By Zoe Sottile, CNN She’s massive, invasive and covered in scales: A record breaking 215-pound, 18-foot-long Burmese python has been captured in Florida. The python is the heaviest ever captured in the state, the Conservancy of Southwest Florida announced on Wednesday. The huge reptile was captured by the conservancy as part of its invasive Burmese
Continue Reading By Claudia Dominguez and Sharif Paget, CNN Rhode Island Democratic state Senate candidate Jennifer Rourke was punched in the face by her GOP opponent — a police officer who was off-duty — during an abortion rights rally at the State House in Providence Friday night, Rourke told CNN in a statement. Rourke said she was
Continue Reading By Sonia Moghe, CNN Ghislaine Maxwell has been placed on suicide watch, even though she is not suicidal, and may need to postpone her sentencing, according to a letter filed on Saturday by her attorney. Maxwell, 60, is set to be sentenced on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court after being found guilty of sex trafficking
Continue Reading By Mariya Knight, Jonny Hallam and Helen Regan, CNN Russia will transfer nuclear-capable Iskander-M missile systems to its ally Belarus over the coming months, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday. Putin told Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko at a meeting in St. Petersburg the missile systems “can use both ballistic and cruise missiles, both in
Continue Reading By Sara Smart and Sharif Paget, CNN The only abortion clinic in North Dakota is now preparing to move across state lines following the recent Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade. Red River Women’s Clinic, located in Fargo, has been the only provider in the state for 20 years. They now await closure, which
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN When archaeologist Peggy Piggott uncovered two tiny gold objects on July 21, 1939, the past became a little more illuminated. Investigating the remains of an Anglo-Saxon burial mound, she was digging alongside others at the Sutton Hoo site, in Suffolk county in eastern England, on the eve of World War II.
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN A coyote attacked a 2-year-old girl in Orange County, California, according to police. The coyote attacked the toddler on Tuesday in Mile Square Park in Fountain Valley, according to a news release from the Fountain Valley Police Department. The girl is recovering from her injuries, police said in another news release.
Continue Reading By Yenny Sanchez, CNN Not everything you see on television is real, until it is … A South Carolina man has won more than $100,000 after trying a lottery strategy he says was inspired by an episode of TLC’s “Lottery Changed My Life.” TLC, like CNN, is a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. The strategy
Continue Reading By Tim Lister, Oleksandra Ochman, Olga Voitovych and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN The eastern Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk is “completely under Russian occupation,” the city’s head of military administration said Saturday, following months of grueling and bloody fighting. “The [Russians] appointed a commandant. But the city is so destroyed that it will be difficult for people
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN A suspect is in custody following a deadly shooting at a WeatherTech facility in Bolingbrook, Illinois, on Saturday morning, according to the Bolingbrook Police Department. One person was killed, while another shooting victim remains in critical condition, Bolingbrook Police Captain Anthony Columbus said. A third victim was released
Continue Reading By John Blake, CNN Both cite the same Bible. Both follow the same Jesus. And both talk about the sanctity of life. And yet both stand on opposite sides of the contentious debate over abortion. Trent Horn, an author, speaker and podcaster, is a Roman Catholic and an opponent of abortion rights. Laura Ellis supports
Continue Reading By Harmeet Kaur, CNN With Roe v. Wade now overturned, tribal lands are again coming up in conversations on social media and elsewhere as potential safe havens for those seeking abortions. In Oklahoma, which has enacted some of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws, Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt previously warned Indigenous tribes against setting up
Continue Reading By John Blake, CNN Both cite the same Bible. Both follow the same Jesus. And both talk about the sanctity of life. And yet both stand on opposite sides of the contentious debate over abortion. Trent Horn, an author, speaker and podcaster, is a Roman Catholic and an opponent of abortion rights. Laura Ellis supports
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Abortion-rights protesters continued to voice their fury and anguish nationwide Saturday following the seismic ruling by the US Supreme Court to eliminate the federal constitutional right to an abortion. On Friday, the Court overturned the 1973 ruling known as Roe v. Wade, sparking protests that are expected to extend throughout the
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez, CNN When school officials in New York removed 11 books they disliked from library shelves, 17-year-old Steven Pico joined a legal fight that would eventually take him and his school to the US Supreme Court. In 1976, Pico was a high school student at the Island Trees Union Free School District in
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN A suspected land mine was removed from a Florida beach, according to police. The old military ordnance was discovered Wednesday on an unnamed portion of beach near the 1800 block of South Highway A1A, according to a Facebook post from the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office is “pretty
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch and Chenelle Woody, CNN The attorney for the family of Brian Laundrie on Friday released eight pages from Laundrie’s notebook that was found near his remains in Florida in October last year, according to a news release obtained by CNN affiliate WINK. In the notebook, Laundrie wrote in part, “I’m sorry to
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, Mayumi Maruyama, James Frater, Niamh Kennedy, Sarah Diab and Li-Lian Ahlskog Hou, CNN Oslo’s annual Pride parade was canceled on Saturday following a deadly shooting at a gay bar that Norwegian police are investigating as a possible terrorist attack. Two people were killed and eight others taken to hospital after the shooting
Continue Reading By Alta Spells and Natasha Chen, CNN The owner of the only abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi vowed at a news conference Friday afternoon to stay open and continue providing services for women for the next 10 days, hours after the US Supreme Court issued a ruling eliminating the constitutional right to abortion
Continue Reading By Alta Spells and Natasha Chen, CNN The owner of the only abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi vowed at a news conference Friday afternoon to stay open and continue providing services for women for the next 10 days, hours after the US Supreme Court issued a ruling eliminating the constitutional right to abortion
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