By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — Bishop T.D. Jakes had a “slight health incident” while delivering a lengthy sermon on Sunday, according to The Potter’s House, the Dallas-based megachurch where he serves as pastor. Jakes was stable as of Sunday night, according to the statement. The 67-year-old pastor and author was seen in footage shared
Continue Reading By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden is set to pardon two Thanksgiving turkeys at the White House today, an interesting tradition that dates back to President John F. Kennedy in 1963. This year’s birds — “Peach” and “Blossom” — will be spared a fowl fate and live out their days at an
Continue Reading CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden is set to pardon two Thanksgiving turkeys at the White House today, an interesting tradition that dates back to President John F. Kennedy in 1963. This year’s birds — “Peach” and “Blossom” — will be spared a fowl fate and live out their days at
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — Susan Lorincz, the White woman who fatally shot Black neighbor Ajike “AJ” Owens through the door of her central Florida apartment during a dispute over children playing near her home, was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison. Owens’ family and prosecutors asked Lorincz receive the
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A former Kentucky sheriff accused of killing a county judge in his chambers two months ago has pleaded not guilty to one count of murder of a public official. Monday’s arraignment was the first time defendant Shawn “Mickey” Stines, 43, was at the Letcher County Courthouse since state District
Continue Reading By Saskya Vandoorne and Niamh Kennedy, CNN Avignon, France (CNN) — Dominique Pelicot, the man who organized for more than 50 men to rape his unconscious wife, is “fully responsible” for his actions, a French public prosecutor told court after requesting the maximum prison sentence of 20 years. Public prosecutor Laure Chabaud told the packed
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN London (CNN) — A British man has been taken prisoner while fighting for Ukraine in Russia’s Kursk region, Russian state media has reported. Russian state media outlet TASS said the man was 22-year-old James Scott Rhys Anderson, a former British soldier, citing a military source. The British Foreign Office confirmed it
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, Jean Casarez, Nick Watt and Jason Kravarik, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — A judge in California has delayed a scheduled resentencing hearing for Lyle and Erik Menendez at the brothers’ first hearing since they were sentenced to life in prison for murdering their parents in 1989 and the latest step in their
Continue Reading By Nic Robertson, CNN (CNN) — Where the high hills of the occupied West Bank tumble into the Jordan valley, half a dozen heavy Israeli diggers pound the ancient rocks around the Palestinian village of Bardala. Low-scudding, rain-laden clouds threaten to soak a group of Palestinian farmers huddling around their ramshackle sheep sheds as the
Continue Reading CNN Helen Regan, Edward Szekeres, Sandi Sidhu, Manveena Suri and Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — One crew member was killed after a cargo plane crashed early Monday on the outskirts of Vilnius Airport in Lithuania, skidded into a house and burst into flames. Remarkably, three others on board the flight, including the pilot, survived the
Continue Reading By Lucas Lilieholm and Eugenia Yosef, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s cabinet unanimously voted to sanction the nation’s oldest newspaper, Haaretz, on Sunday citing its critical coverage of the war following the October 7 Hamas attacks and comments by the outlet’s publisher calling for sanctions on senior government officials. Haaretz, which is widely respected internationally, has
Continue Reading By Manveena Suri, Chris Lau, Robert Shackelford and Edward Szekeres, CNN (CNN) — At least five people have died as Storm Bert swept across the United Kingdom, causing power outages and widespread train and flight cancelations. Dramatic footage that emerged over the weekend showed rivers in Wales, one of the hardest hit areas, bursting their
Continue Reading Helen Regan, Edward Szekeres, Sandi Sidhu, Manveena Suri and Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — One crew member was killed after a cargo plane crashed early Monday on the outskirts of Vilnius Airport in Lithuania, skidded into a house and burst into flames. Remarkably, three others on board the flight, including the pilot, survived the crash,
Continue Reading By Kathleen Magramo, photo curation by Noemi Cassanelli, CNN (CNN) — A massive fire tore through a coastal shanty town in the Philippine capital on Sunday, leaving at least 2,000 families homeless as flames billowed for nearly eight hours. Drone footage from the Manila Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office showed raging orange flames razing
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KCAL, KCBS, CNN By Jordan D. Brown, CNN (CNN) — After 45 years, authorities in California were finally able to tell the Gonzalez family who they believe killed their loved one. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office used DNA and forensic genealogy to identify the suspected killer, who turned out to be the same man who
Continue Reading By Nic Robertson, Hira Humayun and Michael Rios, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — A ceasefire deal between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is “very close,” a regional source told CNN on Sunday, even as an uptick in Israeli attacks saw the death toll in Lebanon since mid-September pass a grim milestone. More than 3,000
Continue Reading By Dawn Sawyer, CNN (CNN) — The USS Beloit, a littoral combat ship, was commissioned Saturday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with African American trailblazer Maj. Gen. Marcia Anderson as the ship’s chosen sponsor. Anderson is nationally recognized for being the first Black woman to achieve the rank of major general in the United States Army Reserve.
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — The city of Las Cruces, New Mexico, has reached a $20 million settlement with the family of a grandmother fatally shot by a police officer last year, according to The Associated Press and local media. Felipe Hernandez, then working for the Las Cruces Police Department, fatally shot Teresa Gomez,
Continue Reading By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — A former county treasurer pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of embezzlement by a public official, money laundering and tax evasion after stealing more than $38 million in county funds between 2012 and 2024 to renovate her ranches, buy at least 20 cars and pay for personal expenses for
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has released an update on its investigation into the September 29 BioLab fire in Conyers, Georgia, that shrouded neighborhoods in chemical smoke for days and forced thousands of residents to shelter in place or evacuate. BioLab officials told the investigators
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