By Leah Asmelash, CNN Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones declined the University of North Carolina’s offer of tenure and a teaching position with the school and has instead accepted a faculty role at Howard University. She made the announcement on “CBS This Morning” with Gayle King on Tuesday. Hannah-Jones will be joined by Ta-Nehisi Coates,
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By Jason Hanna and Gregory Lemos, CNN Investigators believe golf pro Gene Siller — one of three men found fatally shot on an Atlanta-area golf course Saturday — was killed “because he witnessed an active crime taking place,” police said Tuesday. Police didn’t specify what that crime was, but have said that the two other
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By Hadas Gold, CNN The new Israeli government suffered its first major setback in the early hours of Tuesday morning when it failed to secure enough votes to extend a regulation that effectively bars Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza married to Israelis from becoming citizens. The coalition had agreed to amend the law
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Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense has defended its decision to train female soldiers to march in high heels, following an outcry from local lawmakers. Women from the Ukrainian armed forces will march in a parade to mark the 30th anniversary of independence from the Soviet Union on August 24, according to a statement from Army Inform, the defense ministry’s official news agency. CNN’s Matthew Chance reports.
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By Evan Simko-Bednarski, Taylor Romine, Jean Casarez and Hollie Silverman, CNN Newly released video obtained by CNN shows correctional officers allegedly abusing inmates at a soon-to-be shuttered women’s correctional facility in New Jersey. The edited footage shows correctional officers extracting inmates from their cells, physically restraining inmates, punching inmates, and deploying pepper spray into cells
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By AJ Willingham, CNN Florida is battening down the hatches today as Tropical Storm Elsa approaches, bringing with it possibly deadly storm surge. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily.
Continue Reading Hurricane warnings have been issued for parts of the west coast of Florida as Elsa gains strength. CNN Meteorologist Tom Sater has the latest.
Continue Reading Matthew McConaughey posted a message to America in celebration of Independence Day, likening issues the country is facing “as basically going through puberty.”
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By Anna Chernova, CNN A passenger plane with 28 people on board crashed in Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka peninsula on Tuesday, Russia’s aviation agency told CNN. The plane, a Russian-built Antonov An-26 twin-engined turboprop, was flying from the regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the village of Palana, in Kamchatka’s north, when it missed a scheduled communication
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By Sharon Braithwaite and Pierre Bairin, CNN Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel remains in “serious but stable” in hospital after contracting Covid-19, his spokesperson said Tuesday. Bettel, 48, is breathing on his own and is awake, his press attaché Liz Thielen told CNN. The Prime Minister tested positive just over a week ago on June
Continue Reading By Keith Allen and Hollie Silverman, CNN Law enforcement officers in Texas fatally shot a man during a standoff after he allegedly fired a weapon at his family members and the news media at the scene of a burned down house Monday. The man, who authorities have not yet named, was digging through debris from
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By Joshua Berlinger and Lauren Lau, CNN Hong Kong authorities said they have thwarted an alleged plot to bomb train stations, court buildings and tunnels organized by advocates for the city’s independence from China. Steve Li, the senior superintendent of the police’s National Security Department, said Tuesday nine people between the ages of 15 and
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe, Eric Levenson and Amanda Watts, CNN Search and rescue teams in Surfside, Florida, recovered four more bodies Tuesday, bringing the Champlain Towers South condo collapse death toll to 36, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said at an evening news conference. There are 109 “reports of people who are potentially unaccounted for,” she
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CNN’s Anna Coren goes inside Bagram Airfield to capture scenes of abandonment as Afghan forces pick up the pieces following the withdrawal of US and NATO troops after nearly two decades of war.
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By Tim Lister, CNN When Youras Ziankovich, a lawyer with American citizenship, returned to his Moscow hotel after a lunch date with a friend in April, he found four men waiting for him in the street. Ziankovich’s wife, Alena Dzenisavets, says that according to the manager of the Nordic Rooms hotel, the men — all
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By Emiko Jozuka, Junko Ogura and Blake Essig, CNN Japanese rescue workers continued to search for survivors Tuesday, three days after a devastating “tsunami” of mud swept through a coastal city, killing at least four people and leaving two dozen others missing. Torrential rains triggered the powerful mudslide in Atami, Shizuoka prefecture, about 90 kilometers
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By Anna Coren, Sandi Sidhu and Tim Lister, CNN Located an hour north of Kabul, Bagram was for nearly 20 years the hub of America’s war in Afghanistan. Now it is eerily quiet. The last US combat troops have left and the Afghan government is trying to work out how to use the sprawling complex
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Questions are being raised about the Bay Area Millennium Tower’s structural integrity amid the deadly collapse of the Champlain Towers South more than 3,000 miles away in Surfside, Florida. CNN’s Dan Simon reports.
Continue Reading By Dan Simon, Julia Jones and Ray Sanchez, CNN San Francisco’s lavish Millennium Tower, with soaring panoramic views and world-class amenities, opened to great fanfare in 2009. A dozen years later, it’s still promoted “Your city within the city,” a 58-story monolith with more than 400 multimillion-dollar units in San Francisco’s tallest residential building. “It
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Search and rescue crews have recovered another victim from the rubble of the collapsed Champlain Towers South building, bringing the death toll to 28, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said in a Monday evening news conference. That means 117 people are still unaccounted for, she said. Earlier
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