Refugee Aram Mahmoud fled Syria six years ago in search of a better life, leaving behind his family in the process. Now, he is set to take center stage as one of 29 athletes selected by the International Olympic Committee to compete on the Refugee Olympic team in Tokyo 2020 — a moment that will be the culmination of years of sacrifice to pursue his dreams.
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A volunteer working with New York mayoral candidate Eric Adams’ campaign was stabbed in the Bronx on Sunday, Adams tweeted Sunday evening. “This violence must stop,” he wrote, adding police are investigating the situation. The victim, a 42-year-old male, was stabbed “multiple times” at 149th and Morris Avenue, New York Police Department spokesperson Edward Riley
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Sunday night was the second half of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians: The Final Curtain,” and it went a bit deeper than the first half. There was a lot to cover, of course, given that their E! show has ended after 14 years and 20 seasons. Pop culture interviewer extraordinaire Andy Cohen promised there was
Continue Reading The United States has extended Covid-19 restrictions on non-essential travel at land and ferry crossings with Canada and Mexico until July 21, according to a tweet from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Sunday. “To reduce the spread of #COVID19, the United States is extending restrictions on non-essential travel at our land and ferry
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Italy defeated Wales 1-0 on Sunday as both sides progressed to the knockout stages of Euro 2020. Topping Group A with nine points, Italy’s victory in Rome through Matteo Pessina’s first-half goal means the Azzurri are yet to concede a goal in the tournament and have been arguably the standout team from the group-stage games.
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Columbia Parks and Recreation hosted the first of many scheduled concerts at Stephens Lake Park in Columbia Sunday.
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Authorities say the incident in which two pedestrians were hit by a truck at a Pride parade near Miami Saturday — leaving one dead and the other injured — was a “tragic accident” and not an intentional act. The 77-year-old driver of the truck “accelerated unexpectedly” before the parade began in Wilton Manors, Fort Lauderdale
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A missing hiker in Alaska was found alive Wednesday after being charged by multiple bears, officials said. Fina Kiefer, 55, was reported missing around 1 a.m. local time Tuesday after calling her husband for help, according to dispatch reports from the Alaska Department of Public Safety. She had been hiking on the Pioneer Ridge Trail
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CNN’s Pamela Brown talks with Fina Kiefer about her encounter with multiple bears that she says charged her while hiking before being lost in the Alaskan wilderness for two days.
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Tonight: A cold front has developed out to our northwest and is gradually moving southeast. Out ahead of this front, storms will begin to develop that have the capability of being strong to severe. The main threats for tonight will be hail up to golf ball sized, damaging winds, flash flooding, and lightning. There is
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Jon Rahm won the 121st US Open at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, California, on Sunday. This is Rahm’s first-ever win at a major championship. The victory also makes Rahm the first Spaniard ever to win at the US Open. Rahm, the third-ranked player in the world, put up back-to-back birdies on the
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Nine children and one adult were killed in an accident involving multiple vehicles on Interstate 65 in Butler County, Alabama, on Saturday, according to Butler County Coroner Wayne Garlock. Eight of the children killed, ranging in age from 4 to 17, were in a vehicle from the Tallapoosa County Girls Ranch, Garlock said. The youth
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A suspect has been arrested and charged with murder in Russia after the death of Catherine Serou, an American student who vanished last week in the country’s Nizhny Novgorod region, a local court told CNN Sunday. The Gorodetsky City Court in the region said the suspect, identified by the court only as P., has been
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A suspect has been arrested and charged with murder in Russia after the death of Catherine Serou, an American student who vanished in the country’s Nizhny Novgorod region, a local court told CNN. CNN’s Camila Bernal has the details.
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A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. “Assault on Democracy.” That’s the title of an ambitious new CNN documentary that is premiering Sunday at 9pm Eastern and Pacific and re-airing several times in the coming days. The subtitle is “The Roots of
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The Benton County Sheriff’s Office located a body after originally receiving a notification about a possible missing person in the area.
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The subpoena that swept up the records of two Democratic congressmen, their staff and family members in 2018 appears to have been the result of a leak investigation that initially included scrutinizing a senior aide on the House Intelligence Committee, and not the lawmakers themselves, sources told CNN. The Justice Department’s original secret subpoena to
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One person was killed and at least six others were wounded in a shooting Saturday evening near Lake Merritt in Oakland, California, according to police. When the shooting occurred around 6:20 p.m., resources from the Oakland Police Department (OPD) were already in the area, near the 2200 block of Lakeshore Avenue, the department said. Officers
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There are some new faces on “Sesame Street” and they’re bringing a new layer of diversity to the decades-old children’s show. The show dropped its Family Day episode Thursday on HBO Max (which, like CNN, is owned by WarnerMedia) and YouTube. The episode featured a family with two gay dads. On the episode, Nina introduces
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Ammon Bundy, the rancher who captured national attention when he led an armed occupation of federal land in Oregon, has announced his run for governor of Idaho. “I’m running for governor because I’m sick and tired of all of this political garbage just like you are,” Bundy said in a video announcing his campaign on
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