By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — More than chocolates in a heart-shaped box, more than dinner reservations and bright red teddy bears, it’s roses that have really come to symbolize Valentine’s Day. The most popular flower of the holiday — which is for some, the only day a year they resolve to purchase a flower
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CNN By Hanna Park, Lauren Mascarenhas and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — Two American women are recovering after they say they were attacked by a shark while swimming in The Bahamas. The reported attack occurred on Friday around 6:30 p.m. in the waters of Bimini Bay, where authorities are investigating, according to the Royal Bahamas
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A satirical petition ostensibly aiming to crowdfund a trillion dollars to allow Denmark to buy California has received more than 200,000 signatures. “Have you ever looked at a map and thought, ‘You know what Denmark needs? More sunshine, palm trees, and roller skates.’ Well, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler, Anna Chernova and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Accused Russian money launderer Alexander Vinnik is being released from US custody in exchange for Marc Fogel, a Trump administration source told CNN Wednesday. Vinnik is accused of running a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency exchange that allegedly did business with drug dealers and identity thieves. Vinnik
Continue Reading By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — An American teacher who was wrongfully detained in Russia is back on US soil after the White House secured his release in an “exchange.” Learn more about Marc Fogel, who was arrested in 2021 at a Moscow airport for carrying cannabis and given a 14-year sentence at a hard
Continue Reading By Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — More than 100 fishermen were rescued from a sheet of floating ice that drifted into waters off Russia’s remote Far East, authorities said Wednesday. The 139 fishermen became stranded when a 10-meter (32 feet) crack formed an ice floe that broke away from the island of Sakhalin and floated
Continue Reading By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a little over a week after it took control of the region’s largest city Goma. Clashes between the rebel coalition Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) and Congolese
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Continue Reading By Joseph Ataman and Richard Quest, CNN Paris (CNN) — Amid the maelstrom of indignation around Donald Trump’s proposal to “take over” Gaza, French President Emmanuel Macron has called for “respect” for Palestinians and their Arab neighbors, batting away the US president’s idea of a mass displacement of Gazans from their homeland. “You cannot say
Continue Reading By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — Officials in Sangamon County, Illinois, have agreed to a $10 million settlement with the family of Sonya Massey –– a Black woman who was shot and killed by law enforcement in her home last year. The agreement was reached last week after mediation between lawyers representing both parties, according
Continue Reading By Paula Reid, Gloria Pazmino and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams thanked the Justice Department on Tuesday for directing prosecutors to drop the federal case against him, saying he never broke the law or traded power for personal benefit. Adams praised the department’s decision for “ending a months-long saga
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By Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — It’s only three weeks into a fragile ceasefire, and Israel and Hamas are each ratcheting up allegations that the other party has violated the deal. So far, 16 out of 33 hostages scheduled for release in the current phase of the agreement have been freed by Hamas, and 656
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Personal Birth date: June 6, 1980 Birth place: Minneapolis, Minnesota Birth name: Peter Brian Hegseth Father: Brian Hegseth, basketball coach Mother: Penelope “Penny” Hegseth, career coach Marriages: Jennifer Rauchet (2019–present); Samantha Deering (2010-2018, divorced); Meredith Schwarz (2004-2009,
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — A couple who bought a London mansion for £32,500,000 ($40,200,000) have been told by a court that they can hand the property back and recoup most of their costs after the house was found to have a huge moth infestation. Situated on one of the quiet leafy streets just
Continue Reading By Jeremy Diamond and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — When three Israeli hostages emerged at the weekend, emaciated and gaunt after 16 months in Hamas captivity, Israelis were shocked by the images. But inside the Israeli government, top officials were not surprised. The Israeli government has had intelligence for months indicating that many of the
Continue Reading By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — A woman who kept Yazidi women and children as slaves in Raqqa, Syria, during the rule of the terror group ISIS was on Tuesday jailed by a Swedish court on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and gross war crimes. Six children and three women from the ethnic and
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CNN By Amanda Jackson, Sharif Paget, Zoe Sottile and Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — A pilot is dead and several people were injured after a small business jet crashed into a parked plane as it arrived at Scottsdale Airport in Arizona, just east of Phoenix, on Monday afternoon. The plane that was landing is a
Continue Reading By Martha Shade, CNN (CNN) — Just beyond the lilies and the zinnias, Dionta White can look out over the flower farm where he works and see the house where he was shot for the first time. The 29-year-old works for Southside Blooms, a Chicago non-profit that employs at-risk youth and young adults to grow
Continue Reading By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order encouraging the return to plastic drinking straws. It’s a complete shift from the Biden administration’s efforts to rein in single-use plastic waste — and another example of Trump rushing to fulfill his campaign promises. Here’s what else you need to know to
Continue Reading By Lauren Kent and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — The so-called land question has been a decades-long dilemma for South Africa. Apartheid, dismantled in the 1990s, left a deep-seeded legacy of land inequality after centuries of policies pushed non-White South Africans off the land to the benefit of White people. An act in 1913 limited
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