By Tara Subramaniam and Sophia Saifi, CNN Pakistan’s government has blocked the nationwide release of “Joyland,” the first Pakistani movie shown at the Cannes Film Festival, just one week before it was due to hit theaters in the South Asian country. “Joyland” tells a love story between the youngest son of “a happily patriarchal joint
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy and Stella Chan, CNN The deputies who shot Dijon Kizzee 16 times and killed him will not face criminal charges, according to a 19-page memo from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office. On the afternoon of August 31, 2020, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy Christian Morales and his training officer Michael
Continue Reading By Justin Gamble and Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN A measure to remove slavery and indentured servitude as punishment for a crime from the constitution of Louisiana failed on Election Day after voters were told to reject it because of confusing and ambiguous language. Louisiana had been one of five states to put the amendment on
Continue Reading By Hadas Gold, Michael Schwartz and Mohammed Najib, CNN At least three Israelis were killed and another three wounded when a Palestinian man went on a rampage near an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. The attack took place in multiple locations near the Israeli settlement of Ariel. The Israel Defense Forces
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh, Eric Levenson and Christina Maxouris, CNN The judge overseeing Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial in Los Angeles dropped four of the 11 charges against him on Tuesday after prosecutors said that they do not intend to proceed with counts connected to one of the accusers. The four dropped charges — two counts
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN The historic Artemis I mission — an uncrewed test flight around the moon that will make use of the most powerful operational rocket in the world — could finally take flight this week, though the team is once again troubleshooting some issues in the lead-up to launch. The NASA mission team
Continue Reading By Meridith Edwards, Sara Sidner and Ray Sanchez, CNN The US Environmental Protection Agency is poised to propose a long-term presence on the ground in Jackson, Mississippi, to help fix the decades-long problems with its drinking water, a source with knowledge of the matter told CNN Tuesday. EPA Administrator Michael Regan visited Jackson Tuesday on
Continue Reading By Tim Lister, Tara John, Antonia Mortensen, Anna Chernova, Emmet Lyons and Rhea Mogul, CNN World leaders gathering at the G20 summit in Bali are attempting to diffuse a potential escalation in the months-long Ukraine war after a “Russian-made” missile struck NATO-member Poland killing two people. The missile landed outside the rural Polish village of
Continue Reading By Paul P. Murphy, CNN A top public safety official for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis worked in lockstep with Perla Huerta, the former Army counterintelligence agent who recruited migrants for a pair of September flights from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, new text messages obtained by CNN show. On September 12, for example, two days
Continue Reading By Mostafa Salem and Hira Humayun, CNN Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau deleted a tweet containing false information on mass death sentences in Iran, after a viral campaign on social media circulated the fake news. Celebrities and users shared a picture on Instagram showing a woman holding an Iranian flag with the caption “Iran sentences
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch, CNN An attorney for a North Carolina man is calling for a criminal investigation into why his client, a 41-year-old Black man, was beaten while in custody at the Camden County, Georgia, Detention Center in September. In a news release, civil rights attorney Harry Daniels says his client Jarrett Hobbs was “mercilessly”
Continue Reading By Karen Smith, CNN The sister of Alaa Abd El-Fattah said Tuesday that she had received a letter saying the imprisoned British-Egyptian activist had ended his hunger strike after more than 200 days. “The important thing is I want to celebrate my birthday with you on Thursday, I haven’t celebrated for a long time, and
Continue Reading By Sahar Akbarzai, Xiaofei Xu, Hadas Gold, Michael Callahan and Evan Perez, CNN A top Israeli official has confirmed the existence of a US investigation into the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh but said Israel’s government would not cooperate with the American probe, calling it a “mistake.” Defense Minister Benny Gantz revealed details
Continue Reading By Julia Kesaieva, Vasco Cotovio, Tim Lister and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Russia launched its biggest wave of missile attacks on Ukrainian cities in more than a month on Tuesday — hours after Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky proposed a peace plan in front of world leaders at the G20 summit in Indonesia. Air raid sirens
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy, Theresa Waldrop, Dakin Andone and Holly Yan, CNN The 22-year-old University of Virginia student suspected of killing three football players and wounding two other people was facing school disciplinary action after UVA officials learned he failed to disclose his conviction last year on a misdemeanor concealed weapons charge, a school spokesperson says.
Continue Reading By Hafsa Khalil, CNN Foraging for fungi may not only mean mushrooms are on the menu. New research has shown that mushroom skins could provide a biodegradable alternative to some plastics used in batteries and computer chips, making them easier to recycle. Researchers from the Johannes Kepler University in Austria were working on flexible and
Continue Reading By Hafsa Khalil, CNN Foraging for fungi may not only mean mushrooms are on the menu. New research has shown that mushroom skins could provide a biodegradable alternative to some plastics used in batteries and computer chips, making them easier to recycle. Researchers from the Johannes Kepler University in Austria were working on flexible and
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN The first in a series of end-of-the-year spacewalks kicked off Tuesday morning outside the International Space Station. First-time spacewalkers and NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio began their excursion outside the space station at 9:14 a.m. ET and ended at 4:25 p.m. ET, lasting for 7 hours and 11 minutes.
Continue Reading By CNN’s Beijing Bureau and Kathleen Magramo China on Thursday reported a record number of daily Covid infections, as a nationwide surge in cases heaps pressure on the country’s increasingly unpopular zero-tolerance approach to the virus. The National Health Commission (NHC) recorded 31,444 locally transmitted cases on Wednesday — surpassing the previous peak of 29,317
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Residents under Covid lockdown in China’s southern manufacturing hub of Guangzhou have torn down barriers meant to confine them to their homes, taking to the streets in defiance of strictly enforced local orders, according to video and images circulating on social media. Some of the images show large
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