By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck near Mentone, Texas, at around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said. The earthquake had a depth of about 4.9 miles, and its epicenter was about 22 miles west-southwest of Mentone, the USGS said. The earthquake was felt as far away Santa
Continue Reading CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — A new CNN poll shows former President Donald Trump narrowly leading President Joe Biden 49% to 45% in a hypothetical rematch. This is fraying nerves among Democrats, but inside Biden’s headquarters, the president’s advisers remain confident that his coalition will grow — and that he is still the
Continue Reading By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — A new CNN poll shows former President Donald Trump narrowly leading President Joe Biden 49% to 45% in a hypothetical rematch. This is fraying nerves among Democrats, but inside Biden’s headquarters, the president’s advisers remain confident that his coalition will grow — and that he is still the party’s
Continue Reading CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — A new CNN poll shows former President Donald Trump narrowly leading President Joe Biden 49% to 45% in a hypothetical rematch. This is fraying nerves among Democrats, but inside Biden’s headquarters, the president’s advisers remain confident that his coalition will grow — and that he is still the
Continue Reading By Luke McGee, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s ambitions of joining the European Union received an important boost on Wednesday when the bloc’s executive body said detailed negotiations should begin next year. The European Commission said in a report that so-called accession talks should finally start, nearly 18 months since the bloc accepted Ukraine as a candidate
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe and Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — Southern California investigators are asking for the public’s help as they parse through conflicting witness accounts about what led up to the death of a 69-year-old Jewish man who fell and suffered a fatal head injury during dueling Israel-Hamas war protests in Thousand Oaks on
Continue Reading By Abeer Salman, Eyad Kourdi, David Shortell and Lauren Kent, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Waving white flags and holding identification papers aloft, residents of northern Gaza were seen fleeing south during a four-hour window allotted by the Israel Defense Forces for civilians to escape Tuesday. Videos from the scene, including one published by the IDF,
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, Duarte Mendonca, Abeer Salman and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — A UNICEF spokesperson has defended the death toll being reported out of Gaza, saying the organization’s figures had historically matched those of the Hamas-controlled Gazan health ministry. More than 10,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes in the past month –
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Unusually early heavy snowfall blanketed swathes of northeastern China this week, forcing airlines to cancel flights, halting trains and shutting schools and roads in the country’s first major blizzard of the season. The first snowfall in northeast China usually takes place between late November and early December,
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — An Arkansas man accused of hiding his 5-year-old daughter behind a wall to prevent state workers from taking her last week has been arrested and charged with false imprisonment and other offenses, authorities said. Jon Thompson, 40, was arrested Friday, two days after police found that the girl was
Continue Reading By David Close, CNN (CNN) — During her nearly 300-day detainment in Russia, Brittney Griner didn’t think she would play basketball again let alone represent her country. On Tuesday, the two-time Olympic gold medalist expressed her thankfulness for the opportunity to play for Team USA again following her wrongful imprisonment abroad. “I didn’t think I
Continue Reading By Dianne Gallagher and Emma Tucker, CNN Colleton County, South Carolina (CNN) — The South Carolina court clerk at the center of Alex Murdaugh’s motion for a new trial on the basis of jury tampering by the court has, for the first time and under oath, denied the disgraced former attorney’s allegations against her. “I
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Two powerful NASA telescopes have detected the oldest and most distant black hole ever found. Data captured via energetic X-rays by the Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers spot the signature of a growing black hole within the early universe just 470 million years
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — An off-duty US Park Police officer fatally shot a fellow officer at a gathering inside a Virginia apartment over the weekend by “unintentionally” pulling the trigger on a firearm he thought was unloaded, police said. Alexander Robinson Roy, 25, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and initially was held at
Continue Reading By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Christian Edwards, CNN Rome (CNN) — Italy will build two detention centers in Albania to house migrants trying to reach its shores, Prime Minister Georgia Meloni said Monday, in an attempt to control migration figures that have almost doubled in the year since she took office. Meloni said the facilities
Continue Reading By Andy Rose and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) -– A 50-year-old man was arrested and is facing a federal charge after being accused of sending an email to the rabbi of an in Arizona synagogue, threatening to “execute” the rabbi and other Jewish people. Jeffrey Mindock is charged with transmitting a threat in interstate commerce
Continue Reading By Adam Pourahmadi, Niamh Kennedy, Jomana Karadsheh and Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi started a hunger strike on Monday in protest over what she said was the jail’s refusal to provide her with medical treatment, according to a family statement provided to CNN. The 51-year-old rights activist
Continue Reading By Denise Royal, CNN (CNN) — Charles Adelson, the man charged in connection with the 2014 murder of his former brother-in-law, Dan Markel, a renowned Florida State University Law School professor, was found guilty Monday in Tallahassee, Florida, of murder, conspiracy, and solicitation. The verdict followed seven days of testimony and three hours of deliberations. Adelson, 47, mouthed the word “No” and slowly
Continue Reading By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — A little over a week ago, Margaret “Maggie” Mbitu was finishing her shift as a nurse in suburban Boston and getting ready for an upcoming girls’ trip to Las Vegas. Now her stunned family is planning her funeral. The first sign of alarm came last Tuesday, when the 31-year-old
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Kyle Richards grew visibly upset over her separation from her husband Mauricio Umansky while on a panel at BravoCon. Richards appeared at “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” panel to discuss the upcoming season, saying it was difficult to discuss her marriage on camera. “I didn’t even know how
Continue Reading