Time magazine on Tuesday is due to announce its Person of the Year. While Time journalists have the final word, readers who weighed in via an online poll want the honor to go to record-setting South Korean boy band BTS. Other contenders were the cave divers who rescued a Thai soccer team from a flooded tunnel and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, whom the CIA says was complicit in the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Robert Mueller's investigation marks a major milestone Wednesday when Trump's one-time attorney and "fixer," Michael Cohen, is due to be sentenced in two federal cases. Cohen has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress in the Russia probe as well as to tax fraud and other charges related to hush-money payments to women alleging affairs with Trump, who denies the claims. Cohen faces about five years in prison but has asked for no time behind bars in return for his cooperation with multiple investigations.
Whatever happens with the Brexit vote, it's sure to be fodder for a meeting Thursday and Friday of European heads of state. The conference, in Brussels, Belgium, is due to touch on the EU's single market, its migrant crisis and efforts to fight disinformation.
| | World leaders on Friday wrap up the year's most important meeting on climate change. The two-week UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP24, in Poland, aims to create a rulebook to turn the 2015 Paris climate agreement into a workable reality. Trump pulled the United States out of the landmark deal, which aims to limit temperature rises this century to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Saturday means sleeping in, chilling out and celebrating -- your most fundamental American freedoms. It's Bill of Rights Day, marking the ratification of the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution. These are the ones you had to memorize in school and that protect, among other things, your rights to free speech, religion, the press and protest, to bear arms, to due process, to a jury trial and from unreasonable search or seizure.
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| | |  | Not all heroes wear capes They teach English for free to new immigrants, feed the hungry, make beds for needy kids, teach creative writing to prisoners and fight back against violence. This year's Top 10 CNN Heroes make the world better. They'll be honored -- and the CNN Hero of the Year named -- at 8 p.m. ET in "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute," hosted by Anderson Cooper and Kelly Ripa. It's only on CNN. | |  | | "He recognized that serving others enriched the giver's soul. To us, his was the brightest of a thousand points of light." | |  | Priyanka Chopra: The complicated feminist Some call Priyanka Chopra's rise to international icon ruthlessly careerist and others unabashedly feminist, writes Rafia Zakaria. This powerful actress is full of contradictions that surround ambitious women. CNN reporting sparks change The CNN investigation " Destroyed," which revealed that police across the nation destroyed rape kits before the statutes of limitations expired, has ignited outrage. Trashing rape kits conveys an "outrageous, shameful level of disregard, and the system that makes it possible must change," actress and victim advocate Mariska Hargitay wrote, reacting to CNN's reporting. "Destroyed" already has prompted several states' top leaders to take action, an advocacy group to update its model legislation and a police chief to apologize to sexual assault victims and promise reform. If you haven't read "Destroyed" yet, trust us, it's worth your time. | |  | A slightly edgier Hallmark movie Mother-daughter drama set to a Dolly Parton soundtrack: What's not to love? Danielle Macdonald and Jennifer Aniston star in " Dumplin'," now in select theaters and on Netflix. Meet the asylum-seekers "Icebox" introduces 12-year-old Oscar, whose chilling journey from Honduras to safety in the United States is wrenching and beyond timely. It airs again at 5:30 p.m. ET today on HBO2 and is available on demand. History lessons for our time Steven Spielberg warns against the potential horrors hate can spawn as "Schindler's List" turns 25 on Saturday. To mark the anniversary, the film has been rereleased in theaters for a limited run and is available via streaming. | |  | Cowboys' crowns The world's top cowboys and barrel racers vie for eight coveted titles -- plus prize money, a gold buckle and a trophy saddle -- in the National Finals Rodeo, which runs through Saturday in Las Vegas. Football confab Top NFL officials gather Wednesday in Irving, Texas, for a long-planned meeting. Reporters and fans are eager to learn whether league leaders will address police incidents involving players Kareem Hunt and Reuben Foster. Serves and spikes Some of the nation's best college athletes compete starting Thursday for national bragging in the NCAA's women's volleyball championship. The final is set for Saturday night in Minneapolis. Let the bowls begin College football bowl season kicks off Saturday, with matchups set from Orlando to New Orleans to Albuquerque, New Mexico. It all leads up to the College Football Playoff in a few weeks. | |  | 'Freedom! Where are you?' Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar join forces to carry us into Human Rights Day on Monday, which marks the anniversary of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The document starts with a line that, perhaps, we all should consult more often: "(T)he equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family (are) the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world." (Click here to rock.) | | | | |
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