By Nic F. Anderson and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — A suspect accused of stabbing a man through a McDonald’s drive-through window and then stabbing a woman inside the restaurant was arrested last month on suspicion of assaulting a family member, court records show. Massachusetts police are also investigating whether the assailant at the McDonald’s
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CNN By Kevin Dotson, Steve Almasy and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Bill Walton, the basketball Hall of Fame center who won two national titles at UCLA, two NBA championships in Portland and Boston and later put the “color” in color commentator, died Monday following a prolonged battle with cancer, the NBA announced. Walton was
Continue Reading By Nick Paton Walsh, Mick Krever, Kosta Gak and Brice Laine, CNN Eastern Ukraine (CNN) — Mykola first thought it was a dream. The windows of his home blown out. The whistle of a shell landing. An explosion. But as the 10-year-old younger son of Larisa and Mykola Glushko staggered in the dark, toward his mother’s room, he realized he was
Continue Reading CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Mick Krever, Kosta Gak and Brice Laine, CNN Eastern Ukraine (CNN) — Mykola first thought it was a dream. The windows of his home blown out. The whistle of a shell landing. An explosion. But as the 10-year-old younger son of Larisa and Mykola Glushko staggered in the dark, toward his mother’s room, he realized he
Continue Reading CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Mick Krever, Kosta Gak and Brice Laine, CNN Eastern Ukraine (CNN) — Mykola first thought it was a dream. The windows of his home blown out. The whistle of a shell landing. An explosion. But as the 10-year-old younger son of Larisa and Mykola Glushko staggered in the dark, toward his mother’s room, he realized he
Continue Reading By Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — A manhunt for two young men who broke out of a Louisiana jail is ongoing after two other escapees were found hiding in a dumpster behind a Dollar General store, authorities said. The four inmates, all held in connection with violent crimes, escaped from the Tangipahoa Parish Jail
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By Kevin Dotson, Steve Almasy and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Bill Walton, the basketball Hall of Fame center who won two national titles at UCLA, two NBA championships in Portland and Boston and later put the “color” in color commentator, died Monday following a prolonged battle with cancer, the NBA announced. Walton was 71.
Continue Reading By CNN Impact your World (CNN) — A particularly intense storm system and searing heat has gripped the central US and plowed east. Tornadoes and other severe weather killed more than a dozen people across Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kentucky before sunrise on Memorial Day. Harsh weather now threatens property and power towards the east coast.
Continue Reading By Maria Kostenko, Svitlana Vlasova, Radina Gigova and Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Eighteen people, including a 12-year-old girl, are among those killed in a Russian strike that hit a large store in Kharkiv at the weekend, regional officials have said, making it the deadliest attack Ukraine has endured in several weeks. Five people remain missing,
Continue Reading By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Ten people were killed and 160 others, including children, were abducted during a raid by suspected Boko Haram militants on a remote village in north-central Nigeria, a local official told CNN on Monday. The attack occurred in Kuchi village, Munya district, in Niger state, beginning at about 5:30 p.m.
Continue Reading By Ingrid Formanek and Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — At least 134 people have been killed in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, since May 10 due to intense fighting, according to a statement from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Sunday. MSF reported that one of its colleagues, a watchman at the
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WCVB, CNN By Nic F. Anderson and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — A suspect accused of stabbing a man through a McDonald’s drive-through window and then stabbing a woman inside the restaurant was arrested last month on suspicion of assaulting a family member, court records show. Massachusetts police are also investigating whether the assailant at
Continue Reading By Mohammad Al Sawalhi, Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder, Sarah El Sirgany and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Rafah, Gaza and Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday an airstrike that killed dozens of people at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza, was a “tragic error.” “Despite our best effort not to harm
Continue Reading CNN By Mohammad Al Sawalhi, Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder, Sarah El Sirgany and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Rafah, Gaza and Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday an airstrike that killed dozens of people at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza, was a “tragic mistake.” “Despite our best effort, not to
Continue Reading By Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — The cockroach that emerged from your sink drain and scuttled under the fridge? The nocturnal critter was most likely a German cockroach, and its ancestors were pestering people more than 2,000 years ago in southern Asia, a new study found. The research, published May 20 in the journal Proceedings
Continue Reading By Martin Goillandeau, CNN (CNN) — Burkina Faso’s military regime will extend its rule by five years under a new agreement reached during national consultations on Saturday, the talks’ chairman Colonel Moussa Diallo said on state television. Diallo said the extension would start on July 2 and last five years, at the end of which
Continue Reading Essay by Brandon Griggs, CNN (CNN) — It’s Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial kickoff of summer in the US, which means Americans are practically required under federal law to gather friends and family, fire up the grill and cook something. For many people, that means scarfing down some hot dogs. I will not be one
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CNN By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — A pilot and passenger emerged unscathed from a light plane that made a dramatic crash landing in Australia after flying perilously close to houses in suburban Sydney. The Cessna plane lost power during the flight on Sunday, forcing the pilot to make a mayday call to report an
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — US lawmakers vowed to bolster Taiwan’s deterrence against China on Monday during a bipartisan congressional visit to the self-governing democracy just days after Beijing surrounded the island with massive military exercises. Last week’s drills were the largest China has launched in more than a year and came days after Taiwan swore
Continue Reading By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — A pilot and passenger emerged unscathed from a light plane that made a dramatic crash landing in Australia after flying perilously close to houses in suburban Sydney. The Cessna plane lost power during the flight on Sunday, forcing the pilot to make a mayday call to report an engine
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