By Simone McCarthy Anonymous Twitter users are exposing the extreme nationalism and pro-Russian sentiment circulating online in China — and Beijing is not happy about it. Scores of screen-grabbed posts from China’s most popular social media platforms have been translated and shared on Twitter in recent weeks, offering Western audiences a rare glimpse into the
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By Omar Jimenez, Elizabeth Joseph, Steve Almasy and Tiffany Anthony, CNN Police in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Wednesday released several videos of an officer’s encounter with Patrick Lyoya earlier this month, including two that show the fatal shot during a struggle after a traffic stop. The department released video from a police body camera, a
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By Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing bureau China has lashed out at the United States for ordering its consulate staff to leave the locked-down city of Shanghai, accusing officials of “weaponizing” the financial hub’s failing attempt to contain the spread of Covid-19. On Monday, the US State Department “ordered” the departure of non-emergency employees and
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By David Shortell, Paul P. Murphy, Juan Alejandro Olarte-Cortes, Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN The man arrested in connection to the New York subway shooting has a lengthy criminal history and had talked about violence and mass shootings in videos posted on YouTube — including one uploaded as recently as Monday. Frank James, 62,
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By Harmeet Kaur and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN A 19-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with the April 3 attack on an elderly Sikh man in the New York borough of Queens, police announced Thursday. The man faces charges of robbery, aggravated harassment and assault as a hate crime for allegedly punching 70-year-old
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A male train passenger put on a gas mask, deployed a gas canister and then opened fire, shooting 10 commuters as a Manhattan-bound subway train headed into a station in Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday morning, authorities said.
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By Steve Almasy, Paradise Afshar and Dakin Andone, CNN Fire officials are bracing for increased activity Wednesday as a wildfire that’s quickly grown to more than 4,000 acres burns out of control. Five fires — the Hermit’s Peak, McBride, Overflow, Big Hole and Nogal Canyon fires — have scorched more than 13,000 acres of land
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By Andy Rose and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill into law Tuesday that makes it legal for most residents to carry a concealed firearm without a license. The measure — which supporters call “constitutional carry” — passed the legislature April 1 and allows anyone who was previously eligible for
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By Eric Levenson, Stella Chan and Amir Vera, CNN Sherri Papini, the Northern California woman accused of faking her own kidnapping in 2016, pleaded guilty to mail fraud and making false statements in court Monday. Papini appeared virtually in the US District Court for the Eastern District of California Monday where Judge William B. Shubb
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By Jason Hanna, Amir Vera, Elizabeth Wolfe, Kristina Sgueglia and Paul Murphy, CNN Riders of a New York subway train were victims of a mass shooting Tuesday morning when a man donned a gas mask, set off smoke grenades and began firing as the train made its way toward a Brooklyn station, police said. A
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By Mirna Alsharif Three universities in the Washington, DC, region — American, Georgetown and Johns Hopkins — have partially reinstated campus mask mandates following an uptick in Covid-19 cases in the area, according to statements from the institutions. American University (AU) reinstated an indoor masking requirement effective Tuesday, where “masks will be required in all
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By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN All of America is witnessing a high level of violence, not just New York, Mayor Eric Adams told CNN on Tuesday. “We’re facing a problem that is hitting our entire nation right now and that is why this is a national response,” Adams told CNN’s Dana Bash. “We need a national
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By Alaa Elassar and Theresa Waldrop, CNN John Acevedo woke up to a commotion outside. Not so strange for a New Yorker, perhaps, but unheard of in his neighborhood of Sunset Park, Brooklyn, far off the tourist path. The 20-year-old could make out the sounds of sirens on the street, helicopters overhead. When he stepped
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By Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour and Emmet Lyons, CNN (CNN) — When Russian troops invaded their homeland, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and first lady Olena Zelenska refused to flee or to give in, opting instead — like many of their countrymen and women — for defiance in the face of aggression. While the President’s
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By Omar Jimenez, CNN Three former Minneapolis police officers set to stand trial on state charges in George Floyd’s death have rejected a plea deal with prosecutors, the Minnesota attorney general’s office told CNN. Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane face a state trial — currently slated for mid-June — on charges of
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN A comet with a nucleus larger than the state of Rhode Island is heading our way, but Earth is in no danger of a “Don’t Look Up” situation, astronomers say. Although comets are most recognizable for their streaming tails, which can stretch for millions of miles, the heart of a comet
Continue Reading By Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour and Emmet Lyons, CNN (CNN) — When Russian troops invaded their homeland, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and first lady Olena Zelenska refused to flee or to give in, opting instead — like many of their countrymen and women — for defiance in the face of aggression. While the President’s
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Personal Birth date: September 14, 1970 Birth place: Washington, DC Birth name: Ketanji Onyika Brown Father: Johnny Brown, attorney Mother: Ellery Brown, school principal Marriage: Patrick Jackson (1996-present) Children: Leila and Talia Education: Harvard University, B.A., 1992,
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