By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Children living in London will be offered an extra dose of the polio vaccine following the discovery of poliovirus in sewage in the British capital, health authorities announced Wednesday. The UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said a targeted inactivated polio vaccine booster dose should be offered to all children
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine, CNN A 75-year-old man was arrested last week and charged in the 1982 rape and murder of a teenage girl in California after DNA connected him to the scene, officials announced Tuesday. Karen Stitt, 15, was last seen by her boyfriend when he left her near a Sunnyvale, California, bus stop the
Continue Reading By Irene Nasser and Rhea Mogul, CNN Thailand has received a request from former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to enter the country, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Tanee Sangrat said in a social media post on Wednesday. Rajapaksa is currently in Singapore after fleeing Sri Lanka in July amid mass anti-government protests. Sangrat said
Continue Reading By Pierre Bairin, Amandine Hess and Radina Gigova, CNN A beluga whale that was rescued after being stuck in France’s Seine River for more than a week died while in transit to the sea, officials have confirmed. The cetacean had been stuck in the freshwater lock at St.-Pierre-La-Garenne, some 45 miles northwest of Paris, since
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Millions of American students are heading back to school this month as cities across the US are easing up on Covid-19 restrictions. Many children are thrilled about the return of in-person interactions after the pandemic pause, but odds are that some kids could use a little help rebuilding social ties. Check
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Millions of American students are heading back to school this month as cities across the US are easing up on Covid-19 restrictions. Many children are thrilled about the return of in-person interactions after the pandemic pause, but odds are that some kids could use a little help rebuilding social ties. Check
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Millions of American students are heading back to school this month as cities across the US are easing up on Covid-19 restrictions. Many children are thrilled about the return of in-person interactions after the pandemic pause, but odds are that some kids could use a little help rebuilding social ties. Check
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Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh and Christina Maxouris, CNN Hundreds of tips poured in after Albuquerque police sounded an alarm about the shooting deaths of four Muslim men in the city, leading to an arrest, authorities said Tuesday. Though authorities are still searching for a motive and working to confirm whether all four of the killings are
Continue Reading By Ashley Killough, Ed Lavandera and Christina Maxouris, CNN Authorities have arrested 51-year-old Muhammad Syed as a suspect in the killings of two Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico, they said Tuesday — slayings that along with two other killings of Muslim men in recent months have put the city’s Islamic community on edge. Hours
Continue Reading By Mark Morales, Amir Vera, Maria Santana, Priscilla Alvarez, Kristina Sgueglia and Zenebou Sylla, CNN More migrants continued arriving in New York City Wednesday, a day after city officials took aim at Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for busing migrants detained at the border to the city as part of his campaign to draw attention to
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul has vowed to move some of the city’s poorest families out of underground and semi-subterranean homes after 13 people were killed in flooding caused by record rainfall this week, sparking public horror and calls for government accountability. The deaths, which included a family who drowned after becoming
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN An analysis of a 2,300-year-old text and coins has helped researchers decipher ancient recipes for bronze, including two linguistically elusive ingredients. The Kao Gong Ji, the oldest known technical encyclopedia, was written around 300 BC and is part of a larger text called The Rites of Zhou. The ancient text includes
Continue Reading By Nick Watt, CNN Across Tennessee, pitching a tent on public land outside of designated camp sites is now a felony offense. Tennessee is the first state in the nation to take such a draconian step, but it’s just one of a number of states essentially criminalizing homelessness in an effort to reduce the number
Continue Reading By Nick Paton Walsh, Daria Markina, Sebastian Shukla, Oleksandra Ochman and Darya Tarasova, CNN Promises of freedom and riches are made to convicts in cramped jail cells. Frantic phone calls ensue between relatives and inmates weighing the offer. Then prisoners vanish, leaving their loved ones to sift through reports of the wounded arriving in hospitals.
Continue Reading By Nick Paton Walsh, Daria Markina, Sebastian Shukla, Oleksandra Ochman and Darya Tarasova, CNN Promises of freedom and riches are made to convicts in cramped jail cells. Frantic phone calls ensue between relatives and inmates weighing the offer. Then prisoners vanish, leaving their loved ones to sift through reports of the wounded arriving in hospitals.
Continue Reading By Chuck Johnston, CNN A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the White woman who accused 14-year-old Emmett Till of making advances toward her nearly 70 years ago, allegations that led to the Black teen’s brutal death. A Leflore County grand jury last week heard seven hours of testimony from investigators and witnesses
Continue Reading By Nick Watt, CNN Across Tennessee, pitching a tent on public land outside of designated camp sites is now a felony offense. Tennessee is the first state in the nation to take such a draconian step, but it’s just one of a number of states essentially criminalizing homelessness in an effort to reduce the number
Continue Reading By Stella Chan, CNN Friends, family and authorities are scrambling to find 16-year-old Kiely Rodni after she disappeared following a campground party in Northern California. Kiely was at the Prosser Family Campground on Friday night and was last seen around 12:30 a.m. Saturday, the Placer County Sheriff’s Office said. “We are treating her disappearance as
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