By Fernando Alfonso III, CNN One holiday tradition an untold number of people engage in each year around Christmas involves tattered cardboard boxes. The homes to artificial Christmas trees are reappearing as holiday preparations continue. Photos of these boxes proliferate on Reddit each holiday season, garnering support from people impressed by the dedication to preserving
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By Nick Watt and Jason Kravarik, CNN For decades, Hamtramck was known as Michigan’s “Little Warsaw,” a city of just two square miles of tightly-packed houses and factories, spitting distance from downtown Detroit. The Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla visited once, back in 1969, before he became Pope. A statue of Wojtyla, arms outstretched, still casts
Continue Reading By Nick Watt and Jason Kravarik, CNN For decades, Hamtramck was known as Michigan’s “Little Warsaw,” a city of just two square miles of tightly-packed houses and factories, spitting distance from downtown Detroit. The Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla visited once, back in 1969, before he became Pope. A statue of Wojtyla, arms outstretched, still casts
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By Dakin Andone, CNN The Covid-19 surge has prompted yet another cancellation, this time for the Radio City Music Hall’s Rockettes, who won’t be high-kicking in their holiday show for the rest of year. “We regret that we are unable to continue the ‘Christmas Spectacular’ this season due to increasing challenges from the pandemic,” a
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By Amir Vera, CNN When football season kicked off back in September, it felt like normalcy was returning to a world upended by Covid-19. Fans packed stadiums at both college and professional games, eager to watch their favorite teams play, despite the surging Delta variant of the coronavirus. Basketball and hockey’s respective seasons soon began,
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By Nick Valencia, Jade Gordon and Christina Maxouris, CNN When Leyda Becker heard a weather alert on her phone in the early morning hours of December 11, she wasn’t surprised. Tornado alerts in Bowling Green are not uncommon and often don’t amount to much. But along with her husband and two children, she took shelter
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By Faith Karimi, CNN In their letters to Santa Claus, most kids ask for toys, dolls or maybe a new Xbox. All Jonah Simons said he wanted was a coronavirus cure to save the world. That was last year. Jonah’s letter was collected through the US Postal Service’s Operation Santa program and published on CNN.
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By Sara Smart, CNN With every new college semester, students are faced with multiple syllabuses outlining the subjects in their classes. But do students read them thoroughly? One Tennessee professor put it to the test. Kenyon Wilson is the associate head of performing arts at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and decided to put
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By Emma Tucker Authorities in the DC metro area said Friday a 35-year-old man who was charged last month in the killing of two women may be a serial killer and the prime suspect in the deaths of two more women, as a wide-ranging investigation is underway to determine if there are more victims. Investigators
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker Authorities in the DC metro area said Friday a 35-year-old man who was charged last month in the killing of two women may be a serial killer and the prime suspect in the deaths of two more women, as a wide-ranging investigation is underway to determine if there are more victims. Investigators
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By Jack Hannah, Jason Carroll and Christina Maxouris, CNN Zafar Shamoon, chief of the emergency department at the Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn, Michigan, said he had been hoping that there wouldn’t be another wave of Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations. But, like a grim deja vu, hospital beds are filled with Covid-19 patients again, most unvaccinated.
Continue Reading By Jack Hannah, Jason Carroll and Christina Maxouris, CNN Zafar Shamoon, chief of the emergency department at the Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn, Michigan, said he had been hoping that there wouldn’t be another wave of Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations. But, like a grim deja vu, hospital beds are filled with Covid-19 patients again, most unvaccinated.
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart, CNN After binging on episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, many fans of the show think they can successfully duplicate the medical procedures that the doctors perform on the show. For one Maine teenager, that came true. What started out as a routine morning for Kristen Iarrobino and her 16-year-old son, Cyrus, turned into
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart, CNN After binging on episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, many fans of the show think they can successfully duplicate the medical procedures that the doctors perform on the show. For one Maine teenager, that came true. What started out as a routine morning for Kristen Iarrobino and her 16-year-old son, Cyrus, turned into
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson and Sarah Moon, CNN A jury will deliberate for a second day Tuesday in the manslaughter trial of Kim Potter, the White former Minnesota police officer who mistook her firearm for her Taser and fatally shot Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop in April. Potter, 49, has pleaded
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By Lauren del Valle and Dakin Andone, CNN Ghislaine Maxwell’s defense team has rested its case in her sex trafficking conspiracy trial without Maxwell taking the stand to testify. The defense rested after presenting its case over two days in which nine witnesses were called to testify in defense of Maxwell, a close confidante and
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By Ryan Young, Maria Cartaya, Alta Spells and Tina Burnside, CNN A judge in Lafayette, Louisiana, is taking a leave of absence and facing calls for her resignation after a video with racist language recorded at her home surfaced. A lawyer for City Court Judge Michelle M. Odinet told the Acadiana Advocate she feels “humiliated,
Continue ReadingBy Ray Sanchez and Mallika Kallingal, CNN Former police officer Kim Potter, who has said she mistook her firearm for her Taser when she fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop near Minneapolis, broke down on the stand Friday, apologizing and insisting she “didn’t want to hurt anybody.” “I was very distraught. I just
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By Alisha Ebrahimji and Christina Zdanowicz, CNN One schoolteacher says she’s been badly injured twice by students. Another says she’s so drained at the end of the day she doesn’t have the energy to leave her couch. A third has already made the mental calculation that in the event of a school shooting, she’ll stay
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN Economic disaster averted: Yesterday, President Joe Biden signed the debt limit increase passed by Congress earlier this week, avoiding a catastrophic default. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to
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