By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The largest ape on record stood almost 10 feet tall (3 meters) and weighed nearly twice as much as a gorilla. Why and when the legendary colossus — which has captivated the popular imagination as “the real King Kong” — disappeared is one of the biggest mysteries in paleontology. German-Dutch paleontologist
Continue Reading By Gregory Wallace, Pete Muntean and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — For the third year in a row, a record number of airline passengers’ guns were intercepted by airport security officers before those weapons could make it aboard a flight. Airport security officers prevented passengers from carrying more than 6,700 prohibited guns onto airplanes in
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CNN By Gregory Wallace, Pete Muntean and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — For the third year in a row, a record number of airline passengers’ guns were intercepted by airport security officers before those weapons could make it aboard a flight. Airport security officers prevented passengers from carrying more than 6,700 prohibited guns onto airplanes
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A probe designed to scour the sky for bursts of X-rays that could help illuminate mysterious phenomena linked to black holes and merging stars, took flight this week. The Einstein probe, named for the famous German-born theoretical physicist, launched aboard one of China’s Long March 2C rockets on Tuesday,
Continue Reading By Brammhi Balarajan, CNN (CNN) — Ralph Yarl was 16 when he was shot in the head and arm last April after going to the wrong house in Kansas City to pick up his siblings. He’s been making steady progress on the road to recovery since then – but has experienced headaches, trouble sleeping and
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Vast swaths of the US have been hit with powerful storms, including blizzards that have blanketed parts of the Midwest and Northeast in snow. But something’s amiss: many states accustomed to white winters are now getting more rain than snow. A new study published on Wednesday shows that the
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A Minnesota doctor accused of fatally poisoning his pharmacist wife now faces a tougher charge that could put him in prison for the rest of his life, if convicted. Connor Fitzgerald Bowman, 30, was indicted last week on one count of first-degree murder – premeditated and one count of
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have traced one of the most powerful and distant fast radio bursts ever detected back to its unusual cosmic home: a rare “blob-like” group of galaxies. The unexpected discovery could shed more light on what causes the mysterious radio wave bursts, which have puzzled scientists for years. The
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a list of incidents of elementary, middle and high school violence with at least one fatality, from 1927 to the present. Suicides, gang-related incidents and deaths resulting from domestic conflicts are not included. If a perpetrator was killed or died by suicide during the incident, their death is
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. Personal Birth date: August 8, 1953 Birth place: Mobile, Alabama Birth name: Lloyd James Austin III Father: Lloyd James Austin Jr., postal worker Mother: Aletia Taylor Austin, homemaker Marriage: Charlene Denise (Banner) Austin (early 1980s-present) Children: Reginald
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of former US Attorney General Eric Holder. Personal Birth date: January 21, 1951 Birth place: Bronx, New York Birth name: Eric Himpton Holder Jr. Father: Eric Himpton Holder, realtor Mother: Miriam (Yearwood) Holder Marriage: Sharon (Malone) Holder (1990-present) Children: Maya, Brooke and Eric Education: Columbia
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Charles Taylor, former president of Liberia and convicted war criminal. Personal Birth date: January 28, 1948 Birth place: Arthington, Liberia Birth name: Charles Taylor Father: Nelson Taylor, judge Mother: Zoe Taylor Marriages: Victoria Addison-Taylor (unknown-present); Jewel (Howard) Taylor (1997-2006, divorced) Children: with Victoria
Continue Reading By Bethlehem Feleke, CNN Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) — A Kenyan court has threatened to release alleged Christian cult leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie if the state prosecutor does not charge him within two weeks. Mackenzie, who ran the Good News International Church, is accused of leading a doomsday cult where he instructed his mass followers to
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — A man exonerated and freed after serving 44 years in prison for a crime he did not commit is to receive $25 million in the second-largest wrongful conviction settlement ever, Duke Law School’s Wrongful Conviction Clinic announced. Ronnie Long, who is Black, was accused of raping a 54-year-old White
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Ecuador’s worsening security situation deteriorated further in spectacular fashion this week, with gunmen armed with explosives storming a TV station during a live broadcast. The country has been rocked by blasts, police kidnappings and prison disturbances in a wave of violence authorities are struggling to contain. The immediate trigger
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — Antisemitism has “skyrocketed” across the United States in the three months since the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, according to new data released Wednesday by the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL has tracked a total of 3,283 antisemitic incidents between October 7 and January 7, the group said. This marks a 361% increase in reported antisemitic incidents when compared
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By Rob Picheta and Antonia Mortensen, CNN (CNN) — Two populist Polish lawmakers were dramatically arrested on corruption charges inside the country’s Presidential Palace on Tuesday, prompting one to start a hunger strike and escalating a heated confrontation between the country’s new government and its former ruling group. Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik, both MPs
Continue Reading By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Meta is rolling out new restrictions for teenage Facebook and Instagram users, including hiding search results for certain terms. This comes as social media platforms have faced a litany of criticism and lawsuits over how they handle online safety. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to
Continue Reading By Niamh Kennedy and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny has made his first court appearance from the Siberian penal colony he was moved to late last month. Posting on X, Navalny’s team said he appeared via video link from the IK-3 penal colony in relation to a lawsuit he has
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Planet-warming pollution in the US decreased nearly 2% in 2023 even as the economy grew, according to new data from the nonpartisan Rhodium Group. The falling emissions, driven largely by retirements of dirty, coal-fired power plants, put US climate pollution at its lowest level since 1991, Rhodium analyst Ben
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