclusive workshops, panel sessions and an awards presentation.

"Every single day, iReporters and their stories play an important role in CNN’s journalism and storytelling. The iReport Awards is our way of saluting the best of that work, and recognizing the incredible contributions of community-created journalism on our network and news media at large," said Lila King, participation director for CNN Digital. "We look forward to a weekend of events that celebrate and cement CNN's commitment to iReport and to the future of co-created news."

iReport Awards will presented in six categories: Breaking News, Original Reporting, Compelling Imagery, Commentary, Personal Story, and Interview. From nearly 15,000 iReports approved for use on CNN last year, a total of six nominees in each category have already been selected by a team of CNN experts. A diverse panel of judges comprised of innovators and trailblazers in participatory storytelling and journalism will choose the recipients.

This year’s roster of judges includes Andrea Allen, director of production & community at Vimeo; Brooke Baldwin, anchor of CNN Newsroom; Burt Herman, co-founder of Storify; Solana Larsen, managing editor, Global Voices; Vadim Lavrusik, journalist program manager, Facebook; Issa Rae, producer, director and writer, The Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl; Nic Robertson, award-winning journalist and senior correspondent for CNN International.

Of the 36 total nominees, online users also can show their support for the package they think best embodies CNN iReport in 2011 by voting for the Community Choice award recipient at http://CNNiReportAwards.com. Voting is open until Monday June 11, 12p.m. ET. Beginning the week of May 14^th through the week of June 4th, nominees will be featured during Newsroom with Kyra Phillips (weekdays from 11-12 p.m. ET) and CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin (weekdays from 2-4 p.m ET). In addition, the Community Choice Award recipient will be featured on air June 25^th.

For information about CNN iReport, visit iReport.com, and see CNNiReportAwards.com to learn more about the iReport Awards or to check out this year’s nominees.

CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company, is the most trusted source for news and information. Its reach extends to nine cable and satellite television networks; one private place-based network; two radio networks; wireless devices around the world; CNN Digital Network, the No. 1 network of news Web sites in the United States; CNN Newsource, the world’s most extensively syndicated news service; and strategic international partnerships within both television and the digital media.

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