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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 25.

Russia planning attacks on Ukrainian nuclear power plants, Zelensky warns

By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Russia is planning to attack Ukrainian nuclear power plants and disconnect them from the energy grid, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday, warning that such attacks risk nuclear disaster. “Radiation does not respect state borders,” Zelensky said Wednesday in his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New

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Residents of Ohio community allowed to return after chemical leak from railroad car forced evacuations

By Artemis Moshtaghian, Melissa Alonso and Taylor Romine, CNN Cleves, Ohio (CNN) — All evacuations were lifted in a western Cincinnati suburb Wednesday evening, a day after a chemical leak from a railcar prompted tests of water and air quality. “All initial reports do not indicate any health concerns,” Little Miami Joint Fire and Rescue District

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Several arrested after American woman dies in first use of controversial suicide pod

Story by Reuters Zurich, Switzerland (Reuters) — Swiss police have arrested several people after a controversial futuristic-looking capsule designed to allow its occupant to kill themself was used for the first time, authorities said on Tuesday. Police in the northern canton of Schaffhausen bordering Germany said the so-called “Sarco” capsule had been deployed in a

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Hurricane Helene threatens ‘unsurvivable’ storm surge in Florida as it’s forecast to explode into catastrophic Category 4

By Mary Gilbert, Taylor Ward, Emma Tucker and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Helene is now forecast to reach catastrophic Category 4 strength by the time it makes landfall in Florida on Thursday, the National Hurricane Center says, with storm surge potentially climbing to 20 feet along some parts of the coast. Helene could

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Two passengers taken to the hospital with injuries on United flight after pilots respond to collision warning

By Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Aviation Administration has opened an investigation into the jolt on a United Airlines flight that injured two passengers when the pilots responded to an onboard midair collision system warning. United Airlines says as flight 2428 from Newark, New Jersey, was descending into San Francisco International Airport last Thursday,

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A student has left Gettysburg College after a racial slur was etched onto a student’s chest, school officials say

By Lauren Mascarenhas and Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — A student athlete is no longer enrolled at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania after they allegedly etched a racial slur onto the chest of a teammate, school officials say. Several students were attending an informal gathering of the swim team at an on-campus residence on September 6 when one of

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