By Taylor Nicioli, CNN The Taurid “swarm” is still going strong this month, with bright meteors known as fireballs visible across the world in the night sky. The Southern Taurids peaked last week, with sightings of fireballs lasting throughout the first week of November, but it’s not over yet. The Taurid meteor shower is composed
Continue Reading By Amir Vera and Joe Sutton, CNN A noose was discovered at the Obama Presidential Center construction site in Chicago Thursday, prompting the group overseeing the project to suspend work at the site. Lakeside Alliance, a joint venture of multiple construction companies working on the center, issued a statement saying they reported the incident to
Continue Reading By Mick Krever, Anna Chernova, Teele Rebane, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Tim Lister and Sophie Tanno, CNN Ukrainian forces swept into the key city of Kherson on Friday as Russian troops retreated to the east, delivering a major victory to Kyiv and marking one of the biggest setbacks for President Vladimir Putin since his invasion began. Elated
Continue Reading By Elliott Gotkine and Amir Tal, CNN Israel’s President Isaac Herzog announced Friday he will invite Benjamin Netanyahu to form Israel’s next government, paving the way for him to take the country’s top job for a record sixth time and extend his record as the nation’s longest-serving leader. Herzog will officially issue the mandate to
Continue Reading By Yoonjung Seo, CNN A court in South Korea has approved the extradition of a woman facing murder charges in New Zealand in connection with a case in which the remains of two dead children were found in abandoned suitcases. The Seoul High Court told CNN Friday it had ruled that the woman could be
Continue Reading By Yoonjung Seo, Rhea Mogul and Jessie Yeung, CNN A senior South Korean police inspector who was being investigated in connection with the deadly Halloween crowd crush in Seoul has been found dead in his home. The inspector was found lifeless by his family at around 12:45pm on Friday, according to South Korean police. The
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh, CNN Floridians are once again picking up the pieces after Nicole slammed into the state Thursday, killing at least four people, ripping buildings apart and leaving some homes unlivable as it bore down with dangerous storm surge and powerful winds. Nicole hit Florida’s eastern coast, just south of Vero Beach, as a
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy World leaders are converging in Phnom Penh this weekend for the first in a series of international summits in Southeast Asia over the coming week, where divisions between major powers and conflict threaten to overshadow talks. The first stop is the Cambodian capital where leaders from across the Indo-Pacific will meet alongside
Continue Reading By Kathleen Magramo, CNN A woman who waved a British colonial-era flag to celebrate Hong Kong claiming Olympic gold has become the first person in the city to be jailed on a charge of insulting the Chinese national anthem. Paula Leung, a 42-year-old online journalist, admitted the charge and was given a three-month jail sentence
Continue Reading By Mike Valerio, CNN On a remote Pacific sandbar, replete with the ravages of war, a small group of veterans, volunteers and archeologists are doing their best to keep the enduring promise of “no man left behind.” According to the Department of Defense, nearly half of the known American casualties from the Battle of Tarawa
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi and Amy Simonson, CNN Kentucky state officials on Thursday unveiled a sculpture of public education trailblazer Nettie Depp, the first woman from the state to have a large-scale monument dedicated to her inside the state Capitol. “Nettie Depp was a pioneer in the field of public education in Kentucky, serving as an
Continue Reading By Rob Frehse, CNN A Harvard University museum apologized Thursday for its “complicity” in the objectification of Native peoples and will return hair clippings of about 700 Native American children who were forced to attend United States boarding schools in the 1930’s. “The Peabody Museum apologizes to Indigenous families and tribal nations for our complicity
Continue Reading By Amir Vera and Joe Sutton, CNN A noose was discovered at the Obama Presidential Center construction site in Chicago Thursday, prompting the group overseeing the project to suspend work at the site. Lakeside Alliance, a joint venture of multiple construction companies working on the center, issued a statement saying they reported the incident to
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN Explorers trudged the Atlantic Ocean searching for World War II artifacts lost at sea, but they stumbled on something else — a 20-foot-long piece of debris from the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was destroyed shortly after takeoff in 1986. The History Channel and NASA revealed Thursday that the Challenger segment was
Continue Reading By Taylor Nicioli, CNN For over 50 years, ecologists have studied and debated the mystery of the Namib Desert’s “fairy circles,” circular patches, mostly barren of grass, that have spread across 1,100 miles in the arid grasslands of Southern Africa. Despite their whimsical name, akin to the term “fairy rings” for circular patterns of fungi
Continue Reading By Kristin Fisher and Jackie Wattles, CNN The Artemis I mission team will attempt to get the mega moon rocket off the ground again next week, even though it endured hurricane-force winds and incurred minor damage at the launchpad due to Hurricane Nicole, a NASA official said Friday. The space agency is still targeting a
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker and Sara Smart, CNN Trip Valigorsky’s beachfront home in a tight-knit community in Volusia County, Florida had been in his family for nearly 15 years before it was washed away this week, as the dangerous storm surge and powerful winds caused by Hurricane Nicole swept across Florida. “This home was my grandma’s
Continue Reading By Pierre Bairin, Natacha Bracken, Sharon Braithwaite and Antonia Mortensen, CNN The diplomatic fallout between France and Italy over a stranded migrant ship in the Mediterranean Sea is far from over. The French government on Thursday suspended a deal to take 3,500 asylum-seekers currently in Italy, as Paris criticized the newly appointed right-wing Italian government
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy and Rebekah Riess, CNN The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday denied a petition for a hearing on new evidence in the case of death row inmate Richard Glossip, convicted of a 1997 murder committed by someone else. At trial, prosecutors said Glossip, a motel manager, ordered another employee to kill
Continue Reading By Sharon Braithwaite, James Frater, Barbara von Bulow and Sugam Pokharel, CNN A stabbing attack in Brussels which led to the death of least one police officer is “suspected to be terror-related,” authorities said on Thursday. “It is suspected to be terror-related. It has naturally to be confirmed by the inquiry,” the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s
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