By Eric Levenson, Rosa Flores, Rebekah Riess and Travis Caldwell, CNN Uvalde school district police chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo was placed on leave Wednesday, according to a news release from Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Superintendent Hal Harrell. “Because of the lack of clarity that remains and the unknown timing of when I will receive
Continue Reading By CNN staff A prominent civil rights advocate in China who once called on leader Xi Jinping to resign because he is “just not smart enough” was put on trial behind closed doors Wednesday on charges of subverting state power. The move comes as the ruling Communist Party doubles down on stifling dissent ahead of
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon, CNN At least eight Russian and Chinese warships have been spotted in the seas near Japan this week, another sign of the apparent pressure the two partners have been putting on Tokyo as relations deteriorate over Ukraine and Taiwan respectively. Japan’s Defense Ministry on Tuesday said its forces had observed five Russian
Continue Reading By Amy Simonson, CNN A high school principal in Pennsylvania has been charged with 30 counts of sexual intercourse and contact with a student, according to court documents filed Monday. Roger Weaver Freed, 34, who served as a principal of Williamsport Area High School, is accused of maintaining a yearslong sexual relationship with a student
Continue Reading By Tara John, Akanksha Sharma, Jo Shelley and Ehsan Popalzai, CNN Aid groups scrambled on Thursday to reach victims of a powerful earthquake that rocked eastern Afghanistan, killing more than 1,000 people in an area blighted by poor infrastructure, as the country faces dire economic and hunger crises. The slow response, exacerbated by international sanctions
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Continue Reading By Clare Sebastian and Anastasia Graham-Yooll, CNN It starts with a raised eyebrow and ends with a door slammed shut. A detail lost in translation, a wrong way to load a dishwasher, an awkward silence followed by a polite request to pack your bags. CNN spoke to half a dozen newly-arrived refugees from Ukraine who
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Continue Reading By Masoud Popalzai, Jessie Yeung, Ehsan Popalzai and Tara John, CNN Afghanistan was rocked by its deadliest earthquake in decades on Wednesday when a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck the country’s east, killing more than 1,000 people and wounding many more, according to a regional official. The humanitarian disaster comes at a difficult time for the
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch, Brad Parks and Aya Elamroussi, CNN The city of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, has agreed to pay $3.25 million to the family of Daunte Wright, a Black man who was killed by police during a traffic stop last year, attorneys for his family said. The sum is part of a settlement deal the
Continue Reading By Heather Chen, CNN Singapore has reported the first confirmed case of monkeypox in Southeast Asia during this year’s outbreak — while another confirmed case has been found in South Korea. The case in Singapore involves a British man who was in the city-state between June 15 and 17. He tested positive for monkeypox on
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon and Wayne Chang, CNN A total of 29 Chinese warplanes entered Taiwan’s self-declared air defense identification zone (ADIZ) on Tuesday, according to the island’s Defense Ministry. The Defense Ministry said the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force planes were a mix of fighter jets, early warning and control aircraft, electronic warfare aircraft,
Continue Reading By Kristen Rogers, CNN As the country navigates a more controlled phase of the pandemic, Los Alamos County, New Mexico, has been ranked the healthiest US community for the third year in a row. Located roughly 40 miles from Sante Fe, the county is home to canyons and mesas connected by a 58-mile trail network,
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, CNN The United States banned all goods produced in China’s western Xinjiang region on Tuesday, following the enactment of a forced labor law signed by President Joe Biden last year. The US already had several restrictions in place for imports from Xinjiang, where rights groups say Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious
Continue Reading By Joe Sutton, Jamiel Lynch and Gregory Wallace, CNN A commercial airplane whose landing gear collapsed upon arrival Tuesday at Miami International Airport caught fire, officials said, sending passengers and crew scrambling to get to safety. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and Dominican Republic-based airline Red Air said there were 130 passengers and 10
Continue Reading By Christina Maxouris, CNN Four weeks after a gunman entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 19 young students and two teachers, one of the state’s top law enforcement officials offered a minute-by-minute breakdown of the police response — and called it an “abject failure.” On Tuesday, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS)
Continue Reading By Justin Gamble, CNN A Latino officer in a suburban Cleveland police department, became the second officer to speak out publicly after filing a complaint earlier this year with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission about alleged racist actions by former Sheffield Lake Police Chief Anthony Campo. Officer A.J. Torres filed his complaint with the state
Continue Reading By Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN Charges against four men who were arrested in 1947 after launching the first of the “freedom rides” to fight Jim Crow Laws have been posthumously dismissed by a North Carolina judge 75 years after their convictions. During a special session Friday leading up to the weekend celebration of Juneteenth, North Carolina
Continue Reading By Amir Vera and Melissa Alonso, CNN Dartmouth College announced Tuesday it was eliminating student loans for undergraduates and replacing them with “expanded scholarship grants,” the university said in a news release. The initiative is part of the Ivy League school’s “The Call to Lead” leadership campaign, and will begin starting June 23 for the
Continue Reading By Jennifer Henderson and Ella Nilsen, CNN A Chief’s Review of New Mexico’s Hermits Peak Fire released Tuesday found that US Forest Service errors during a routine prescribed burn contributed to the largest wildfire in New Mexico history. A years-long backlog of projects owing to department furloughs during the 2018-2019 government shutdown, complications of working
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