By Denis Lapin, Olga Voitovych, Tim Lister, Hannah Ritchie and Mariya Knight, CNN The death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment block in Dnipro rose to 40, Ukrainian officials said Monday, after missiles and explosions were heard across the country. The latest count of fatalities includes three children, while another 75 people
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN A 9-year-old aspiring paleontologist found the find of a lifetime on Christmas morning: a massive 5-inch tooth from a prehistoric megalodon. Molly Sampson, a fourth grader from Prince Frederick, Maryland, made the astonishing find on Calvert Beach. Molly told CNN that she has spent years combing Maryland’s beaches for shark teeth,
Continue Reading By Luke McGee, Saskya Vandoorne, Sebastian Shukla and Lindsay Isaac, CNN The Western alliance’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine received a shot in the arm this week as multiple European nations for the first time answered President Volodymyr Zelensky’s longstanding call to supply modern battle tanks to Kyiv. France, Poland and the United Kingdom
Continue Reading By Tina Burnside and Aya Elamroussi, CNN One ticket sold in Maine beat the eerie odds of Friday the 13th and its buyer is set to claim the Mega Millions jackpot of about $1.35 billion, the lottery said. Friday night’s winning numbers were 30-43-45-46-61 with a Mega Ball of 14. The ticket was sold at a
Continue Reading By Sahar Akbarzai, Artemis Moshtaghian and Niamh Kennedy, CNN A dual British-Iranian citizen was hanged by Iran on charges of espionage and corruption, a state-affiliated media outlet reported Saturday, the latest in a string of executions carried out by a regime grappling with unprecedented protests across the country. The Iranian official, Alireza Akbari, was executed
Continue Reading By Laura Paddison, CNN It’s a stark image in 2023: Police in riot gear flooding a village, pulling people out of houses and tearing down structures to make way for the arrival of excavating machines to access the rich seam of coal beneath the ground. Since Wednesday, as rain and winds lashed the tiny west
Continue Reading By Christina Maxouris, CNN Since the November slayings of four University of Idaho students, Ben Mogen says he has been going through life “one day at a time.” It’s all he can do. His daughter, 21-year-old Madison Mogen — a bright, bubbly girl that loved to watch live music with him — was among the
Continue Reading By Christina Maxouris, CNN Since the November slayings of four University of Idaho students, Ben Mogen says he has been going through life “one day at a time.” It’s all he can do. His daughter, 21-year-old Madison Mogen — a bright, bubbly girl that loved to watch live music with him — was among the
Continue Reading By Alex Hardie and Niamh Kennedy, CNN A Greek court dropped espionage charges against a group of aid workers who rescued migrants from the sea, in a move hailed by rights groups and lawmakers. Irish-German citizen Sean Binder and 23 other humanitarian workers had their misdemeanor charges set aside by a court on the island
Continue Reading By Raja Razek, CNN Richneck Elementary School in Virginia will install walk-through metal detectors after officials were alerted last week that a 6-year-old student who allegedly shot his teacher might have had a weapon but failed to find it after a search. Before last week’s shooting of a first-grade teacher, school officials were told that
Continue Reading Kevin Dotson, CNN The head coach of Louisiana State University’s gymnastics team said there will be added security when it travels to an away meet after an incident last week where fans of Tigers gymnast and TikTok influencer Olivia Dunne disrupted a meet against the University of Utah earlier this week in Salt Lake City.
Continue Reading By Andi Babineau, CNN Two paramedics in Illinois are facing murder charges after a patient died of positional asphyxiation shortly after he was taken to a hospital in December, court documents say. Peggy Finley, 44, and Peter Cadigan, 50, responded to a home in Springfield on December 18 after police requested medical assistance for a
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar, CNN The suspected gunman accused of killing five people in a mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, last November is facing an additional 12 counts, raising the total to 317. Anderson Lee Aldrich appeared in court in person Friday, where Colorado’s Fourth Judicial District Attorney Michael Allen announced
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at what you need to know about the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Facts Seven crew members died in the explosion, including Christa McAuliffe, who would have been the first teacher in space. The explosion was a result of a rocket booster failure which ignited the fuel tank. Some
Continue Reading By Ashley Killough, Andy Rose and Zoe Sottile, CNN A clouded leopard whose disappearance prompted the closure of the Dallas Zoo was found Friday night, zoo officials said. “We are thrilled to report we located clouded leopard Nova on-grounds at the Zoo this afternoon at approximated 4:40 p.m.,” a zoo spokesperson said in a written
Continue Reading By Raja Razek, CNN Richneck Elementary School in Virginia will install walk-through metal detectors after officials were alerted last week that a 6-year-old student who allegedly shot his teacher might have had a weapon but failed to find it after a search. Before last week’s shooting of a first-grade teacher, school officials were told that
Continue Reading By Raja Razek, CNN Richneck Elementary School in Virginia will install walk-through metal detectors after officials were alerted last week that a 6-year-old student who allegedly shot his teacher might have had a weapon but failed to find it after a search. Before last week’s shooting of a first-grade teacher, school officials were told that
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald, CNN A well-known riddle compares an egg to treasure, asking: A box without hinges, key or a lid, yet inside golden treasure is hid. What am I? And for archaeologists in Israel, eight prehistoric ostrich eggs — thought to be between 4,000 and 7,500 years old — proved as valuable as treasure
Continue Reading By Mohammed Abdelbary, CNN The United Arab Emirates will soon become the first Arab nation to teach the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust in its schools, a historic move that has been praised in some quarters — but also criticized in others. The UAE plans to include Holocaust education in the curriculum for primary and
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, Tim Lister and Olga Voitovych, CNN Russia said Friday its forces had captured Soledar, a salt mine town in eastern Ukraine, as Kyiv rejected the claims. Should Russian troops indeed take the town, it would mark Moscow’s first gain in the Donbas for months — potentially offering President Vladimir Putin some welcome
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