By Mohammed Tawfeeq and Heather Chen, CNN Iran has arrested more than 100 people “in connection with” the suspected poisoning of hundreds of schoolgirls across the country, according to the state-run IRNA news agency. Citing a statement from Iran’s Interior Ministry, IRNA said the people had been “identified, arrested and investigated” in several cities, including
Continue Reading By Melissa Alonso, CNN The parents of Maxwell “Max” Gruver — the Louisiana State University student who died in a 2017 hazing incident — prevailed in their wrongful death lawsuit and were awarded $6.1 million by a jury in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this week, the family’s attorney, Jonathan Fazzola, told CNN. Max died on September
Continue Reading By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Behind the gleaming skyscrapers and multimillion-dollar homes that have made this city the world’s most expensive property market lies a far less attractive parallel reality: one of the world’s seemingly most intractable housing crises. Welcome to Hong Kong, where the average home sells for well north of a million dollars —
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, CNN In one of the first major legal tests of laws cracking down on abortion since Roe v. Wade was overturned, a Texas man filed a lawsuit against three women claiming they illegally assisted his ex-wife in her abortion. Marcus Silva argued in his wrongful death lawsuit, which was filed Thursday in
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN The four astronauts who make up the Crew-5 team aboard the International Space Station returned home from a five-month stay in space Saturday, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule disembarked from the space station at 2:20 am ET, beginning the final leg of the astronauts’
Continue Reading By Polo Sandoval, Melissa Alonso, Emma Tucker and Andrew Millman, CNN Three women are believed to be missing in Mexico after they crossed the US border traveling from Texas to sell clothes at a flea market more than two weeks ago, police told CNN on Saturday. Mexican authorities are investigating the disappearance of the three
Continue Reading By Jay Croft, CNN You can live like American royalty in the capital kingdom of Washington, DC. For just $26.5 million. That’s the price tag for the sale of three Georgetown mansions, which have been combined into one property with a total area of 16,000 square feet. An early Georgetown mayor and a former Miss
Continue Reading By Joshua Berlinger, CNN The City of Lights has a garbage problem. Massive strikes in Paris against pension reform this week are affecting trash pickup services in the French capital, with piles of waste sitting on many of the city’s normally picturesque streets, including those just steps from monuments like the Eiffel Tower and the
Continue Reading 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 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
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