By Ashley Strickland, CNN When a large experimental heat shield inflated in space and faced the brutal reentry of Earth’s atmosphere last week, the aeroshell survived — and NASA officials have deemed it a “huge success.” The technology demonstration could be the foundation of landing technology that puts humans on the surface of Mars. The
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez, CNN When Rep. Karen Bass is sworn in as Los Angeles mayor next month, Black people will be leading the four largest cities in America. “As Black mayors continue to win elections this cycle, we are excited that, for the first time, the four largest cities — New York City, Los Angeles,
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope has spied one of the earliest galaxies formed after the big bang, about 350 million years after the universe began. The galaxy, called GLASS-z12, and another galaxy formed about 450 million years after the big bang, were found over the summer, shortly after the powerful space
Continue Reading By Rosa Flores and Rosalina Nieves, CNN One US Customs and Border Protection agent is dead and two others injured after a shootout with suspected drug smugglers off the coast of Puerto Rico, according to agency spokesperson Jeffrey Quiñones. “An agent that was transported directly to a hospital in Mayagüez, we were told just a
Continue Reading By Frederik Pleitgen, Kylie Atwood, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Rob Picheta, CNN American basketball star Brittney Griner has been transferred to a penal colony in Yavas, in the western Russian region of Mordovia, her lawyers said Thursday, ending days of speculation over her whereabouts. Her lawyers, Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov, thanked everyone who has
Continue Reading By Shimon Prokupecz, CNN Lt. Mariano Pargas, the acting police chief on the day of the Robb Elementary School massacre, has resigned from the Uvalde Police Department, Mayor Don McLaughlin said Thursday afternoon. Pargas’ resignation comes ahead of a rare Saturday “special meeting” that was called by the city to decide his fate. His resignation
Continue Reading By Cheri Mossburg, Josh Campbell, Alaa Elassar and Andy Rose, CNN The man who was arrested for allegedly driving a vehicle into a group of law enforcement recruits in Whittier, California, was released from jail Thursday night, but the sheriff’s department insists they did not make a mistake. Nicholas Joseph Gutierrez, 22, was released from
Continue Reading By Richard Allen Greene, Hadas Gold, Mostafa Salem and Oren Liebermann, CNN CNN has obtained exclusive images showing the damage and debris from a self-detonating drone attack against an oil tanker off the coast of Oman on Tuesday evening. The two images, provided by a Western defense official, show a hole in what appears to
Continue Reading By Leah Asmelash, CNN Arizona once boasted one of the most stringent policies barring access to higher education for undocumented students. But a recent shift in the state could signal changing perceptions of undocumented youth. This week, Arizona voters narrowly passed Proposition 308, which allows undocumented students both access to in-state tuition rates and state-funded
Continue Reading By Andi Babineau and Alaa Elassar, CNN Yellowstone National Park officials have identified the person whose foot was found floating in one of the park’s deepest hot springs in August. Los Angeles resident Il Hun Ro, 70, was identified “in the last three weeks” using DNA analysis, the park said in a news release Thursday,
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar, Eric Levenson and Emma Tucker, CNN A suspect was taken into custody in connection with the investigation into the killing of four University of Idaho students in November in an off-campus home in Moscow, two federal law enforcement sources confirmed to CNN on Friday. During a news conference on Friday, Moscow Police
Continue Reading By Michelle Watson, CNN Thousands of mink were released from their cages at a northwestern Ohio farm in an overnight breaking and entering episode, authorities said Tuesday. Between 25,000 and 40,000 mink were let loose after a suspect or suspects broke into the Lion Farms USA Mink Farm in Hoaglin Township, Ohio, and destroyed fencing,
Continue Reading By Sonia Moghe, CNN The man charged with killing 10 people and injuring more than a dozen others at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket earlier this year is expected to plead guilty to state charges next week, a victims’ attorney said Thursday. The suspected shooter is expected to enter guilty pleas on all 25 counts
Continue Reading By Sara Weisfeldt, Leyla Santiago and Alaa Elassar, CNN A Sarasota County, Florida, judge ruled Thursday in favor of Gabby Petito’s family in a wrongful-death lawsuit against the estate of Brian Laundrie. The final judgment awards $3 million to Petito’s mother, Nichole Schmidt, as the administrator of Petito’s estate. “The Petito family lost their daughter,
Continue Reading By Christina Zdanowicz, Sara Smart and Eric Levenson, CNN Xana Kernodle was a positive, funny woman who made her big sister, Jazzmin, very proud. Kernodle was one of four students brutally killed on Sunday in the house they shared off-campus at the University of Idaho, authorities said. “Xana was one of the best people I
Continue Reading By Taylor Nicioli, CNN Known as some of the fastest meteors around, the Leonids blaze across the night sky annually during the month of November. Historically, they are considered to be one of the most impressive meteor showers on record, largely due to the meteor storm they form roughly every 33 years, causing thousands of
Continue Reading By Sophie Tanno, CNN A Dutch court on Thursday found two Russians and a separatist Ukrainian guilty of mass murder for their involvement in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014. Igor Girkin, a former colonel of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), and Sergey Dubinskiy, who worked for Russia’s GRU
Continue Reading By Hafsa Khalil, CNN If you’ve ever wondered where water on Earth comes from, new research on a meteorite which landed in a family’s front yard in England last year may have just the answer. Researchers from London’s Natural History Museum and the University of Glasgow, in Scotland, studied a meteorite found in the town
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, CNN The killings of four University of Idaho students Sunday in their off-campus home has brought in the investigative powers of the local Moscow Police, state police and the FBI. Days after the deaths, there is no suspect or murder weapon, and police have been tight-lipped on what they know. Still, they
Continue Reading By Tim Lister, Katharina Krebs and Anastasia Graham-Yooll, CNN Russia’s first mobilization since World War II may be complete, but the deployment of thousands of soldiers to the battlefields of Ukraine is generating dissent and protest on the front lines — and back home. With the Russian government touting that at least 50,000 of the
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