By Laura Smith-Spark and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Prince Andrew was barely mentioned in the course of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell‘s sex trafficking trial in New York. But the fact jurors found her guilty on five of six counts related to her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of minor girls can hardly be good news
Continue Reading By Laura Smith-Spark and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Prince Andrew was barely mentioned in the course of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell‘s sex trafficking trial in New York. But the fact jurors found her guilty on five of six counts related to her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of minor girls can hardly be good news
Continue Reading By Laura Smith-Spark and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Prince Andrew was barely mentioned in the course of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell‘s sex trafficking trial in New York. But the fact jurors found her guilty on five of six counts related to her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of minor girls can hardly be good news
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By Kareem Khadder and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN At least four people were shot dead by Sudanese security forces during anti-coup demonstrations near the capital Khartoum on Thursday, the civilian-allied Sudanese Central Doctors Committee (SCDC) said. Authorities fired live bullets and tear gas at crowds in Omdurman, about 25 kilometers (16 miles) northwest of the capital,
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Heading to space was just the beginning for the James Webb Space Telescope. Heralded as NASA’s premier space observatory of the next decade, the telescope launched on Christmas Day — and it still has a ways to go before it’s in orbit and observing the universe. The agency refers to this
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By Amy Cassidy and Ghazi Balkiz, CNN Mourners flocked to St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town on Thursday to pay their respects to anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu as he lay in state in a simple pine coffin. The coffin was the “cheapest available” at the request of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and human
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By Scottie Andrew, Harmeet Kaur and Radhika Marya, CNN The past year packed some of the biggest stories of our lifetimes into just 365 days. From the insurrection and a new administration to viral missing persons cases, with the Covid-19 pandemic looming above it all, readers had a lot to catch up on. One of
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By Joe Sutton and Shawn Nottingham, CNN One of two Illinois police officers shot Wednesday after they responded to a call about dogs barking in a hotel parking lot has died, the Bradley Police Department said in a news release. A second officer is in critical condition and was undergoing surgery, the police department said.
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By Niamh Kennedy and Rob Picheta, CNN The former President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani said he was given “no more than two minutes” to get ready to flee Kabul in August, during the Taliban’s rapid takeover of the country’s capital. Ghani told BBC’s Radio 4 “Today” program that his national security adviser informed him he
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By AJ Willingham, CNN This is it, the last 5 Things of 2021! We’re taking a little hiatus tomorrow, so have a safe and reinvigorating New Year. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN This is it, the last 5 Things of 2021! We’re taking a little hiatus tomorrow, so have a safe and reinvigorating New Year. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN This is it, the last 5 Things of 2021! We’re taking a little hiatus tomorrow, so have a safe and reinvigorating New Year. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN This is it, the last 5 Things of 2021! We’re taking a little hiatus tomorrow, so have a safe and reinvigorating New Year. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered
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By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing Bureau Police in southern China paraded four suspects through the streets for allegedly smuggling people across sealed borders in breach of pandemic control measures — a controversial act of public shaming that triggered backlash on Chinese social media. On Tuesday, four people wearing hazmat suits, face masks and goggles
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By Steve Almasy, CNN Ghislaine Maxwell could be headed to federal prison for the rest of her life. Maxwell, 60, faces up to 65 years in prison after she was found guilty Wednesday on five federal charges, including sex trafficking of a minor. Maxwell’s attorneys said they plan to appeal. US District Judge Alison Nathan
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By Sherry Liang, CNN In a TikTok video with more than 30 million views and 7 million likes, a chipmunk is paying for groceries at the cashier. The rabbit cashier asks, “Paper or plastic?” The chipmunk ominously replies — and repeats, at the rabbit’s confusion, “Mouth.” In the next frame, the groceries (a pile of
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Opinion by Arwa Damon, Senior International Correspondent I’m crouched down in front of a 10-year-old boy sitting hunched over himself in the Beirut office of my charity INARA, the International Network for Aid, Relief and Assistance. His dark brown eyes, fringed with impossibly long eyelashes, peer over his facemask. He shakes his head. He doesn’t
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing Bureau Police in southern China paraded four suspects through the streets for allegedly smuggling people across sealed borders in breach of pandemic control measures — a controversial act of public shaming that triggered backlash on Chinese social media. On Tuesday, four people wearing hazmat suits, face masks and goggles
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By Brian Vitagliano, CNN Attorneys for Britain’s Prince Andrew claimed Tuesday that the US court handling a civil lawsuit filed by Virginia Giuffre, in which she accuses the Duke of York of sexual assault, does not have jurisdiction over the case. A motion filed in the US District Court in Manhattan states, “Ms. Giuffre alleges
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By Kay Jones, Jennifer Henderson and Danielle Sills, CNN A critically endangered Malayan tiger named Eko was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy Wednesday after a man was attacked by the animal at a zoo in Naples, Florida, officials said. The 26-year-old man, was seriously injured when he entered an unauthorized area of the
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