By Denis Lapin, Olga Voitovych, Tim Lister, Hannah Ritchie and Mariya Knight, CNN The death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment block in Dnipro rose to 29, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday, after missiles and explosions were heard across the country. At least 73 people were injured in Saturday’s attack, with 30
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN A California man has recounted his near-death experience after he narrowly avoided being crushed by a boulder in his car. Mauricio Henao was sitting in the driver’s seat of his parked car in Malibu, California, on Tuesday when he received a phone call. He left the car to take the call
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN A California man has recounted his near-death experience after he narrowly avoided being crushed by a boulder in his car. Mauricio Henao was sitting in the driver’s seat of his parked car in Malibu, California, on Tuesday when he received a phone call. He left the car to take the call
Continue Reading By Justin Gamble, CNN The Howard University men’s basketball team is joining the fight to protect Black maternal health as the nation faces a crisis that leaves Black women at high risk for pregnancy-related complications and death. The team will host a special event ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day with the organization Mamatoto
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, CNN In the week since a six-year-old boy in Newport News, Virginia took a gun from his home, brought it to school and shot his teacher, community members and officials are grappling with an unsettling question: How did the child get access to a loaded firearm? “There’s a lot of questions that
Continue Reading By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN With children back in school and daycare after the holidays, weary parents fear what illness awaits them next during this brutal respiratory virus season. Since October, RSV, a respiratory virus which often is most severe in young children and older adults, hit early and cases started rising quickly. Cases of influenza
Continue Reading By Asha Thapa, Kathleen Magramo and Sugam Pokharel, CNN At least 68 people were killed Sunday when an aircraft went down near the city of Pokhara in central Nepal, a government official said, the country’s deadliest plane crash in more than 30 years. Seventy-two people — four crew members and 68 passengers — were on
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN Extremely rare — and extremely adorable. The Chester Zoo in Cheshire, England, has welcomed the birth of a Western chimpanzee, the most endangered subspecies of chimpanzees. The zoo announced the baby boy’s birth in a Thursday news release. The little one, born to mother ZeeZee, will join a troop of 22
Continue Reading By Scott McLean, Svitlana Vlasova and Matthias Somm, CNN The vertically shot video published last November shows no weapons, battlefield atrocities or even soldiers. But the sound of a patriotic Russian song reverberating through a church on Kyiv’s famous Lavra monastery grounds seemed to open a new front in Ukraine’s war with Russia. The church
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, CNN Robbie Knievel, who followed in the daredevil footsteps of his father Evel Knievel, died Friday, according to his brother, Kelly. He was 60. “He was in hospice for about four days. He had advanced pancreatic cancer,” Kelly Knievel told CNN. “He knew he was sick for probably six months.” Robbie Knievel
Continue Reading By Hadas Gold, Michael Schwartz and Amir Tal, CNN Tens of thousands of people protested in Tel Aviv Saturday night against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government’s proposed changes to the Israeli judicial system. Despite pouring rain over the city, police estimated that more than 80,000 people flooded central Tel Aviv’s HaBima square
Continue Reading By Hannah Sarisohn and Emma Tucker, CNN A 35-year-old Virginia Beach man has been arrested after officials discovered illegal firearms and weapon paraphernalia in his home, including a machine gun, according to police. The man, identified by the agency as John Dane, was arrested on Tuesday, the Virginia Beach Police Department said in a news
Continue Reading By Andi Babineau, CNN Two paramedics in Illinois are facing murder charges after a patient died of positional asphyxiation shortly after he was taken to a hospital in December, court documents say. Peggy Finley, 44, and Peter Cadigan, 50, responded to a home in Springfield on December 18 after police requested medical assistance for a
Continue Reading By Jay Croft and Tina Burnside, CNN A California deputy was shot and killed in the line of duty Friday, the second such fatality in two weeks, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said. Darnell Calhoun, 30, leaves behind a pregnant wife and a grieving community still reeling from the December 29 killing of Deputy Isaiah
Continue Reading By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Kester Howard was painting on a balcony of her luxury cruise ship when a startling announcement came over the loudspeakers. A nearby boat appeared to be in distress, and the captain was turning around to reach them. Howard, a retiree from Brisbane, Australia, grabbed her phone to record what was
Continue Reading By Tina Burnside, CNN A two-year-old child was killed and several others injured in a house fire in Pennsylvania on Friday. Shaler Township Police responded to reports of a house fire around 10 p.m., they tweeted early Saturday morning. Five people were inside the home at the time, four of whom were able to escape.
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN There are more than 5,000 known worlds beyond our solar system. Since the 1990s, astronomers have used ground and space-based telescopes to search for signs of planets beyond our tiny corner of the universe. Exoplanets are notoriously difficult to directly image because they’re so far away from Earth. But scientists know
Continue Reading By CNN’s Beijing Bureau Close to 60,000 people have died of Covid in China since the country abruptly abandoned its tight “zero-Covid” policy in early December, a medical official from the National Health Commission (NHC) told a press conference in Beijing on Saturday. Jiao Yahui, head of the NHC’s medical affairs department, said China recorded
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN A study has found that dolphins are unable to communicate as effectively when exposed to human-generated noises, forcing them to change their sounds much like people do when shouting. An international team of researchers from the University of Bristol, the Dolphin Research Center, Syracuse University, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Aarhus
Continue Reading By Andy Rose and Paradise Afshar, CNN A married couple who police say was caring for a 4-year-old girl in Oklahoma has been arrested and charged after the child’s disappearance, investigators said. Athena Brownfield was first discovered missing by authorities after her young sister was seen unattended outside a home in the town of Cyril
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