By Donald Judd and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden traveled to Triangle, Virginia, Monday to mark Earth Day, unveiling $7 billion in grant funding for solar power under the Inflation Reduction Act and announcing new steps to stand up his administration’s American Climate Corps – a program popular with youth climate groups.
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, Hassan Tayir and Martha Zhou, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Multiple days of heavy rains have lashed southern China, unleashing deadly floods and threatening to upend the lives of tens of millions of people as rescuers rush to evacuate residents trapped by rising waters. Guangdong province, an economic powerhouse home to 127
Continue Reading By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been accused of delivering Islamophobic remarks during an election rally Sunday, triggering widespread anger from prominent Muslims and members of the opposition. The world’s most populous nation is in the midst of a mammoth weeks-long election in which Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — China has accused the United States of “stoking military confrontation” with the recent deployment of a powerful missile launcher capable of firing weapons with a range of up to 1,600 kilometers to exercises in the Philippines. The US Army’s Mid-Range Capability (MRC) ground-based missile system arrives
Continue Reading By Cindy Von Quednow and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — A 29-year-old man has been charged with burglary in connection with a break-in at Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ official residence that happened over the weekend while the mayor, her daughter, son-in-law and newborn grandson were inside, prosecutors said Tuesday. Ephraim Matthew Hunter faces felony counts of burglary and
Continue Reading By Amy Chillag, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — The plight of Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped New York’s Central Park Zoo last year, showed just how tough it is to survive in a world altered by humans. The gorgeous creature with a six-foot wing span, piercing orange eyes and tufted ears captivated the world as
Continue Reading By Jillian Sykes and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Authorities have identified the woman who was shot and killed early Sunday morning at Delaware State University in Dover. Camay Mitchell DeSilva, 18, of Wilmington, Delaware, was found in a residence hall early Sunday with a gunshot wound to her upper body, according to the Dover
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — In a slick video marking the National Security Education Day, China’s top spy agency has a stern message for Chinese people: foreign spies are everywhere. As ominous music plays, a broad-faced, beady-eyed man disguises himself as a street fashion photographer, a lab technician, a businessman and a
Continue Reading By Ana María Cañizares and Marlon Sorto, CNN (CNN) — The director of an Ecuadorian prison known as “El Rodeo” was killed Sunday in an attack that came as millions of people in the country headed to the polls for a referendum focused largely on President Daniel Noboa’s war on crime. The official was identified
Continue Reading By Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Mohammad Faris, known as the “Armstrong of the Arab World” and Syria’s only astronaut, died at the age of 72 in exile in the Turkish city of Gaziantep on Friday, from complications of a heart attack he suffered a month ago, according to a close friend who spoke to
Continue Reading By Celina Tebor, Zoe Sottile and Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — Columbia University is facing a full-blown crisis heading into Passover as a rabbi linked to the Ivy League school urged Jewish students to stay home and tense confrontations on campus sparked condemnation from the White House and New York officials. The atmosphere is so
Continue Reading By Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — More than 13 million Ecuadorians are expected to head to the polls Sunday for a referendum dominated by security issues, in a vote that could shape the political future of President Daniel Noboa and his tough-on-crime agenda. Noboa, the son of a banana tycoon, swept into office last November
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile and Fabiana Chaparro, CNN (CNN) — James Parker, a man who has spent more than half his life in prison for his role in the killing of Dartmouth College professors Half and Susanne Zantop in 2001, has been granted parole. Parker was just 16 when he and his 17-year-old friend Robert Tulloch
Continue Reading By Taylor Nicioli and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The total solar eclipse has come and gone, but sky-gazers have reason to keep looking up — a meteor shower will peak this week right before a full moon rises. The bright orb may steal some of the Lyrids’ thunder, but experts have some tips on how
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — The pandas are coming! The pandas are coming! China will send giant pandas to live at the San Francisco Zoo, the city’s mayor announced on Friday. The timeline for their arrival will be set by the completion of a new panda enclosure at the zoo. China
Continue Reading WXYZ, CNN By Emma Tucker and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — An 8-year-old girl and her 5-year-old brother were killed, and at least nine others were seriously injured at a child’s birthday party at a boat club in Newport, Michigan, on Saturday when a driver drove through the building where the celebration was taking place,
Continue Reading By Junko Ogura, Sophie Jeong and Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — One rescued crew member has died and seven others are still missing after two Japanese military helicopters appeared to have crashed during a drill late Saturday, Japan’s Defense Minister Minoru Kihara said. “It is very unfortunate that this situation has come to this point,”
Continue Reading By Rachel Clarke, CNN (CNN) — Tifany Machel Adams did not want her grandchildren to see more of their mother. The children’s mother, Veronica Butler, however, wanted more access to her kids than the court-ordered supervised Saturday visits she was allowed. It was the latest flash point in a custody fight that had already gone
Continue Reading By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — On a slice of the ocean front in west Singapore, a startup is building a plant to turn carbon dioxide from air and seawater into the same material as seashells, in a process that will also produce “green” hydrogen — a much-hyped clean fuel. The cluster of low-slung buildings starting
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar and Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — A Saturday night tram collision at Universal Studios Hollywood that left more than a dozen people injured during a tour occurred when the last car of the backlot tram crashed into a metal guardrail as the driver negotiated a turn, California authorities said Sunday. The
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