By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Tucked among the thousands of iconic Yoshino cherry trees at the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC, is the “indicator tree,” which erupts into full bloom as much as 10 days earlier than its neighbors and gives officials at the National Park Service a good idea when the rest of them might
Continue Reading By Nimi Princewill, Bethlehem Feleke, Stephanie Busari and Amarachi Orie, CNN Widespread delays overshadowed a crucial presidential election in Nigeria Saturday, as millions voted to elect their new leader. The hotly contested poll is being held simultaneously with elections for representatives for the country’s parliament. CNN confirmed reports from eyewitnesses of isolated violence at two
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall for more than a million candles sold at Walmart after the agency received reports of the candles’ glass cracking, causing burns and cuts. The agency issued the recall on Thursday for over 1.2 million “Mainstays Three-Wicked Candles” with autumnal and Halloween-themed
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, CNN Want to send your faraway lover a kiss? A Chinese contraption with warm, moving silicon “lips” appears to have just the answer. The device, advertised as a way to let long-distance couples share “real” physical intimacy, is causing a buzz among Chinese social media users, who have reacted with both intrigue
Continue Reading By Kathleen Magramo, Wayne Chang, Jake Kwon and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Police in Hong Kong say they have arrested the ex-husband of model and influencer Abby Choi, following the discovery of parts of her dismembered body at a rental unit in the north of the city. Choi, 28, was reported missing on Wednesday, and pieces
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Continue Reading By Nicki Brown, Sara Smart and Ralph Ellis, CNN The federal Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Norfolk Southern to stop its shipments of hazardous waste from the site of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, so that it can review the company’s plans for disposal. Officials in Texas and Michigan are complaining they didn’t
Continue Reading By Holly Yan, CNN The head of the US Environmental Protection Agency is set to make his third trip to East Palestine, Ohio — a town struggling to understand the full breadth of consequences from a toxic train derailment more than three weeks ago. Michael Regan on Tuesday will visit the village of 5,000 people
Continue Reading By Nicki Brown, Sara Smart and Ralph Ellis, CNN The federal Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Norfolk Southern to stop its shipments of hazardous waste from the site of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, so that it can review the company’s plans for disposal. Officials in Texas and Michigan are complaining they didn’t
Continue Reading By Eva McKend and Andy Rose, CNN Close relatives of former US President Jimmy Carter are remaining by his side as he receives hospice care at his home in Georgia, a family member told CNN Friday. “It’s his kids and grandkids up there,” LeAnne Smith, a niece of Carter’s wife, Rosalynn, told CNN. Carter, who
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker and Raja Razek, CNN Alabama will resume the executions of death row inmates, the governor said Friday, three months after multiple failed lethal injections prompted an internal review of the state’s capital punishment system. In a letter to state Attorney General Steve Marshall, Gov. Kay Ivey called for the state’s execution proceedings
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon, CNN A day after China said it drove a US Navy destroyer away from Beijing-claimed waters in the South China Sea, the US 7th Fleet said the same warship sailed through those waters to challenge the Chinese claims. The “guided-missile destroyer USS Milius asserted navigational rights and freedoms in the South China
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson and Alta Spells, CNN State prosecutors said in closing arguments of Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial Wednesday that he was the only person who had the motive, means and opportunity to kill his wife and son in June 2021 — and that his lies afterward betrayed him. “People lie because they know they
Continue Reading By Mallika Kallingal and Veronica Miracle, CNN The Idaho house where four college students were killed in November will be demolished as a “healing step,” the University of Idaho said in a statement Friday. Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20, were each stabbed multiple times in
Continue Reading By Abeer Salman, CNN The heart of occupied Nablus is one of the most ancient cities in the Middle East. With two churches, 12 mosques and a Samaritan synagogue around densely populated residential areas, the occupied West Bank city’s nickname is “Little Damascus” because of the way its architecture, arches and even the local accent
Continue Reading By Ivan Watson and Emiko Jozuka, CNN The US Navy reconnaissance jet flies at 21,500 feet over the South China Sea, 30 miles from the contested Paracel Islands, a group of about 130 small atolls, the biggest of which are home to Chinese military bases. A voice, saying it’s coming from a People’s Liberation Army
Continue Reading By Ivan Watson, Emiko Jozuka and Dan Campisi, CNN The US Navy reconnaissance jet flies at 21,500 feet over the South China Sea, 30 miles from the contested Paracel Islands, a group of about 130 small atolls, the biggest of which are home to Chinese military bases. A voice, saying it’s coming from a People’s
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová, CNN One year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine believing he’d take Kyiv within days, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky struck a defiant note, insisting that he was “certain” his country would win the war. Responding to a question from CNN’s Christiane Amanpour at a press conference in the
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová, CNN One year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine believing he’d take Kyiv within days, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky struck a defiant note, insisting that he was “certain” his country would win the war. Responding to a question from CNN’s Christiane Amanpour at a press conference in the
Continue Reading By Larry Madowo, Bethlehem Feleke, and Fridah Okutoyi, CNN “May Nigeria not happen to you,” is a common prayer in Africa’s largest economy and most populous nation. It is a heartfelt wish born out of the frustration of living in a country so dysfunctional that even wealth cannot insulate you from the wahala (troubles) of
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