By Amarachi Orie and Angela Dewan, CNN The record-breaking heat wave that swept across Europe this year will become the “average” summer by 2035, even if all countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by as much as they have pledged to, according to an analysis published Thursday. The analysis by the UK’s Met Office Hadley
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, CNN Oklahoma has executed 50-year-old James Coddington, the first of 25 death row inmates the state intends to put to death through 2024, the state’s corrections director confirmed Thursday morning. Coddington, who was sentenced to die for murdering Albert Hale in 1997 amid his struggle with a crack cocaine addiction, was executed
Continue Reading By Tim Lister, Yulia Kesaieva and Tara John, CNN Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is held by Russian forces, is still disconnected from the country’s power grid, a day after being disconnected for the first time in its history, according to the country’s nuclear operator. “The station’s own needs for power supply are currently
Continue Reading Teachers briefly went on strike in Columbus, Ohio, partly over classroom conditions and wanting functional heating and cooling systems. In Atlanta, students at one high school shared images on social media of flooding rooms and other disrepair. CNN is investigating school conditions across the US. Teachers: What are the classroom conditions in your local schools
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN When NASA’s Artemis I launches next week on a journey to the moon, no animals or people will be onboard, but it will still carry biology investigations to see how living things react to the deep space environment. The Orion spacecraft will carry items like yeast, algae, fungi and seeds rather
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar, Chris Boyette and Andi Babineau, CNN A teacher strike has delayed the start of the school year for students in King County, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, one of several school showdowns nationally. Negotiations between the Kent School District and the Kent Education Association, the union representing teachers in the district, have
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Continue Reading By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN When David Robinson’s 24-year-old son went missing in June of 2021, he uprooted his life in South Carolina and moved to Buckeye, Arizona, to lead the search. Robinson said he knew that the only way he would get answers and potentially find Daniel Robinson would be if he was on
Continue Reading By Angus Watson, Xiaofei Xu and Niamh Kennedy, CNN The United Kingdom’s former ambassador to Myanmar has been charged with immigration offenses by the country’s military junta, it said in a statement Thursday, after she and her husband were taken into custody the night before. Myanmar authorities alleged the address Vicky Bowman had registered to
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, CNN The Chinese metropolis of Chongqing has rolled out mass Covid testing in its central area amid a record heat wave, leaving millions of residents standing under the sun for hours as they struggle with extreme temperatures and power shortages. Stringent zero-Covid measures enacted by the southwestern mega city to contain an
Continue Reading By Eric Bradner and Chris Boyette, CNN The Columbus, Ohio, teachers’ union and the Columbus Board of Education have reached a “conceptual agreement,” ending a strike and allowing students to return to classrooms next week, the school district announced early Thursday morning. The Columbus Education Association confirmed the agreement on Twitter, saying the “comprehensive conceptual
Continue Reading By Sophia Saifi, Rhea Mogul and Azaz Syed, CNN Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was granted an extension of his pre-arrest bail on Thursday while police investigate whether he violated anti-terror laws. The news was celebrated by hundreds of Khan’s supporters, who rallied outside the Anti-Terrorism Court in the capital, Islamabad, where the ousted
Continue Reading By Geneva Sands and Cheri Mossburg, CNN An altercation involving United States Border Patrol agents and two migrants on a Southern California beach was captured on video Sunday, prompting the FBI to investigate an alleged assault on federal officers. The incident comes amid a rise in migrant apprehensions in the San Diego region, where the
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez, CNN Huey German-Wilson has spent six years trying to get rid of piles of tires, mattresses, and other debris that have marred the streets of her Houston neighborhood. “It steals our dignity,” said German-Wilson, 58, an activist living in Houston’s Trinity / Houston Gardens neighborhood. “I’ve seen the (neighborhood’s) dignity slowly fade
Continue Reading By Gawon Bae, Paula Hancocks and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Two weeks after North Korea declared victory over the coronavirus, the country has reported four suspected cases in a province near its border with China. The area where the suspected cases were found was “immediately locked down,” state news agency KCNA reported Tuesday. Citing the country’s
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Continue Reading By Kocha Olarn and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Thailand‘s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has temporarily stepped aside as the country’s leader but remains its defense minister, according to a government spokesman. The unusual leadership reshuffle follows a ruling by the Constitutional Court of Thailand on Wednesday, which ordered Prayut to stand aside while it considers if
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh, CNN Wading through thigh-high waters, dozens of nursing home residents held onto a rope stretched across a flooded parking lot Wednesday as they were evacuated from a Mississippi retirement home. The residents, helped by firefighters, volunteers and state troopers, passed submerged cars as they departed on school buses from the Peach Tree
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, CNN The Chinese metropolis of Chongqing has rolled out mass Covid testing in its central area amid a record heat wave, leaving millions of residents standing under the sun for hours as they struggle with extreme temperatures and power shortages. Stringent zero-Covid measures enacted by the southwestern mega city to contain an
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Human remains found at Lake Mead more than three months ago have been identified as Thomas Erndt, who is believed to have died by drowning two decades ago, authorities in Nevada said Wednesday. Erndt’s remains, found in the lake’s Callville Bay area on May 7, were identified through
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