By Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi escaped an assassination attempt on Sunday after an explosive-laden drone targeted his residence in Baghdad, the country’s military said. Al-Kadhimi went on to Twitter moments after the attack and called for “calm and restraint from everyone.” “Thank God, I am fine and among my people,” he
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By Ray Sanchez, CNN Houston’s sold-out Astroworld Festival was packed Friday night with about 50,000 people in another sign of a nation anxious to escape the pandemic gloom and let loose. Then, just after 9 p.m., with rapper and event organizer Travis Scott performing, the densely packed crowd began pushing toward the illuminated stage, officials
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, CNN Houston’s sold-out Astroworld Festival was packed Friday night with about 50,000 people in another sign of a nation anxious to escape the pandemic gloom and let loose. Then, just after 9 p.m., with rapper and event organizer Travis Scott performing, the densely packed crowd began pushing toward the illuminated stage, officials
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN TK Tellez knows that festivals can get crazy. But nothing, he says, could have prepared him for the tragedy that unfolded Friday night at the Astroworld Festival in Houston. It began an hour before Travis Scott was set to perform, as Tellez and his girlfriend stood near the stage in hopes
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN Eddie Morgan, owner of Harbor Docks, a beloved family-owned marina and seafood restaurant in Destin-Fort Walton Beach, Florida, will wake up Sunday and head to the docks nice and early. It’s the November weekend he treats 300 local children ages 7-13 to Take-a-Kid-Fishing Day, which his own father started 27 years
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By Alanne Orjoux, CNN Two high school students, a mechanical engineering technology student from Illinois and a man who was trying to save his fiancée are among the eight people who died at the Astroworld Festival in Houston on Friday night, authorities said. Rapper Travis Scott, who was performing, has said he will pay for
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN A Michigan city considered to be the center of Arab America has finally elected its first Arab-American mayor. Abdullah Hammoud, the son of Lebanese immigrants, was born and raised in Dearborn, where he was elected mayor on Tuesday. With the victory, he also becomes the city’s first Muslim mayor. Dearborn is
Continue Reading By Jamie Crawford, National Security Producer The US Attorney’s office in Arizona announced the unsealing of two indictments that charged high-ranking members of the Sinaloa drug cartel with international drug trafficking, one of them the brother of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the convicted former leader of the cartel. A federal grand jury in Tucson returned
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN I’ve always been a bit dazzled by the fact that, as humans, we truly are made of star stuff. This week, an element found in our teeth was detected for the first time in a galaxy 12 billion light-years away. That means during the early chaotic days of the universe, stars
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By Travis Caldwell and Keith Allen, CNN A crowd surge at a Houston music festival on Friday crushed concertgoers as they were left trampled and gasping for air, struggling to survive against a wall of people pressing forward toward the stage. Police are investigating the potential causes of the surge, which occurred at the Astroworld
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By Kaanita Iyer, CNN A San Francisco law school named for a man who orchestrated a massacre of Native Americans is moving to change its name. The University of California Hastings College of the Law does not have the power to change the name, which is written in state law. But the board of directors
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By Hannah Ryan, CNN At least eight people were killed and many others injured after a crowd surged forward while rapper Travis Scott was on stage at the Astroworld Festival in Houston on Friday night. The incident occurred when the crowd surged toward the stage, crushing those at the front who were unable to escape,
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By David McKenzie, CNN Ethiopia’s military is calling on veterans to rejoin the army as two aligned rebel groups threaten the capital, marking the latest sign the government is marshaling its power to defend Addis Ababa. It comes as a new state of emergency allows broad powers of arrest and conscription for Ethiopians over the
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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
Continue Reading By Travis Caldwell, CNN The first police officer to respond to the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery near Brunswick, Georgia, testified in court Monday he did not render first aid to Arbery due to the danger of the situation as well as his lack of medical training and equipment. Former Glynn County Police Officer Ricky Minshew
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By Hannah Ryan, CNN Spanish police had an unusual encounter on Friday night when a number of camels and a llama escaped from a circus and wandered onto the Madrid streets. The animals were from the Gran Circo Quiros in the Spanish capital, and were located at around 5 a.m. local time and guided back
Continue Reading By Travis Caldwell and Keith Allen, CNN A crowd surge at a Houston music festival on Friday crushed concertgoers as they were left trampled and gasping for air, struggling to survive against a wall of people pressing forward toward the stage. Police are investigating the potential causes of the surge, which occurred at the Astroworld
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi and Liam Reilly, CNN A former athletics official at the University of Southern California pleaded guilty Friday in an admissions scandal for allegedly helping students cheat their way for acceptance into the prestigious college. Donna Heinel, who was USC’s senior associate athletic director, pleaded guilty to one count of honest services wire
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN Mochi “Mo” Rickert, holder of the record for the longest tongue on a living dog, has died, according to Guinness World Records. The female Saint Bernard’s tongue measured 18.58 cm (7.3 in), Guinness says. Mochi held the record for five years. Mochi was a rescue dog in Colorado. She made more
Continue Reading By Angus Watson, CNN A man is missing after a reported shark attack at a beach in North Fremantle, Western Australia according to police and the state government. Police and surf rescue helicopters as well as water police and surf lifesaving personnel responded to reports of the “serious shark bite incident” at Port Beach around
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