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CNN's The Arena with Kasie Hunt
• Moderate Dem Overcomes Dem Socialist In Wisconsin Gov Primary; President Trump Tries To Tamp Down Widespread Criticism Over His Latest Executive Order On Health Policy; AOC Says She's Freezing Her Eggs As She Mulls Political Future; Stunning Images From This Week's Total Solar Eclipse. Aired 12-1p ET


The Amanpour Hour
• Interview With Former Special Inspector General For Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko; Interview With Afghan Women's Rights Activist Mahbouba Seraj; Interview With Venezuelan Conductor Gustavo Dudamel; Colombia Earthquake: Miracles And Nightmares As Volunteers Search Through Rubble; Interview With "Users" Author And British House Of Lords Member Beeban Kidron; Carly Simon Returns With First Album In 18 Years. Aired 11a-12p ET


CNN Newsroom
• Did Not Air 12-1p ET
• Did Not Air 1-2p ET
• Hawaiian Islands Under Hurricane Warning as Tropical Storm Lala Gains Strength; Large Earthquakes Cause Devastation on Indonesian Island; Man in New York Arrested and Charged with Multiple Hate Crimes after Disrupting Service at Synagogue in Manhattan; President Trump Draws Controversy for Dismissing Concerns U.S. Servicemembers Spending Too Much Time Deployed at Sea on USS Abraham Lincoln Due to Iran War; Family of Luigi Mangione Absent from Court as He Pleads Guilty to Federal Stalking Charges in Killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson; Democratic Party Announces New Presidential Primary Schedule for 2028; New York Knicks Star Jalen Brunson Discusses Foundation He Co-Founded with His Mother; New Material Preventing Airplanes from Overshooting Runways. Aired 2-3p ET
• U.S. War On Iran; Earthquakes In Indonesia; Border Wall Battle In Big Bend; Lala Strengthens To A Category 4 Hurricane. Aired 3-4p ET
• Did Not Air 4-5p ET
• Iran: Strait Of Hormuz "Cannot Be Seized With A Tweet"; Trump Dismisses Concerns About Conditions In USS Lincoln; Three Earthquakes Rock Indonesia Within Hours; Hawaii Could See First Hurricane Landfall In Decades; Hate Crime Charges After Attack During NYC Synagogue Service; Effect Of New Florida Maps On Display In Tuesday's Primaries; Surprising Poll Numbers Or Swing Senate Race In Michigan. Aired 5-6p ET
• Tonight: Hawaii Could See First Hurricane Landfall In Decades; Zel Says Ukraine Urgently Needs U.S. Missile Interceptors; Florida Voters Prepare To Cast Ballots In Key Primary Races. Aired 6-7p ET
• Trump will Declare Strait of Hormuz A "U.S. Territory" After Defeating Iran; Mangione Pleads Guilty In FED Case, Sets Up Double Jeopardy Fight; Hawaii Braces For Hurricane Lala To Possibly Make Landfall. Aired 7-8p ET
• Powerful 7.7 Magnitude Earthquake Hits off Coast of Indonesia; Man Found Alive Four Days after Massive Colombian Earthquake; Tropical Storm Lala Could Hit Hawaii as a Hurricane Saturday; Trump Dismisses Concerns about U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln; Embattled British Professor Found Dead; Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" Lands in China. Aired 3- 3:30a ET
• Powerful 7.7 Magnitude Earthquake Hits off Coast of Indonesia; No Safe Route on Either Side of Arabian Peninsula Partly Because of Houthis; Iran's End Game after More than Five Months of War; Israel's Defense Minister Wants to Extend Role of Israel Police in Occupied West Bank amid Settler Standoff; Extreme Heat in Europe Causing Drought, Wildfires. Aired 4-4:30a ET
• Tropical Storm Lala Could Hit Hawaii as a Hurricane Saturday; Iran's End Game after More than Five Months of War; Trump Dismisses Concerns about U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln; Six Dead, Including Suspect, in Series of Killings in Michigan; Jury Seated in Trial of Murder of Rapper Tupac Shakur; Powerful 7.7 Magnitude Earthquake Hits off Coast of Indonesia; Extreme Heat in Europe Causing Drought, Wildfires; Trump Orders Vessels to Revert to Old Steam Catapults; Woman Arrested for Vandalizing World War II Memorial. Aired 5-6a ET


CNN This Morning
• Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake Strikes Off Indonesia's Coast, Killing At Least 38; Hawaii Could See Its First Hurricane Landfall; Bessent Teases Severe Economic Action Against Iran; Trump Downplays Concerns About Conditions On The USS Abraham Lincoln; Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty To Killing UnitedHealthcare CEO; Woman Arrested For Allegedly Vandalizing World War II Memorial In Washington D.C.; U.S. Midwest Braces For More Flooding As Deadly Storm System Lingers. Aired 6-7a ET
• Did Not Air 7-8a ET
• Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake Strikes Off Indonesia's Coast, Killing At Least 38; Hawaii Could See Its First Hurricane Landfall; Trump Downplays Concerns About Conditions On The USS Abraham Lincoln; Flash Flood Emergency Hits Midwestern States; Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty To Killing UnitedHealthcare CEO; Man Charged With Hate Crimes After Disrupting Service At Manhattan's Central Synagogue; Europe Battles Wave Of Wildfires Amid Intense Heat; 13-Year-Old Wins Iowa State Fair Rooster Calling Contest. Aired 8-9a ET


First of All with Victor Blackwell
• Did Not Air 8-9p ET


Smerconish
• Luigi Mangione: "I Shot Mr. Thompson In Manhattan And He Died"; Hard Foul And Social Media Post Ignite Debate Over Race In WNBA. University Of Michigan To Cover Some Freshmen's Letter Grades; Surveillance Concerns Grow Over Nationwide Network Of Cameras. Aired 9-10a ET


Table For Five
• Trump & Hegseth Dismiss Concerns From Navy Families About Ship; Chaney's Doctor Sounds Alarm On Trump's Health: Not Well; First Lady Melania Trump Hasn't Had A Public Event In A Month; Trump Asks Supreme Court To Let Him Build The Ballroom; WNBA Coach Fires Back At Culture War Trolls: "Go To Hell"; WNBA Defends Itself Against Trolls Intensifying Culture Wars. Aired 7-8a ET


The Story Is with Elex Michaelson
• Powerful 7.7 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Off Coast Of Indonesia; Tropical Storm LALA Could Hit As a Hurricane Saturday; Trump - Strait Of Hormuz To Be Declared a U.S. Territory; Aired 12-1a ET
• Trump - USS Lincoln Deployment Not Nearly Long Enough; Powerful 7.7 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Off Coast Of Indonesia; Trump - Strait Of Hormuz To Be Declared A U.S. Territory; Mangione Pleads Guilty In Murder Of UnitedHealthcare CEO; Aired 1-2a ET