By Lauren Izso and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the “intense phase of the war with Hamas (in Gaza) is about to end,” and that the military’s focus could then shift to Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, where fighting with the Iran-backed group Hezbollah has intensified in
Continue Reading By Xiaofei Xu, CNN (CNN) — A woman staying at a French safari zoo was attacked by several wolves on Sunday after she entered a part of the zoo usually accessible only by car. “Luckily the medical staff intervened very quickly and we were able to save this person,” the zoo’s CEO Christelle Bercheny told
Continue Reading By Melissa Alonso, Eric Levenson and Sabrina Souza, CNN (CNN) — Ground was broken on Sunday for a new building at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, which will include a memorial and museum to combat antisemitism at the site of the deadly 2018 hate crime shooting. The memorial will honor the victims of
Continue Reading CNN By Melissa Alonso, Eric Levenson and Sabrina Souza, CNN (CNN) — Ground was broken on Sunday for a new building at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, which will include a memorial and museum to combat antisemitism at the site of the deadly 2018 hate crime shooting. The memorial will honor the victims
Continue Reading By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Virginia “Ginger” Hislop, 105, recently walked the stage at Stanford University to receive her master’s degree in education for the coursework she completed in 1941. A smiling Hislop rose to an ovation on June 16 as she received her degree and master’s hood at the university’s Graduate School
Continue Reading CNN By Darya Tarasova, Jen Deaton and Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — At least nine people have been killed and 25 injured in what appear to be coordinated attacks by gunmen in Russia’s southernmost Dagestan province, local authorities say. Attacks have been reported at multiple places of worship and a police traffic stop in the
Continue Reading By Zahid Mahmood, Darya Tarasova, Xiaofei Xu and Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — At least five people were killed and over 100 injured when missile fragments scattered over beachgoers during a Ukrainian strike on the city of Sevastopol in Russia-occupied Crimea, authorities say. “Unfortunately, we currently have 124 victims, of which three [are] dead children and two
Continue Reading By Melissa Alonso and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — A nighttime beach swim took a tragic turn for three men visiting northwest Florida from Alabama this weekend, after they were caught in a rip current and later died, according to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office. The men, all in their 20s, were swimming off
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A California man spent ten days stranded in the mountains after he got lost on a hike, relying in part on large volumes of water to survive. Lukas McClish, 34, set out for what he thought would be a three-hour hike in the Santa Cruz Mountains on June 11,
Continue Reading By Darya Tarasova, Jen Deaton, Mariya Knight, Andrew Raine and Josh Pennington, CNN (CNN) — Gunmen opened fire on places of worship in two cities of Russia’s southernmost Dagestan province on Sunday, killing at least 15 police officers and four civilians, including an Orthodox priest, in what appeared to be a coordinated attack. Sergey Melikov,
Continue Reading KTVT, EULESS POLICE DEPARTMENT, CNN By Alaa Elassar, Camila Bernal and Sarah Moon, CNN (CNN) — A woman in Texas has been charged with attempted capital murder and injury to a child after trying to drown a 3-year-old child at an apartment complex pool and making racist statements, according to police. The Texas chapter of the
Continue Reading By Housam Ahmed and Zahid Mahmood, Mostafa Salem and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Saudi Arabia said Sunday that more than 1,300 people died on this year’s Hajj pilgrimage – with “numerous cases” due to heat stress and “unauthorized” trips accounting for more than four out of five of the fatalities. “The health system addressed
Continue Reading By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — These days, Tennessee middle school student Aubrey Sauvie, 12, who was born with no hands, says she can bang on her snare drum as hard or fast as she wants. It’s all thanks to a generous gift from a group of college engineering students who created a custom
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — The birth of the American mall in the 1950s ushered in a new era of shopping. But have you ever wondered why malls don’t have windows? It’s all part of a carefully constructed strategy to get people to stay longer and spend more. Here’s what else
Continue Reading By Michael Schwartz, Tim Lister and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended his decision to go public about delays in the supply of weapons from the United States, saying months of private discussions did not yield any results. At the beginning of a cabinet meeting Sunday, Netanyahu said that
Continue Reading By Thomas Lake, CNN (CNN) — Faye Bauman was wearing her diamond ring when she fell and broke her hip. It was June of last year, and she was 85. At North Florida Hospital in Gainesville, she took off several pieces of jewelry, including the ring, and gave them to a nurse. After the surgery,
Continue Reading By Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — A 4-year-old boy who went missing at a lake in Fresno County, California, on Thursday has been found safe after surviving nearly 24 hours alone in the woods, the sheriff’s office said. Members of the Tulare County Search and Rescue Team found Christian Ramirez around 8 a.m. on Friday
Continue Reading By Dalia Faheid, Raja Razek and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — The suspect in a mass shooting at a grocery store in Arkansas was armed with a pistol, a 12-gauge shotgun and had a bandolier with dozens of extra shotgun rounds, authorities said. It was one of at least 14 mass shootings in the US
Continue Reading By Ibrahim Dahman, Benjamin Brown, Tim Lister and Lauren Izso, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military strapped an injured Palestinian man to the hood of a military vehicle during an operation on Saturday in the occupied West Bank. Video shows the man lying across the front of the Israeli jeep as it drove through a
Continue Reading By Kaila Nichols, CNN (CNN) — After nearly 47 years, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals this week exonerated Kerry Max Cook for the 1977 murder of Linda Jo Edwards, declaring him innocent of a crime for which he spent nearly 20 years on death row. “This case is riddled with allegations of State misconduct that
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