CNN By Jenny Marc, CNN Accra, Ghana (CNN) — Kennie MacCarthy rummages through a knee-deep pile of clothes, pointing out their flaws: sweat stains, overstretched collars, holes and rips. They belong to a vendor in one of the world’s largest secondhand clothing markets, who plans on selling these clothes for a small profit. But MacCarthy
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By Jonny Hallam, Ana Maria Cañizares, Karol Suarez, Helen Regan and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Quito, Ecuador (CNN) — A candidate in Ecuador’s upcoming presidential election, Fernando Villavicencio, was assassinated at a campaign event in the capital Wednesday as a deadly escalation of violence and crime grips the South American country. Six foreign nationals have been
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The world’s oldest moss, called Takakia, has persisted in some of Earth’s most extreme environments for millions of years. And despite the fact that this ancient plant is one of the fastest-evolving species of moss known to science, it may not survive the climate crisis. A team of researchers
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — The wildfires that ripped through Hawaii on Tuesday and Wednesday are “unnerving,” and comparable to the landscape-altering wildfires that are common in the West, said Erica Fleishman, director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University. But Fleishman told CNN she wouldn’t be surprised “if wildfires
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CNN By Tim Lister, Olga Voitovych and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — A mandatory evacuation has been ordered for the Ukrainian city of Kupyansk and its surrounding areas, as Russia intensified shelling of Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region and claimed to have captured Ukrainian positions near the city on Thursday. Kupyansk, which lies close to the
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CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s already daunting legal predicament gets grimmer by the day as new details emerge of the depths to which he was prepared to stoop to reverse his defeat in the 2020 election. It’s rare for any criminal defendant to face the kind of ever-widening stack of
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By Rebekah Riess and Eli Masket, CNN (CNN) — A second family member is facing charges related to the death of Imani Roberson, the Georgia mother of four whose body was recovered Friday after she had been missing for more than two weeks, law enforcement officials said. Roberson’s husband, Donell Anderson, was arrested and charged
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By Justin Gamble, CNN (CNN) — The FBI’s Detroit Field Office said it is joining the effort to find two Black teen sisters missing from their adoptive parents’ home since June. The Roscommon County Sheriff’s Office said Tamara Perez, 15, and her sister Iris Perez, 14, were last seen June 28 near their home in
Continue Reading Exclusive by Nick Paton Walsh, Kosta Gak, Olha Konovalova, Florence Davey-Attlee and Brice Laine, CNN Orikhiv, Eastern Ukraine (CNN) — Rammed back into the bushes, out past destroyed Bradleys and ageing Humvees, the Soviet-era T72 lowers its turret to fire. Its targets are Russian positions, imperiled by Ukraine’s push south, just past the building over
Continue Reading By Radina Gigova and Chris Stern, CNN (CNN) — A German national who worked for a government agency that equips the German armed forces, has been arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia, the German Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement Wednesday. The man was employed the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information
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By Amaya McDonald and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The International Whaling Commission released its first-ever extinction alert Monday to warn of the potential danger facing the critically endangered vaquita porpoise. Known to be the smallest of porpoises and all species within the order Cetacea in terms of size, the vaquita can grow up to
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CNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — An American nurse and her daughter have been released in Haiti after being kidnapped around two weeks ago. This comes after the abduction garnered international attention and reignited conversation about Port-au-Prince’s kidnapping-for-profit epidemic. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Ancient reptilian carnivores that resembled modern crocodiles were fearsome hunters, but their scaly armor and sharp teeth couldn’t protect them from parasites, scientists have discovered. Paleontologists recently unearthed rare evidence of parasitic infection in a reptile that lived around 252 million to 201 million years ago during the Triassic
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By Royston Jones, Christina Zdanowicz, AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN (CNN) — American Lindsay Shiver, accused of conspiring to kill her husband with two co-defendants in the Bahamas, was granted bail of $100,000 by a Bahamian Supreme Court justice on Wednesday. She will be outfitted with an electronic monitoring device and must comply with an 8 p.m.
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By Mark Morales and Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — A Suffolk County judge sided with prosecutors and ruled Gilgo Beach murders suspect Rex Heuermann must provide a DNA sample, according to a court ruling filed Wednesday. “The Court finds that contrary to the defendant’s contentions, there is probable cause to believe that the defendant committed
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s some background information about the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), which serves 15.3 million people across New York City, Long Island, southeastern New York state and Connecticut. Facts The MTA is the largest public transportation network in North America. It is run by the state of New York, not the
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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — All Peggy and Wendell Jones wanted was to end their day of yard work in Texas’ triple-digit summer heat by getting cleaned up and going to the casino. The couple – married 45 years next week – routinely splits up the three-hour job of mowing the lawn of an
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová and Uliana Pavlova, CNN (CNN) — Russia is ramping up its efforts to ensure even its youngest citizens fall in line with the official narrative when it comes to the war in Ukraine. The country’s Ministry of Education this week unveiled new history textbooks with sections about what it calls the “special
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CNN By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — A meal of suspected death cap mushrooms served at a family lunch in late July is at the center of a homicide investigation in Australia following the deaths of three guests less than a week later. Erin Patterson served the meal to her former parents-in-law and
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji and Sahar Akbarzai, CNN (CNN) — American nurse Alix Dorsainvil and her daughter have been released after they were kidnapped 13 days ago from the community ministry where Dorsainvil works in Haiti, the organization said. “It is with a heart of gratitude and immense joy that we at El Roi Haiti confirm the safe
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