By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — When Xi Jinping last set foot in the United States, former-President Donald Trump welcomed the Chinese leader to his palm-tree-lined home at Mar-a-Lago. In the glow of warm candlelight, the two leaders bonded over the “most beautiful piece of chocolate cake” and a popular Chinese folk song
Continue Reading By Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — A Virginia State University police officer was critically wounded in a shooting near campus early Sunday, and a suspect remains at large, according to a news release from Virginia State University. Police Chief David Bragg said the campus remains on lockdown Sunday as a precaution, according to the news release. “The
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone and Macie Goldfarb, CNN (CNN) — A third inmate who escaped last month from a central Georgia county jail was taken back into custody on Sunday, authorities said, while a fourth – a murder suspect – remains at large. After a nearly monthlong manhunt, 37-year-old Johnifer Dernard Barnwell, was taken into custody
Continue Reading By Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — A lion that escaped from a circus in the Italian town of Ladispoli, near Rome, on Saturday has been recaptured after several hours on the loose, the local mayor has announced. Just after 10 p.m. local time (5 p.m. ET) on Saturday, Ladispoli mayor Alessandro Grando announced on his
Continue Reading By Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — Three people died and more than a dozen others were injured in a fire that ripped through a Brooklyn brownstone home early Sunday, fire officials In New York City said. Firefighters received a call around 4:30 a.m. to a home in Crown Heights, a spokesperson for the New York
Continue Reading By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — The recent rampage by a gunman that left 18 people dead in Lewiston, Maine, is opening a window into the vulnerabilities deaf people face during mass shootings and other crises. Last month’s attack on a bowling alley and a restaurant hit the local deaf community particularly hard. Four of the
Continue Reading CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — More than 55 million Americans are expected to travel over Thanksgiving and the vast majority will be driving, according to AAA. To avoid a holiday hassle, remember to depart early, pack strategically and monitor your forecasts for potential weather disruptions. Here’s what else you need to know to Get
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — One way to get wary diners to try an exotic new dish is to tell them, “It tastes just like chicken!” Now, in a twist on the “which came first” question, one poultry producer has created a new snack mix that lets humans try food that’s
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — When former police officer Omar Delgado heard the news of four current and former members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department dying by suicide in less than 24 hours last week, he understood. “It’s kind of like a pressure cooker. If you don’t slowly let go of that
Continue Reading By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The Taurid meteor shower is not quite finished, with one of its two streams set to peak this weekend. When the Northern Taurids, an annual minor shower, is at its most active, sky-gazers could catch sight of a bright meteor or two streaking across the night sky. The Southern
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — When Laura Larocca visited Denmark in 2019, the climate scientist sifted through thousands of old aerial photographs of Greenland’s icy coastline, which were rediscovered in a castle outside Copenhagen about 15 years ago. Now housed in the Danish National Archives, the historical images inspired her and other researchers to
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Dr. Mohammed Ghneim has not left his hospital in Gaza City in four weeks. He can’t remember the last time he slept or ate, and his blue scrubs are stained in the blood of patients who’ve died in his arms. His voice cracks under the weight of the horrors
Continue Reading By Jomana Karadsheh, Kareem Khadder, Niamh Kennedy, Abeer Salman, Tamar Michaelis and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Heavy fighting near Gaza’s largest hospital has left it in a “catastrophic situation,” with patients and staff trapped inside, ambulances unable to collect the wounded and life-support systems without electricity, health officials and aid agencies are reporting. Hostilities
Continue Reading By Raja Razek and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — A Texas officer and a barricaded armed suspect were killed Saturday in a shootout, Austin Interim Chief of Police Robin Henderson said. Two hostages were found dead and another officer was injured, authorities said. Early Saturday morning, a woman called 911 screaming for help and
Continue Reading By Daria Markina Tarasova, Victoria Butenko, Kostan Gak, Josh Pennington, Yulia Kesaieva and Maria Kostenko, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — The battle for dominance in the Black Sea raged on this week between Ukraine and Russia, as elsewhere each side’s forces continued the bitter fight for control in Ukraine’s east with winter looming. Ukraine claimed it
Continue Reading By Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis has removed a Texas bishop from his position after an investigation ordered by the Vatican. The Pope removed Bishop Joseph E. Strickland from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, after an apostolic visitation conducted by two bishops, according to a statement from Cardinal Daniel Nicholas
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The cosmos is filled with unexpected surprises. Observatories such as the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes and the Chandra X-ray Observatory see the universe in different wavelengths of light, showcasing new details that the human eye would never detect on its own. But when their powerful capabilities are
Continue Reading By Livvy Doherty, Dan Wright, Eve Brennan, Niamh Kennedy, Radina Gigova, and Sophie Tanno, CNN London, UK (CNN) — Around 300,000 people turned out for a large pro-Palestinian rally in London on Saturday as police arrested scores of counter-protesters for attempting to confront the marchers. There was heavy police presence in central London’s Hyde Park
Continue Reading By Sophie Tanno, Adam Pourahmadi, Caroline Faraj, Matog Zalah and Zeena Saifi, CNN (CNN) — Arab and Muslim leaders decried Israeli “war crimes” in Gaza at a summit in Riyadh where Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a first public meeting. The extraordinary summit, which gathered 57 leaders, demanded
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi and Rob Frehse, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of pro-Palestinan protesters snarled Manhattan traffic and curtailed people’s access to Grand Central Terminal as they demonstrated in New York City on Friday night, in part demanding a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. Demonstrators, some waving Palestinian flags and holding signs with messages such as
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