By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope is setting up shop while it chills out a million miles from Earth. The observatory shared its first selfie from space after testing its iconic gold mirror and Near Infrared Camera. Webb has been in the process of cooling down and aligning its mirror segments since
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By Dakin Andone, Nick Valencia and Jade Gordon, CNN A Black FedEx driver who says he was shot at by a White father and son while delivering packages in Mississippi “can definitely see the similarities” between his case and that of Ahmaud Arbery, the Black man who was chased and murdered in south Georgia. “That’s
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By Nimi Princewill, CNN African countries are on course to control the coronavirus and its emerging variants this year, the World Health Organization’s regional head for the continent has said. African countries have faced a number of challenges since the first outbreak of the Covid-19 virus in February 2020, including the impact of lockdowns on
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By Allegra Goodwin, CNN The President of North Macedonia walked an 11-year-old girl with Down syndrome to school after he heard she was being bullied. President Stevo Pendarovski held Embla Ademi’s hand as he walked her to her elementary school in the city of Gostivar on Monday. Embla has experienced bullying at school due as
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By Ray Sanchez, Caroll Alvarado and Jenn Selva, CNN A woman was fatally shot and nine police officers were injured early Friday in a Phoenix suburb, police said. The nine officers are among 15 law enforcement officers injured in separate shootings across the US in the last 24 hours, according to a CNN tally. “Enough
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, Nick Valencia and Jade Gordon, CNN A Black FedEx driver who says he was shot at by a White father and son while delivering packages in Mississippi “can definitely see the similarities” between his case and that of Ahmaud Arbery, the Black man who was chased and murdered in south Georgia. “That’s
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By Nick Paton Walsh, Sandi Sidhu, Julia Hollingsworth, Masoud Popalzai, Sitara Zamani, Abdul Basir Bina, Katie Polglase and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN Newly released testimony from US military survivors of the August 26 attack at Kabul airport has cast doubt on the findings of the Pentagon’s investigation into the incident, which concluded that nobody was hit
Continue Reading By Nick Paton Walsh, Sandi Sidhu, Julia Hollingsworth, Masoud Popalzai, Sitara Zamani, Abdul Basir Bina, Katie Polglase and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN Newly released testimony from US military survivors of the August 26 attack at Kabul airport has cast doubt on the findings of the Pentagon’s investigation into the incident, which concluded that nobody was hit
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By Tara John, Joseph Ataman, Xiaofei Xu and Anna Chernova, CNN There’s socially distanced, and then there’s French President Emmanuel Macron sitting on the opposite end of an enormous table during talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Monday. There is now insight as to why: The French leader declined the
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By Sara Smart, CNN Not many people are able to say they’ve been to one Super Bowl game, let alone all of them. But this trio has done just that. For Tom Henschel, 80, Don Crisman, 85, and Gregory Eaton, 82, going to the big game has become a tradition. This year will be their
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By Claire Colbert, CNN It’s that time of year again… Super Bowl Sunday is upon us! Whether you’re in it for the game, the commercials, or the halftime show, here’s everything you need to know about Super Bowl LVI. What time is the Super Bowl and how can I watch it? Super Bowl LVI kicks
Continue Reading By Joe Sutton, CNN A man who was told to wear a mask at a well-known Chicago hot dog restaurant threw snow at an employee and shattered the business’ glass door, authorities said Thursday. The Wieners Circle in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood tweeted a surveillance video showing a man standing without a mask in the
Continue Reading By Joe Sutton, CNN A man who was told to wear a mask at a well-known Chicago hot dog restaurant threw snow at an employee and shattered the business’ glass door, authorities said Thursday. The Wieners Circle in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood tweeted a surveillance video showing a man standing without a mask in the
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By Sharif Paget, CNN A Flagler County, Florida, school district bus driver accused of driving drunk while 40 middle school students were on board was arrested Wednesday, police said. Mark McNeill was allegedly found to have four times the legal limit of blood alcohol content at the time of his arrest, according to the Flagler
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By Amanda Jackson, CNN Nearly 58 years ago, Marise Chiverella was murdered and her body left in a hole in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. She was only 9 years old. State police worked tirelessly over the years but were unable to identify her killer until now. Thanks to DNA and genealogy tracking, authorities announced Thursday, they have
Continue Reading By Jennifer Henderson, Nick Valencia and Jade Gordon, CNN Two White men are facing criminal charges after a Black FedEx Express driver alleged that he was chased and shot at while delivering packages in Brookhaven, Mississippi. When he called police to report the shooting, he says he was told by the dispatcher that they had
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By Christina Maxouris, CNN An Illinois woman held hostage in her home was rescued after her daughter noticed she had not sent her Wordle score and alerted local authorities. The woman, 80-year-old Denyse Holt, told CNN affiliate WBBM that a naked man entered her Lincolnwood home, dragged her around the house, disconnected phone lines, and
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By Simone McCarthy, Selina Wang and Sandi Sidhu, CNN As Winter Olympians vie for gold in Beijing, global attention has turned to events in the extensive Olympic “bubble” — a zone sealing off visiting athletes, media and participants from the rest of the host city to prevent the spread of Covid-19. But in a different
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By Caroll Alvarado, Rosa Flores and Amir Vera, CNN Doctors in Houston placed a 9-year-old girl in a medically induced coma after she was shot in the head during an apparent road rage incident, the girl’s grandmother told CNN on Thursday. Ashanti Grant is fighting for her life at the hospital, her family said. Surgeons
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy, Selina Wang and Sandi Sidhu, CNN As Winter Olympians vie for gold in Beijing, global attention has turned to events in the extensive Olympic “bubble” — a zone sealing off visiting athletes, media and participants from the rest of the host city to prevent the spread of Covid-19. But in a different
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