By Rachel Ramirez The rainfall from hurricanes during the deadly, record-breaking 2020 season was as much as 11% higher because of the human-caused climate crisis, scientists reported Tuesday. The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, found global warming supercharged hourly rainfall rates in tropical storms and hurricanes by 5 to 10%. When they looked
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By Brynn Gingras, Pervaiz Shallwani, Mark Morales, Kristina Sgueglia, Eric Levenson, Amir Vera and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN Passengers on a Manhattan-bound train had to dodge bullets while being blinded by smoke during the Tuesday morning commute, setting off a manhunt for a gunman whose motives are still unknown. Commuters were riding the subway as it
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By Maya Brown, CNN Some Republicans and far-right groups’ attacks on voting rights and American democracy are making it harder for Black people to achieve racial equality, according to a new report from the National Urban League. The civil rights organization on Tuesday released its annual State of Black America report, titled “Under Siege: The
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By Jack Guy, Richard Roth and Laura Ly, CNN The United Nations has called for the increasing reports of rape and sexual violence against Ukrainian women and children during the Russian invasion of the country to be independently investigated. Sima Bahous, executive director of UN Women, a United Nations entity dedicated to advancing gender equity
Continue Reading By Brynn Gingras, Pervaiz Shallwani, Mark Morales, Kristina Sgueglia, Eric Levenson, Amir Vera and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN Passengers on a Manhattan-bound train had to dodge bullets while being blinded by smoke during the Tuesday morning commute, setting off a manhunt for a gunman whose motives are still unknown. Commuters were riding the subway as it
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By Jenn Selva, CNN The families of five of the eight people killed in a shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis last year have filed a lawsuit against the company alleging wrongful death and negligence. According to the lawsuit filed Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, the plaintiffs
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By Zahra Ullah and Mia Alberti, CNN A Russian court on Tuesday remanded the case of Trevor Reed, a former US Marine detained in Russia, to a lower court for review, said US Ambassador John Sullivan, who was at the proceedings. Sullivan is “very disappointed that justice has again been denied,” he said. “Unfortunately, the
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By Jenn Selva, Andy Rose and Susannah Cullinane, CNN An Idaho judge ruled Monday that Lori Vallow is mentally fit to stand trial on charges related to the deaths of her two children, according to court documents. Vallow is “restored to competency and is fit to proceed,” Judge Steven W. Boyce said in his order.
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By Jean Casarez and Lauren del Valle, CNN A jury deliberating the legal fate of an Ohio doctor accused of overprescribing the powerful opioid fentanyl to patients near death will continue its work for a third day on Thursday. Dr. William Husel has pleaded not guilty to 14 counts of first-degree murder. The state charges
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By Amanda Musa and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Two families and two doctors are suing the state of Alabama following the passage of Senate Bill 184, which makes it a felony for a doctor to administer gender-affirming health care to minors. The Human Rights Campaign, several civil rights groups, and legal groups are representing the plaintiffs
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By David Culver, CNN The distant echo of a megaphone blares most mornings from the narrow laneway where I live in Shanghai, summoning me and my neighbors from our homes for our mandatory Covid test. Mask on and cell phone in hand, I step outside before the volunteers in hazmat suits have time to knock.
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN No player from a historically Black college or university has been drafted into the WNBA since 2002. On Monday night, that finally changed. Ameshya Williams-Holliday, a senior center out of Jackson State University, was selected in the third round, 25th overall, by the Indiana Fever, making her the first HBCU player
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By Clarissa Ward, Frederik Pleitgen, Ben Wedeman, Vasco Cotovio and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Indiscriminate killings of civilians attempting to flee the violence. Victims found with their hands tied behind their backs. An attack on a maternity hospital, a theater turned shelter bombed. The list of atrocities and apparent war crimes allegedly committed by Russian troops
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By Amanda Watts and Jennifer Henderson, CNN One teenager is dead after at least two teens took turns shooting at each other while wearing body armor, police in Belleview, Florida, said. On April 3, the Belleview Police Department (BPD) received a call for a shooting at a residence. When they arrived, they found 16-year-old Christopher
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By Rosa Flores and Rosalina Nieves, CNN Commercial traffic at a major US-Mexico land entry port is “halted temporarily” due to an ongoing protest on the Mexican side of the border, with “no southbound movements by US carriers,” a US Customs and Border Protection official confirmed Monday to CNN. The protest at the Pharr-Reynosa International
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN NASA’s Artemis I mission to the moon will make a third attempt at its most critical and final prelaunch test beginning on Tuesday, April 12, according to the agency. The mission team plans to start fueling the 322-foot-tall (98-meter-tall) Artemis I rocket stack, including NASA’s Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft,
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By Vasco Cotovio and Frederik Pleitgen, Byron Blunt and Daria Markina, CNN On the outskirts of Kyiv, Lt. Col. Mykola Opanasenko kneels down in a remote field as he winds up a small electrical generator to power a blast. “Fire,” he shouts, before bracing and pressing the trigger. A fraction of a second later, an
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By Kyung Lah, Sarah Boxer and Rachel Clarke, CNN Jan Gebert handed his apartment keys to the family he had just met. The Ukrainian mother wanted to pay. No, insisted Gebert, this is free. It was days after Russia invaded Ukraine and one of the countless acts of kindness being shown to those fleeing danger
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