CNN By Rob Kuznia, Scott Glover, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Kyung Lah and Yong Xiong, CNN Antioch, California (CNN) — Just after dawn on a recent spring morning, police dressed in tactical gear and armed with a search warrant pounded on the front door of an upscale home in a quiet suburban neighborhood an hour outside San
Continue Reading By Mohammad Al Sawalhi, Abeer Salman and Tim Lister, CNN Deir Al Balah, Gaza (CNN) — For the first time since the Israeli military began ground operations in Gaza in October, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has sent out messages to people’s phones and on social media saying that the residents of some areas can return to their
Continue Reading By Monica Haider, CNN (CNN) — Deep in the jungle in Panama’s infamous Darien Gap, a lawyer and a dentist from Afghanistan kept pushing. With 77-pound packs on their backs, Ali, 29, and Leila, 27, whose names have been changed to protect their identities and legal status, already had faced up to political upheaval in
Continue Reading By Dalia Faheid, Jay Croft and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Authorities investigating the disappearance of a California couple are working to identify human remains found in bags in a concrete “bunker” underneath the mobile home of the couple’s neighbor at a nudist resort. Police have arrested the neighbor, Michael Royce Sparks, 62, on suspicion
Continue Reading By Tara John, Stefano Pozzebon, Mariya Knight and Maija-Liisa Ehlinger, CNN (CNN) — Russian authorities say they have detained two Colombian men suspected of fighting for the Ukrainian military – a shocking twist in the weeks-long case of their disappearance since mid-July. The last time Cielo Imbachí heard from her husband was more than 40
Continue Reading By Nadeen Ebrahim, Sarah Boxer and Jim Sciutto, CNN Rosh Pina and Kibbutz Magal, Israel (CNN) — With one year left until graduation, 17-year-old Ziv Zinger hopes to begin the academic year on September 1 like other students across Israel. But that hope remains uncertain for him and others from the country’s Northern District, who
Continue Reading Avery Schmitz, Nyah Peebles, Associated Press (CNN/AP) — Severe floods have killed at least 97 people in Yemen over the past month and deepened food shortages for millions of others already displaced by years of war, according to a United Nations body. Deluges have impacted at least 56,000 homes across the country, according to the
Continue Reading By Sophia Saifi, CNN (CNN) — Truck driver Munir Ahmed was motoring along a darkened highway after a long day unloading sacks of rice in Pakistan’s Sindh province late Sunday, when he crossed over into Balochistan. After entering the impoverished province, long seething with ethnic and economic resentments, he was “stopped by armed men wearing
Continue Reading By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — As Hurricane Gilma raged in the Pacific, the Coast Guard in Hawaii received a distress call from a sailboat left stranded by the storm. The boat was 925 miles east of Honolulu, and the rescue mission took several days, with the help of the Coast Guard and the US
Continue Reading By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A suspect has been identified in the death of Paul Peavey, a Colorado dog breeder found dead on Saturday. The Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office has recommended charges against Sergio Ferrer, 36, in connection with Peavey’s death, including first degree murder, felony murder and aggravated robbery, according to a
Continue Reading By Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — An Israeli strike on a humanitarian vehicle in Gaza has left four people dead amid confusion over the convoy’s travel plans through the war-torn Palestinian enclave, according to aid organization American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera). The victims were all local Palestinians involved with a transportation company contracted by Anera,
Continue Reading By Mauricio Torres, CNNE (CNN) — Authorities in Argentina have arrested a man on decades-old allegations of involvement in a militant Marxist group responsible for the 1978 kidnapping and death of a former Italian prime minister, according to a government statement. Leonardo Bertulazzi, identified in the statement as an Italian citizen, had been living in
Continue Reading By Omar Jimenez, CNN (CNN) — In a new report from Columbia University’s antisemitism task force, a student described the situation on campus following the October 7 attacks in Israel. “People that you sat in class with, you had drinks with, you had lunch and dinner with, the next day they say they hope your
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing that killed four African-American girls during church services in 1963. September 15, 2013, marked the 50th anniversary of the bombing. Facts September 15, 1963 – A bomb blast at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, kills four African-American girls
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at violence against UN peacekeeping forces. This is a selected list of incidents from 1990 to present. Facts Since 1948, the United Nations has authorized more than 71 peacekeeping missions around the globe. There are currently 11 peacekeeping operations. Since 1948, at least 4,441 peacekeepers have been
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of David Souter, former United States Supreme Court Associate Justice. Personal Birth date: September 17, 1939 Death date: May 8, 2025 Birth place: Melrose, Massachusetts Birth name: David Hackett Souter Father: Joseph Alexander Souter, banker Mother: Helen Adams (Hackett) Souter, store clerk Education:
Continue Reading CNN By Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — A record number of travelers is expected to shuttle through the nation’s airports this Labor Day weekend, with as many as 17 million passengers expected from Thursday through the following Wednesday, the Transportation Security Administration said. The agency, which tracks the numbers of passengers it screens for
Continue Reading By Kostyantyn Gak, Radina Gigova, Svitlana Vlasova and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fired his Air Force commander Mykola Oleshchuk on Friday, a day after the Air Force announced one of Ukraine’s top pilots had died when a US-made F-16 fighter jet crashed. Zelensky said the command level of the Air Force needed to
Continue Reading By Sophie Tanno and Claudia Otto, CNN Berlin (CNN) — A deportation flight bound for Afghanistan carrying 28 Afghan nationals left Germany on Friday morning, a day after the German government pledged to strengthen its asylum regulations in the wake of a deadly knife attack. A spokesperson from Saxony’s Interior Ministry told CNN that a
Continue Reading By Jay Croft and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Human remains in bags have been found underneath the California home of a man accused of killing his neighbors at a nudist resort, according to police. The remains have yet to be identified, Redlands Police Department public information officer Carl Baker said Friday evening. Police announced
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