By Yoonjung Seo and Jessie Yeung, CNN Three North Korean cargo planes flew to China and back on Monday, as the country battles an fast-spreading outbreak of Covid-19, according to a South Korean government official with knowledge of the matter. The planes traveled to Taoxian International Airport in Shenyang, in China’s northeast Liaoning province, the
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By Mirna Alsharif, Laura Ly and Christina Maxouris, CNN As health officials warn of rising Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations, the mayor of New York said the city would not reinstate mask mandates at this time. “I’m proud of what we are doing and how we are not allowing Covid to outstmart us,” Mayor Eric Adams
Continue Reading By Mirna Alsharif, Laura Ly and Christina Maxouris, CNN As health officials warn of rising Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations, the mayor of New York said the city would not reinstate mask mandates at this time. “I’m proud of what we are doing and how we are not allowing Covid to outstmart us,” Mayor Eric Adams
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By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing Bureau Black box data recovered from a China Eastern flight that crashed in March suggests someone in the cockpit intentionally downed the plane, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a preliminary assessment from United States officials. The Boeing 737-800 was flying from Kunming to Guangzhou when it nosedived from
Continue Reading By David Williams, CNN The Martin County School District in Florida is investigating a photograph that shows a group of middle school students holding up what appears to be hand-made letters that spell out a racial slur, officials announced Wednesday. The photo, which has been widely circulated on social media, shows six students spelling the
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By Steve Almasy and Rebekah Riess, CNN Clifton Blackwell, the Milwaukee man charged with a hate crime in Wisconsin circuit court in 2019 for throwing acid on a US citizen born in Peru, was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in state prison, court records show. The victim, Mahud Villalaz, suffered second-degree burns in November 2019
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Voyager 1 probe is still exploring interstellar space 45 years after launching, but it has encountered an issue that mystifies the spacecraft’s team on Earth. Voyager 1 continues to operate well, despite its advanced age and 14.5 billion-mile distance (23.3 billion kilometers) from Earth. And it can receive and execute
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By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN The first time Kenya Martin got an abortion, she was a 19-year-old college student who felt she wasn’t old enough or mature enough to raise a child. The second time, Martin was a 26-year-old single mom making $12 an hour as a bank teller, could barely afford childcare or health
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By Jo Shelley, Masoud Popalzai, Ehsan Popalzai, Ahmet Mengli and Rob Picheta, CNN A senior Taliban official has repeated the group’s as-yet-unfulfilled pledge to allow girls back into high school, saying there would be “good news soon,” but suggested that women who protested the regime’s restrictions on women rights should stay home. Sirajuddin Haqqani, Afghanistan’s
Continue Reading By Jo Shelley, Masoud Popalzai, Ehsan Popalzai, Ahmet Mengli and Rob Picheta, CNN A senior Taliban official has repeated the group’s as-yet-unfulfilled pledge to allow girls back into high school, saying there would be “good news soon,” but suggested that women who protested the regime’s restrictions on women rights should stay home. Sirajuddin Haqqani, Afghanistan’s
Continue Reading By Jo Shelley, Masoud Popalzai, Ehsan Popalzai, Ahmet Mengli and Rob Picheta, CNN A senior Taliban official has repeated the group’s as-yet-unfulfilled pledge to allow girls back into high school, saying there would be “good news soon,” but suggested that women who protested the regime’s restrictions on women rights should stay home. Sirajuddin Haqqani, Afghanistan’s
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By Nimi Princewill, CNN Embroiled in a homophobia row in France, Paris Saint-German footballer Idrissa Gana Gueye has received the backing of Senegalese President Macky Sall. With French clubs’ players encouraged to wear rainbow-colored numbers on the back of their shirts to commemorate World Day Against Homophobia on May 17, the 32-year-old Gueye, who is
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Solar Orbiter mission’s first close pass of the sun in March has revealed our star in a new light. The spacecraft, which flew by the sun on March 26, has returned a treasure trove of new images and insights after coming within one-third the distance from the sun to the
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By Brad Parks and Eric Levenson, CNN The former Minneapolis Police officer who held down George Floyd’s legs during his fatal restraint pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter Wednesday as part of a plea deal, attorneys said. Thomas Lane, 39, was one of three former officers to face charges of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter and
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By Dakin Andone and Jennifer Henderson, CNN Federal officials are investigating a shooting that wounded three people at a Korean-owned salon in Dallas last week as a potential hate crime, as local authorities say they believe the attack is connected to two earlier attacks at other Asian-run businesses. The FBI’s field office in Dallas, the
Continue Reading By Brad Parks and Eric Levenson, CNN The former Minneapolis Police officer who held down George Floyd’s legs during his fatal restraint pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter Wednesday as part of a plea deal, attorneys said. Thomas Lane, 39, was one of three former officers to face charges of aiding and abetting
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By Tim Lister and Taras Zadorozhnyy, CNN The Russian army’s performance in Ukraine has been less than impressive according to Western intelligence assessments — and that viewpoint is gaining ground among some in Russia itself. Three Russian military bloggers have suddenly launched into damning criticism of the operation, and especially the debacle of a failed
Continue Reading By Tim Lister and Taras Zadorozhnyy, CNN The Russian army’s performance in Ukraine has been less than impressive according to Western intelligence assessments — and that viewpoint is gaining ground among some in Russia itself. Three Russian military bloggers have suddenly launched into damning criticism of the operation, and especially the debacle of a failed
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN Climate change has made the odds of a record-breaking heatwave hitting northwestern India and Pakistan 100 times more likely to happen, scientists said Wednesday, as the two countries experience high temperatures that are disrupting daily life. In an analysis, climate scientists with the UK’s Met Office found that the natural probability
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