By Melissa Alonso, Ray Sanchez and Taylor Romine, CNN The father of Gabby Petito, who was reported missing over the weekend, made a public plea Thursday for information on the disappearance of the Florida woman. Petito, 22, was reported missing by her family on Saturday, after they had not heard from her since late August,
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By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN The hole in the ozone that forms every year over the South Pole is now larger than Antarctica, scientists from the European Union’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service said Thursday. The ozone depletes and forms a hole over the Antarctic in the Southern Hemisphere’s spring, which is from August to October. It
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By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Boston is poised to make history in November with two women of color competing for a mayor’s seat that has been won by White men for the last 200 years. City Councilors Michelle Wu, an Asian American, and Annissa Essaibi George, a first-generation American whose father emigrated from Tunisia and
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By Zahra Ullah, Ivana Kottasová and Anna Chernova, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday morning that “not just one or two but several dozen people” from his inner circle had contracted coronavirus. Putin told a summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in the capital of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, via video link that
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By Caroline Kenny, Angela Barajas and Rebekah Riess, CNN The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division on Wednesday announced it was opening a criminal investigation into the February 2018 death of Gloria Satterfield, a housekeeper for the Murdaugh family, and the handling of her estate. Satterfield died in 2018 in what was described as a “trip
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By Joseph Ataman and Saskya Vandoorne, CNN French forces have killed Adnan Abou Walid al Sahraoui, leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISIS-GS), in a drone strike, the French government announced on Thursday. Al Sahroui succumbed to his wounds, suffered in a strike on a motorbike carrying two people during a French-led
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By Katie Hunt, CNN In popular culture, cave men (and women) are often draped in furs, but archaeological evidence of what our Stone Age ancestors actually wore and how they made clothes is thin. Fur, leather and other organic materials generally aren’t preserved, especially beyond 100,000 years ago. However, researchers say 62 bone tools used
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Scientists have uncovered the fossil of a bird that lived 120 million years ago, and it definitely had flair, including unusually long tail feathers. These flashy feathers probably didn’t help the bird achieve aerodynamic flight, but they might have helped him find a mate, according to new research. The fossil was
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By Nadine Schmidt and Rosa Steindorff, CNN German officials on Thursday said a possible Islamist terror attack on a synagogue in the western city of Hagen was averted after authorities were tipped off. “We received a very specific and serious tipoff that an attack on the synagogue could take place during the Yom Kippur festival.
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By Omar Jimenez and Brad Parks and Ray Sanchez, CNN Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted in April on state murder charges for killing George Floyd, pleaded not guilty on Thursday in a federal case related to the use of unreasonable force on a 14-year-old in September 2017. Chauvin was arraigned via
Continue Reading By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN The hole in the ozone that forms every year over the South Pole is now larger than Antarctica, scientists from the European Union’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service said Thursday. The ozone depletes and forms a hole over the Antarctic in the Southern Hemisphere’s spring, which is from August to October. It
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden announced the United States and European Union have launched a global pledge to reduce emissions of methane — a potent greenhouse gas — by nearly 30% by the end of the decade. Biden made the announcement Friday morning during the Major Economies Forum, a virtual,
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By Randi Kaye and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A school district in Sarasota County, Florida, has tightened its mask policy after a chiropractor signed hundreds of medical exemption forms that allowed students to opt out of wearing masks in schools, officials said. The Sarasota County School Board had voted in August to implement a 90-day mandatory
Continue Reading By Randi Kaye and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A school district in Sarasota County, Florida, has tightened its mask policy after a chiropractor signed hundreds of medical exemption forms that allowed students to opt out of wearing masks in schools, officials said. The Sarasota County School Board had voted in August to implement a 90-day mandatory
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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN More than 1,000 years ago, Indigenous people journeyed into a dark cave on the land now called Missouri and painted nearly 300 detailed images on its walls. The cave was a sacred space, where tribes performed ceremonies, made sense of the universe and buried their dead. A millennium later, the paintings
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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Amr Moussa, Egyptian diplomat, ambassador and former minister of foreign affairs. Personal Birth date: October 3, 1936 Birth place: Cairo, Egypt Father: Muhammad Moussa Marriage: Laila (Badawy) Moussa (1968-present) Children: Hazem Moussa; Hania Moussa Education: Cairo University, L.L.B., 1957 Timeline 1958-1972 – Works in several
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By Rob Picheta and Niamh Kennedy, CNN Around 3,000 healthcare workers have been suspended in France after failing to meet a government requirement to get vaccinated against Covid-19, French Health Minister Olivier Véran told French radio station RTL Thursday. The employees missed a September 15 deadline to be inoculated, which was introduced by the government
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By AJ Willingham, CNN It is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. The Jewish holy day began last night at sundown and is considered the most important and sacred of Jewish religious holidays. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN It is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. The Jewish holy day began last night at sundown and is considered the most important and sacred of Jewish religious holidays. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN It is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. The Jewish holy day began last night at sundown and is considered the most important and sacred of Jewish religious holidays. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things
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