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New images reveal moment of DART asteroid impact captured by Italian satellite

By Ashley Strickland, CNN History was made Monday night when NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft successfully slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos. DART’s camera shared dramatic images of the asteroid’s surface before it crashed. Now, new images captured by its companion, a cube satellite known as LICIACube, reveal what the impact looked like from another

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School system to change how it trains staff after settling lawsuit with transgender teacher who says she suffered abuse and harassment

By Liam Reilly, CNN The Prince George’s County school system in Maryland will change how it trains staff and administrators after it settled a lawsuit with a transgender teacher who says she suffered years of abuse and harassment in the district. The settlement includes monetary compensation and requires policy and training changes that will protect

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Russia’s claimed observers in Ukraine ‘referendums’ violate numerous international principles — experts

By Mick Krever, Olga Voitovych, Josh Pennington, John Allen and Stephanie Halasz, CNN The foreigners that Russian state media routinely cite as being international observers to the so-called referendums in four regions of Ukraine are violating numerous international principles of election observation and are engaging in nothing more than “political activism,” experts in the field

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Russia’s claimed observers in Ukraine ‘referendums’ violate numerous international principles — experts

By Mick Krever, Olga Voitovych, Josh Pennington, John Allen and Stephanie Halasz, CNN The foreigners that Russian state media routinely cite as being international observers to the so-called referendums in four regions of Ukraine are violating numerous international principles of election observation and are engaging in nothing more than “political activism,” experts in the field

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Las Vegas Review Journal claims police unlawfully seized slain reporter Jeff German’s computers and cell phone

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Attorneys representing the newspaper where slain Las Vegas reporter Jeff German worked are arguing his “journalistic materials” were unlawfully seized by city police, according to a letter sent by the attorneys and obtained by CNN. The letter, which was sent last Wednesday on behalf of the publisher of

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Japan demands apology from Russia after diplomat allegedly blindfolded and interrogated

By Heather Chen, Junko Ogura and Jake Kwon and Uliana Pavlova CNN Japan is demanding a formal apology from Russia after Federal Security Service (FSB) agents allegedly blindfolded and interrogated a Japanese diplomat, before giving him 48 hours to leave the country. Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said Vladivostok-based Japanese consul Motoki Tatsunori was detained and

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