By Yoonjung Seo, Junko Ogura and Larry Register, CNN North Korea has fired a ballistic missile into the waters off the east coast of the Korean peninsula, according to officials in both South Korea and Japan. The short range missile was fired early Sunday morning local time from the Taechon area of North Pyongan Province,
Continue Reading By Andy Rose and Paradise Afshar, CNN Colorado police have released videos showing a train hitting a police cruiser in which a detained suspect was handcuffed. The Fort Lupton Police Department released body camera and dashcam video on Friday showing Yareni Rios-Gonzalez inside the patrol car that was hit by a train. Rios-Gonzalez is hospitalized
Continue Reading By Andy Rose and Paradise Afshar, CNN Colorado police have released videos showing a train hitting a police cruiser in which a detained suspect was handcuffed. The Fort Lupton Police Department released body camera and dashcam video on Friday showing Yareni Rios-Gonzalez inside the patrol car that was hit by a train. Rios-Gonzalez is hospitalized
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar, CNN Iranian Americans are staging demonstrations across the United States this weekend in solidarity with ongoing protests in Iran over the death of a 22-year-old woman who collapsed while in custody of morality police. “Join us in solidarity and be the voice of the Iranian people who are getting brutally suppressed for
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, CNN Photographs by Elijah Nouvelage for CNN At the end of Valencia Street in this southeastern coastal town, Carmen Baez was proud that neighbors were using her washing machine valves to collect fresh water. The valves, sprouting like flowers from the ground, were all that was left of her small house near
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN Actor, wrestling legend, and perpetual meme subject John Cena has completed a new accomplishment: breaking the world record for most wishes granted through the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Cena has granted 650, according to a news release from the nonprofit organization, which helps fulfill the desires of children with critical illnesses. The athlete-turned-actor
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN Get ready to see an asteroid’s tiny moon for the first time. Then, watch as a spacecraft deliberately crashes into it. This scenario sounds like a sci-fi plot, but the NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test, happening Monday, is a real-life mission. It aims to be humanity’s first attempt at deflecting an
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN A new study says that the risk poaching poses to endangered sea turtles is on the decline — although data on the subject is scarce. The study, published on September 7 in Global Change Biology, used a meta-analysis of documents published in the last three decades to estimate the number of
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Artemis I rocket will not have its third launch attempt on Tuesday as planned due to concerns over Tropical Storm Ian making its way toward Cuba and Florida. After meeting on Saturday morning, NASA’s Artemis team decided to forgo the September 27 launch opportunity and is now preparing the mega
Continue Reading By Martha Shade, CNN Police encounters with people dealing with mental health issues can go very wrong, very quickly. Often, the presence of a law enforcement officer can escalate the situation. “A lot of people with special needs may not react very well to a police in uniform, but they may just react very well
Continue Reading By Martha Shade, CNN Police encounters with people dealing with mental health issues can go very wrong, very quickly. Often, the presence of a law enforcement officer can escalate the situation. “A lot of people with special needs may not react very well to a police in uniform, but they may just react very well
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN Visitors at the Virginia Zoo had the experience of a lifetime after a giraffe unexpectedly gave birth in front of them. Imara, an endangered Masai giraffe, gave birth to her ninth calf on September 9, according to a Facebook post from the zoo. Masai giraffes, one of four giraffe subspecies, are
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Spotted lanternflies are thriving in the Northeast this summer. In New York City, where this year’s invasion seems particularly extreme, people squash them on the streets, on railings and even on their restaurant tables. The exterior walls of Big Apple buildings are blanketed with speckled, red bugs. Some are dead. Some
Continue Reading By Christina Maxouris, CNN Photos by Austin Steele, CNN Videos by Matthew Gannon, CNN When Ram moved to the Boulder Walk neighborhood just southeast of Atlanta five years ago, it felt like finding a hidden gem: It was a diverse, affordable and family-friendly community just steps away from the local high school, bordering a forest
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Central Tonga Islands welcomed the birth of a new baby — a baby island, that is. The new baby island emerged in the southwest Pacific Ocean, where underwater volcanoes are plentiful. One of these submerged volcanoes awoke on September 10, spewing lava, steam, and ash, according to a statement from
Continue Reading By Kathleen Magramo and Larry Register, CNN Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has warned that climate change will not spare other countries the sort of disaster that left up to one third of his country underwater and millions of its children at risk of water-borne diseases. He told the United Nations General Assembly on Friday
Continue Reading 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
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