By Artemis Moshtaghian, Jomana Karadsheh, Caitlin Hu, Kathleen Magramo, Sahar Akbarzai and Richard Roth, CNN Iranian authorities say they will restrict internet access in the country until calm is restored to the streets, as protests over the death of a young woman in the custody of the morality police rock the Islamic Republic. Thousands of
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN Over two years after they were removed from California’s San Gabriel Mountains due to the Bobcat Fire, endangered mountain yellow-legged frogs have been released into their native habitat. The Aquarium of the Pacific acquired a total of 275 mountain yellow-legged frog tadpoles last July, according to Erin Lundy, who helps care
Continue Reading By Hannah Sorisohn, CNN A series of text conversations between Pro Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre and former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant appear to show Favre repeatedly pressing the then-governor about funding the construction of a volleyball facility at the University of Southern Mississippi, even after Favre was told misuse of state funds was
Continue Reading By Yulia Kesaieva, Jennifer Hauser and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Ukrainian officials say they have finished exhuming bodies from a mass burial site in Izium — and that of the 436 bodies found, 30 showed signs of torture. In a gruesome reminder of the human cost of Russia’s invasion, most of the bodies showed signs of
Continue Reading By Zenebou Sylla, CNN A high school football player died nearly two weeks after he was “critically injured” during a football game, the Linden, New Jersey, Public School District said in a statement. Xavier McClain,16, was a sophomore playing for the Linden Tigers varsity boys football team when he suffered a head injury during a
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, CNN A dugout canoe used by indigenous people 3,000 years ago recently recovered from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota is the oldest canoe ever found in the Great Lakes region, the Wisconsin Historical Society said Thursday. The canoe, which was found in pieces in the lake bed, was removed in collaboration with Wisconsin’s Native
Continue Reading By Jacob Lev, CNN A Laver Cup tennis match between Stefanos Tsitsipas and Diego Schwartzman in London was interrupted by a protester who lit his arm on fire on Friday. The protester, who was wearing a white shirt that said “End UK Private Jets” ran onto the court at the O2 Arena and briefly lit
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy, CNN The autopsy report for Elijah McClain, an unarmed Black man who died while in police custody in Colorado three years ago, has been changed to update the cause of death from “undetermined” to “complications of ketamine administration following forcible restraint,” Adams County Chief Coroner Monica Broncucia-Jordan said Friday. In August 2019,
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN The NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test aims to make history on Monday at 7:14 p.m. ET when it slams into Dimorphos, a tiny asteroid moon orbiting the larger asteroid Didymos. The impact, if successful, will slightly change the motion of the asteroid. It’s a test of deflection technology that could one
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN On Monday, a NASA spacecraft will deliberately slam into an asteroid called Dimorphos. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, or DART, aims to see if this kind of kinetic impact can help deflect an asteroid posing a threat to Earth. “We are moving an asteroid,” said Tom Statler, NASA program scientist
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at Japan, a country of islands located off the eastern coast of mainland Asia. About Japan (from the CIA World Fact Book)Area: 377,915 sq km Population: 124,214,766 (2022 est.) Median age: 48.6 years (2020 est.) Capital: Tokyo Ethnic groups: Japanese 97.9%, Chinese 0.6%, Korean 0.4%, other 1.1% Religion: Shintoism
Continue Reading By Xiaofei Xu and Marguerite Lacroix, CNN An animal sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is facing demands for ransom money, after kidnappers abducted three of its baby chimpanzees. “This is the first time in the world that baby apes were kidnapped for ransom,” Franck Chantereau, founder of the sanctuary where the kidnap
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Artemis I rocket will get its third launch attempt on Tuesday, September 27, but Tropical Depression Nine could change that. The 70-minute launch window opens at 11:37 a.m. ET and the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft continue to sit on the launchpad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess and Theresa Waldrop, CNN A jury in Hunt County, Texas, on Thursday found former Wolfe City Police officer Shaun Lucas not guilty of murder in the 2020 killing of Jonathan Price outside a convenience store, court records show. Lucas, a 24-year-old White man, was charged with murdering Price, who was Black, after
Continue Reading By Kristen Rogers, CNN More than 15 years after fast radio bursts were discovered, new research has both unraveled and deepened the mystery of the sources of these deep space phenomena. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are bright, powerful emissions of radio waves ranging from a fraction of a millisecond to a few milliseconds, each
Continue Reading By Nimi Princewill and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN In the last 24 hours, Uganda has recorded four confirmed cases of Ebola, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases to 11, the country’s health ministry reported Friday in a statement. The Ugandan Health Ministry considers a “probable case” as any person who died from suspected EVD (ebola)
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Four residents of Jackson, Mississippi, have filed a class action lawsuit against the city, the mayor, a former mayor and several others regarding the city’s water issues. The 99-page complaint filed last week is asking for an unspecified amount of relief to “remediate the harm caused by lack
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Four residents of Jackson, Mississippi, have filed a class action lawsuit against the city, the mayor, a former mayor and several others regarding the city’s water issues. The 99-page complaint filed last week is asking for an unspecified amount of relief to “remediate the harm caused by lack
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN It’s a hard-fought paleontological debate. Did the massive asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago wipe out a thriving and diverse population of dinosaurs, or were they already struggling to survive when that cataclysmic day dawned? Most information on dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous era comes from what
Continue Reading By Teele Rebane and Hannah Ritchie, CNN The last time Farnaz heard her brother’s voice was over the phone, on an unknown number. “He called me and said only one sentence: ‘I was caught’ … I immediately understood what my dear brother meant and went to the morality police department (to look for him),” the
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