By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN After no lucky trick-or-treater scored Monday night’s billion-dollar Powerball jackpot, players will have to vie for the prize yet again on Wednesday, this time for a whopping estimated $1.2 billion. The jackpot is the second-largest prize in Powerball’s 30-year history, according to the lottery, just behind the record $1.586 billion win
Continue Reading By David Williams, CNN Members of a Red Oak, Iowa, family were able to escape their burning home after a driver, who’d wound up on their street by mistake, saw the flames and rushed to wake them up. Brendon Birt told CNN that he was giving a friend a ride home early on October 23
Continue Reading By Manveena Suri, Swati Gupta and Hira Humayun, CNN Nine people have been arrested over the collapse of a suspension bridge in India’s western Gujarat state that killed at least 134 people on Sunday, police said. The suspects are all associated with Oreva, a Gujarat-based electrical appliances manufacturer that performed maintenance on the 230-meter long
Continue Reading By Haley Brink and Amir Vera, CNN Parts of Central America are bracing for approaching Tropical Storm Lisa this week as the storm is expected to bring with it hurricane-like conditions that include dangerous storm surge and heavy rainfall, according to the National Hurricane Center. Lisa received its name Monday to become the 12th named
Continue Reading By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN The city government in Everett, Washington, violated bikini baristas’ 14th amendment rights through its ordinances attempting to regulate the clothing baristas are permitted to wear while working, according to an order from a US District Judge in western Washington, which was obtained by CNN. Baristas employed by Hillbilly Hotties, as well
Continue Reading By Drew Iden, HLN For nearly six years, Delphi, Indiana, a small town an hour north of Indianapolis, has been holding its breath. And Monday morning, when Indiana State Police Superintendent Doug Carter stepped to the lectern to announce the arrest and charging of local resident Richard Allen with two counts of murder, it seemed
Continue Reading By Laura Ly, CNN A woman found dead on Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 1974 has been identified nearly 50 years later using “investigative genealogy,” Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division Joseph R. Bonavolonta announced Monday. Previously dubbed the “Lady of the Dunes” due to her being found in the sand dunes in
Continue Reading By Katharina Krebs, Chris Liakos and Lianne Kolirin, CNN Russia has announced that its “partial mobilization” of hundreds of thousands of citizens to fight in the country’s war on Ukraine has been completed, bringing to an end a controversial draft that sparked protests and an exodus of men from the country. The Russian Ministry of
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN A NASA observatory captured what appeared to be a jack-o’-lantern-esque smile on the sun’s surface, showing what are actually splotches on the sun’s surface that are cooler than the surrounding areas. The image, taken by NASA’s space-based Solar Dynamics Observatory, was shared by the space agency on social media last week
Continue Reading Marnie Hunter, Cheri Mossburg and Gregory Wallace, CNN Four people suddenly fell ill at Los Angeles International Airport on Monday from “apparent fume exposure,” according to an incident report from the Los Angeles Fire Department. The terminal was cleared of passengers due to a hazardous materials investigation, the airport tweeted on Monday. Carbon dioxide from
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards, CNN British entrepreneur Richard Branson has declined an invitation from the Singaporean government to take part in a live television debate on the death penalty. Branson — a long-time campaigner against capital punishment — had criticized Singapore’s decision in April this year to execute 33-year-old Nagaenthran Dharmalingam for drug trafficking. In a
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers have spotted three near-Earth asteroids that were lurking undetected within the glare of the sun. One of the asteroids is the largest potentially hazardous object posing a risk to Earth to be discovered in the last eight years. The asteroids belong to a group found within the orbits of Earth
Continue Reading By Richard Allen Greene, CNN Former Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu was on the verge of making a triumphant return to office in Israel, as initial exit polls suggested he may have scraped a narrow majority in the country’s fifth national election in less than four years. If exit polls are correct — a big if
Continue Reading By Hadas Gold, CNN When Benjamin Netanyahu hits the campaign trail, he uses what’s been dubbed the Bibimobile — a converted truck turned into a travelling stage ensconced in bulletproof glass. Elevated like a king above his subjects — who fawn over him as the one and only savior to lead Israel. And with polls
Continue Reading By Hadas Gold, CNN When Benjamin Netanyahu hits the campaign trail, he uses what’s been dubbed the Bibimobile — a converted truck turned into a travelling stage ensconced in bulletproof glass. Elevated like a king above his subjects — who fawn over him as the one and only savior to lead Israel. And with polls
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN Colorful, ghostly remnants drift in space where a massive star exploded 11,000 years ago. The Vela supernova remnant, named after the Vela constellation, is all that remains after the star reached the end of its life. Pink and orange gas clouds mark the spot 800 light-years away from Earth, making it
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Russia’s decision to pull out of an agreement that guaranteed safe passage for ships carrying vital grain exports from Ukraine has sparked “grave concerns” over global food supply at a time when the world is already facing a growing hunger crisis. Global humanitarian organizations, the European Union, NATO and the United
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, Barbara MacDonald and Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN A five-and-a-half-year nationwide search for a suspect in the killings of two Indiana teens ended with the arrest of a local man, authorities said Monday. How investigators came to arrest 50-year-old Richard M. Allen, of Delphi, will remain a mystery for now, as a court
Continue Reading By Hadas Gold and Richard Allen Greene, CNN Stop us if you’re heard this one before: On Tuesday, Israelis are going to the polls to elect a new Knesset, or parliament. It’s the fifth time in less than four years that voters are casting ballots. Holding elections that often is bound to prompt some questions.
Continue Reading By Adam Pourahmadi, CNN Hundreds of Iranian journalists are calling for the release of colleagues Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, who were arrested and sent to Tehran’s Evin prison for covering the death of Mahsa Amini, according to independent Iranian newspaper Etemad. “Media freedom is not only the right of journalists but also of society,”
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