By Rachel Ramirez and Renée Rigdon, CNN With vast stretches of desert that give way to towering, snow-capped mountains or the waters of the Pacific Ocean, California’s landscape has always been alluring. But it is this very climate — where dry summers and wet winters provide the perfect conditions for tourism and agriculture — that’s
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN An asteroid the size of a box truck made one of the closest passes of planet Earth ever recorded. The small near-Earth asteroid, called 2023 BU, zipped over the southern tip of South America at 7:27 p.m. ET Thursday about 2,200 miles (3,540 kilometers) above Earth’s surface. This distance was well
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at basketball legend and NBA superstar Michael Jordan. Personal Birth date: February 17, 1963 Birth place: Brooklyn, New York Birth name: Michael Jeffrey Jordan Father: James Jordan, business owner Mother: Deloris (Peoples) Jordan Marriages: Yvette Prieto (April 27, 2013-present); Juanita Vanoy (September 2, 1989-December 29, 2006, divorced) Children: with
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald and Amarachi Orie, CNN From pointing to animated arm movements and nodding, people regularly employ gestures to accompany and create language. Now, it’s been suggested that humans can also understand sign language used by apes, meaning humans may retain an understanding of ape communication from their ancestors. Great apes deploy more than
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN An asteroid the size of a box truck made one of the closest passes of planet Earth ever recorded. The small near-Earth asteroid, called 2023 BU, zipped over the southern tip of South America at 7:27 p.m. ET Thursday about 2,200 miles (3,540 kilometers) above Earth’s surface. This distance was well
Continue Reading By Jack Guy and Niamh Kennedy, CNN The Swedish government was complicit in the burning of the Quran at a protest in Stockholm last weekend, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu reportedly said Thursday. Increased tensions between the two countries come at a time when Sweden is relying on Turkey to support its bid for membership
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Forest City Police Department in North Carolina has issued an advisory after multiple razor blades were found on gas pump handles. The department published the community advisory on Tuesday to address “multiple instances of razor blades being placed in gas pump handles in Forest City and surrounding areas.” It said
Continue Reading By Lianne Kolirin, CNN The rotation of Earth‘s inner core may have paused and it could even go into reverse, new research suggests. The Earth is formed of the crust, the mantle and the inner and outer cores. The solid inner core is situated about 3,200 miles below the Earth’s crust and is separated from
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 Al Goodman, CNN Spanish authorities believe the Moroccan suspect in a deadly machete attack at two churches in the southern port city of Algeciras Wednesday acted alone in the assault, which is being investigated as a suspected terror attack. “The police investigation is going at a rapid pace. There are not third parties involved
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, Melissa Alonso, Jamiel Lynch and Christina Maxouris, CNN Five former Memphis police officers who were fired for their actions during the arrest of Tyre Nichols earlier this month were indicted on charges including murder and kidnapping, Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy announced Thursday. The former officers, Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Justin
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN Ukraine has urged the West to get military hardware into the hands of its troops as quickly as possible, as Russia fired missiles toward Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities just hours after Germany and the US announced their plans to provide modern tanks to the country. Russia launched 55 missiles at
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN Ukraine has urged the West to get military hardware into the hands of its troops as quickly as possible, as Russia fired missiles toward Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities just hours after Germany and the US announced their plans to provide modern tanks to the country. Russia launched 55 missiles at
Continue Reading By Lianne Kolirin and Arnaud Siad, CNN She has survived the horrors of two world wars, a civil war and two global pandemics. Now US-born Maria Branyas Morera has been named the world’s oldest person by Guinness World Records (GWR), following the death of French nun Sister André earlier this month aged 118. Morera has
Continue Reading 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
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