By Andy Rose, CNN Tamara Lynn Sytch — a former pro wrestling star who performed under the name ‘Sunny’ — was arrested Friday and charged with causing the death of a motorist during in a traffic crash last month in Ormond Beach, Florida, police said. The motorist died after Sytch’s vehicle failed to stop during
Continue Reading By Sara Smart, CNN A $34.99 purchase got one Texas woman an unexpected piece of art from ancient Roman times. Back in August 2018, Laura Young was shopping in an Austin-area Goodwill when she stumbled upon a 52-pound marble bust. “I was just looking for anything that looked interesting,” Young said, and when she saw
Continue Reading By Sara Smart, CNN A $34.99 purchase got one Texas woman an unexpected piece of art from ancient Roman times. Back in August 2018, Laura Young was shopping in an Austin-area Goodwill when she stumbled upon a 52-pound marble bust. “I was just looking for anything that looked interesting,” Young said, and when she saw
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN Space researchers want to send a coded message to aliens, including illustrations of nude humans. The proposal, “A Beacon in the Galaxy” (BITG), was presented by 11 researchers from a range of institutions, including NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It was published this week in Arxiv, an open-access repository of scientific papers.
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By Ray Sanchez, Kristina Sgueglia, Samantha Beech and Peter Nickeas, CNN Patrick Lyoya, the 26-year-old Michigan man who was fatally shot by a Grand Rapids police officer during a traffic stop, died from a gunshot to the back of the head, according to the official autopsy report obtained by CNN. The autopsy also found that
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By Alaa Elassar, Sharif Paget and Claudia Dominguez, CNN A small plane carrying four people crashed into a backyard in Houston on Friday, and all four people on board walked away. Officials responded to a report of a small-engine aircraft crash less than 10 miles from Houston’s Hobby Airport around 4 p.m. “Four civilians were
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By Alaa Elassar, Hannah Sarisohn, Jennifer Henderson and Caroll Alvarado, CNN The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating a recent Covid-19 outbreak on a Carnival cruise ship that docked in Seattle after a two-week voyage. The Carnival Spirit, which sailed through the Panama Canal, departed Miami on April 17 and arrived in Seattle
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar, Hannah Sarisohn, Jennifer Henderson and Caroll Alvarado, CNN The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating a recent Covid-19 outbreak on a Carnival cruise ship that docked in Seattle after a two-week voyage. The Carnival Spirit, which sailed through the Panama Canal, departed Miami on April 17 and arrived in Seattle
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN The critically endangered California condor has been absent from Northern California redwood forests for over a century — until Tuesday, when the Yurok Tribe and Redwood National and State Parks reintroduced two birds to the woodland area, the culmination of a 15-year reintroduction project. California condors have been out of Northern
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By Aya Elamroussi, CNN As the search continues for a missing former Alabama corrections officer and an inmate charged with murder, authorities remain in the dark on where the pair may have gone after the SUV they used after leaving the jail turned up little new information in the case. The 2007 Ford SUV officials
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By Laura Studley and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN The New York Police Department’s Hate Crime Task Force is investigating an assault on a Long Island rabbi by an attacker who allegedly made anti-Semitic remarks and referenced Nazis, police said Saturday. The 32-year-old victim was punched in the head and kicked in the legs around 3 p.m.
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN As a kid, I wanted to be Indiana Jones — and I know I wasn’t alone in that wish. I would set out with a pail and shovel and a hefty amount of determination, digging in hopes of finding a fossil or buried treasure that belonged in a museum. I dreamed
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN As a kid, I wanted to be Indiana Jones — and I know I wasn’t alone in that wish. I would set out with a pail and shovel and a hefty amount of determination, digging in hopes of finding a fossil or buried treasure that belonged in a museum. I dreamed
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN Four iconic video games have been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame: Ms. Pac-Man, Dance Dance Revolution, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Sid Meier’s Civilization. All four games “have influenced popular culture and the video game industry,” according to a statement from the World Video
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By Travis Caldwell, CNN Investigators are looking for more information after a second set of human remains were found in Lake Mead, which is experiencing a plunge in water levels due to an ongoing megadrought. The remains — discovered Saturday afternoon in Nevada’s Callville Bay — were the second found in less than a week.
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By Jason Hanna and Rebekah Riess, CNN Wildlife workers have killed three coyotes in Dallas after a coyote seriously injured 2-year-old boy this week, officials said Friday. Destroying the animals is part of an effort to remove aggressive coyotes near where the attack happened, officials said. A coyote attacked the boy on a porch Tuesday
Continue Reading By Jason Hanna and Rebekah Riess, CNN Wildlife workers have killed three coyotes in Dallas after a coyote seriously injured 2-year-old boy this week, officials said Friday. Destroying the animals is part of an effort to remove aggressive coyotes near where the attack happened, officials said. A coyote attacked the boy on a porch Tuesday
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By Ehsan Popalzai and Irene Nasser, CNN Women in Afghanistan must cover their faces in public, according to a decree issued by the Taliban on Saturday. The new rules say women must cover their faces, ideally wearing the traditional burqa, according to a statement from the General Directorate of Administrative Affairs. If a woman does
Continue Reading By Ehsan Popalzai and Irene Nasser, CNN Women in Afghanistan must cover their faces in public, according to a decree issued by the Taliban on Saturday. The new rules say women must cover their faces, ideally wearing the traditional burqa, according to a statement from the General Directorate of Administrative Affairs. If a woman does
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By Toyin Owoseje, CNN The world-famous nonuplets born to a couple from Mali, West Africa have celebrated their first birthday with a small party at home. Halima Cissé and Abdelkader Arby welcomed five girls and four boys, weighing between just 1.1 and 2.4 pounds, at the Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca, Morocco on May 4
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