By Rob Picheta, CNN As Western Europe’s vaccination rollout gained strength in the early part of 2021, many of the region’s leaders touted the shots as their immediate route out of the pandemic. Press conferences took on an almost celebratory tone as Presidents, Prime Ministers and Chancellors announced road maps away from Covid-19 restrictions, hailing
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Since the first exoplanets were discovered in the 1990s, many have wondered if we might find another Earth out there, a place called Planet B. Natalie Batalha, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has watched the field of exoplanet science grow and change since those
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Oscar-winning filmmaker Woody Allen. Personal Birth date: December 1, 1935 Birth place: Brooklyn, New York Birth name: Allan Stewart Konigsberg Father: Martin Konigsberg, worked various jobs Mother: Nettie (Cherry) Konigsberg, bookkeeper Marriages: Soon-Yi Previn (December 22, 1997-present), Louise Lasser (divorced), Harlene Rosen (divorced) Children: daughters
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the agency’s most powerful telescope yet. The first of its kind, the telescope will travel 1 million miles from Earth to study the universe as it was 13.6 billion years ago. A former NASA official named the telescope for James Webb, NASA’s second-ever administrator who
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the agency’s most powerful telescope yet. The first of its kind, the telescope will travel 1 million miles from Earth to study the universe as it was 13.6 billion years ago. A former NASA official named the telescope for James Webb, NASA’s second-ever administrator who
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By Jay Croft, CNN A sister and friend of an Oklahoma death row convict spared from execution say they now will work to get the man released from prison. “We were overjoyed,” Antoinette Jones told CNN’s “New Day” on Friday morning. “We still have to get his freedom.” She is the sister of Julius Jones,
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By Mirna Alsharif and Rob Frehse, CNN A former Baltimore County police officer and two children believed to be his daughters he allegedly kidnapped are dead — along with a suspended police sergeant allegedly on the run with him — in an apparent “murder and suicide,” Maryland State Police said Thursday. Former officer Robert Vicosa,
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By Stephanie Busari and Rob Picheta, CNN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Friday that the war in Tigray has put Ethiopia on a “path to destruction” that could reverberate throughout east Africa, telling CNN that the country’s leader, Abiy Ahmed, must fulfill “his responsibility” and end violence in the region. Speaking to CNN
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By Jennifer Henderson and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A Hawaii couple charged with the murder of their adopted 6-year-old daughter was indicted by a grand jury and faces additional charges in her death, authorities said. Lehua Kalua, 44, and Isaac “Sonny” Kalua, 52, each were indicted and charged with one count of second-degree murder, one count
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By David Close, CNN Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown has been accused of owning fake Covid-19 vaccination cards in an attempt to usurp NFL protocols. The accusations are made by Steven Ruiz, Brown’s former at-home chef in a Tampa Bay Times exclusive report. The NFL’s Vice President of Communications Brian McCarthy told CNN,
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By Elle Reeve, CNN A key federal defendant accused of conspiracy over the 2017 Unite the Right rally was forced this week to confront his own explicit calls for violence — and who should do the actual fighting — in the months before the deadly event unfolded in Charlottesville, Virginia. Christopher Cantwell is among 25
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By Aya Elamroussi and Mark Morales, CNN The jury in the civil trial against the organizers of a two-day Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, finished their first day of deliberations without reaching a verdict. Judge Norman Moon sent the jury home and told them to come back Monday and be ready to start at 9
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN Thanksgiving holiday travel could get messy due to a smorgasbord of extreme weather events. Check this day-by-day forecast, and if you want more in-depth coverage, sign up for email alerts from CNN’s weather team. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN Thanksgiving holiday travel could get messy due to a smorgasbord of extreme weather events. Check this day-by-day forecast, and if you want more in-depth coverage, sign up for email alerts from CNN’s weather team. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN Thanksgiving holiday travel could get messy due to a smorgasbord of extreme weather events. Check this day-by-day forecast, and if you want more in-depth coverage, sign up for email alerts from CNN’s weather team. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN Thanksgiving holiday travel could get messy due to a smorgasbord of extreme weather events. Check this day-by-day forecast, and if you want more in-depth coverage, sign up for email alerts from CNN’s weather team. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN Thanksgiving holiday travel could get messy due to a smorgasbord of extreme weather events. Check this day-by-day forecast, and if you want more in-depth coverage, sign up for email alerts from CNN’s weather team. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN Thanksgiving holiday travel could get messy due to a smorgasbord of extreme weather events. Check this day-by-day forecast, and if you want more in-depth coverage, sign up for email alerts from CNN’s weather team. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You
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By Nadine Schmidt and Stephanie Halasz, CNN Austria is going back into a national lockdown and plans to become the first country in Europe to make Covid-19 vaccinations mandatory for all eligible people as the nation’s coronavirus crisis deepens, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced Friday. Schallenberg said his government would look to impose the national vaccine
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By Devon M. Sayers, Ryan Young and Jason Hanna, CNN A defense attorney for one of the three men charged in Ahmaud Arbery’s killing asked prosecutors for a plea deal and was declined, an attorney for Arbery’s mother told CNN. “Prosecutors shared with” Arbery’s mother that defendant William “Roddie” Bryan Jr.’s lawyer “asked for a
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