By CNN Staff Two Iranians were sentenced to death by a court for “corruption on earth,” Iran’s state news agency IRNA said Monday. One of them, Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani, was described by Amnesty International earlier this year as a gender nonconforming person and LGBTI activist who was detained by authorities “due to her real or perceived
Continue Reading By Kristen Rogers, CNN A giant space tarantula has been caught by a Webb — NASA’s highly sensitive James Webb Space Telescope, that is. At 161,000 light-years away from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, the Tarantula Nebula is the nickname for 30 Doradus, the “largest and brightest star-forming region in the Local Group,
Continue Reading By Melissa Alonso, CNN US Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 100 Cuban migrants after multiple vessels reached land in South Florida over Labor Day weekend, as Cuba grapples with its worst shortage of food and medicine in decades and runaway inflation. On Monday, Border Patrol agents took into custody 15 migrants — 13 men
Continue Reading By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman and Rachel Clarke, CNN Texas’ top cop Col. Steven McCraw vowed Thursday to fire any member of his Department of Public Safety who did not do their job the day a gunman massacred 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary in Uvalde. His pledge came after CNN tracked
Continue Reading By Lianne Kolirin, CNN The world’s oldest mammal has been identified using fossil dental records — predating the previously confirmed earliest mammal by about 20 million years — in a new discovery hailed as “very significant” by researchers. Brasilodon quadrangularis was a small shrew-like creature, around 20 centimeters (8 inches) long, that walked the earth
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, CNN More than 50 million people across the American West are under heat alerts Tuesday, as a prolonged heat wave continues to grip the region, prompting record high temperatures and upending daily life. Californians have been warned to prepare for rolling blackouts and asked to conserve energy. Wildfires have ripped across the
Continue Reading By Vasco Cotovio and Tara John, CNN The United Nations nuclear watchdog has called for the “immediate establishment of a nuclear safety and security protection zone” around the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) in Ukraine, saying in a report published Tuesday that it remained “gravely concerned” about the situation. “There is an urgent need
Continue Reading By Vasco Cotovio and Tara John, CNN In his first television interview since returning from a visit to Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) in Ukraine, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told CNN the situation at the facility continues to be “very worrying” and warned “we are playing with fire.” Speaking from
Continue Reading By Jason Hanna, Melissa Alonso and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A man suspected of abducting and killing a Memphis teacher who was out jogging was temporarily ordered held without bond Wednesday on a murder charge that was added after her body was identified. Cleotha Henderson, accused of killing 34-year-old Eliza “Liza” Fletcher after kidnapping her in
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, CNN Two officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety who were at the scene of the Uvalde school massacre have been suspended with pay and referred for formal investigation amid an internal review of law enforcement actions that day, the agency said Tuesday as students in the shaken community returned to
Continue Reading By Lianne Kolirin and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Meghan, Duchess of Sussex has described her experience of feeling self-doubt, as she spoke to a young audience in her first public address in the UK for two years. She and Prince Harry were in Manchester, northern England, for the One Young World 2022 summit on Monday, with
Continue Reading By Angela Fritz, CNN Antarctica’s so-called “doomsday glacier” — nicknamed because of its high risk of collapse and threat to global sea level — has the potential to rapidly retreat in the coming years, scientists say, amplifying concerns over the extreme sea level rise that would accompany its potential demise. The Thwaites Glacier, capable of
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi, CNN A hiker in Arizona died and five others were rescued Monday after getting lost on trails and suffering heat exhaustion as triple-digit temperatures gripped the region, officials said. A man in his 20s was pronounced dead after being taken to a local hospital, according to Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Monica
Continue Reading By Abeer Salman and Kareem Damanhoury, CNN A Palestinian man was shot dead and 16 others were wounded during an Israeli military operation in Jenin in the West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said Tuesday. The ministry identified the dead man as 29-year-old Mohammad Sabaaneh. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were in Jenin “in
Continue Reading By Bryn Nelson, CNN Imagine you’re eating dinner on a ceramic plate and drinking water from a plastic cup while sitting in a brick house — a seemingly ordinary scenario except that your plate, cup, and your home are all fashioned in part from recycled feces. Now imagine using your poop to propel a spaceship
Continue Reading By Javed Iqbal, Sameer Mandhro and Kathleen Magramo, CNN It was raining when Kainat Solangi’s daughter was born on August 14 and it’s barely stopped since, stranding her family in a makeshift tent on a thin strip of land surrounded by Pakistan’s worst-ever floods. The family of eight built their shelter from furniture and sheets
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy and Brenda Goodman, CNN China has become the first country to green-light an inhaled Covid-19 vaccine, paving the way for potential use of the needle-free product in the country, where suppressing the spread of Covid-19 remains a top priority. The vaccine maker, CanSino Biologics, said in a statement Sunday that China’s medicines
Continue Reading By Hadas Gold and Abeer Salman, CNN The Israel Defense Forces have ​admitted for the first time that there is a “high possibility” Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed by Israeli fire while covering an Israeli military operation in Jenin in May, the IDF announced Monday. “[I]t appears that it
Continue Reading By Jason Hanna, Melissa Alonso and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A body found this week in Memphis is that of a teacher who was abducted there while jogging last week, and a suspect is being charged with murder, police said Tuesday. Eliza “Liza” Fletcher, 34, was identified as the person found dead Monday in the rear
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh and Taylor Romine, CNN Two people were killed as a fast-moving wildfire swelled rapidly over parched vegetation in Southern California, forcing hundreds of residents to flee amid a severe heat wave that has enveloped the region. The Fairview Fire ignited after 2 p.m. local time Monday and quickly scorched 2,000 acres, destroying
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