By Jo Shelley, Andrew Carey and Eyad Kourdi CNN (CNN) — A school run by the United Nations in northern Gaza has been hit with apparently devastating impact, the UN confirmed Saturday, in what a top UN official described as a “horrifying” incident. Video from al-Fakhoura School in Jabalya – which was being used as a
Continue Reading CNN By Jo Shelley, Andrew Carey and Eyad Kourdi CNN (CNN) — A school run by the United Nations in northern Gaza has been hit with apparently devastating impact, the UN confirmed Saturday, in what a top UN official described as a “horrifying” incident. Video from al-Fakhoura School in Jabalya – which was being used as
Continue Reading By Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — The last of four inmates who escaped from a central Georgia county jail last month has been taken back into custody, according to a news release from the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office. Joey Fournier, 52, of Macon was “apprehended near Stockbridge, Georgia just before noon on Saturday,” the news release read. Later today, the
Continue Reading By Tara John, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Waving Israeli flags, with posters of hostages draped on their backs, families of Gaza hostages and thousands of their supporters walked through the foothills of Jerusalem and towards the residence of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose government many of them blame for the fate of their loved
Continue Reading By Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — New Hampshire officials have identified 33-year-old John Madore as the gunman who killed a security guard at a New Hampshire psychiatric hospital Friday. A state police trooper assigned to the facility shot and killed Madore after the gunman killed a member of hospital security at New Hampshire Hospital in
Continue Reading By Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN (CNN) — A man who was wrongfully convicted in the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X and exonerated in 2021 has filed a lawsuit against the federal government alleging the FBI concealed evidence that would have proved his innocence at the time of the trial. Muhammad Aziz, one of three men convicted in 1966 of first-degree murder in Malcolm X’s killing, filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking $40 million in compensation for the “immense and irreparable” damage
Continue Reading Story by Reuters Paris (CNN) — A French senator has been placed under formal investigation over suspicions that he drugged a member of parliament with the intention to sexually abuse her, the senator’s lawyer and the Paris prosecutor’s office said. Conservative senator Joel Guerriau, 66, is under investigation for administering to MP Sandrine Josso, 48,
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — To say that space is a challenging environment is putting it lightly. During a recent spacewalk outside the International Space Station, a tool bag got away from NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara. The bag has gone into orbit around Earth and may be visible through binoculars until it disintegrates
Continue Reading CNN, KHNL, KGMB By Mike Valerio and Amber Sumpter, CNN (CNN) — One hundred days after the reverberating roar of wildfire moved through West Maui and destroyed centuries of stories in Lahaina, Maui officials confirmed four people are still considered missing from the disaster – an unfinished and plaintive chapter in paradise. A former NASA engineer, a
Continue Reading By Mike Valerio and Amber Sumpter, CNN (CNN) — One hundred days after the reverberating roar of wildfire moved through West Maui and destroyed centuries of stories in Lahaina, Maui officials confirmed four people are still considered missing from the disaster – an unfinished and plaintive chapter in paradise. A former NASA engineer, a published author, a
Continue Reading By Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — A 25-year-old hiker who had been missing since November 9 in Big Bend National Park in Texas has been rescued, the National Park Service said in a news release. The hiker, Christy Perry, “was found awake and talking approximately 1/4 mile below the summit of the Lost Mine Trail”
Continue Reading By Akanksha Sharma, Manveena Suri, Sania Farooqi and Vedika Sud, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — Indian authorities are exploring new ways to rescue 40 construction workers trapped underground for more than a week. The workers became stranded when a highway tunnel they were building partially collapsed in the northern state of Uttarakhand last Sunday. Although
Continue Reading CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s gargantuan deep-space rocket system, Starship, safely lifted off Saturday morning but ended prematurely with an explosion and a loss of signal. The Super Heavy booster and Starship spacecraft successfully separated after liftoff, as the Starship lit up its engines and pushed away. That process ended up destroying
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s gargantuan deep-space rocket system, Starship, safely lifted off Saturday morning but ended prematurely with an explosion and a loss of signal. The Super Heavy booster and Starship spacecraft successfully separated after liftoff, as the Starship lit up its engines and pushed away. That process ended up destroying the
Continue Reading By Stephanie Busari, CNN (CNN) — Liberia’s President, George Weah, has conceded defeat to opposition candidate Joseph Boakai after a tight run-off election. Weah, a former soccer star, called Boakai after the country’s National Elections Commission (NEC) released provisional results on Friday. With nearly all ballots counted, Boakai, a 78-year-old former vice president of Liberia,
Continue Reading By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN (CNN) — Nicole was walking through an affluent part of Alexandria, Virginia, with a friend last month, when a man approached her and began screaming. He railed about the hijab she wore, saying she looked Muslim, and made comments about Hamas raping Israeli women, she said. Her friend corroborated the account. It
Continue Reading By Nicquel Terry Ellis CNN, CNN (CNN) — Melissa Franklin has always decorated her home for Hanukkah – proudly hanging a Star of David on her porch and placing her family’s menorah in the front window. This year, however, will be different. “I just can’t see us doing it because I don’t want retaliation,” Franklin
Continue Reading By Chloe Liu and Lucas Liliehom, CNN (CNN) — Renewed fighting between the Myanmar Armed Forces (MAF) and the Arakan Army (AA) has displaced more than 26,000 people in the country’s western Rakhine state since Monday, according to the United Nations. In a statement Friday, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Continue Reading Jeremy Harlan, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Florence was targeting Campbell Coxe’s farm. Days earlier, the 2018 storm had rapidly intensified in the Atlantic, and now Darlington County, South Carolina, was in the path. Coxe had to make a quick decision: Which of his family’s crops was he going to save? “When you only have 24
Continue Reading By Mariya Knight, Chris Stern, Victoria Butenko, Martin Goillandeau, Anna Chernova, Sophie Tanno, Kostyantyn Hak, Svitlana Vlasova, Josh Pennington and Michael Rios, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — Ukraine this week claimed to have “gained a foothold” on the left bank of the Dnipro River, a welcome boost after its much vaunted counteroffensive failed to make major gains. But
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