By Rachael Scott, CNN Marines’ gesture moves a woman to tears, Nicole Richie’s birthday celebration got hotter than expected, and a “very well behaved” pup interrupts a reporter’s live shot. These are the must-watch videos of the week. ‘The most American thing ever’ A group of Marines came to the aid of a woman and
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By Dakin Andone and Raja Razek, CNN Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin plans to appeal his conviction earlier this year on charges in the murder of George Floyd. According to a court filing Thursday, Chauvin aims to appeal based on 14 issues with his case, claiming the court in which he was tried repeatedly
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Global scientists reported in August that due to the climate crisis, droughts that may have occurred only once every decade or so now happen 70% more frequently. The increase is particularly apparent in the Western US, which is currently in the the throes of a historic, multiyear drought that has exacerbated
Continue Reading By Laura Smith-Spark and Allegra Goodwin, CNN Health officials in the United States have said Covid-19 vaccine boosters can begin for older and higher-risk people there. But at least 15 countries around the world — most of them in Africa — have yet to give at least one vaccine dose to more than 3% of
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By Vasco Cotovio, CNN The European Commission has accused Russia of trying to interfere in European democratic processes just days before Sunday’s parliamentary election in Germany. In a statement on Friday, the European Commission said: “EU Member States have observed malicious cyber activities, collectively designated as Ghostwriter, and associated these with the Russian state.” “Such
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By Laura Smith-Spark and Allegra Goodwin, CNN Health officials in the United States have said Covid-19 vaccine boosters can begin for older and higher-risk people there. But at least 15 countries around the world — most of them in Africa — have yet to give at least one vaccine dose to more than 3% of
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By Gregory Lemos and Rebekah Riess, CNN The loved ones of people who died when a Surfside, Florida, condo building partially collapsed called on officials to make the site a memorial to victims. Ronit Felszer, who lost her son, Ilan Naibryf, 21, in the June disaster, moved her family of five to America in 2002
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By Tim Lister, CNN The eastern city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan has seen a spate of attacks against the Taliban this week by the group IS Khorasan (ISIS-K), an affiliate of ISIS. ISIS-K claimed three attacks in the city on Wednesday and Thursday. Through ISIS’ official Amaq media outlet, it claimed to have killed six
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By Aya Elamroussi and Sarah Moon, CNN Los Angeles will not be required to provide shelter or housing to homeless people living on the city’s Skid Row, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday, effectively vacating another court’s order to do so by next month. The ruling comes from the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
Continue Reading By Tim Lister, CNN The eastern city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan has seen a spate of attacks against the Taliban this week by the group IS Khorasan (ISIS-K), an affiliate of ISIS. ISIS-K claimed three attacks in the city on Wednesday and Thursday. Through ISIS’ official Amaq media outlet, it claimed to have killed six
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By AJ Willingham, CNN Hurricane Sam is gathering in the Atlantic, marking the 18th named storm of the season. It’s set to become a major hurricane, but we still don’t know where exactly it will go. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN Hurricane Sam is gathering in the Atlantic, marking the 18th named storm of the season. It’s set to become a major hurricane, but we still don’t know where exactly it will go. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN Hurricane Sam is gathering in the Atlantic, marking the 18th named storm of the season. It’s set to become a major hurricane, but we still don’t know where exactly it will go. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN Hurricane Sam is gathering in the Atlantic, marking the 18th named storm of the season. It’s set to become a major hurricane, but we still don’t know where exactly it will go. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN Hurricane Sam is gathering in the Atlantic, marking the 18th named storm of the season. It’s set to become a major hurricane, but we still don’t know where exactly it will go. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also
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By Al Goodman, CNN Former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont was arrested on the Italian island of Sardinia on Thursday on charges related to his activities in Catalonia’s failed bid in 2017 to secede from Spain, a court official and his lawyer told CNN. His lawyer, Gonzalo Boye, told CNN the arrest was carried out on
Continue Reading By Jenn Selva and Travis Caldwell, CNN The search for Brian Laundrie, who according to a source left behind his wallet and cell phone when last seen departing his parents’ home 10 days ago, ended on Friday at a nature reserve in southwestern Florida and will resume on Saturday, as new details emerged about the
Continue Reading By Jason Hanna and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A gunman who killed a woman and wounded at least 14 other people at a western Tennessee Kroger before apparently killing himself this week was a third-party vendor for the store, police said Friday. UK Thang, 29, was the man who shot 10 employees and five customers Thursday
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By Jessie Yeung, CNN With China facing a looming demographic crisis, the government last month passed into law a three-child policy raising the permitted limit on family sizes. But with many couples still hesitant to expand their families, some places are now offering cash incentives to encourage more births. Huangzhugen village, in Lianjiang city in
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By Eric Cheung and Brad Lendon, CNN Taiwan on Thursday accused China of “bullying” after Beijing sent a total of 24 warplanes into its air defense identification zone (ADIZ), the third-largest incursion in the past two years of heightened tensions between Beijing and Taipei. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft, including bombers, fighter jets, anti-submarine
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