By Harmeet Kaur, CNN What hit Hong Lee so hard about the killing of Christina Yuna Lee was how easily it could have been her. Late one night in February, Christina took a car back to her New York Chinatown apartment, where a man followed her up six flights of stairs and forced himself into
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Future allergy seasons will start more than a month earlier and be far more intense because of the climate crisis, new research shows. The study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, found by the end of the century, pollen season could begin as much as 40 days earlier than it
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By Jamiel Lynch, CNN A North Carolina school board voted unanimously Monday to approve an action plan after reported racial bullying in the district, including a student-organized mock auction of Black students. A group of parents and community members had called on the Chatham County School District to make changes after several reported racial bullying
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By Luke McGee, CNN Germany has announced that it will buy 35 US-made F-35A fighter jets, the first major arms purchase to be publicly confirmed since Chancellor Olaf Scholz committed to ramping up his country’s defense spending in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The German government has made these decisions alongside a
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By Olga Voitovich, Ivana Kottasová, Jack Guy and Paul P. Murphy, CNN Conditions in Mariupol are “unbearable” and “just hell,” residents who fled the besieged city in southeastern Ukraine have told CNN, as shocking drone footage and satellite photos emerged showing the utter devastation wrought by the Russian bombardment. Mariupol city council said on Tuesday
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By Shama Nasinde and Stephanie Busari, CNN African students trapped in southern Ukraine’s Kherson are crying out for help, as Russian forces try to consolidate their occupation of the port city. The students told CNN they are spending most of their time in underground bunkers in freezing temperatures as Russian soldiers prevent anyone from entering
Continue Reading By Shama Nasinde and Stephanie Busari, CNN African students trapped in southern Ukraine’s Kherson are crying out for help, as Russian forces try to consolidate their occupation of the port city. The students told CNN they are spending most of their time in underground bunkers in freezing temperatures as Russian soldiers prevent anyone from entering
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CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Hank Paulson, former US Treasury secretary and CEO of Goldman Sachs. Personal Birth date: March 28, 1946 Birth place: Palm Beach, Florida Birth name: Henry Merritt Paulson Jr. Father: Henry Merritt Paulson, wholesale jeweler Mother: Marianna (Gallauer) Paulson Marriage: Wendy Judge (September 1969-present) Children:
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By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just “make more rain” to combat the drought? Well, some parts of the US are doing exactly that. Scientists are flying planes into clouds and injecting them with silver iodide to make more rain and snow. Some call the process necessary, but others say
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just “make more rain” to combat the drought? Well, some parts of the US are doing exactly that. Scientists are flying planes into clouds and injecting them with silver iodide to make more rain and snow. Some call the process necessary, but others say
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just “make more rain” to combat the drought? Well, some parts of the US are doing exactly that. Scientists are flying planes into clouds and injecting them with silver iodide to make more rain and snow. Some call the process necessary, but others say
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By Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing bureau Tens of millions of people are living under lockdown in China, as the country battles its worst Covid-19 outbreak since the early days of the pandemic. This outbreak has spread far faster than previous waves of less infectious variants, with daily cases skyrocketing from a few dozen in
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing bureau Tens of millions of people are living under lockdown in China, as the country battles its worst Covid-19 outbreak since the early days of the pandemic. This outbreak has spread far faster than previous waves of less infectious variants, with daily cases skyrocketing from a few dozen in
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By Ashley Strickland and Jackie Wattles, CNN The International Space Station may be set for retirement at the end of the decade, but there’s still plenty of life left in the orbiting laboratory. The space station is preparing for more power upgrades as two NASA astronauts conducted their first spacewalk of the year on Tuesday.
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By Geneva Sands, CNN A group of 122 migrants arrived in the US by boat Monday, landing about 20 miles north of Key West, Florida, officials said. The migrants’ arrival was a “maritime smuggling event,” according to US Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar. There is a “coordinated response with our state, federal
Continue Reading By Paul P. Murphy, CNN A woman holding a sign reading “NO WAR” interrupted a live news broadcast on Russian state television Monday to denounce Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Stop the war. Do not believe propaganda they tell you lies here,” the sign reads. “Russians against war,” the last line of the sign says in
Continue Reading By Paul P. Murphy, CNN A woman holding a sign reading “NO WAR” interrupted a live news broadcast on Russian state television Monday to denounce Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Stop the war. Do not believe propaganda they tell you lies here,” the sign reads. “Russians against war,” the last line of the sign says in
Continue Reading By Paul P. Murphy, CNN A woman holding a sign reading “NO WAR” interrupted a live news broadcast on Russian state television Monday to denounce Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Stop the war. Do not believe propaganda they tell you lies here,” the sign reads. “Russians against war,” the last line of the sign says in
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By Hilary Whiteman, CNN The Australian government has successfully appealed a court ruling that ordered the federal environment minister to consider the impact of carbon emissions on children when approving new coal mining projects. The full bench of the Federal Court handed down its unanimous ruling Tuesday, saying the duty of care should not be
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By Amir Vera, Holly Yan and Christina Maxouris, CNN The man arrested in connection with five separate shootings of homeless men in New York City and Washington, DC, was identified by DC authorities as Gerald Brevard. Brevard, 30, from DC, has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon (gun), assault with intent to kill
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