By Katie Hunt, CNN Scientists met this week in London at the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing to discuss advances in the field — and the thorny ethical issues posed by a cutting-edge technology. The last time the high-profile forum took place was in 2018 in Hong Kong. There, Chinese scientist He Jiankui
Continue Reading By Nick Valencia and Paradise Afshar, CNN A “Cop City” protester’s hands were raised when law enforcement officers who were attempting to clear the site of a planned police and fire training facility near Atlanta opened fire, an autopsy commissioned by the activist’s family found, attorneys say. The hands of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, 26,
Continue Reading By David McKenzie and Ghazi Balkiz, CNN Fourteen-year-old Philasande Dayimani carries a burden that no child should carry. Last year, she started getting sores in her mouth and struggled to breathe. She says a clinic doctor told her to test for HIV. “It wasn’t easy for me to accept. Many people cry when they hear
Continue Reading By David McKenzie and Ghazi Balkiz, CNN Fourteen-year-old Philasande Dayimani carries a burden that no child should carry. Last year, she started getting sores in her mouth and struggled to breathe. She says a clinic doctor told her to test for HIV. “It wasn’t easy for me to accept. Many people cry when they hear
Continue Reading By Andy Rose and Raja Razek, CNN A woman and her husband were shot and killed in their Redmond, Washington, home by an online stalker who authorities were attempting to serve with a protection order, police said. Ramin Khodakaramrezaei, 38, also shot himself dead early Friday morning at the couple’s home after breaking in through
Continue Reading By Joseph Ataman, CNN The United Kingdom said on Friday it would pay $576 million over the next three years as part of a deal with France to combat illegal immigration across the English Channel. The deal was announced during a joint summit between British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron
Continue Reading By Chris Lau and Jennifer Hauser, CNN A Chinese city has sparked a backlash on social media after saying it would consider the use of lockdowns in the event of an influenza outbreak. The city of Xi’an — a tourism hotspot in Shaanxi province that is home to the famous terracotta warriors — revealed an
Continue Reading By Laura He, CNN Business, and Riley Zhang China’s rubber-stamp legislature has appointed Li Qiang, a long-time aide of leader Xi Jinping, as premier, the man tasked with reviving the world’s second-largest economy after three years of zero-Covid restrictions. The National People’s Congress endorsed Li in a largely ceremonial vote at the Great Hall of
Continue Reading By Josh Campbell, Karol Suarez, Rosa Flores, Caroll Alvarado and Paul P. Murphy, CNN Mexican authorities arrested five more people Friday in connection to the kidnappings of four Americans in Matamoros, Mexico, as the bodies of the two Americans killed were returned to US diplomats and questions continued to swirl around last week’s violent abduction.
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar and Christina Maxouris, CNN The three White men who killed Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black jogger, are appealing their federal hate crime convictions, with two of the three arguing the government did not prove they chased the young man because of his race. The men’s attorneys, who filed the appeals earlier this
Continue Reading By Liam Reilly and Christina Maxouris, CNN More than 52 years after 16-year-old Pamela Lynn Conyers was strangled to death in central Maryland, authorities say they’ve identified a suspect in her killing with the help of genetic genealogy. The suspect, who police identified as Forrest Clyde Williams III, would have been 21 at the time
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon and Wayne Chang, CNN When a Chinese high-altitude balloon suspected of spying was spotted over the United States recently, the US Air Force responded by sending up a high-flying espionage asset of its own: the U-2 reconnaissance jet. It was the Cold-War era spy plane that took the high-resolution photographs — not
Continue Reading By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN Cleanup of the toxic train derailment site in the Ohio town of East Palestine will likely take about three months, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Friday. EPA Administrator Michael Regan said 6.8 million gallons of liquid waste and more than 5,400 tons of solid waste have already been
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN The gunman who killed three Michigan State University students and critically wounded five others last month in a mass shooting wrote in a note found in his pocket that he was “tired of being rejected” and was hurt, police said Friday. The Michigan State University Police and Public
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette and Rebekah Riess, CNN A man whom prosecutors say kept a woman captive for four years locked inside a trailer in Houston has been charged with kidnapping, according to court records. Abraham Bravo Segura, 42, was arrested on Wednesday night and remained in a Harris County Jail facility with a $150,000 bond
Continue Reading By Rob Frehse, Michelle Krupa and Gabe Cohen, CNN Norfolk Southern found loose wheels on a series of rail cars involved in last week’s derailment near Springfield, Ohio, the company has announced, the latest safety problem to emerge as scrutiny intensifies on the operator — and US freight safety broadly — following that wreck, a
Continue Reading By Rob Frehse, Michelle Krupa and Gabe Cohen, CNN Norfolk Southern found loose wheels on a series of rail cars involved in last week’s derailment near Springfield, Ohio, the company has announced, the latest safety problem to emerge as scrutiny intensifies on the operator — and US freight safety broadly — following that wreck, a
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez, CNN Peterson Zah, who led the Navajo Nation as chairman and its first president, died earlier this week, according to tribal leaders. He was 85. “It’s a big loss for the Navajo Nation. I want to let Indian Country know, as well. He was a huge tribal advocate across Indian Country and
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, CNN Saudi Arabia is looking to the United States for security guarantees and help with its civilian nuclear program as a condition for normalizing relations with Israel, according to people familiar with the matter, setting up a critical decision that could reshape the political situation in the Middle East. The discussions are
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN Russia’s overnight missile attack on Thursday showered Ukraine with an array of missiles, in one of Moscow’s biggest aerial assaults for months. Nearly half a million people are without power in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, following the latest barrage of strikes, according to the regional governor. And there are concerns about
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