By Amy Simonson, CNN Former Seattle SuperSonics star Shawn Kemp, who was arrested in connection with a drive-by shooting incident Wednesday, was released from jail and no charges will be filed at this time, according to a spokesperson for a prosecutor’s office in Washington state. In a statement emailed to CNN on Thursday, Pierce County
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Three Los Angeles Police Department officers were wounded Wednesday when gunfire erupted during a confrontation with a suspect, who was later pronounced dead, officials said. Two of the officers were expected to be released from the hospital Thursday, according to an LAPD statement. The third officer still was
Continue Reading By Christina Maxouris, Sara Smart and Brian Todd, CNN The 6-year-old boy who allegedly shot his elementary school teacher earlier this year will not be criminally charged, Newport News, Virginia, Commonwealth’s Attorney Howard Gwynn told CNN affiliate WTKR. The student allegedly shot and wounded Richneck Elementary School teacher Abigail Zwerner on January 6, leaving her
Continue Reading By Sara Smart, CNN The Rochester, New York, event venue where two people died during a crowd crush on Sunday night will not be allowed to host events while an investigation is underway, officials said Wednesday. Two people died and eight were injured during the GloRilla concert at the Main Street Armory when what sounded
Continue Reading By Cheri Mossburg, CNN An elderly man survived on croissants, candy and biscotti for nearly a week alone in his car, stuck in a snowbank on a desolate California highway. Jerry Jouret, 81, set out from his mountain house in Big Pine, California, on February 24 to return to his family home in Gardnerville, Nevada
Continue Reading By Christina Maxouris, Sara Smart and Brian Todd, CNN The 6-year-old boy who allegedly shot his elementary school teacher earlier this year will not be criminally charged, Newport News, Virginia, Commonwealth’s Attorney Howard Gwynn told CNN affiliate WTKR. The student allegedly shot and wounded Richneck Elementary School teacher Abigail Zwerner on January 6, leaving her
Continue Reading By Niamh Kennedy and Jessie Gretener, CNN Tens of thousands of people gathered outside the Georgian parliament on Wednesday in the second day of protests in capital city Tbilisi over a draft “foreign agents” bill that critics fear could drive a wedge between the Caucasian nation and Europe. Protesters could be seen waving the flag
Continue Reading By Sophie Tanno, CNN Protests erupted in Georgia this week after the country’s parliament passed the first reading of a draft law that would require some organizations receiving foreign funding to register as “foreign agents.” Georgia’s ruling party announced Thursday morning it would scrap the controversial bill following two nights of widespread protests in Tbilisi
Continue Reading By Kristina Sgueglia and Eric Levenson, CNN A CSX freight train derailed Wednesday morning after striking a rockslide in a remote area of West Virginia, injuring three crew members and spilling diesel fuel into a nearby river, according to a company press release. The three crew members were in the locomotive, which caught fire after
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Curiosity rover just sent back a stunning postcard capturing its view of a shimmering sunset on Mars. The NASA rover has been roaming across the surface of Mars for more than 10 years, searching for answers as to why the red planet went from warm and wet to a frozen
Continue Reading By Laura Paddison, CNN The world’s oceans are polluted by a “plastic smog” made up of an estimated 171 trillion plastic particles that if gathered would weigh around 2.3 million tons, according to a new study. A team of international scientists analyzed global data collected between 1979 and 2019 from nearly 12,000 sampling points in
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN A nearby star system is helping astronomers unravel the mystery of how water appeared in our solar system billions of years ago. Scientists observed a young star, called V883 Orionis, located 1,300 light-years away using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array of telescopes, or ALMA, in northern Chile. The star is surrounded
Continue Reading By John Blake, CNN As soon as some members of the Islamic Center of Muncie saw the man coming toward them, they knew he was trouble. He was a big guy with broad shoulders, marching toward their mosque with his head down and his face flushed red from what looked like anger. It was Friday
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald, CNN The space race has expanded to new frontiers in recent years, moving into business, tourism … and now cinema. Russian film makers on Tuesday released a trailer for “The Challenge,” which became the first ever feature film to be shot in space in 2021. The trailer outlines the movie’s plot: A
Continue Reading By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Turkey’s opposition on Monday announced Kemal Kilicdaroglu as the presidential candidate to run against two-decade ruler Recep Tayyip Erdogan in an upcoming election that could change the course of the country. Leader of Turkey’s secular and center-left Republican People’s Party (CHP), Kilicdaroglu (pronounced Ke-lich-dar-ou-loo) is widely seen as everything Erdogan is
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, Steve Almasy, Nick Valencia and Mark Morales, CNN The release of more video from the January traffic stop that led to the deadly police beating of Tyre Nichols was delayed Wednesday, according to a court order, as the US Department of Justice announced it would perform a review of the Memphis Police
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald, CNN The space race has expanded to new frontiers in recent years, moving into business, tourism … and now cinema. Russian film makers on Tuesday released a trailer for “The Challenge,” which became the first ever feature film to be shot in space in 2021. The trailer outlines the movie’s plot: A
Continue Reading By Laura Paddison, CNN Deadly Tropical Cyclone Freddy is set to break records for the longest-lasting storm of its kind as it appears on course to hit Mozambique for a second time, more than two weeks after the first. The cyclone has already caused immense damage in Mozambique and Madagascar, killing at least 21 people
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN Warmer temperatures in the Arctic are thawing the region’s permafrost — a frozen layer of soil beneath the ground — and potentially stirring viruses that, after lying dormant for tens of thousands of years, could endanger animal and human health. While a pandemic unleashed by a disease from the distant past
Continue Reading By Amy Simonson and Holly Yan, CNN All four people aboard two small planes that collided midair Tuesday were killed, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office in Florida said. The crash happened over Lake Hartridge in Winter Haven, about 45 miles southwest of Orlando. A Piper J-3 Cub seaplane operated by Jack Brown’s Seaplane Base in
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