By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Much of the East Coast will be hunkering down this weekend as snow and ice begin to smother parts of the Mid-Atlantic and New England. The region is gearing up for the same powerful storm system that’s already brought several cities across the South to a halt, with at least 50
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Much of the East Coast will be hunkering down this weekend as snow and ice begin to smother parts of the Mid-Atlantic and New England. The region is gearing up for the same powerful storm system that’s already brought several cities across the South to a halt, with at least 50
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Much of the East Coast will be hunkering down this weekend as snow and ice begin to smother parts of the Mid-Atlantic and New England. The region is gearing up for the same powerful storm system that’s already brought several cities across the South to a halt, with at least 50
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN The first mission to survey nearly all of the water on Earth’s surface has launched. The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission, known as SWOT, lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 6:46 a.m. ET on Friday. The first stage of
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon, Wayne Chang, Emiko Jozuka and Junko Ogura, CNN Japan on Friday unveiled a new national security plan that signals the country’s biggest military buildup since World War II, doubling defense spending and veering from its pacifist constitution in the face of growing threats from regional rivals. In an early evening televised address
Continue Reading By Joseph Ataman, Marguerite Lacroix and Joshua Berlinger, CNN At least 10 people, including five children, were killed when a massive fire ripped through an eight-story apartment block in a suburb of the French city of Lyon early Friday morning. The fire broke out on the ground floor of the structure in the town of
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Continue Reading By Holmes Lybrand, CNN A Minnesota man who federal authorities say expressed admiration for mass shooters was arrested Wednesday after allegedly trying to purchase hand grenades and a firearm component that converts an AR-15 style rifle into an illegal machine gun, the Justice Department announced. River Smith, 20, has been charged with one count each
Continue Reading By Joe Sutton and Amanda Jackson, CNN Winston-Salem State University, a historically Black institution in North Carolina, has addressed the use of law enforcement on its campus amid the online spread of a video that shows a Black student being arrested in a classroom after an apparent dispute with a professor. The incident Wednesday began
Continue Reading By Paula Hancocks, Yoonjung Seo and David Hawley, CNN “She’s smiling, look at her smile, her face.” Oh Il-seok looks lovingly at a photograph of his daughter taken in the last hours of her life. As he takes off his glasses to wipe his eyes, his wife whispers, “Ji-min is my friend, she is my
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Continue Reading By Stephanie Elam, CNN California’s air regulators approved an aggressive plan Thursday for the state to reach carbon neutrality by 2045 — in line with legislation signed by Governor Gavin Newsom earlier this year. The plan, approved by the California Air Resources Board, looks to move one of the largest economies in the world to
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon, CNN North Korea on Friday said it has successfully tested a solid-fueled rocket motor, a development that could lead to Kim Jong Un’s regime being able to more quickly and reliably fire an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in the future. The new high-thrust rocket motor was tested at a satellite launching ground
Continue Reading By Shimon Prokupecz and Matthew J. Friedman, CNN Texas Department of Public Safety investigators looking into the botched response at Robb Elementary School have become increasingly troubled by the actions of two officials — former Uvalde schools police chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo and former Uvalde Police Lt. Mariano Pargas — according to law enforcement officials
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine and Emma Tucker, CNN The man accused of attacking comedian Dave Chappelle while he was performing at the Hollywood Bowl earlier this year pleaded no contest to two charges and was subsequently sentenced to 270 days in county jail Wednesday, officials said. Isaiah Lee pleaded no contest to misdemeanor battery charges and
Continue Reading By Kevin Flower, CNN The mother of one of the four college students killed near the University of Idaho last month expressed frustration over police communications on the status of the investigation into the murders. “It’s sleepless nights. It’s feeling sick to your stomach. It’s just being left in the dark,” Kristi Goncalves, the mother
Continue Reading By Lauren del Valle, CNN Prosecutors in Michigan disclosed more evidence in recent court filings they say shows the mother of Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley knew about his unhealthy mental state when the parents bought him a gun last November. “You know my biggest fear was that he was gonna turn the gun
Continue Reading By Zahid Mahmood, Josh Pennington and Dennis Lapin Poland’s police chief Jaroslaw Szymczyk was hospitalized with minor injuries on Wednesday after a gift that he had received in Ukraine suddenly exploded, according to a government statement “Yesterday at 7:50 a.m., an explosion occurred in a room adjacent to the office of the Police Chief,” Poland’s
Continue Reading By Amanda Musa, CNN Claudine Gay will serve as Harvard’s 30th president, the University announced Thursday. Gay is the first person of color and the second woman to hold the role of Harvard University’s president. Born to Haitian immigrants, Gay received her Ph.D. in government from Harvard in 1998. She is also the recipient of
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN When NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft slammed into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos, the impact certainly left a mark. The intentional collision, which took place on September 26 as a test of asteroid deflection technology, displaced more than 2 million pounds (1 million kilograms) of rocks and dust from the asteroid
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