By Gul Tuysuz, CNN

Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) — ISIS militants opened fire on police during an overnight raid in Turkey’s western Yalova province on Monday, killing three people and injuring eight others, according to authorities.

Turkish authorities said six ISIS members were killed and five other people were detained in the operation which lasted more than seven hours in the village of Elmalik, 62 miles (100 kilometers) from Istanbul.

The raid came as law enforcement authorities stepped up raids ahead of what they say are planned attacks against minorities during the winter holidays.

Social media videos of the operation showed a nighttime gunfight as police raided a suspected ISIS safehouse. Footage shot later showed smoke billowing from the area of the raid and fire trucks racing to the scene.

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said the raid was conducted with “a great deal of care because there were women and children at the address.” The five women and six children at the address were taken to safety, he said in his televised press briefing.

Electricity and natural gas to Elmalik were cut during the raid, the Turkish state broadcaster reported. Schools in the area were canceled for the day.

Turkey routinely launches wide-ranging counterterrorism sweeps around the country against ISIS as well as other groups like the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) that it designates as terrorist organizations.

Authorities step up raids particularly around the end-of-the-year holidays since a 2017 ISIS attack on the Reina nightclub during New Year celebrations killed 39 people. The last ISIS attack in Turkey was in January 2024 when armed men attacked a church in Istanbul, killing one person.

Turkish Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc said an investigation into the raid has been launched and five state prosecutors have been assigned to the case.

Yerlikaya said that over the past month, 138 terror suspects were detained and 97 were placed under judicial control measures.

Turkish security forces have been carrying out coordinated raids across the country over alleged plots linked to Christmas and New Year’s Eve celebrations, according to a statement by the Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday.

“Information was found that the ISIS armed terrorist organization was planning to carry out actions targeting our country, especially non-Muslim individuals, within the scope of the upcoming Christmas and New Year events,” the statement said.

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By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN

(CNN) — In the year 1998, Bill Clinton was facing impeachment proceedings, “Titanic” was cleaning up at the Oscars and most households still had landline phones. Gallup and USA Today called up 1,055 Americans on those landlines and asked them for their best predictions about a year in the distant future: 2025.

Those predictions are now memorialized via polling archives maintained by the Roper Center at Cornell University. So, with the final days of 2025 now slipping into the past, here’s a look back at how some of them held up.

Some were surprisingly prescient. Most Americans predicted that, over the next 27 years, the country would have elected a Black president, gay marriages would be legal and commonplace and a “deadly new disease” would have emerged.

Most people in 1998 correctly doubted that space travel would be common for ordinary Americans or that alien life forms would have made contact.

Other predictions didn’t hold up as well. About two-thirds of Americans thought the country would have elected a female president by now. More than half expected a cure for cancer and 61% expected that “people will routinely live to be 100 years old.” (The world is not quite there yet.)

The poll also asked some less quantifiable questions about the direction the country was taking. It revealed plenty of pessimism.

While 70% thought quality of life would improve for the rich, respondents were about split on whether things would improve or worsen for the middle class, and most expected life to get worse for the poor. Nearly 8 in 10 expected Americans in the future to have less personal privacy, and 57% thought that they’d experience less personal freedom. Most also expected higher crime rates, poorer environmental quality and lower moral values. A 71% majority said it would be harder to raise children to be good people.

There were a few bright spots in Americans’ outlook: Most believed race relations would improve and that medical care would be more available, if less affordable.

Gallup is still polling, of course, albeit with less of an emphasis on landlines. So we can get a sense of how Americans’ overall outlook on the country has changed over the past 27 years. In fall 1998, about 60% of Americans said they were satisfied with the way things were going in the US.

Today, that number stands at 24%.

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By Brenda Goodman, CNN

(CNN) — I was doing my regular weekly grocery shopping just before Christmas when I happened to cut through the baby formula aisle to get to the dairy section at the back of the store.

Looking up, I saw something that made me double back: at least one can of ByHeart powdered infant formula on the shelf of my local Kroger, with its recall notice from November taped underneath .

I stopped and snapped a photo with my cell phone.

I quickly sent it to my editor and several experts I work with on food safety stories, thinking I’d missed some development, but they all had the same reaction.

“This is nuts,” responded food safety attorney Bill Marler, who is representing several families of babies who developed infant botulism after drinking ByHeart formula. Coincidentally, that same day, he was amending the complaints he had filed to include the retailers where his clients purchased the formula, saying they hadn’t acted fast enough to get it off shelves.

When I sent the photo to Kroger, the company’s press office responded with this statement: “When the recall was issued, we urgently removed the affected product and immediately placed a block at the point of sale to make it impossible for a customer to purchase the recalled item. These measures are part of Kroger’s internal recall protocol [that] ensures compliance with FDA recall guidelines to protect customers.”

I didn’t test the point-of-sale block, since I didn’t try to buy the formula. The company didn’t explain why it had been left on the shelf. I also reported it to the US Food and Drug Administration, through a consumer complaint portal.

Kroger was one of four companies, along with Target, Albertsons and Walmart, that were sent warning letters by the US Food and Drug Administration on December 12, after inspectors found cans and single-serving packs of ByHeart for sale in those stores across 36 states, after all lots of the product were recalled.

It’s not uncommon for companies to have trouble removing recalled products from their shelves. In 2022, the Consumer Product Safety Commission secured a civil penalty from TJX , the corporate parent of TJ Maxx, HomeGoods and Marshalls, of $13 million for selling more than 1,200 units of recalled products — “including hundreds of recalled infant sleepers “known to be deadly,” according to a statement issued by then-CPSC commissioner Peter Feldman.

In a statement, a company spokesperson told CNN: “At TJX, product safety is very important to us and we prohibit the sale of recalled items in our stores. We deeply regret that in some instances between 2014 and 2019, recalled products were not properly removed from our sales floors despite the recall processes that we had in place. We have made a significant investment in people, processes, and technology to strengthen our processes, and have cooperated fully with the Consumer Product Safety Commission.”

Still the case illustrates how products may be available for sale long after a recall.

“This is a problem that is not unfamiliar to CPSC,” Feldman, who is now the commission’s acting chairman, said in an interview last week. “You know, when CPSC recalls a product, it becomes illegal to sell that product.”

Sometimes, stores find it difficult to get the word out to all employees, or they take a lax approach to compliance.

One thing they can do is implement a block — as Kroger said it did — to prevent consumers from being abl

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El presidente de EE.UU., Donald Trump, se reunió en Florida con su homólogo ucraniano, Volodymyr Zelensky, y dijo que cree que un acuerdo de paz está “cerca” para Ucrania, aunque también describió “uno de los dos asuntos muy espinosos” que aún persisten. Los negociadores avanzaron, pero el acuerdo aún podría fracasar.

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Más de 30 millones de personas están bajo alertas climáticas invernales en todo el Medio Oeste y el noreste de EE.UU. en el comienzo de esta semana, pues otra tormenta amenaza con alterar los planes de los viajeros en lo que se espera sea unos de los días de turismo más activos de esta temporada navideña.

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El escrutinio especial de centenares de actas con inconsistencias en los niveles de alcaldías y diputados, de las elecciones generales en Honduras del pasado 30 de noviembre, marcha contrarreloj a dos días de que se venza el plazo para que el Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE), por ley, presente los resultados generales de la consulta popular.

Hasta ahora el CNE solamente a dado a conocer los resultados del nivel presidencial, declarando el pasado día 24 como presidente electo al candidato del conservador Partido Nacional, Nasry Asfura, quien es apoyado por el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump.

Después de varios días de parálisis, el escrutinio especial se reanudó el sábado con las actas que presentan inconsistencias, comenzando por el nivel de diputados, según lo acordado el sábado en una sesión del pleno del CNE, que preside Ana Paola Hall, representante ante el organismo del Partido Liberal, también conservador.

Los otros dos consejeros del CNE son Cossette López, del Partido Nacional, y Marlon Ochoa, del oficialista Partido Libertad y Refundación (Libre, izquierda).

Desde el 30 de noviembre, cuando los hondureños concurrieron masivamente y de manera pacífica a las urnas, según observadores nacionales e internacionales, el CNE tiene hasta el 30 de diciembre para dar a conocer los resultados de todo el proceso, cuyo escrutinio se ha demorado por problemas técnicos, administrativos, conflictos internos en el ente electoral, amenazas e incidentes violentos en el Centro Logístico Electoral (CLE), donde se realiza el escrutinio especial, entre otros.

La incertidumbre que primero se centraba principalmente en el nivel presidencial, por la demora de los resultados, ahora se manifiesta en los niveles para alcaldías y diputados.

En algunas alcaldías sucede que las diferencias de votos son muy estrechas entre los candidatos con mayor caudal político, tal es el caso de Tegucigalpa, la capital del país, donde al menos 600 papeletas le estarían dando el triunfo al candidato del Partido Nacional, Juan Diego Zelaya.

El alcalde capitalino, Jorge Aldana, quien busca la reelección arropado con la bandera del Partido Libre, asegura que él es el ganador y le exige al CNE un conteo de más de 400 actas, de las que dice tener copia en mano para confirmar su triunfo.

Entre la expectación que impera en el país, el coordinador general del Partido Libre, el expresidente Manuel Zelaya, quien además es el esposo y principal asesor de la presidenta hondureña, Xiomara Castro, convocó el sábado a la militancia de ese instituto político a una movilización, el lunes, hacia el Instituto Nacional de Formación Profesional (Infop), en Tegucigalpa, donde se guarda todo el material de las elecciones generales.

La movilización, “pacífica”, según el exmandatario, es en apoyo al alcalde Jorge Aldana, quien lleva casi tres semanas exigiendo bajo una carpa, en las afueras del Infop, que se haga un conteo de las actas para demostrar que los capitalinos lo favorecieron nuevamente con el voto.

Zelaya expresó en la red social X que “estas elecciones son nulas, las más fraudulentas, manipuladas e infladas de nuestra historia reciente” y que “quienes hayan delinquido deberán responder ante la justicia, sin importar cuándo ni bajo qué poder se intenten proteger”.

“Venga lo que venga, nuestro deber es luchar. Solo se agotan los cobardes y los que renuncian a la Patria. Recordemos que, como establece nuestra Constitución, la defensa de la soberanía y del orden democrático es un derecho y un deber ciudadano. La insurrección cívica es un principio que nos asiste cuando la voluntad popular es suplantada. Nos vemos este lunes 29 a las 4 pm en INFOP”, añadió.

Según la consejera presidenta del CNE, pese a los obstáculos, que no han cesado en el escrutinio especial, habrá resultados en tiempo y forma, como lo establece la Constitución y el ente elect