By Abeer Salman, Celine Alkhaldi, Hadas Gold and Michael Schwartz, CNN Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians and wounded several others in the West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said, prompting the Palestinian Authority to suspend its security coordination with Israel. Hours after the Jenin raid, a tenth Palestinian was
Continue Reading By Melissa Gray, CNN The murder trial of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh is underway at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, a small town about 40 miles east of Charleston. The case goes back to June 2021, when Murdaugh’s wife and son were found shot to death at the family’s Islandton property, known
Continue Reading By Travis Caldwell, CNN Nearly three weeks after a traffic stop in Memphis, Tennessee, resulted in a violent arrest and subsequent death of a driver, police are expected to release footage of the incident to the public. Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, was hospitalized after the arrest on January 7 and died three days
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi and Dakin Andone, CNN The fallout is widening in the Virginia school district where a 6-year-old allegedly shot his teacher in the chest earlier this month, with school officials leaving their posts in the face of a potential lawsuit amid questions about whether the shooting was preventable. Ebony Parker, the assistant principal
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi and Dakin Andone, CNN The fallout is widening in the Virginia school district where a 6-year-old allegedly shot his teacher in the chest earlier this month, with school officials leaving their posts in the face of a potential lawsuit amid questions about whether the shooting was preventable. Ebony Parker, the assistant principal
Continue Reading By Radina Gigova and Simone McCarthy, CNN A Russian warship armed with advanced hypersonic missiles completed a drill in the Atlantic Ocean, ahead of joint naval exercises with the Chinese and South African navies scheduled for next month, the Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday. Russia’s Admiral Gorshkov frigate, armed with Zircon hypersonic missiles, practiced “delivering
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh and Taylor Romine, CNN The suspect in the Half Moon Bay, California, mass shooting was charged Wednesday with seven counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in what became the deadliest attack in San Mateo County’s history, the district attorney said. “This one is in a category that is way
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh and Taylor Romine, CNN The suspect in the Half Moon Bay, California, mass shooting was charged Wednesday with seven counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in what became the deadliest attack in San Mateo County’s history, the district attorney said. “This one is in a category that is way
Continue Reading By Radina Gigova and Simone McCarthy, CNN A Russian warship armed with advanced hypersonic missiles completed a drill in the Atlantic Ocean, ahead of joint naval exercises with the Chinese and South African navies scheduled for next month, the Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday. Russia’s Admiral Gorshkov frigate, armed with Zircon hypersonic missiles, practiced “delivering
Continue Reading By Heather Chen, Yoonjung Seo, Paula Hancocks, Jake Kwon and Junko Ogura, CNN A deadly cold snap that is gripping East Asia has killed at least four people in Japan after subzero temperatures and heavy snow brought travel chaos during the Lunar New Year holiday, with climate experts warning that such extreme weather events had
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN After weeks of geopolitical squabbling, a major moment in the war in Ukraine has arrived: Germany has announced it will provide Leopard 2 tanks to Kyiv’s troops. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced the move on Wednesday, bowing to intensifying international pressure — led by the United States, Poland and a bloc
Continue Reading By Melissa Gray, CNN The murder trial of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh ended March 2 after nearly six weeks at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, a small town about 40 miles west of Charleston. Murdaugh was found guilty of killing his wife and son, who were shot to death in 2021 at
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hauser and Angela Fritz, CNN An iceberg nearly the size of Greater London broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica on Sunday according to the British Antarctic Survey. Scientists first discovered significant cracks in the ice shelf a decade ago, but in the last two years there have been two major breaks.
Continue Reading By Christina Zdanowicz and Jaide Timm-Garcia, CNN Tyre Nichols was a father, a man who loved his mama and a free-spirited soul who was looking for a new life in Memphis, Tennessee. That life was tragically cut short earlier this month after a violent arrest by five officers with the Memphis Police. Now, as attention
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN Analysis of fossils found in the far north of Canada has revealed that two previously unknown species of ancient near-primates lived above the Arctic Circle some 52 million years ago, according to new research. The now-extinct creatures belonged to a part of the primate family tree that branched off before the
Continue Reading By Kara Scannell, CNN A Holocaust survivor was swindled out of his life savings by a woman he met on a dating website, prosecutors allege in the latest romance scam targeting the elderly. Peaches Stergo, a 36-year-old Florida woman also known as Alice, was arrested Wednesday on one count of wire fraud for allegedly duping
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, CNN Forty-four hours in America. Three mass shootings. Nineteen lives wiped out. All in California. The victims in suburban Monterey Park included people between the ages of 57 and 76, ringing in the Lunar New Year Saturday night at a dance studio in the heart of the city’s Asian American community. Then
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, CNN Opening statements began Wednesday afternoon in Walterboro, South Carolina, in the trial of Alex Murdaugh, who has been charged with the 2021 murders of his wife and youngest son — the most serious and the grisliest of allegations faced by the once prominent, but now disbarred, attorney. Murdaugh has pleaded not
Continue Reading By Amanda Watts, CNN A young boy was killed and his mother injured after the pair was attacked by four dogs in Fort Hall, Idaho, according to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. In a statement on Facebook, the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes said the Fort Hall Police Department (FHPD) responded to a call of a dog attack on January
Continue Reading By Lianne Kolirin, CNN Bones thought to belong to soldiers killed at the Battle of Waterloo have been discovered in an attic in Belgium. Scientists are now analyzing the human remains to try to learn more about the identity of those who died. The battle was fought near Waterloo village, south of Brussels, on June
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