By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — It’s the little spacecraft that could. On September 8, 2016, the OSIRIS-REx probe launched with a lofty goal to become NASA’s first mission to collect a sample from a near-Earth asteroid and bring it to our planet. Each step of the seven-year journey has been an unexpected one, full
Continue Reading CNN By Donie O’Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — “Now the family tree goes like this,” the man on the tape extolled confidently. “John John and…Trump are cousins. And Trump’s uncle is JFK Sr., and Joe Kennedy, who is also not dead…. And Trump’s father is General George Patton, and his brother is Mussolini…” Colleen Protzman listened
Continue Reading By Chandelis Duster, CNN (CNN) — A Black high school student who was suspended over his locs hairstyle and his mother have sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the state’s attorney general for allegedly failing to enforce the state’s CROWN Act, a law that protects against hair discrimination. Darryl George, a 17-year-old student at Barbers
Continue Reading By Donie O’Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — “Now the family tree goes like this,” the man on the tape extolled confidently. “John John and…Trump are cousins. And Trump’s uncle is JFK Sr., and Joe Kennedy, who is also not dead…. And Trump’s father is General George Patton, and his brother is Mussolini…” Colleen Protzman listened on,
Continue Reading By Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — A Nebraska mother who was accused of helping her 17-year-old daughter have an illegal abortion and disposing of the fetus was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday, the Norfolk Daily News reported. The sentence comes after Jessica Burgess, 42, pleaded guilty in July to two felonies –
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge struck down California’s ban on firearm magazines holding more than 10 rounds Friday as unconstitutional, “arbitrary and capricious.” The ban, which was adopted through a 2016 proposition, had gone through various appeals until the US Supreme Court sent the case back to lower courts following its
Continue Reading By Sarah El Sirgany and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN Derna (CNN) — In the days that followed the devastating floods in the Libyan city of Derna, reports emerged of survival – a six-year-old boy plucked from the water from a third-floor balcony, a father saving his daughter by putting her in the fridge, an infant found
Continue Reading By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Russell Brand has made his first public comments since being accused of rape and sexual assault, thanking followers for “questioning the information they have been presented with” while not addressing the claims. In a YouTube video published by the British comedian on Friday night, Brand – who denies the
Continue Reading By Stephanie Elam, CNN (CNN) — Firefighters want every leg up they can get to knock out a blaze before it becomes an inferno. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection says it has a new tool to battle wildfires before they explode – artificial intelligence. “I think it is a game changer …
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar, CNN Photographs by Will Lanzoni, CNN Roseburg, Oregon (CNN) — Driving into Roseburg feels like entering a postcard. The small city, tucked in the mountains of southwestern Oregon, sits inside the Umpqua Valley, where magnificent peaks tower over luscious pine forests and a maze of streams and waterfalls. The main road winds
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — Two of the Colorado police officers accused in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain began standing trial this week on criminal charges that were filed more than two years after the 23-year-old Black man died days following a physical confrontation. A prosecutor initially declined to bring charges against any
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — The same day that Azerbaijan celebrated the surrender of separatist Armenian fighters in Nagorno-Karabakh, many in the breakaway region’s capital spent the evening throwing stacks of paper onto a fire. “One of the main things that people were doing in Stepanakert was burning all the possible documentation that could
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch and Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — The US Army Corps of Engineers is planning to barge 36 million gallons of fresh water daily into the lower Mississippi River near New Orleans as an expected saltwater intrusion from the Gulf of Mexico in October threatens the area’s drinking water supply, officials said Friday.
Continue Reading By Maria Kostenko, Tim Lister and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine said Saturday its bold strike on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet headquarters in the Crimean city of Sevastopol had left dozens dead and wounded “including senior leadership.” The attack on Friday is perhaps the most dramatic example yet of the confidence with which Ukraine
Continue Reading By Maija Ehlinger and Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has told Volodymyr Zelensky never to “insult Poles again” after the Ukrainian president suggested his neighbor was putting on a show over their disputes on grain exports. The Polish leader fired back at Zelensky after the Ukrainian leader offered a veiled
Continue Reading By Eric Zerkel and Jillian Sykes, CNN (CNN) — A rock formation in the Mississippi River normally only reachable by boat is accessible by foot for the second year in a row as water levels plummet. Tower Rock juts out of the Mississippi River in Perry County, Missouri, south of St. Louis and around 25
Continue Reading By Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — A California man has admitted to lying about having terminal cancer after receiving thousands of dollars in donations to play in a World Series of Poker tournament, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Robert Mercer claimed to have terminal stage 4 colon cancer and convinced people to donate to
Continue Reading By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, Daniel Hodge, Konstyantyn Gak and Yulia Kesaieva, CNN (CNN) — The general leading Ukraine’s counteroffensive along the southern front line says his forces have broken through in Verbove – and predicts an even bigger breakthrough to come. “On the left flank [near Verbove] we have a breakthrough and we continue
Continue Reading CNN By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, Daniel Hodge, Konstyantyn Gak and Yulia Kesaieva, CNN (CNN) — The general leading Ukraine’s counteroffensive along the southern front line says his forces have broken through in Verbove – and predicts an even bigger breakthrough to come. “On the left flank [near Verbove] we have a breakthrough and we
Continue Reading By Ibrahim Dahman, Kareem Khadder and Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out strikes on what it called Hamas targets in Gaza on Friday, after militants in the enclave launched incendiary balloons towards Israel for the first time in over a year. The hostilities came after more than a week
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