By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN With Pride celebrations scheduled throughout the month in cities big and small across the country, organizers and police departments are taking a close look at their safety plans. Pride Month is a time when the LGBTQ community and its allies come together to celebrate the freedom to be their most authentic
Continue Reading By Larry Madowo and Bethlehem Feleke, CNN Hope Hostel is not a 5-star hotel. But it isn’t a dump, either. The renovated 50-room facility in Kigali’s Kagugu neighborhood has a new coat of paint, fresh bedding, a lot of new security cameras and a changed mission. After hosting student survivors of the 1994 genocide for
Continue Reading By Larry Madowo and Bethlehem Feleke, CNN Hope Hostel is not a 5-star hotel. But it isn’t a dump, either. The renovated 50-room facility in Kigali’s Kagugu neighborhood has a new coat of paint, fresh bedding, a lot of new security cameras and a changed mission. After hosting student survivors of the 1994 genocide for
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Personal Birth date: June 25, 1972 Birth place: Tripoli, Libya Birth name: Saif al-Islam Gadhafi Father: Moammar Gadhafi, former leader of Libya for 42 years Mother: Safia (Farkash) Gadhafi Education: El-Fateh University, Libya, Degree
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the US Open Golf Tournament. June 12-18, 2023 – The US Open will be played at The Los Angeles Country Club in Los Angeles. June 19, 2022 – English golfer Matt Fitzpatrick wins the 122nd US Open at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. Fitzpatrick clinches his first
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Brian Wilson, musician, producer, composer and co-founder of the Beach Boys. Personal Birth date: June 20, 1942 Birth place: Inglewood, California Birth name: Brian Douglas Wilson Father: Murry Gage Wilson, machinist Mother: Audree Neva (Korthof), pianist Marriages: Melinda Ledbetter (1995-present); Marilyn Rovell (1964-1979, divorced)
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN For the first time, the Hubble Space Telescope has detected a lone object drifting through our Milky Way galaxy — the invisible, ghostly remains of a once radiant star. When stars massive enough to dwarf our sun die, they explode in a supernova and the remaining core is crushed by its
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN A Google engineer claims that one of the tech company’s unreleased artificial intelligence programs advanced so much that it has achieved a level of consciousness. Google and many in the AI community quickly shut down the engineer’s claims, but the mere idea is sparking fascinating conversations — and stoking fears —
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN A Google engineer claims that one of the tech company’s unreleased artificial intelligence programs advanced so much that it has achieved a level of consciousness. Google and many in the AI community quickly shut down the engineer’s claims, but the mere idea is sparking fascinating conversations — and stoking fears —
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN A Google engineer claims that one of the tech company’s unreleased artificial intelligence programs advanced so much that it has achieved a level of consciousness. Google and many in the AI community quickly shut down the engineer’s claims, but the mere idea is sparking fascinating conversations — and stoking fears —
Continue Reading By Emiko Jozuka and Helen Regan, CNN More than 11 years after Japan’s worst nuclear disaster, the government lifted evacuation orders in a section of a village previously deemed off limits on Sunday, allowing residents to move back into their homes. Kazunori Iwayama, a former resident of Katsurao village, which lies about 40 kilometers (24
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Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe, Claudia Dominguez and Ray Sanchez, CNN Yellowstone National Park will remain closed to visitors through at least Wednesday due to dangerous flooding conditions, which have prompted park evacuations and left some in surrounding communities trapped without safe drinking water, officials say. A Montana helicopter company transported about 40 people on Monday and
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe, Claudia Dominguez and Ray Sanchez, CNN Yellowstone National Park will remain closed to visitors through at least Wednesday due to dangerous flooding conditions, which have prompted park evacuations and left some in surrounding communities trapped without safe drinking water, officials say. A Montana helicopter company transported about 40 people on Monday and
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, Emiko Jozuka and Kathleen Benoza, CNN Japan’s parliament on Monday passed legislation making “online insults” punishable by imprisonment amid rising public concern over cyberbullying sparked by the suicide of a reality television star who had faced social media abuse. Under the amendment to the country’s penal code — set to take effect
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch and Tina Burnside, CNN Another member of Haiti’s delegation to the Special Olympics USA Games has gone missing in Florida, according to a spokesperson for the games, marking the seventh Haitian member to not be seen in the past week. Louis Jacques Wilguens, 25, went missing Saturday, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch and Tina Burnside, CNN Another member of Haiti’s delegation to the Special Olympics USA Games has gone missing in Florida, according to a spokesperson for the games, marking the seventh Haitian member to not be seen in the past week. Louis Jacques Wilguens, 25, went missing Saturday, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office
Continue Reading By Raja Razek and Faith Karimi, CNN Nancy Crampton-Brophy, author of the essay “How to Murder Your Husband,” was sentenced to life in prison Monday for the murder of her husband. Crampton-Brophy, 71, was convicted in May of second-degree murder in the June 2018 death of her husband, chef Daniel Brophy, who was gunned down
Continue Reading Story by Reuters Australia’s dancing substitute goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne saved the last penalty to clinch a place at this year’s World Cup in Qatar as his team edged Peru 5-4 in a shootout following a 0-0 draw after extra time in an inter-continental playoff on Monday. Redmayne danced across the goal-line before diving to the
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