By Rosa Flores and Joe Sutton, CNN A community in Northwest Harris County woke up Sunday morning to White supremacist flyers on their car windshields and even on the front doors of their homes, according to William White, director of operations at the Houston chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). “This is horrifying,” White
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By Sara Smart, CNN A woman spent two days floating alone on an air mattress atop a frigid lake. A pair of watchful freight train workers came to her rescue on Thursday. Conductor Cristhian Sosa told CNN on Monday the BNSF southbound train was headed to Irving, Texas, from Madill, Oklahoma, in the afternoon. That
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By Mark Morales, Laura Ly and Eric Levenson, CNN Shortly after learning that her 15-year-old son had shot fellow students at his Michigan high school, Jennifer Crumbley sent a text message to her boss at the real estate company where she worked as a marketing director. “I need my job,” she wrote to Andrew Smith.
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By Andrew Carey, Abeer Salman and Amir Tal, CNN Large crowds turned out in the West Bank city of Nablus Tuesday for the funerals of three men shot dead by Israeli forces. The three belonged to the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, the armed wing of the Fatah organization, according to the militant group, which named
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the Writers Guild of America, which represents more than 16,000 film, TV, broadcast and news media writers. It is made up of two unions, WGA, West (WGAW) and WGA, East (WGAE). Timeline 1912 – The Authors League of America is founded to protect the interests of professional writers.
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By Stella Chan, CNN The now-retired nun and former Catholic elementary school principal who admitted to stealing more than $835,000 in school funds for gambling trips and personal expenses was sentenced Monday to 12 months and a day in federal prison, according to federal prosecutors. US District Judge Otis D. Wright II also ordered Mary
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By Omar Jimenez, Peter Nickeas and Bill Kirkos, CNN A Minneapolis SWAT team serving a warrant that led to an officer shooting Amir Locke was looking for his teenage cousin and two others in connection with a homicide investigation, according to the court documents released Tuesday. Authorities linked Locke’s cousin, 17-year-old Mekhi Speed, to a
Continue Reading By Omar Jimenez, Peter Nickeas and Bill Kirkos, CNN A Minneapolis SWAT team serving a warrant that led to an officer shooting Amir Locke was looking for his teenage cousin and two others in connection with a homicide investigation, according to the court documents released Tuesday. Authorities linked Locke’s cousin, 17-year-old Mekhi Speed, to a
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By Richard Allen Greene and Hada Messia, CNN Pope Benedict XVI has pushed back against accusations that he knew in 1980 that a priest under his control was an abuser, while denying he had intentionally concealed his presence at a meeting about the priest that year. Benedict, now 94, became the first Pope in centuries
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Deep beneath the ice covering the central Arctic Ocean, an unlikely community thrives off of ancient relics. Underwater cameras revealed expansive sponge gardens clustered over extinct underwater volcanoes, called seamounts, along the ocean floor. In order to survive, these largely 300-year-old sponge communities feed off of the fossilized remains of now-extinct
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By Eliza Mackintosh and Nathan Hodge, CNN As French President Emmanuel Macron visited his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Tuesday for diplomatic talks on the country’s crisis with Russia, Moscow indicated there were “points of convergence” laid out by Macron during his five-hour meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin a day earlier. But
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By Abbas Al Lawati and Eoin McSweeney, CNN Iran and the United States return to Vienna on Tuesday for another round of talks aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear agreement abandoned by the Trump administration. There have been enough indications of progress from both sides to suggest that negotiations have entered a critical phase, but
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By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Would you scan your face? The IRS wanted to require all taxpayers to verify their identities this year using a facial recognition software. However, the agency is now scrapping those plans after receiving a wave of backlash from lawmakers and privacy groups. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Would you scan your face? The IRS wanted to require all taxpayers to verify their identities this year using a facial recognition software. However, the agency is now scrapping those plans after receiving a wave of backlash from lawmakers and privacy groups. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Would you scan your face? The IRS wanted to require all taxpayers to verify their identities this year using a facial recognition software. However, the agency is now scrapping those plans after receiving a wave of backlash from lawmakers and privacy groups. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Would you scan your face? The IRS wanted to require all taxpayers to verify their identities this year using a facial recognition software. However, the agency is now scrapping those plans after receiving a wave of backlash from lawmakers and privacy groups. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Would you scan your face? The IRS wanted to require all taxpayers to verify their identities this year using a facial recognition software. However, the agency is now scrapping those plans after receiving a wave of backlash from lawmakers and privacy groups. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up
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By CNN staff In the span of a week, three American-born athletes of Chinese descent have been thrust into the spotlight at the Beijing Winter Olympics — to very different reactions in China. All three were trained in the United States and are only a few years apart in age, but their paths diverged on
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing Bureau Eileen Gu fans temporarily crashed China’s leading social media platform on Tuesday, as tens of millions rushed online to celebrate the teenage freeski sensation winning her first gold medal of the Beijing Winter Olympics. American-born Gu, 18, jumped into the top position at the women’s big air competition
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By Chris Boyette and Kelly McCleary, CNN The suspect in Monday’s deadly shooting inside a grocery store in Washington state has been arrested, police said late Monday. Aaron Christopher Kelly, 39, was taken into custody without incident, the Richland Police Department said. Police earlier described Kelly as “armed and dangerous” and identified him as the
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