A couple shovels their driveway in Greensboro, N.C., Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018. A massive storm brought snow, sleet, and freezing rain across a wide swath of the South on Sunday - causing dangerously icy roads, immobilizing snowfalls and power losses to hundreds of thousands of people.
Winter storm targets Carolinas with heavy snow
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    TONIGHT

    • Not all heroes wear capes. These 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.

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    Top 10 CNN Heroes of 2018 revealed
    01:48 - Source: CNN

    MONDAY

    • It’s the statistical peak of the Atlantic hurricane season, with the eight weeks around this date often prime time for conditions that fuel powerful storms. Right on schedule is Florence, which by late this week may well be hitting the East Coast. In the Pacific, Hurricane Olivia could affect Hawaii midweek as a tropical storm.

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    Who are the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winners?
    02:00 - Source: CNN

    Human Rights Day 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.”

    Human Rights Day: Malala's call to action
    02:05 - Source: CNN

    TUESDAY

    • The next shoe in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation could drop when ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn is set to be sentenced. Mueller says Flynn, the highest-ranking Trump administration official to face charges, shouldn’t go to prison for lying about contacts with the ex-Russian ambassador to the US because Flynn helped prosecutors with at least three ongoing investigations.

    TOPSHOT - Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May arrives at the European Council in Brussels on October 17, 2018. - British Prime Minister Theresa May is due to address a summit of European Union leaders in which Brexit negotiations are expected to be top of the agenda. (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)        (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)
    The future of Brexit remains uncertain
    02:42 - Source: CNN

    Top Democrats in the Senate and House reportedly will meet with President Donald Trump to hash out a big dispute over spending. Congress last week approved a two-week extension for a key funding deadline, pushing to December 21 the decision that could trigger a partial government shutdown. Trump wants $5 billion for a border wall, while Democrats point to $1.6 billion for border security in a Senate spending bill.

    The U.S. Capitol is pictured on July 27, 2017 in Washington, DC.
    What a government shutdown could mean for you
    00:56 - Source: CNN

    Time magazine 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.

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    Donald Trump is Time's Person of the Year
    00:49 - Source: CNNMoney

    WEDNESDAY

    WASHINGTON - JUNE 29:  "Equal Justice Under Law" is carved into the facade of the United States Supreme Court building June 29, 2009 in Washington, DC.
    SCOTUS case could impact presidential pardons
    01:25 - Source: CNN

    Top NFL officials gather in Irving, Texas, for a long-planned meeting. Reporters and fans are eager to learn whether league leaders will address recent police incidents involving players Kareem Hunt and Reuben Foster.

    Elissa Ennis, former girlfriend of San Francisco 49ers linebacker Reuben Foster, center, walks out of Santa Clara County Superior Court with her attorney Stephanie Rickard, rear, after testifying in Foster's preliminary hearing, Thursday, May 17, 2018, in San Jose, Calif. Foster pleaded not guilty Tuesday, May 8, 2018, to charges stemming from allegations that he attacked Ennis in their home in February. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
    NFL player's ex-girlfriend discusses alleged abuse
    01:29 - Source: CNN

    THURSDAY

    • Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s “The Titan Games” banks on a kitschy Mount Olympus theme. It airs at 8 p.m. ET on NBC.

     (FILES) This file photo taken on November 20, 2017 shows logos of US online social media and social networking service Facebook.
The European Commission said on February 15, 2018 that US social media giants have made an effort to comply with EU consumer protection rules, but that Facebook and Twitter have not made all the required changes.
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    Facebook sued over new European law
    03:36 - Source: CNN

    • Some of the nation’s best college athletes start competing for national bragging in the NCAA’s women’s volleyball championship. The final is set for Saturday night in Minneapolis.

    FRIDAY

    SANTA CRUZ PROVINCE, ARGENTINA - NOVEMBER 27:  Ice calves at the Perito Moreno glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, the third largest ice field in the world, on November 27, 2015 in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. The majority of the almost 50 large glaciers in Los Glacieres National Park have been retreating during the past fifty years due to warming temperatures, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reports that over 68 percent of the world's freshwater supplies are locked in ice caps and glaciers. The United Nations climate change conference begins November 30 in Paris.  (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
    Undeniable climate crisis facts (2018)
    01:48 - Source: CNN

    SATURDAY

    • It’s a day for 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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    Where do first amendment rights end online?
    03:06 - Source: CNNMoney

    College football bowl season kicks off, 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.

    • 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 wraps up in Las Vegas.

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    Mike Rowe: I lied to my mother
    01:38 - Source: CNN