By Christina Maxouris, CNN Over the span of a week, four different communities across the United States have grappled with the aftermath of a school shooting. Families in Florida are reeling after a jury recommended life in prison for the gunman who killed 17 people in a Parkland high school in 2018. The shooter is
Continue Reading By Sophie Jeong, Gawon Bae, Paula Hancocks, Hilary Whiteman and Jessie Yeung, CNN Most weekends, the narrow alleys of Itaewon, the neon-lit nightlife district in South Korea’s capital Seoul, are busy with partygoers and tourists. Now it’s the site of one of the country’s worst disasters. On Saturday night, tens of thousands of people flooded
Continue Reading By Sophie Jeong, Gawon Bae, Paula Hancocks, Hilary Whiteman and Jessie Yeung, CNN Most weekends, the narrow alleys of Itaewon, the neon-lit nightlife district in South Korea’s capital Seoul, are busy with partygoers and tourists. Now it’s the site of one of the country’s worst disasters. On Saturday night, tens of thousands of people flooded
Continue Reading By Caroll Alvarado, CNN Less than three months after welcoming twin boys, Amanda and Ed Bystran lost one of them to RSV — now they are hoping their other son recovers from the same virus. Amanda Bystran gave birth to twins Brodie and Silas on August 15. “We couldn’t wait for them to arrive. My
Continue Reading By Idris Mukhtar, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Heather Yamour, CNN At least 100 people were killed after two car bombs exploded near Somalia’s education ministry in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday. More than 300 others were wounded in the attack, said Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in a video statement posted on his official Twitter account.
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN Archivists have uncovered a long-lost historical relic hidden underneath a Christian manuscript: the earliest known map of the stars, according to the Museum of the Bible. A copy of astronomer Hipparchus’ map of the stars was discovered underneath the Syriac text of John Climacus’ “Ladder of Divine Ascent,” a treatise written
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, CNN One lucky lotto player could be in for a very big treat on Halloween night as the Powerball jackpot grows to an estimated $1 billion, with the next drawing on Monday. The jackpot is set to reach the billion-dollar mark after Saturday’s drawing yielded no one who could match all five
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 Claire Colbert and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Mississippi’s state of emergency order for the city of Jackson’s water crisis has been extended to November 22, according to a release from Gov. Tate Reeves office on Friday. Reeves first issued the order on August 30 after major operational failures at Jackson’s O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess and Emma Tucker, CNN A rollover accident of a bus carrying a high school cheerleading team injured students, sponsors and the driver of the bus on Friday, according to the school district. The Elkhart Independent School District said the cheerleaders were heading to a game in Clifton when the bus flipped in
Continue Reading By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Two teenagers were charged with attempted homicide Saturday in Pittsburgh, a day after allegedly opening fire in front of a church where a funeral was taking place, injuring six people, according to a release from Pittsburgh Public Safety. The shooting erupted Friday outside Pittsburgh’s Destiny of Faith Church, CNN previously reported.
Continue Reading By Gawon Bae, Claire Colbert and Ralph Ellis, CNN South Korea’s first big Halloween celebration since the end of Covid restrictions turned to tragedy on Saturday night, when at least 151 people, mostly teenagers and young adults, died as partygoers surged through a narrow alley in a popular nightlife district in Seoul, officials said. Authorities
Continue Reading By Gawon Bae, Paula Hancocks, Sophie Jeong, Jessie Yeung and Will Ripley, CNN South Korea is searching for answers after Halloween celebrations in the capital Seoul turned into one of the country’s worst disasters, with authorities declaring a national mourning period as they investigate how a chaotic crush left at least 151 people dead. Tens
Continue Reading By Uliana Pavlova, Sugam Pokharel, Dennis Lapin and Katharina Krebs, CNN Russia will suspend its participation in the United Nations-brokered grain export deal with Ukraine after drone attacks on the Crimean city of Sevastopol, the country’s defense ministry announced Saturday. Moscow blames Kyiv for the attacks. CNN cannot independently verify Russia’s report. A top Ukrainian
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess and Alaa Elassar, CNN The US Coast Guard, with an assist from good Samaritans, rescued 13 people from a sinking fishing boat after it collided with a container ship about 60 miles off the coast of Virginia on Friday. The Coast Guard received a mayday call around 2 a.m. from crew members
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN You never forget your first Mars mission. When NASA’s InSight spacecraft arrived at the red planet on November 26, 2018, it was the first time I covered the landing of a spacecraft on Mars. The robotic lander made a graceful, ballet-like touchdown on the Martian surface. Moments later, it sent back
Continue Reading By Niamh Kennedy and Rob Picheta, CNN The head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards has told Iranians to end the weeks-long demonstrations that have gripped the country, warning that Saturday would be their “last day” of protest. Speaking from the funeral of victims of the attack carried out by Islamic State in the city of
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN As Antarctica’s emperor penguins are increasingly threatened by the climate crisis, the flightless seabirds will receive new protections under the Endangered Species Act, or ESA. With global warming melting the sea ice the penguins depend on for their survival, the US Fish and Wildlife Service now categorizes the species as threatened.
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN When Maven Lore was being fitted for his first set of fangs, a switch within him flipped on. “Something just came to the surface and everything felt right for once in my life,” he said. “I had this notion that there was more to it than just pointy teeth.” He didn’t
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar, CNN A US Customs and Border Protection officer was reunited with a young girl who he helped deliver at the US-Mexico border six years ago. It was a chilly winter morning on December 8, 2016, when Officer J. Lott was in the midst of a typically busy day at the San Ysidro
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