By Randi Kaye, Dianne Gallagher and Jay Croft, CNN Maggie Murdaugh was worried about money possibly being demanded of her family in a lawsuit and suspicious her husband wasn’t being entirely honest with her in the days before her killing, housekeeper Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson testified Friday in the double-murder trial of Alex Murdaugh. “She was concerned
Continue Reading By Sophie Tanno, Mick Krever, Radina Gigova, Yulia Kesaieva and Lauren Kent, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a surprise visit to the UK on Wednesday, sweeping in to London on the first stage of an unannounced diplomatic tour of European capitals with a powerful message for British lawmakers. In only his second foreign trip
Continue Reading By Ashley Killough and Ed Lavandera, CNN The man who faces charges stemming from a string of suspicious activities at the Dallas Zoo allegedly admitted to stealing two tamarin monkeys and trying to steal the clouded snow leopard last month, according to arrest warrant affidavits. Davion Irvin also told police that he wants to return
Continue Reading By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Christian Edwards, Krystina Shveda and Henrik Pettersson, CNN Thousands of people have died and tens of thousands of others were injured by the devastating earthquakes that rocked Turkey and Syria on Monday. Rescue teams are still desperately searching for signs of life beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings amid grim conditions, but
Continue Reading By Yoonjung Seo and Brad Lendon, CNN North Korean leader Kim Jong Un brought his daughter to a lavish banquet at a military barracks on Tuesday, the latest sign the girl is possibly being groomed as his eventual successor in an authoritarian family regime dating back decades. The girl — believed to be Kim’s second
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh, Holly Yan and Joe Sutton, CNN Residents near where a train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, may return home after an evacuation order was lifted Wednesday, officials said. Air and water samples were analyzed overnight, and the results led officials to deem it safe, East Palestine Fire Chief Keith Drabick said at
Continue Reading By Heather Chen, CNN Separatist fighters in Indonesia’s restive Papua region have captured a pilot from New Zealand and are holding him hostage after setting fire to his plane, the group said in a statement. The pilot, identified by local police as Philip Merthens, was captured after landing a commercial charter flight at Paro Airport
Continue Reading By Kathleen Magramo, CNN China is planning to offer free fertility treatment to citizens under its national insurance scheme in a bid to reverse its plummeting birth rate. The National Healthcare Security Administration said on Friday it would extend its coverage to help shoulder the costs for families trying to conceive. It said the new
Continue Reading By Raja Razek and Hilary Whiteman, CNN Two children wedged between concrete in the remains of their home in northern Syria have been rescued more than 36 hours after Monday’s quake trapped their family as they slept. “Get me out of here, I’ll do anything for you,” the older child whispers to rescuers who are
Continue Reading By Andi Babineau and Paradise Afshar, CNN A selfie taken by Gabby Petito weeks before her death shows she had facial injuries on the day she and her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, were stopped by police investigating a domestic disturbance call, according to her family’s lawyer. The photo was released Monday by a law office representing
Continue Reading By Nicki Brown, Brynn Gingras and Steve Almasy, CNN A New York Police Department officer who was shot in the head Saturday while off duty has died, the police commissioner said in a tweet Tuesday night. Adeed Fayaz, 26, had been in grave condition since the shooting, which happened in Brooklyn as he and his
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN A trio of codebreakers has found and deciphered a treasure trove of lost letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots. The 57 secret letters, from Mary Stuart to the French ambassador to England between 1578 and 1584, were written in an elaborate code. The findings come 436 years after Mary’s death
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN Researchers have detected a previously unknown layer of partially molten rock beneath Earth’s crust. The discovery could help scientists learn more about the movements of Earth’s tectonic plates, which not only create mountains and earthquakes, but also contributed to forming environments with the right chemical and physical conditions to support life
Continue Reading By Paul P. Murphy, CNN; photo editing by Laura Oliverio Collapsed buildings, emergency vehicles and tent shelters can be seen in new satellite imagery of earthquake-hit towns in Turkey, revealing the damage from Monday’s devastating earthquake. The images, captured by Maxar Technologies, show the towns of Antakya, Kirikhan, Kahramanmaras, Islahiye and Nurdagi. If the images
Continue Reading By Zeena Saifi and Becky Anderson, CNN Standing in front of the flattened remains of a 10-story building in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, a man anxiously waits for news about his friend Mustafa, who is trapped beneath the rubble. Alptekin Talanci worries that this week’s bitter weather, which has seen temperatures drop below 30
Continue Reading From CNN Digital’s Photo Team A baby girl has been reportedly rescued from the rubble of her home in northern Syria following Monday’s massive earthquake. Her umbilical cord was still attached to her mother when she was found, a relative told Agence France-Presse. Her mother is believed to have died after giving birth. “We heard
Continue Reading By Nick Valencia, Elizabeth Wolfe and Pamela Kirkland, CNN Five Memphis police officers charged in the deadly police beating of Tyre Nichols last month are accused of assaulting another young Black man just three days prior, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday. Monterrious Harris, 22, filed the lawsuit against the officers and the city
Continue Reading By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Christian Edwards, Krystina Shveda and Henrik Pettersson, CNN More than 8,000 people have been reported killed and tens of thousands of others injured by the devastating earthquake that rocked Turkey and Syria on Monday. Thousands of buildings collapsed in the two nations and aid agencies are warning of “catastrophic” repercussions in northwest
Continue Reading By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Christian Edwards, Krystina Shveda and Henrik Pettersson, CNN Thousands of people have died and tens of thousands of others were injured by the devastating earthquakes that rocked Turkey and Syria on Monday. Rescue teams are still desperately searching for signs of life beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings amid grim conditions, but
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Glaciers around the world are melting at an alarming rate, and are leaving massive pools of water in their wake. The meltwater fills the depression left behind by the glacier, forming what’s known as a glacial lake. As temperatures get warmer and more pieces of the glacier melt away, the lake
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