By Mariya Knight, CNN Around 2,500 endangered seals have been found dead on Russia’s Caspian coast, state-run news agency RIA Novosti reported Sunday, citing authorities in the North Caucasus region. Caspian seals, the only mammals found in the Caspian Sea, have been classified as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh, CNN As the world’s largest active volcano spews molten rock in Hawaii, the lava flow is inching closer to a major highway that serves as the shortest route between east and west sides of the Big Island. Over the past day, the lava’s advance from Mauna Loa slowed to an average rate
Continue Reading By Manveena Suri, Jen Deaton and Heather Chen, CNN A former Iran national team football player has criticized authorities for their “silence” over the death of a man who celebrated the country’s World Cup defeat to the United States earlier this week. Mehran Samak, 27, died in Bandar Anzali city, northern Iran, during public celebrations
Continue Reading By Manveena Suri, Jen Deaton and Heather Chen, CNN A former Iran national team football player has criticized authorities for their “silence” over the death of a man who celebrated the country’s World Cup defeat to the United States earlier this week. Mehran Samak, 27, died in Bandar Anzali city, northern Iran, during public celebrations
Continue Reading By Nina dos Santos, CNN Beijing has set up more than 100 so-called overseas police stations across the globe to monitor, harass and in some cases repatriate Chinese citizens living in exile, using bilateral security arrangements struck with countries in Europe and Africa to gain a widespread presence internationally, a new report shared exclusively with
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN A North Carolina woman had a day she’ll never forget after both giving birth and winning the lottery. Brenda Gomez Hernandez, a 28-year-old housekeeper from Concord, delivered her baby girl on November 9, according to a news release from the North Carolina Lottery. Just hours later, Hernandez learned that she had
Continue Reading By Tim Lister, Radina Gigova and Nina dos Santos, CNN A wealthy Russian businessman has been arrested as part of a “major operation” on suspicion of multiple offenses, the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency said in a statement Saturday. The 58-year-old man was arrested Thursday at his “multi-million-pound residence in London by officers from the
Continue Reading By Jay Croft and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Bowling Green, Kentucky, has canceled its annual Christmas parade scheduled for Saturday due to threats against protests related to the notorious lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955. The city announced the cancellation in tweet. In a video posted on Facebook, Police Chief Michael Delaney said at least
Continue Reading By Jay Croft, CNN A fugitive charged with the “heinous” killing of his 11-month-old daughter last month has been found and arrested Friday, Connecticut police said. In November, authorities obtained an arrest warrant for Christopher Francisquini, 31, charging him with murder with special circumstances and risk of injury to a minor after his daughter’s dismembered remains were found
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN Noodle, the geriatric pug who captured hearts across the internet for his “bones or no bones” ritual, has died at age 14, his owner says. Jonathan Graziano, Noodle’s owner, announced that his beloved dog died on Friday, in a tearful update posted to his TikTok and Instagram. “This is incredibly sad,
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN Noodle, the geriatric pug who captured hearts across the internet for his “bones or no bones” ritual, has died at age 14, his owner says. Jonathan Graziano, Noodle’s owner, announced that his beloved dog died on Friday, in a tearful update posted to his TikTok and Instagram. “This is incredibly sad,
Continue Reading By Amanda Musa and Christina Maxouris, CNN The FBI on Friday arrested a Texas man who allegedly called and threatened a Boston doctor who was providing care to transgender individuals, the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts said in a news release. Matthew Jordan Lindner, 38, has been charged with one count of
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN Selfies weren’t a common practice when humanity first reached the moon. Neil Armstrong was the first man and the first photographer on the lunar surface. All the photos he took, including the iconic boot print, were of fellow NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin. But Armstrong’s face and other details of the mission
Continue Reading By Masrur Jamaluddin and Manveena Suri, CNN An earthquake of 6.1 magnitude hit Indonesia’s West Java province on Saturday, the country’s geophysics agency BMKG said. According to the BMKG, the epicenter of the earthquake was on land and there is no potential for a tsunami. One person was injured while four houses and a school
Continue Reading By Tina Burnside and Alaa Elassar, CNN A driver working for FedEx was arrested and charged Friday in the kidnapping and killing of a 7-year-old girl who had disappeared from her home’s driveway in Texas earlier this week, police said. Athena Strand’s body was recovered Friday evening, Wise County Sheriff Lane Akin said at a
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez, CNN. Photographs by Elijah Nouvelage for CNN Sitting in the back of a packed room in the Hamilton County Schools administration complex, Clara fought the urge to leave. She had taken the day off from her factory job to be there but was nervous to see a crowd of people supporting a
Continue Reading By Faith Karimi, CNN Catfishing crimes have ensnared people for years. This week, a grieving family implored parents to monitor their children’s online activity after a former Virginia state trooper catfished a 15-year-old girl online. He then traveled to Southern California, where he allegedly killed the girl’s mother and grandparents. “Parents, please, please know your
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez and Justin Gamble, CNN Officials in Providence, Rhode Island, recently approved a $10 million budget plan for the city’s reparations program, but some are wondering who might end up benefiting from it. Like other communities across the country did in the wake of the 2020 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis,
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN The International Space Station will receive a power boost during a spacewalk on Saturday, as NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio install a solar array outside the floating laboratory. The spacewalk is on track to begin at 7:25 a.m. ET and will last for about seven hours, with live coverage
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Authorities investigating the killings of four University of Idaho students who were found stabbed to death last month say they have received thousands of tips from the public. In a Saturday update, the Moscow Police Department said it has received more than 2,640 emails to a tip web address, more than
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