By Meena Duerson and Meridith Edwards, CNN Wilsonville, Oregon (CNN) — The three women sit huddled together, hands and arms intertwined, heads on each other’s shoulders. For too long, each felt utterly alone and it’s as if their physical closeness gives them a boost of strength. Each tells CNN they were sexually abused by their
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — On the morning of September 4, a student rode the bus to his Georgia school with a rifle and knife hidden in his backpack, investigators said. Within two hours of arriving at Apalachee High School in Winder, prosecutors said he committed the deadliest US school shooting since the March
Continue Reading By Dana Karni, Jessie Yeung, Tim Lister and Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Yemen’s Houthis face a “heavy price” after the group fired a missile deep into Israel. The projectile was fired from Yemen toward Israel at 6am local time on Sunday, according to the Israel Defense Forces
Continue Reading By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — On the night of October 13, 1989, Jimmie Wade Martin went for a drink at a neighborhood tavern in his hometown of Bonne Terre, Missouri. He never made it back home. Martin’s bloodied body was discovered lying in a nearby street in the predawn hours. He’d suffered a fatal
Continue Reading By Isaac Yee, CNN (CNN) — At least 74 people have died and scores more are still missing in Myanmar following heavy flooding and landslides caused by Typhoon Yagi, state media reported on Sunday. The flooding across the civil war-torn country has impacted more than 450 villages and wards, according to Myanmar News Agency (MNA).
Continue Reading By Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department has rejected claims of CIA involvement in an alleged plot to kill Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro, after Venezuelan authorities said they had arrested six foreigners, including a US Navy SEAL. The State Department called the allegations “categorically false,” adding in a statement that the United
Continue Reading By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military says it targeted Hezbollah “weapons storage facilities” in multiple airstrikes across Lebanon on Saturday. One of the strikes – on the outskirts of the town of Al-Kawakh, in the Baalbek-Hermel governorate – injured four people, three of them children, according to the Lebanese health ministry. The
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — One day before he ran the Disneyland Halloween Half Marathon during last weekend’s Southern California heat wave, Bobby Graves shared his trepidation about the torrid sun and humidity with thousands of his TikTok followers. Graves, 35, who went by his middle name, Caleb, posted a video September 7 in
Continue Reading By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — At least three people have been killed and 49 injured in a train collision in Egypt, the country’s health ministry said Saturday. Thirty ambulances and reinforcement medical teams were sent to the scene of the collision in the city of Zagazig, the capital of Al Sharkia governorate, the ministry
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — A child was dragged off a dock and underwater in a rare attack by a river otter at a marina in Washington state on Thursday, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife said. The otter pulled the young child underwater with the mother still on the dock at Bremerton
Continue Reading By Emmanuel Miculita, Sophie Tanno, Radina Gigova and Niamh Kennedy, CNN (CNN) — At least eight people have died after some of the heaviest rain in years hit central and eastern Europe, causing flooding and widespread disruption. A slow-moving low pressure system dubbed Storm Boris dumped months’ worth of rain onto several of Europe’s historic capitals, including Vienna,
Continue Reading By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — Samantha Greene, a junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said she quickly noticed a difference in the student body when she stepped on campus in August. As president of the Black Student Movement at the state’s flagship university, Greene said this year’s Black Student Convocation,
Continue Reading By Tim Lister and Kosta Gak, CNN (CNN) — A Russian counteroffensive to recover parts of Kursk lost to Ukrainian forces following a surprise, cross-border attack is underway but is yet to gain momentum. Ukraine launched its assault last month, capturing scores of settlements, a move that stunned even Kyiv’s allies. But from the beginning observers have
Continue Reading By Carlos Suarez and Denise Royal, CNN (CNN) — The Miami-Dade Police officer placed on administrative duties after the controversial traffic stop of Miami Dolphins star Tyreek Hill has been suspended multiple times, police records show. Officer Danny Torres was placed on suspension at least six times during his 27-year career, according to his employee
Continue Reading By Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Michaela Mabinty DePrince, the ballerina born during a civil war in Sierra Leone who performed in Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ visual album, has died aged 29, according to an announcement posted to her official Instagram page. “Her life was one defined by grace, purpose, and strength. Her unwavering commitment to her art,
Continue Reading By Zahid Mahmood and Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — The American-Turkish activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, who was killed by Israeli gunfire in the West Bank last week, has been buried in her family’s hometown in southwestern Turkey. The activist’s body arrived in Turkey on Friday in a flat top coffin, wrapped in the Turkish flag
Continue Reading By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Germany has struck a controlled migration deal with Kenya, which will see Berlin open its doors to skilled and semi-skilled Kenyan workers. The deal was signed by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Kenya’s president William Ruto on Friday. Ruto landed in Germany on Friday for an official two-day visit.
Continue Reading By Dalia Faheid, Ashley R. Williams, Alisha Ebrahimji and Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — On the morning of the shooting at a Winder, Georgia, high school that left four people dead, authorities were “actively looking” for the teenage suspect after the school received a warning call from his mom – but there was a mix-up
Continue Reading CNN By Yoonjung Seo, Lucas Lilieholm and Mike Valerio, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — New pictures of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un touring what state media said is a uranium enrichment facility have given an extremely rare glimpse inside the isolated nation’s closely guarded nuclear weapons program. According to a report from Korean
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, David Williams and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — A suspected gunman and the man he allegedly shot both face charges of assault after a clash at a pro-Israeli demonstration in Newton, Massachusetts, authorities said. The fracas began when a man with no connection to the rally “began shouting comments at the demonstrators”
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