By Rebekah Riess and Andy Rose, CNN The family of a 24-year-old woman last seen in Houston on April 15, is pleading for help in finding her after her bloody cell phone was discovered near a park in West Houston following her disappearance. According to community activist Quanell X, who is the leader of the
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By Jay Croft and Steve Contorno, CNN Florida education officials have released four images from some of the math textbooks the state rejected this month, citing what they said were references to critical race theory or other “prohibited” topics. The state Department of Education last week rejected 54 of 132 math textbooks publishers had submitted.
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By Sara Spary, CNN Deep underneath the Alps, on the Swiss-French border, something significant just happened in the world of physics. The Large Hadron Collider, Earth’s most powerful particle accelerator, was restarted on Friday morning after a three-year hiatus for upgrades. Consisting of a ring 27 kilometers (16.7 miles) in circumference, the machine is made
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By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Russian opposition leader. Anti-corruption campaigner. Assassination attempt survivor. Prisoner. Alexey Navalny’s crusade against the Kremlin has brought many labels. And with the eyes of the world now trained on Russian President Vladimir Putin amid his brutal invasion of Ukraine, Navalny’s message of resistance is finding new weight inside and outside of
Continue Reading By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Russian opposition leader. Anti-corruption campaigner. Assassination attempt survivor. Prisoner. Alexey Navalny’s crusade against the Kremlin has brought many labels. And with the eyes of the world now trained on Russian President Vladimir Putin amid his brutal invasion of Ukraine, Navalny’s message of resistance is finding new weight inside and outside of
Continue Reading By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Russian opposition leader. Anti-corruption campaigner. Assassination attempt survivor. Prisoner. Alexey Navalny’s crusade against the Kremlin has brought many labels. And with the eyes of the world now trained on Russian President Vladimir Putin amid his brutal invasion of Ukraine, Navalny’s message of resistance is finding new weight inside and outside of
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By Faith Karimi, CNN Mwai Kibaki, one of the biggest names in Kenyan politics and the nation’s third president, has died, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced. He was 90. His political career spanned decades, including serving as vice president to Daniel arap Moi, the man he replaced as president of the East African nation
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By Alexandra Meeks, CNN If you saw a shooting star last night, it might have been from the Lyrid meteor shower — a collection of bright and fast meteors that reached its peak overnight. For those who missed the exciting moment, we have good news! You may have an opportunity to catch an even better
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN If you saw a shooting star last night, it might have been from the Lyrid meteor shower — a collection of bright and fast meteors that reached its peak overnight. For those who missed the exciting moment, we have good news! You may have an opportunity to catch an even better
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN If you saw a shooting star last night, it might have been from the Lyrid meteor shower — a collection of bright and fast meteors that reached its peak overnight. For those who missed the exciting moment, we have good news! You may have an opportunity to catch an even better
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By Hafsa Khalil, CNN Europe swung from unusually cold temperatures in the spring to its hottest summer on record last year, smashing temperature and daily rain records, while Mediterranean wildfires burned through land around the size of Cyprus. They are the main findings of the fifth European State of the Climate report, published Friday, which
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By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Philadelphia will lift its mask mandate, less than a week after it was reinstated due to a rising Covid-19 case count. The city’s Board of Health voted to rescind the mandate, which went into effect Monday, citing leveling numbers of cases and decreasing hospitalizations, the Philadelphia mayor’s office said in a
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By Emma Tucker, Kristina Sgueglia and Theresa Waldrop, CNN The Rev. Al Sharpton on Friday demanded that authorities reveal the identity of the Grand Rapids police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop earlier this month. “How dare you hold the name of a man who killed this man?” Sharpton said
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By Nathan Hodge, Julia Presniakova, Katie Polglase, Jennifer Hauser, Hira Humayun and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN Ukrainian officials say they have identified mass graves outside the city of Mariupol, which they say adds to mounting proof of Russian war crimes against Ukrainian civilians. The claim is supported by photos collected and analyzed by US satellite imagery
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Philadelphia will lift its mask mandate, less than a week after it was reinstated due to a rising Covid-19 case count. The city’s Board of Health voted to rescind the mandate, which went into effect Monday, citing leveling numbers of cases and decreasing hospitalizations, the Philadelphia mayor’s office said in a
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By Tara John, Oleksandra Ochman and Sandi Sidhu, CNN When Russian troops invaded Ukraine and began closing in on its capital, Kyiv, Andrii Dereko begged his 22-year-old stepdaughter Karina Yershova to leave the suburb where she lived. But Yershova insisted she wanted to remain in Bucha, telling him: “Don’t talk nonsense, everything will be fine
Continue Reading By Tara John, Oleksandra Ochman and Sandi Sidhu, CNN When Russian troops invaded Ukraine and began closing in on its capital, Kyiv, Andrii Dereko begged his 22-year-old stepdaughter Karina Yershova to leave the suburb where she lived. But Yershova insisted she wanted to remain in Bucha, telling him: “Don’t talk nonsense, everything will be fine
Continue Reading By Joseph Ataman, CNN Hiba Latreche took a last gulp of water and reached for a date, her eyes flitting between the plates of food before her and her phone screen as it blinked toward 5:42 a.m., the beginning of her fast. This year, the month of Ramadan coincides with the presidential elections in France,
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By Jamiel Lynch and Emma Tucker, CNN Texas executed its oldest death row inmate by lethal injection on Thursday, shortly after the governor of Tennessee granted a temporary reprieve in what would have been the state’s first execution since the pandemic began. Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, was executed at 6:39 p.m. CT on Thursday, according
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch and Emma Tucker, CNN Texas executed its oldest death row inmate by lethal injection on Thursday, shortly after the governor of Tennessee granted a temporary reprieve in what would have been the state’s first execution since the pandemic began. Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, was executed at 6:39 p.m. CT on Thursday, according
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