By Maija Ehlinger, Gul Tuysuz, Heather Chen and Eyad Kourdi, CNN An explosion inside a coal mine in northern Turkey has killed at least 40 people and left 11 others hospitalized, state news media reported on Saturday. The explosion took place in the Black Sea town of Amasra in Bartin province on Friday, trapping dozens
Continue Reading By Mick Krever, CNN The Russian-installed leaders in Ukraine’s Kherson region on Wednesday began massively ramping up the relocation of up to 60,000 people amid warnings over Russia’s ability to withstand a Ukrainian counter-offensive. Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of generating “hysteria” to compel people to leave. Residents in the city of Kherson began to
Continue Reading By Andi Babineau, Melissa Alonso and Sara Turnbull, CNN An iHeartMedia radio executive is out of a job after a video of him repeatedly using racial slurs surfaced, according to a spokesperson for the company. iHeartMedia-Atlanta’s president Drew Lauter is “no longer with the company,” Meg Stevens, a senior vice president of programming at the
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi, Ryan Young and Devon M. Sayers, CNN A 15-year-old will be charged as an adult for allegedly carrying out a mass shooting that left five people dead Thursday in Raleigh, North Carolina, prosecutors said, as calls to curb gun violence are renewed once again in the US. The suspect, identified by police
Continue Reading By Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman, Michael Schwartz and Hadas Gold, CNN Clashes erupted in the flashpoint East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and in the West Bank for a sixth consecutive night overnight Thursday into Friday, leaving at least two Palestinians dead. They were killed in the restive West Bank city and refugee camp of
Continue Reading By Raja Razek, CNN An Indiana teacher with an alleged “kill list” was in custody Friday after a student told a counselor the teacher made comments about killing herself, students and staff, the East Chicago Police Department said. Officers responded to a report of a threat at St. Stanislaus Catholic Elementary School about 5 p.m.
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN Black smoke appears to rise from chimney-like formations of the hottest and deepest known hydrothermal vents on Earth. Over the summer, Anna Michel was able to see them for herself — a few miles beneath the ocean’s surface. Michel, an associate scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, was
Continue Reading By Anna Chernova, Uliana Pavlova, Mick Krever and Olga Voitovich, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday he had “no regrets” over his deadly missile attacks on civilian targets across Ukraine earlier this week, but said there was no need for more “massive” strikes for now. The wave of missile attacks on cities across Ukraine
Continue Reading Julia Buckley, CNN For over 500 years, Michelangelo’s sculpture of David in Florence has stood unchanged, the marble icon of masculinity, and one of the world’s most famous works of art. But as Italy emerges from the pandemic, the David has got a whole new look. A new lighting system has revolutionized how the famous
Continue Reading By Holly Yan and Kiely Westhoff, CNN A man who authorities say lured officers to a deadly attack fired over 80 rounds at police before he was killed by a wounded officer, the Connecticut inspector general’s office said. Bristol police Sgt. Dustin Demonte and Officer Alex Hamzy were responding to a domestic violence call Wednesday
Continue Reading By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN In the last six months, Virginia Evans said sometimes her toilets wouldn’t flush or the water coming out the faucets at her Jackson, Mississippi home, was brown and had low pressure. The water crisis, Evans said, has been so troubling that she remains afraid to drink or cook with it
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN The skin of a 67-million-year-old dinosaur has revealed bites and gashes from an ancient crocodile, and how its flesh was ripped apart may explain why it became mummified. Skin decays much more easily than bone so it’s extremely rare to find fossilized dinosaur skin. New research on a 7-meter (23-foot) long
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, CNN In opening statements of Nikolas Cruz’s death penalty trial, his defense laid out their plan to persuade the jury to spare his life. They planned to present him as a disturbed, mentally ill human being. “In telling you Nik’s story, in telling you the chapters of his life, we will give
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The future of some of America’s beloved retail stores is looking questionable right now amid fierce competition online. Bed Bath & Beyond, Rite Aid, Party City, Tuesday Morning and Joann are among several chains that may not survive a recession due to their elevated risk of bankruptcy, according to credit agencies.
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The future of some of America’s beloved retail stores is looking questionable right now amid fierce competition online. Bed Bath & Beyond, Rite Aid, Party City, Tuesday Morning and Joann are among several chains that may not survive a recession due to their elevated risk of bankruptcy, according to credit agencies.
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, Ryan Young, Devon Sayers and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A 15-year-old suspect is in custody after five people were killed and at least two others wounded in a mass shooting Thursday in Raleigh that North Carolina’s governor called a “moment of unspeakable agony.” A handgun and long gun were recovered after the shooting,
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, Ryan Young, Devon Sayers and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A 15-year-old suspect is in custody after five people were killed and at least two others wounded in a mass shooting Thursday in Raleigh that North Carolina’s governor called a “moment of unspeakable agony.” A handgun and long gun were recovered after the shooting,
Continue Reading By Andi Babineau and Sharif Paget, CNN The trial for the man accused of raping and impregnating a child in Ohio who then had to travel to Indiana for an abortion has been set for early next year, according to a court document obtained by CNN. Gerson Fuentes, 27, is facing two counts of felony
Continue Reading By Sara Weisfeldt, Jason Hanna, Elizabeth Wolfe, Leyla Santiago and Christina Maxouris, CNN One of the three jurors in the Parkland school massacre case who was against the death penalty for Nikolas Cruz told CNN Friday she did not make her decision until the “very last minute.” Ultimately, she was persuaded to vote for life
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon, Yoonjung Seo and Gawon Bae, CNN New tensions are flaring between the Koreas, with the North flying warplanes near their shared border and launching the latest in a series of missiles and the South holding a live-fire artillery drill. North Korean aircraft approached the no-fly zone straddling the border between 10:30 p.m.
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