By Dakin Andone and Jenn Selva, CNN Pierce County, Washington, has reached a settlement agreement of more than $4 million with the family of Manuel Ellis, a Black man who was heard crying out “I can’t breathe” before he died in police custody in March 2020. The Pierce County Council formally approved the $4,010,000 settlement
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By Natasha Bertrand, Vasco Cotovio, Jennifer Hansler and Jim Sciutto, CNN The US and NATO believe that Belarus could “soon” join Russia in its war against Ukraine, US and NATO officials tell CNN, and that the country is already taking steps to do so. It is increasingly “likely” that Belarus will enter the conflict, a
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By Theresa Waldrop, Adrienne Broaddus and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Mike Gross has seen a lot of theft at his family’s dealership in Neillsville, Wisconsin, over the years, including wheels, tires, cash and entire vehicles, but this was new. A service technician was preparing to inspect a used Jeep when he discovered a gas leak. The
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By Alexandra Meeks, CNN You get a booster! You get a booster! You get a booster! Do you remember Oprah Winfrey’s iconic TV moment when she gave her entire studio audience new cars? Well, scientists are channeling that same energy with coronavirus vaccines. Some public health experts say it’s looking more and more like Covid-19
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN You get a booster! You get a booster! You get a booster! Do you remember Oprah Winfrey’s iconic TV moment when she gave her entire studio audience new cars? Well, scientists are channeling that same energy with coronavirus vaccines. Some public health experts say it’s looking more and more like Covid-19
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN You get a booster! You get a booster! You get a booster! Do you remember Oprah Winfrey’s iconic TV moment when she gave her entire studio audience new cars? Well, scientists are channeling that same energy with coronavirus vaccines. Some public health experts say it’s looking more and more like Covid-19
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN You get a booster! You get a booster! You get a booster! Do you remember Oprah Winfrey’s iconic TV moment when she gave her entire studio audience new cars? Well, scientists are channeling that same energy with coronavirus vaccines. Some public health experts say it’s looking more and more like Covid-19
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN An artificial lake off the west coast of Sicily was once one of the largest sacred pools in the ancient Mediterranean 2,500 years ago — and it was aligned with the stars, according to new research. Previously, researchers thought the rectangular lake was a military harbor that participated in Mediterranean trade.
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By Stephanie Halasz and George Ramsay, CNN Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been sentenced to nine years in a maximum-security jail, according to Russian state-owned news agency Tass. A prominent Kremlin critic, Navalny was convicted on fraud charges by Moscow’s Lefortovo court over allegations that he stole from his Anti-Corruption Foundation. Navalny, 45, is
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By Jamiel Lynch, Susannah Cullinane and Amir Vera, CNN The City of Miami Beach commission voted unanimously during a Tuesday emergency meeting to impose a curfew during Spring Break festivities this weekend. The curfew will start at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday and expire Monday morning at 6 a.m., starting at midnight each night. The boundaries
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By Jessie Yeung, Yong Xiong, Hannah Ritchie and CNN’s Beijing bureau No survivors of a China Eastern Airlines plane crash have been found after a second day of search efforts, Chinese investigators said late Tuesday. In China’s worst air disaster in more than a decade, the Boeing 737-800 — carrying 132 people — crashed Monday
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By Brad Lendon, CNN A Russian bomber fired three hypersonic missiles at the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa on Monday night, Ukrainian officials said, as part of a barrage that leveled a number of civilian targets including hotels and a shopping mall. It is not the first time Moscow has deployed its Kinzhal hypersonic
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By AnneClaire Stapleton, Ivan Watson, Khrystyna Bondarenko and Tom Booth, CNN Dmytro and Tania Shvets spent the first 23 days of the war hiding in their cellar in Mariupol with their 7-year-old daughter, Vlada, and their parents. The family managed to escape the besieged Ukrainian city on Thursday, but their parents stayed behind. Having fled
Continue Reading By AnneClaire Stapleton, Ivan Watson, Khrystyna Bondarenko and Tom Booth, CNN Dmytro and Tania Shvets spent the first 23 days of the war hiding in their cellar in Mariupol with their 7-year-old daughter, Vlada, and their parents. The family managed to escape the besieged Ukrainian city on Thursday, but their parents stayed behind. Having fled
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Air pollution spiked to unhealthy levels around the world in 2021, according to a new report. The report by IQAir, a company that tracks global air quality, found that average annual air pollution in every country — and 97% of cities — exceeded the World Health Organization’s air quality guidelines, which
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By Amir Vera and Ashley Killough, CNN A Texas appeals court reinstated a temporary injunction Monday ensuring families seeking gender-affirming care for their trans children cannot be investigated by state authorities. The ruling comes after a district court judge in Travis County ordered the state of Texas to temporarily stop investigating families earlier this month,
Continue Reading By Amir Vera and Jamiel Lynch, CNN Nearly 12 years after his death rocked the basketball world, former NBA player Lorenzen Wright’s murder case came to a close Monday when a Memphis jury found a man guilty of first-degree murder. Wright was last seen July 18, 2010, while visiting his children at his ex-wife’s home
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