By Ashley Strickland, CNN As humans, we’ve always had a connection with the stars and the moon. Myriad discoveries this week have showcased the longevity of that relationship. For starters, archaeologists found an ancient artificial lake in the Mediterranean. Certain features of the pool aligned with constellations, the team learned, and its horizontal surface served
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By Rebecca Wright and Olha Konovalova, CNN Beekeeper Dmitry Mulyar was tending to his hives outside his home in eastern Kyiv when the Russian shelling hit on Thursday morning. His elder brother Andriy Mulyar, who roasts coffee for a living, was standing next to him when it happened. “A shell hit, from the — so-called
Continue Reading By Rebecca Wright and Olha Konovalova, CNN Beekeeper Dmitry Mulyar was tending to his hives outside his home in eastern Kyiv when the Russian shelling hit on Thursday morning. His elder brother Andriy Mulyar, who roasts coffee for a living, was standing next to him when it happened. “A shell hit, from the — so-called
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN A rare copy of Marvel’s first-ever comic book has netted more than $2.4 million at auction. Marvel Comics No. 1 was published in 1939 and features such characters as The Human Torch, The Angel, Submariner and Masked Raider. “This is the beginning. Without this, there would be no Marvel Universe, no
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By Laura Studley, CNN A March 19 shooting in Norfolk, Virginia, that left two dead, including a Virginian-Pilot reporter and former CNN news assistant, followed an argument over a spilled drink, Norfolk Police Sgt. William D. Pickering Jr., told CNN Friday. Pickering said the shooting has brought an increase in patrols downtown on Thursday, Friday,
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN A Florida man has died after crashing his car into an 11-foot alligator. The crash occurred after midnight on Thursday, according to a statement from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. John Hopkins, 59, was driving east on County Road 672 in LIthia, about two miles west of County Road 39, when
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Solar Orbiter mission will make its closest flyby of the sun Saturday since launching in February 2020. The spacecraft will come within 31 million miles (50 million kilometers) of the sun, less than one-third the distance between the star and Earth. This will take Solar Orbiter inside the orbit of
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Hubble Space Telescope has glimpsed the most distant single star it’s ever observed, glimmering 28 billion light-years away. And the star could be between 50 to 500 times more massive than our sun, and millions of times brighter. It’s the farthest detection of a star yet, from 900 million years
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN Tonight, for the 15th consecutive year, people around the world will turn off their lights for one hour. It’s part of a grassroots global campaign called Earth Hour. What is Earth Hour? Earth Hour is an annual tradition started by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in 2007 in Sydney, Australia, to
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By Jamiel Lynch and Christina Maxouris, CNN For more than 33 years, investigators in Norton Shores, Michigan, tried to figure out what happened to Stacey Lyn Chahorski, a young woman who left home to travel the country and last spoke to her mother in September 1988. At the same time, Georgia detectives worked to identify
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By Andy Rose and Rebekah Riess, CNN Jurors in a federal civil trial awarded $10.37 million to the family of Gilbert Flores, who was shot and killed outside his home by Bexar County, Texas, sheriff’s deputies in 2015. On Thursday, the jury found that officers Robert Sanchez and Greg Vasquez violated Flores’ civil rights by
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By Paradise Afshar, CNN A hiker who had been reported missing in Montana earlier this week was found dead Friday after a suspected encounter with a grizzly bear. Sheriff Brad Bichler of the Park County Sheriff’s Office told CNN Craig Clouatre, 40, was hiking with a friend Wednesday in the Six Mile Creek area, which
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By Sonia Moghe, CNN Federal prosecutors have accused a Maine teen of plotting to attack a Chicago-area mosque and charged him with possession of a destructive device. According to court documents unsealed on Friday, Xavier Pelkey, who was 18 years old when he was arrested on February 11, was charged by criminal complaint in Maine
Continue Reading By Laura Studley and Kiely Westhoff, CNN The woman who allegedly pushed an 87-year-old Broadway vocal coach to the ground outside her apartment building has been released on bail, her attorney confirmed to CNN. Lauren Pazienza, 26, was arraigned Tuesday afternoon on one count of first-degree manslaughter and two counts of second-degree assault. Judge Michael
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By Nathan Hodge, CNN A top Russian general gave some of the most detailed public remarks to date on Russia’s military strategy in Ukraine, claiming on Friday that the “first stage” of Russia’s military plan is now complete, with their primary focus now centered on eastern Ukraine. “In general, the main tasks of the first
Continue Reading By Nathan Hodge, CNN A top Russian general gave some of the most detailed public remarks to date on Russia’s military strategy in Ukraine, claiming on Friday that the “first stage” of Russia’s military plan is now complete, with their primary focus now centered on eastern Ukraine. “In general, the main tasks of the first
Continue Reading By Christina Maxouris, CNN He was a gentle giant who always supported others. A teammate often turned mentor. A kind and funny friend, always soft-spoken. That’s how friends and family in a Missouri vigil remembered 14-year-old Tyre Sampson, who died last Thursday when he fell off an amusement park thrill ride while on a spring
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By Nicole Chavez and Tiffany Anthony, CNN A hotel in South Dakota is accused of refusing to rent a room to at least two Indigenous women after its owner reportedly threatened to ban all Native Americans from the property. The NDN Collective, an Indigenous rights group in South Dakota, and Sunny Red Bear, the group’s
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez and Tiffany Anthony, CNN A hotel in South Dakota is accused of refusing to rent a room to at least two Indigenous women after its owner reportedly threatened to ban all Native Americans from the property. The NDN Collective, an Indigenous rights group in South Dakota, and Sunny Red Bear, the group’s
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