By Jenn Selva, CNN The FBI said Monday it has arrested a “suspected serial killer” who it believes is responsible for killing six people and wounding two others across Missouri and Kansas. Perez Reed, 25, was arrested Friday after getting off a train in Independence, Missouri, the FBI said in a news release. Investigators said
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By Emma Tucker, CNN The number of homicides in the United States continued to rise in the first three quarters of 2021, but at a slower pace, one year after a record increase in murders that followed George Floyd’s killing, according to the latest quarterly report published Monday by the Council on Criminal Justice. A
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By Angela Dewan, Amy Cassidy, Ella Nilsen and Rachel Ramirez, CNN The second week of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, has begun — and things are starting to heat up. Here’s what to know. What a ‘Glasgow Agreement’ might look like The UK’s COP26 presidency released something that is called, quite oddly, a
Continue Reading By Angela Dewan, Amy Cassidy, Ella Nilsen and Rachel Ramirez, CNN The second week of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, has begun — and things are starting to heat up. Here’s what to know. What a ‘Glasgow Agreement’ might look like The UK’s COP26 presidency released something that is called, quite oddly, a
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By Rosa Flores and Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN A detailed operations plan for the Astroworld music festival in Houston didn’t include a specific contingency for a surging crowd incident despite three people being trampled and hospitalized at the same festival in 2019. Eight people in the crowd of more than 50,000 died Friday night after a
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By Rosa Flores, Victor Blackwell, Amir Vera and Travis Caldwell, CNN Houston firefighters stationed outside of the Astroworld concert venue Friday night were not in radio communications with the emergency medical providers hired by the concert organizers as the deadly crowd swell unfolded, the city’s fire chief told CNN on Tuesday. According to the president
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By Eric Levenson, Brad Parks and Carma Hassan, CNN Kyle Rittenhouse testified Wednesday that he acted in self-defense when he fatally shot a man who had thrown a plastic bag at him and chased him last year in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in what is likely to be the pivotal testimony of his homicide trial. “I didn’t
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By AnneClaire Stapleton, Hannah Ritchie and Mitch McCluskey, CNN China’s military has constructed mockups in the shape of a US Navy aircraft carrier and US warships, possibly for target practice, according to Maxar satellite images reviewed by the independent United States Naval Institute (USNI). Satellite images from China’s northwest Xinjiang region appear to show a
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By Nicole Chavez, CNN Lawmakers in 24 states have tried to restrict how topics like racism, sexism, and American history are being taught in American schools this year, an analysis by the free expression group PEN America shows. Critical race theory (CRT) became a social and political lightning rod last year and in recent months
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By Sherry Liang, CNN First came the billionaires, then the movie stars — now ketchup is making its mark on the space race. Heinz revealed its first “Marz Edition” ketchup with tomatoes produced on Earth in Mars-like conditions. A team of 14 astrobiologists worked for nine months at the Aldrin Space Institute at the Florida
Continue Reading By Noah Sheidlower and Christina Zdanowicz, CNN After battling Covid-19 for almost a month and being released from Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Richard Soliz returned to the hospital in late October. But it was not for medical treatment — it was to apologize. Soliz, a graphic artist who had not received a Covid-19 vaccine,
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By Eric Levenson, CNN An armed paramedic who was shot by Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year testified Monday that he pulled out his own firearm because he believed Rittenhouse was an active shooter. Gaige Grosskreutz, 27, testified that he unholstered his handgun on August 25, 2020, as he and a crowd followed Rittenhouse,
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By Sheena McKenzie and Joseph Ataman, CNN The United States has reopened its borders to vaccinated international travelers, ending a 20-month travel ban at the same moment Europe is battling a surge of Covid-19 cases that has pushed the continent back into the epicenter of the pandemic. Fully vaccinated travelers from 33 countries — including
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By Pamela Kirkland, Devon M. Sayers and Ralph Ellis, CNN The first police officer who responded to the scene of the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery testified on Monday that William “Roddie” Bryan Jr., the man who recorded video of Arbery being chased, never told him a citizen’s arrest of Arbery was being made. Bryan
Continue Reading By Sheena McKenzie and Joseph Ataman, CNN The United States has reopened its borders to vaccinated international travelers, ending a 20-month travel ban at the same moment Europe is battling a surge of Covid-19 cases that has pushed the continent back into the epicenter of the pandemic. Fully vaccinated travelers from 33 countries — including
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Chuck Schumer, the US Senate majority leader and Democratic senator from New York. Personal Birth date: November 23, 1950 Birth place: Brooklyn, New York Birth name: Charles Ellis Schumer Father: Abe Schumer, exterminator Mother: Selma (Rosen) Schumer Marriage: Iris Weinshall (1980-present) Children: Jessica, Alison Education:
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By Niamh Kennedy, CNN A policeman survived a knife attack in the French Riviera city of Cannes on Monday, according to the country’s interior minister. The incident took place early Monday morning as four police officers outside Cannes police station were preparing to go on patrol, Gerald Darmanin told reporters. The assailant approached the officers
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By Katie Polglase, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Richard Allen Greene, CNN Witnesses say Tigrayans are being arrested in Addis Ababa in a wave of alleged ethnic targeting by authorities, after a year-long conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. The detentions follow a dramatic escalation in the war last week, when the federal government declared a state
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By Ivana Kottasová, CNN When the Czech Republic’s 200 newly-elected deputies gathered for the inaugural session of its new parliament on Monday, there wasn’t a single Communist party member there — for the first time in 76 years. The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM), the direct successor of the totalitarian Communist Party of
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By Esha Mitra, Hannah Ritchie and Manveena Suri, CNN India is accusing a guard branch of the Pakistan navy of murder, following the death of a 32-year-old fisherman at sea on Saturday, Indian police in the coastal state of Gujarat told CNN Monday. The incident occurred on a fishing boat called “JALPARI” which was allegedly
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