By Andrew Torgan and Tricia Escobedo, CNN (CNN) — When considering who is living paycheck to paycheck, households with an income of six-figures or more likely aren’t the first to come to mind. However, it turns out that about a fifth of US households that earn more than $150,000 a year are in that situation.
Continue Reading By Shawn Deng and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Five people, including three children, have been injured in a stabbing attack in Beijing, Chinese police reported Monday. The incident occurred at around 3.20 p.m. local time (3.20 a.m. ET) in the upmarket Haidian district of China’s capital, local police said in a statement. “The suspect,
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — A British lawmaker has been suspended by the governing Labour Party after footage appeared to show him punching a man repeatedly on the street. Police are investigating the alleged attack by Mike Amesbury on Friday night, which first came to light after social media footage showed a brawl in
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile and Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — For five years after two teenage girls were killed and their bodies left along an Indiana trail, Richard Allen’s name sat unnoticed in a box with thousands of other tips about the mystery, until it was rediscovered by chance. Stashed in a box of tips from
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — As communities devastated by Helene in western North Carolina work toward a post-storm recovery and dare to picture a return to normalcy, students in the Asheville area have started returning to classrooms. The Asheville City Schools district reopened on a modified schedule Monday. Asheville operates an independent city school
Continue Reading By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — A woman who went missing on a solo hike in Australia’s Snowy Mountains was found “dazed and injured” on Sunday, police said, after suffering a suspected snake bite while missing for nearly two weeks. Lovisa Sjoberg, 48, was spotted by rescuers as she walked along a bush trail
Continue Reading Story by Lex Harvey, photo curation by Noemi Cassanelli, CNN (CNN) — Thick, toxic smog has once again enveloped northern India and eastern Pakistan just days before the start of Diwali, a Hindu festival typically celebrated with fireworks that each year sends air quality plummeting. The air quality index in the Indian capital of Delhi
Continue Reading By Gerardo Lemos and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales said his car was fired on in what he claimed was an “assassination attempt” amid simmering political tensions in the South American country. Morales, who was not injured, blamed the government for the attack, which he called a “failure” that adds
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Tennessee authorities are searching for a man who they say called 911 claiming he had been chased by a bear – leading first responders to a dead body and sparking a manhunt for the caller. The incident began on October 18 when a man called 911 pretending to be
Continue Reading By Dana Karni and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — An Israeli MP behind a bill that would prevent the main UN agency in Gaza and the West Bank from working in Israel has accused the US ambassador in Israel of lobbying opposition leaders to block the move. If the bill passes in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, this
Continue Reading By Jill Dougherty, CNN Tbilisi, Georgia (CNN) — In a dramatic show of unity, Georgia’s often fractured opposition gathered at the presidential palace in Tbilisi, standing shoulder to shoulder behind the president, Salome Zourabichvili, as she defiantly announced, “I do not recognize these elections. Recognizing them would be tantamount to legitimizing Russia’s takeover of Georgia
Continue Reading By Jordan D. Brown, CNN (CNN) — A K-8 school in Swedeborg, Missouri, has renamed its building after its longtime favorite custodian in celebration of her retirement in July. The Swedeborg District III Elementary School building was renamed the “Claudene Wilson Learning Center” in August to honor her more than 32 years of service to the small
Continue Reading By Helen Regan and Yumi Asada, CNN (CNN) — Japanese voters delivered a stinging rebuke to the country’s longtime ruling party in elections Sunday, plunging the world’s fourth largest economy into a rare period of political uncertainty. Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed almost continuously since 1955, has lost its parliamentary majority in the
Continue Reading By Christopher Lamb and Antonia Mortensen, CNN (CNN) — A sense of urgency has been growing after the role of women emerged as a dominant theme when Catholics from across the globe were canvassed for their views ahead of a meeting of bishops and lay people – a synod – which formally concluded Sunday. The
Continue Reading By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Prince William has opened up about how a powerful childhood experience with his brother and late mother helped shape his work in combatting homelessness. In the Prince of Wales’ forthcoming documentary, “Prince William: We Can End Homelessness,” the 42-year-old heir to the British throne recalls visiting The Passage, a
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson and Maria Aguilar Prieto, CNN (CNN) — The massive honeycomb structure known as the Vessel in New York City’s Hudson Yards reopened Monday with newly installed safety netting more than three years after a spate of suicides led to its ignominious closure. The reopening represents a fresh attempt to establish the climbable,
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Caring for a family member with dementia can be heartbreaking and difficult in so many ways. One of the hardest tasks may be protecting them from ruining their finances as their condition deteriorates. Research shows that those with dementia often show signs of financial trouble years
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — For the young daughters of Michael and Kimberly Wood, it was their first time at the annual festival celebrating the culture of the Gullah Geechee community on Georgia’s remote Sapelo Island, the birthplace of their maternal grandmother and other descendants of enslaved Africans. After a day of storytelling, poetry,
Continue Reading By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — In the early hours of Thursday, March 23, 2023, residents in the German town of Kronberg were woken from their sleep by several explosions. Criminals had blown up an ATM located below a block of flats in the town center. The attack caused severe damage to the building and
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Polls opened Sunday in Japan’s general election, in a test for new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba as he seeks voter support for his scandal-hit party just weeks after taking the role. Ishiba, the former defense minister, called a snap election immediately after winning the leadership contest of his Liberal
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