By Ashley Killough and Ed Lavandera, CNN Roughly 30 minutes before a tornado ripped apart her home on Friday night, Marsha Hall, 72, sent a separate text to each of her three children, telling them she loved them. It was the last time they would hear from her. Hall and her sister, Carole Grisham, 80,
Continue Reading By Ashley Killough and Ed Lavandera, CNN Roughly 30 minutes before a tornado ripped apart her home on Friday night, Marsha Hall, 72, sent a separate text to each of her three children, telling them she loved them. It was the last time they would hear from her. Hall and her sister, Carole Grisham, 80,
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By Lauren del Valle, CNN Potential witnesses in Ghislaine Maxwell’s defense case wish to testify anonymously because they “might get a lot of unwanted attention” testifying on Maxwell’s behalf, attorney Christian Everdell said in court Friday after the government rested its case. The government has opposed the defense request that three defense witnesses testify by
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By Theresa Waldrop, CNN It has been exactly a year since the first Covid-19 vaccination shots, but rising case numbers and hospitalizations are leading cities and states to introduce new mandates and restrictions. In California, masks will be required in indoor public settings for a month starting Wednesday. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul last week
Continue Reading By Jason Hanna, CNN After a tornado demolished a candle factory in western Kentucky Friday night, the Rev. Stephen Boyken climbed the rubble and heard someone beneath call out. “She was stuck underneath a wall and asked, ‘Can you hold my hand?’ ” Boyken recalled Tuesday. Boyken grabbed the hand, prayed with the woman and
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By Sarah Dean and Ehsan Popalzai, CNN The United Nations (UN) said Tuesday that it was alarmed by continuing reports of extrajudicial killings across Afghanistan, including hangings, beheadings and public displays of corpses. “Between August and November, we received credible allegations of more than 100 killings of former Afghan national security forces and others associated
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN From extreme melt events to an influx of beaver colonies in Alaska, and rain falling at the summit of Greenland for the first time on record, the Arctic region showed clear symptoms of an ailing planet over the past year. A report published on Tuesday, which serves as an annual physical
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By Alta Spells, CNN A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for the three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery as he ran through their south Georgia neighborhood on February 23, 2020. Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan are scheduled to again appear before Judge Timothy Walmsley, the judge who
Continue Reading By Alta Spells, CNN A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for the three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery as he ran through their south Georgia neighborhood on February 23, 2020. Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan are scheduled to again appear before Judge Timothy Walmsley, the judge who
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN There’s usually a sense of excitement about what lies beneath the Christmas tree, but for one festive family the biggest surprise was lurking in the branches up above. Rob and Marcela Wild wasted no time in calling in a professional after they discovered one of Africa’s most venomous snakes hiding between
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By Allegra Goodwin and Joshua Berlinger, CNN Sergey Tikhanovsky, the husband of Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison at a high-security penal colony, Belarusian state media BelTA reported on Tuesday. After a trial that took place largely behind closed doors, Tikhanovsky was convicted on charges including “organizing mass
Continue Reading By Lianne Kolirin, CNN There’s usually a sense of excitement about what lies beneath the Christmas tree, but for one festive family the biggest surprise was lurking in the branches up above. Rob and Marcela Wild wasted no time in calling in a professional after they discovered one of Africa’s most venomous snakes hiding between
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By Melissa Bell, Dalal Mawad and Richard Allen Greene, CNN “Despite months of persuasion, despite intensive media campaigns, despite discussions in various media we have not succeeded in convincing enough people to get vaccinated.” Those were the words of former Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg last month as he announced the first nationwide vaccine mandate in
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan, CNN Nominations for the 79th annual Golden Globe Awards, celebrating the best in television and film, were announced yesterday. But due to diversity issues within the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group behind the event, the ceremony will not be televised next month. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan, CNN Nominations for the 79th annual Golden Globe Awards, celebrating the best in television and film, were announced yesterday. But due to diversity issues within the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group behind the event, the ceremony will not be televised next month. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan, CNN Nominations for the 79th annual Golden Globe Awards, celebrating the best in television and film, were announced yesterday. But due to diversity issues within the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group behind the event, the ceremony will not be televised next month. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan, CNN Nominations for the 79th annual Golden Globe Awards, celebrating the best in television and film, were announced yesterday. But due to diversity issues within the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group behind the event, the ceremony will not be televised next month. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan, CNN Nominations for the 79th annual Golden Globe Awards, celebrating the best in television and film, were announced yesterday. But due to diversity issues within the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group behind the event, the ceremony will not be televised next month. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up
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Compiled by CNN Staff They were pianists and painters, swimmers and dancers, budding readers, little brothers and big sisters. Then, in a flash of violence, their 20 bright smiles were snuffed out forever in a rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary that haunts the nation to this day. Also stolen that chilly Friday — just 11
Continue Reading By Jeanne Bonner, CNN Photographs by Bryan Anselm/Redux for CNN From afar, it looks like any playground. Kids are playing after school on a cold fall day, as the temperature drops and a family of deer appears briefly. Similarly, a blonde-haired woman in jeans resting for a moment on one of the swings could be
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