By Ashley Killough and Ed Lavandera, CNN A family in Fort Worth, Texas, has been reunited with their daughter who was kidnapped as a baby more than five decades ago thanks to a DNA match from the ancestry service 23andMe, the family announced Sunday. Melissa Highsmith was just 22-months old in 1971 when she was
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By Amir Vera, Holly Yan and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN The rare sight of two neighboring volcanoes erupting simultaneously became even more astounding Tuesday as new lava flows gushed down slopes on Hawaii’s Big Island. Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, erupted this week for the first time in 38 years. Its neighbor Kilauea, which
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By Alexandra Meeks, CNN A monstrous trio of tornadoes, damaging winds and hail are expected to create challenges across the Southeast and Mississippi Valley today as more than 40 million people are under severe weather threats. CNN’s storm tracker and current satellite images show areas of Mississippi and Louisiana have the greatest potential for severe
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By Kathleen Magramo and Wayne Chang, CNN Hong Kong’s leader said he’ll ask Beijing to determine whether foreign lawyers can work on national security cases in the city, a move with repercussions for the upcoming trial of jailed pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai. The announcement came Monday, hours after the Court of Final Appeal (CFA),
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By Amir Vera and Michelle Watson, CNN Five police officers have been arrested and charged in connection with the transportation incident that left a man paralyzed from the chest down, according to a Monday news release from the New Haven, Connecticut, State’s Attorney’s Office. Randy Cox, 36, was arrested on June 19 on suspicion of
Continue Reading By Amir Vera and Michelle Watson, CNN Five police officers have been arrested and charged in connection with the transportation incident that left a man paralyzed from the chest down, according to a Monday news release from the New Haven, Connecticut, State’s Attorney’s Office. Randy Cox, 36, was arrested on June 19 on suspicion of
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By Alta Spells, Dianne Gallagher and Eric Levenson, CNN In a motion filed Monday, retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre and Favre Enterprises Inc. asked a Mississippi court to dismiss a civil complaint filed against him by the Mississippi Department of Human Services, seeking to retrieve funds distributed to Favre as part of what the state
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By Ray Sanchez, CNN Shanquella Robinson arrived in the picturesque Mexican town of San José del Cabo on October 28 with six of her friends. One day later, the 25-year-old student at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina died while staying in a luxury rental property in Baja California Sur. Now, nearly one month after
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN The Orion spacecraft, which is at the core of NASA’s historic Artemis I mission, reached its farthest distance from Earth Monday afternoon, shattering the record for the maximum distance a spacecraft designed to carry humans has ever traveled. The space agency confirmed Monday evening that the Orion capsule had reached the
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By Mick Krever and Matthew Chance, CNN A pool of blood-stained water and the charred wreckage of a car mark the spot in Kherson where Russian shells tore into this city Thursday, killing four, according to local officials, and shattering any sense of calm. Russian President Vladimir Putin claims he’s annexed this region, and that
Continue Reading By Mick Krever and Matthew Chance, CNN A pool of blood-stained water and the charred wreckage of a car mark the spot in Kherson where Russian shells tore into this city Thursday, killing four, according to local officials, and shattering any sense of calm. Russian President Vladimir Putin claims he’s annexed this region, and that
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By Aya Elamroussi, Amanda Watts and Tina Burnside, CNN Roughly 10 days after a former Virginia state trooper was hired by a sheriff’s office in that state, he traveled to Southern California and allegedly killed the family of a teenager he had catfished online, officials said. Austin Lee Edwards, 28, died in a shootout with
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By Nectar Gan and Selina Wang and CNN’s Beijing bureau For the first time in decades, thousands of people have defied Chinese authorities to protest at universities and on the streets of major cities, demanding to be freed not only from incessant Covid tests and lockdowns, but strict censorship and the Communist Party’s tightening grip
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By Rachel Ramirez and Tara Subramaniam, CNN The Great Barrier Reef should be added to the list of world heritage sites that are “in danger”, a team of scientists concluded after conducting a mission to the world’s largest coral reef system. In a new UN-backed report released on Monday, the scientists said that the reef
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at Somalia, an impoverished, war-torn eastern African country that borders the Gulf of Aden, the Indian Ocean, Ethiopia and Kenya. About Somalia (from the CIA World Fact Book)Area: 637,657 sq km (slightly smaller than Texas) Population: 12,386,248 (2022 est.) Median age: 18.5 years Capital: Mogadishu Ethnic groups: Somali 85%,
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By Amanda Watts, Tina Burnside and Zoe Sottile, CNN A former Virginia police officer, believed to have murdered a teenager’s family in Riverside, California, after “catfishing” her online, was killed in a shootout while trying to flee authorities, the city’s police department said in a news release. The ex-cop was identified as Austin Lee Edwards,
Continue Reading By Amanda Watts, Tina Burnside and Zoe Sottile, CNN A former Virginia police officer, believed to have murdered a teenager’s family in Riverside, California, after “catfishing” her online, was killed in a shootout while trying to flee authorities, the city’s police department said in a news release. The ex-cop was identified as Austin Lee Edwards,
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By Melissa Alonso, CNN One person was killed and another four injured in a shooting at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee on Sunday, according to police. The school’s police department is working with Tallahassee police to investigate the shooting at an outdoor basketball court on campus at around 4:30 p.m., a statement from the university
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN Merriam-Webster’s word of the year — and this you can believe — is “gaslighting.” The online dictionary chose “gaslighting,” which it defines as “the act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one’s own advantage,” as its top word of 2022 because it has become the “favored word for the
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By Katie Hunt, CNN A previously unknown dinosaur with a remarkably flat head lived around 70 million years ago on an island home to dwarfed prehistoric creatures. Discovered in what’s now western Romania, the Transylvanosaurus platycephalus (flatheaded reptile from Transylvania) was 2 meters (6 feet) long — a relatively small size for a dinosaur, according
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