By Jessie Yeung and Kathleen Magramo, CNN One of the last major international cities requiring face coverings on Tuesday announced it will end its controversial Covid mask mandate nearly three years after it was enacted to prevent the spread of the virus. Hong Kong’s mandate, enforced through fines that could reach more than $1,000, had
Continue Reading By Stephanie Busari, CNN Nigeria’s third force candidate Peter Obi has won Lagos State, beating influential ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu on his home turf, according to results announced from the state’s collation center. Obi’s win comes as a surprise as the state is a stronghold of Tinubu, who was expected to easily win the
Continue Reading By Uliana Pavlova, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to honor the American actor Steven Seagal with the state Order of Friendship. The decree cited what it called Seagal’s “great contribution to the development of international cultural and humanitarian cooperation.” Seagal has been a regular visitor to Russia and became a citizen
Continue Reading By Hadas Gold, CNN The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) sees the previous day’s attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank as “actions of terror,” an IDF official said Monday, as tensions in the region simmered after a weekend of violence. At least one Palestinian man was killed, a Palestinian fire engine was
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, Alta Spells and Dianne Gallagher, CNN Alex Murdaugh’s defense in his double murder trial rested its case Monday after calling up 14 witnesses over about two weeks of testimony. Monday’s testimony was headlined by an expert in crime scene reconstruction and blood spatter analysis who testified that the evidence suggests two shooters
Continue Reading By Casey Tolan, CNN In the parking lot of New Jerusalem Church in Jackson, Mississippi, volunteers handed out free cases of bottled water to a line of arriving cars last week — a new normal in a state capital that has struggled with the fallout of a failing water system. But inside the church, a
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The US is one of only seven countries in the world without some form of universal paid family and medical leave — but two congresswomen are trying to change that. Both mothers with daughters, this bipartisan duo is collaborating across the aisle in hopes to make progress on the issue. Here’s
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The US is one of only seven countries in the world without some form of universal paid family and medical leave — but two congresswomen are trying to change that. Both mothers with daughters, this bipartisan duo is collaborating across the aisle in hopes to make progress on the issue. Here’s
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The US is one of only seven countries in the world without some form of universal paid family and medical leave — but two congresswomen are trying to change that. Both mothers with daughters, this bipartisan duo is collaborating across the aisle in hopes to make progress on the issue. Here’s
Continue Reading By Stephanie Halasz and Rob Picheta, CNN The European Union has sanctioned a Russian national and the subsidiary of Russia’s Wagner Group in Sudan, Meroe Gold, for facilitating the exploitation of Sudan’s gold wealth, after a CNN investigation into the group’s activities last July. The EU named a Russian national — Mikhail Potepkin — and
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN One year ago, when Russia launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine and began Europe’s biggest land war since 1945, it waged another battle at home — intensifying its information blockade in an effort to control the hearts and minds of its own citizens. Draconian new censorship laws targeted any media still
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN One year ago, when Russia launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine and began Europe’s biggest land war since 1945, it waged another battle at home — intensifying its information blockade in an effort to control the hearts and minds of its own citizens. Draconian new censorship laws targeted any media still
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN One year ago, when Russia launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine and began Europe’s biggest land war since 1945, it waged another battle at home — intensifying its information blockade in an effort to control the hearts and minds of its own citizens. Draconian new censorship laws targeted any media still
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh, Artemis Moshtaghian and Holly Yan, CNN After a brief pause, shipments of contaminated liquid and soil from the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, have resumed after cross-country concerns about where the hazardous waste is going. Officials with the Environmental Protection Agency previously said they have approved the shipment of contaminated
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen and Renée Rigdon, CNN As the planet warms, hurricanes are changing — they are getting stronger faster, bringing more flooding rain, pushing farther inland after they make landfall and tracking farther north in general. Those changes are exposing more people and properties to hurricanes’ damaging winds, according to a new report from
Continue Reading By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Four members of the same family charged in connection with the gruesome killing of Hong Kong model Abby Choi appeared in court Monday, after police said they found what are believed to be parts of her dismembered body, public broadcaster RTHK reported. Choi’s ex-husband Alex Kwong, 28, his brother Anthony, 31,
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN One year ago, when Russia launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine and began Europe’s biggest land war since 1945, it waged another battle at home — intensifying its information blockade in an effort to control the hearts and minds of its own citizens. Draconian new censorship laws targeted any media still
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess, Tina Burnside and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN The five people who were killed Friday after a medical services airplane crashed in Western Nevada have been identified, according to GoFundMe fundraisers that the company verified to CNN. The plane, which was bound for Salt Lake City, Utah, left Reno around 9:45 p.m. and was
Continue Reading By Raja Razek, CNN Arizona authorities targeting the Sinaloa drug cartel have seized narcotics estimated to be worth more than $13 million, including more than 4.5 million fentanyl pills, 3,100 pounds of methamphetamine and large quantities of heroin, cocaine and fentanyl powder, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. In a news release, the agency said
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN The Environmental Protection Agency has approved resuming shipments of contaminated liquid and soil out of East Palestine, Ohio, where a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed earlier this month. The EPA on Friday ordered the train’s operator, Norfolk Southern, to halt the shipments so that it could review the
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