By David Williams, CNN UFC fighter Kevin Holland says he used a chokehold to subdue a suspected gunman who fired a shot into the ceiling of a Houston, Texas, sushi restaurant. Holland told CNN affiliate KPRC that he was having dinner on Monday night at RA Sushi restaurant when he heard the shot. “When I
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN St. Patrick’s Day may be strongly associated with Irish pride, but the eponymous saint actually wasn’t even from Ireland. St. Patrick was actually born in Roman Britain, according to Catholic Online. As a boy, he was first brought to the country through Irish pirates, captured to take care of sheep. At
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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN With winter finally coming to an end, millions of people in India — and other parts of the world home to Hindus — are gearing up for one of the most joyous celebrations of the year. That celebration is Holi, the Hindu festival of love, color and spring. It’s a time
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The West’s intense multi-year drought is expected to at least continue — if not worsen — in the coming months, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday in its spring outlook. For the second year in a row, NOAA forecasters are predicting “prolonged, persistent drought in the West where below-average
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By Katie Hunt, CNN The mission to launch Europe’s first planetary rover — designed to search for signs of life on Mars — has been suspended, the European Space Agency said Thursday. The ExoMars Rover, a collaboration between ESA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos, had been on track to leave for Mars in September
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By Omar Jimenez, Raja Razek, Chris Boyette, Caroll Alvarado and Kathryn Jaeger, CNN A Kenosha Police Department off-duty officer who was seen on video putting his knee on the neck of a 12-year-old to break up a fight has resigned from his role at the Kenosha Unified School District. The officer resigned “effective Tuesday, March
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN For the last 60 years, enterprising Chicagoans have dyed the city’s river a vibrant green in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. Thousands of residents turn up to watch the Chicago River light up for the holiday, a tradition so popular it’s inspired cities nationwide to color their own waterways. This year’s
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The West’s intense multi-year drought is expected to at least continue — if not worsen — in the coming months, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday in its spring outlook. For the second year in a row, NOAA forecasters are predicting “prolonged, persistent drought in the West where below-average
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Artemis I mission is another step closer to its lunar launch. The massive 322-foot-tall (98 meters) stack, which includes NASA’s Space Launch System rocket topped by the Orion spacecraft, rolled out for its testing debut at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday. The integrated stack, which sits on a
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By Angie Orellana Hernandez and Ashley Strickland, CNN One of the brightest heralds of spring makes its appearance this week. The March full moon, known as the worm moon, will be at its peak at 3:18 a.m. ET on Friday, March 18, according to NASA. It will appear full through Saturday morning. This moon will
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By Holly Yan, Caroll Alvarado and Aaron Cooper, CNN It’s still not clear why someone would open fire on several homeless men in New York City and Washington, DC. But authorities in both cities say they believe the same man, 30-year-old Gerald Brevard III, is responsible for the shootings that left two men dead. Here’s
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By Christine Sever and Chris Boyette, CNN One officer is dead and another has been airlifted to a hospital in St. Louis after a man opened fire on two Bonne Terre police officers responding to a disturbance at a motel early Thursday, according to Missouri state troopers. The officers returned fire and the man was
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By Alexandra Meeks, CNN If you’re hunting for a new job right now, the odds are in your favor. Companies across the board are struggling to retain and hire more workers. America’s largest retailers, in particular, have been hit hard — prompting massive hiring sprees and unprecedented wage boosts. Here’s what you need to know
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN If you’re hunting for a new job right now, the odds are in your favor. Companies across the board are struggling to retain and hire more workers. America’s largest retailers, in particular, have been hit hard — prompting massive hiring sprees and unprecedented wage boosts. Here’s what you need to know
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN If you’re hunting for a new job right now, the odds are in your favor. Companies across the board are struggling to retain and hire more workers. America’s largest retailers, in particular, have been hit hard — prompting massive hiring sprees and unprecedented wage boosts. Here’s what you need to know
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Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft has warned Missourians to be aware of possible scams relating to the war in Ukraine, in a release.
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By Victoria Butenko, Olga Voitovych, Andrew Carey, James Frater and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN People sheltering in a theater in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol are emerging from the building after it was bombed, the former head of the Donetsk region said Thursday. Hundreds of people were thought to have taken shelter in the theater amid
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By Jamiel Lynch and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Nearly 400 gallons of gas were stolen from a North Carolina gas station this week, prompting the owner to take extra security precautions amid historically high gas prices nationwide. Hardik Patel said he will start shutting off the power to his pumps after business hours after 398 gallons
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Nearly 400 gallons of gas were stolen from a North Carolina gas station this week, prompting the owner to take extra security precautions amid historically high gas prices nationwide. Hardik Patel said he will start shutting off the power to his pumps after business hours after 398 gallons
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By Angie Orellana Hernandez, CNN An everyday item in your kitchen is a better home for many diverse types of bacteria than a petri dish in a laboratory, new research revealed. A common sponge’s spatial partitioning — the way it’s divided into different sectors of various sizes — caters to bacteria that prefer isolated environments
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