By Andy Rose and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Missouri’s top attorney filed a lawsuit Thursday against the city of St. Louis over a measure that allocated $1 million in federal funds to help people travel out of state for abortions. Abortion became severely restricted or totally banned in Missouri following the US Supreme Court’s reversal of
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch and Melissa Alonso, CNN The wife of a decorated New York City firefighter is suing the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, after a tree on the property fell on the family car and killed her husband, according to a lawsuit. Angela Skudin alleges that when she and her husband, Casey Skudin,
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch and Melissa Alonso, CNN The wife of a decorated New York City firefighter is suing the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, after a tree on the property fell on the family car and killed her husband, according to a lawsuit. Angela Skudin alleges that when she and her husband, Casey Skudin,
Continue Reading By Tara Subramaniam, CNN Millions of people in China are bracing themselves for even hotter weather this weekend as more than a dozen cities issued red alerts — the highest possible heat warning. According to China’s Meteorological Administration, temperatures in 19 cities in the eastern provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian are expected to surpass 40
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine, CNN California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a set of gun safety bills into law on Thursday that require more regulations on gun sales and dealers within the state as well as increased information sharing between schools and law enforcement agencies. The state — amid a series of high-profile mass shootings that have
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Continue Reading By Polo Sandoval, Kristina Sgueglia and Melanie Schuman, CNN The family of Jayland Walker, who was shot and killed by police in Akron, Ohio, last month, is calling for a federal investigation into Walker’s death and questioning the integrity of the ongoing state investigation. They held a news conference Wednesday, on what would have been
Continue Reading By David McKenzie and Ghazi Balkiz, CNN A photograph of Fadi’s smiling face is emblazoned on his mother’s t-shirt. The then-20-year-old is pictured standing near the shores of the Mediterranean Sea in Tunisia. Above her son’s image, 53-year-old Samia Jabloun has written the words “Dove Sei?” — “Where are you?” in Italian — in permanent
Continue Reading By David McKenzie and Ghazi Balkiz, CNN A photograph of Fadi’s smiling face is emblazoned on his mother’s t-shirt. The then-20-year-old is pictured standing near the shores of the Mediterranean Sea in Tunisia. Above her son’s image, 53-year-old Samia Jabloun has written the words “Dove Sei?” — “Where are you?” in Italian — in permanent
Continue Reading By Rukshana Rizwie, Akanksha Sharma, Kunal Seghal and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Sri Lanka‘s police and military troops forcibly removed anti-government protesters camped outside the presidential office in Colombo in a pre-dawn raid on Friday on the order of the country’s new President. Social media posts showed officers dressed in riot gear pulling down protest tents
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe, Claudia Dominguez and Chuck Johnston, CNN The man accused of raping and impregnating a child who later traveled to Indiana seeking an abortion was indicted by a grand jury Thursday, court documents show. Gerson Fuentes, 27, is charged with two counts of felony rape, according to an indictment handed down by a
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe, Claudia Dominguez and Chuck Johnston, CNN The man accused of raping and impregnating a child who later traveled to Indiana seeking an abortion was indicted by a grand jury Thursday, court documents show. Gerson Fuentes, 27, is charged with two counts of felony rape, according to an indictment handed down by a
Continue Reading By Hannah Rabinowitz and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Casey White, the Alabama prisoner whose escape with a corrections officer sparked a national manhunt in April, was federally indicted Thursday for illegally possessing firearms when he fled, the DOJ announced. The indictment alleges that Casey White had four handguns and an AR-15 rifle with him as he
Continue Reading By Amanda Musa and Melissa Alonso, CNN A Miami-based federal court returned a more than $10.2 million verdict against Carnival Cruise Line in favor of a passenger who claims a former crew member raped her in a storage closet aboard the Carnival Miracle in 2018, court records show. A jury issued the verdict Tuesday in
Continue Reading By Laura Ly and Emily Chang, CNN A Rochester, New York, police investigator has been suspended with pay after he was seen on surveillance video pushing a Black EMT and handcuffing her at a hospital early last week, according to Carlos Alvarado, a spokesperson for the police department. Police announced the suspension earlier this week,
Continue Reading By Yusuf Gezer, Jomana Karadsheh, Richard Roth and Hande Atay Alam, CNN Turkey says a deal is close to being agreed upon to resume crucial global grain exports from Ukrainian ports, which have been blocked by Russia as its war on Ukraine continues. Details of the emerging deal, brokered by the United Nations and Turkey
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy and Chuck Johnston, CNN The deadly collision last month between an Amtrak train with 282 people on board and a fully loaded dump truck in Missouri caused $4 million in damage, the National Transportation Safety Board announced Thursday. An NTSB preliminary report released Thursday cites Amtrak and BNSF Railway for the estimated
Continue Reading By Reuters Lawmakers chose India‘s first president from the country’s tribal communities on Thursday, which could boost the appeal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s party among marginalized groups ahead of the 2024 general election. Droupadi Murmu, a 64-year-old teacher turned politician, will be the second woman to hold the largely ceremonial role as head of
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