By Dominic Rech, CNN It’s Labor Day! If you have the day off, you might be curious about what’s open and what’s closed. At the White House, there is no rest, as President Biden tackles multiple crises. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can
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By Aya Elamroussi, CNN New Orleans on Wednesday lifted the curfew imposed after Hurricane Ida battered the Gulf Coast as power was restored to most of the city By Wednesday afternoon, power was restored to 83% of the city, with a goal that energy provider Entergy would hit 90% by Wednesday night, Mayor LaToya Cantrell
Continue Reading By Dominic Rech, CNN It’s Labor Day! If you have the day off, you might be curious about what’s open and what’s closed. At the White House, there is no rest, as President Biden tackles multiple crises. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can
Continue Reading By Dominic Rech, CNN It’s Labor Day! If you have the day off, you might be curious about what’s open and what’s closed. At the White House, there is no rest, as President Biden tackles multiple crises. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can
Continue Reading By Dominic Rech, CNN It’s Labor Day! If you have the day off, you might be curious about what’s open and what’s closed. At the White House, there is no rest, as President Biden tackles multiple crises. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can
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By Eric Levenson and Gregory Lemos, CNN A former Marine sharpshooter who said he received messages from God broke into two homes outside Lakeland, Florida, early Sunday and fatally shot four people he didn’t know — including a 3-month-old baby — and wounded an 11-year-old, according to a criminal affidavit. Outfitted in body armor, the
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By Abeer Salman, Amir Tal and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN Israeli authorities are hunting for six Palestinian militants who broke out of prison, apparently through a tunnel, sometime early Monday morning. The men escaped from Gilboa prison, which lies between the Sea of Galilee in Israel and the West Bank town of Jenin. A picture of
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By Keith Allen, CNN Divers using underwater sonar discovered a 12-inch oil pipeline Sunday that had become dislodged and is possibly the source of an oil spill discovered off the coast of Louisiana, officials said. Houston-based Talos Energy said in a statement that it was informed of a potential oil release Tuesday by Clean Gulf
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By Nic Robertson, Nilly Kohzad, Tim Lister and Helen Regan, CNN The Taliban have claimed victory in Afghanistan’s Panjshir province, with a spokesman saying the region had been “completely conquered” following two weeks of fierce fighting with a resistance group. Panjshir was the last remaining hold-out among Afghanistan’s 34 provinces to resist the Taliban. If
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By Zixu Wang and Sophie Jeong, CNN The German Ambassador to China, Jan Hecker, has died suddenly at 54, after only a few weeks in his position, according to a statement posted on the German Embassy to China’s website on Monday. Hecker had worked as a foreign policy adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel before
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By David McKenzie, CNN Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been released from prison on medical parole due to ill health, the government’s correctional services department said Sunday. Zuma, 79, has been serving a 15-month prison sentence since July for contempt of court after defying a summons to appear at an inquiry into corruption
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone and Shawn Nottingham, CNN A prominent South Carolina attorney says he was shot Saturday, according to law enforcement, about three months after he discovered the bodies of his wife and son shot dead outside the family’s home, deepening the mystery surrounding their unsolved murders. Alex Murdaugh, who comes from a long line
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By Carma Hassan, Alta Spells, Theresa Waldrop and Shawn Nottingham, CNN At least eight children have been shot, one fatally, so far over the Labor Day weekend in Chicago, authorities said A 4-year-old was getting his hair cut in his own home when bullets came through the house, striking him in the head. He died
Continue Reading By Sahar Akbarzai, Theresa Waldrop and Steve Almasy, CNN A leak at a Ford Motor Company assembly plant in Flat Rock, Michigan, resulted in 1,400 gallons of gas spilling into the city sewers, according to a spokesperson from the state Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy. The Flat Rock Fire Department has determined that
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By Umaro Djau, Kareem Khadder and David McKenzie, CNN A Guinean military officer broadcast a statement Sunday announcing that Guinea’s Constitution has been dissolved in an apparent coup. “We will no longer entrust politics to a man. We will entrust it to the people. We come only for that; it is the duty of a
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By Gregory Lemos, CNN One person is dead and four people were injured in a shooting Saturday night in Warner Robins, Georgia, police said. Officers were dispatched to a disturbance of the peace call before 10 p.m., according to a release from the Warner Robins Police Department. “A caller advised there was a large party
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By Alta Spells, CNN The Caldor Fire, which has threatened the popular tourist spot of Lake Tahoe, came under better control this weekend, and some evacuation orders have been downgraded. The growth of the fire burning along the California and Nevada border has slowed significantly. In the 24-hour period between Friday night and Saturday night,
Continue Reading By Dominic Rech, CNN It’s Labor Day! If you have the day off, you might be curious about what’s open and what’s closed. At the White House, there is no rest, as President Biden tackles multiple crises. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can
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By Eric Levenson, CNN Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady had Covid-19 in February shortly after the Super Bowl championship boat parade and is now vaccinated, the Tampa Bay Times reported Saturday. “You guys beat Covid last year. It’s still around. You’ve had it?” reporter Rick Stroud asked. “Yeah,” Brady said, according to the Times.
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By Tim Lister, Radina Gigova and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN and CNN contributors Heavy fighting was reported Sunday in parts of northern Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley, where rebel fighters from the National Resistance Front (NRF) have been battling a Taliban offensive. Panjshir, a strategic slice of mountainous terrain rich with precious mineral resources around 90 miles north
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