By Shawn Nottingham and Nick Valencia, CNN (CNN) — A second former Memphis police officer charged in the violent arrest and beating death of Tyre Nichols intends to change his plea to guilty, according to federal court documents. Former Memphis Police Officer Emmitt Martin III had previously pleaded not guilty to charges related to the
Continue Reading By Tara John, Nadeen Ebrahim and Mike Schwartz, CNN Tel Aviv (CNN) — Fury was palpable at the end of a demonstration in Tel Aviv on Thursday, as protesters demanded a deal to free Israeli hostages in Gaza and grieved this week’s news that the bodies of six captives had been retrieved. Their tragic fate has
Continue Reading By Cheri Mossburg and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — An Arizona man who was being sought for allegedly making threats against former President Donald Trump has been arrested, according to law enforcement. Ronald Syvrud, who is accused of threatening to kill Trump in multiple social media posts over the past couple of weeks, was taken
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — The husband of Mamta Kafle Bhatt, a 28-year-old Virginia mother who has been missing for over three weeks, has been charged with concealing a body in connection with her disappearance, police say. The husband, Naresh Bhatt, was taken away in handcuffs outside the couple’s home Thursday morning, according to
Continue Reading By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — A Greek-flagged oil tanker carrying 150,000 tons of crude oil poses an “environmental hazard” after it came under attack from projectiles and arms fire in the Red Sea. The 25-person crew of the Sounion oil tanker was rescued after the attack by a vessel from Eunavfor Aspides, a European
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Four former hotel workers pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of felony murder in connection with the case of D’Vontaye Mitchell, a 43-year-old Black man who died this summer after he was pinned to the ground outside a downtown Milwaukee hotel in an encounter partially captured on video. Former security
Continue Reading By CNN Staff (CNN) — The Russian government has opened a criminal investigation into a CNN correspondent for reporting from Ukrainian-occupied Russia, an assignment defended by the news network. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN’s chief international security correspondent, at the invitation of the Ukrainian government, was escorted by their military last week to Sudzha in Russia’s
Continue Reading CNN By Olga Voitovych, Lauren Kent, Sergey Gudkov and Lizzy Yee, CNN (CNN) — Parents are hiding their children from local authorities to avoid mandatory evacuation in the eastern city of Pokrovsk amid warnings that Russian forces are advancing rapidly. Communities in and around Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, are being urged to flee within the next
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By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — The Missouri Supreme Court has blocked an agreement that would have resentenced death row inmate Marcellus Williams to life without parole after new testing of DNA evidence complicated his innocence claim. A St. Louis County Circuit Court judge has now set the agreement aside and scheduled an evidentiary hearing for
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — How does a piece of produce go viral? Take the lowly cucumber, so frequently misidentified as a vegetable. (It’s a fruit, though in recipes it’s often prepared like a veggie.) It’s not necessarily underrated among produce, but it’s also not as flavorful as butternut squash, nor does it inspire
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the Flight 93 National Memorial. It is a memorial to the 40 passengers and crew who died on United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001 near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Facts The memorial site is managed by the National Park Service. The memorial encompasses 2,200 acres and the
Continue Reading By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to suspend his campaign on Friday at an event in Arizona. Sources familiar with the plans told CNN that he is in talks to endorse former President Donald Trump shortly after. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up
Continue Reading By Sharon Braithwaite and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Food deliveries have resumed to Sudan’s famine-threatened Darfur region following the reopening of a key border crossing by Sudanese authorities after a six-month closure, as civil war rages in the country. The United Nations food agency said in a statement on Wednesday that the first convoy
Continue Reading By Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — A group representing the families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza plans to boycott the government’s commemoration of the first anniversary of the October 7 attack, frustrated by the slow progress in negotiations to bring back their loved ones. “The Israeli government’s glaring inability to secure the hostages’ return
Continue Reading CNN By Barbie Latza Nadeau, Niamh Kennedy, Lauren Kent and Kara Fox, CNN Porticello, Italy (CNN) — The body of British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been recovered from the sunken Bayesian superyacht, Italian interior ministry official Massimo Mariani told Reuters Thursday. Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter Hannah is still missing, Mariani said, and divers are still
Continue Reading By Esha Mitra, Salman Saeed, Anna Coren, Rebecca Wright and Lex Harvey, CNN New Delhi/Cumilla, Bangladesh (CNN) — Rescuers are scrambling to evacuate flooded communities after heavy rains inundated parts of Bangladesh and northeast India, killing at least 36 people and causing rivers on both sides of the border to reach extreme levels. Nearly 4.5
Continue Reading By Barbie Latza Nadeau, Niamh Kennedy, Lauren Kent and Kara Fox, CNN Porticello, Italy (CNN) — The body of British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been recovered from the sunken Bayesian superyacht, Italian interior ministry official Massimo Mariani told Reuters Thursday. Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter Hannah is still missing, Mariani said, and divers are still searching
Continue Reading By Kostyantyn Hak, Olga Voitovych, Lauren Kent, Sergey Gudkov and Lizzy Yee, CNN Pokrovsk, Ukraine (CNN) — Parents are hiding their children from local authorities to avoid mandatory evacuation in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, a strategically important location, amid warnings that Russian forces are advancing rapidly. Communities in and around Pokrovsk are being
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy, CNN (CNN) — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Polish leaders Thursday in a rare trip a day ahead of his expected visit to Ukraine – a first in the countries’ history. Modi’s tour comes weeks after he traveled to Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a symbolic first
Continue Reading By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Sphen, an Australian gentoo penguin who became an unlikely global symbol for equality, has died from apparent natural causes at age 11, the aquarium in Sydney where he resided said Thursday. Sphen rose to global fame in 2018 when he partnered with fellow male gentoo penguin Magic, after the
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