By Brynn Gingras and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — The preliminary results of an autopsy on a New England Patriots fan who died after a “scuffle” at a game Sunday “did not suggest traumatic injury, but did identify a medical issue,” the Norfolk district attorney said in a statement. Dale Mooney, 53, collapsed at Gillette
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Police in Spain have launched an investigation after images of young girls, altered with artificial intelligence to remove their clothing, were sent around a town in the south of the country. A group of mothers from Almendralejo, in the Extremadura region, reported that their daughters had received images of
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — United Nations Secretary General António Guterres issued a stark warning as he gathered world leaders for a high-level summit on the climate crisis: “Humanity has opened the gates to hell.” “Horrendous heat is having horrendous effects. Distraught farmers watching crops carried away by floods. Sweltering temperatures spawning disease,” he
Continue Reading By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — What do Sen. Ted Cruz, Oscar-winning actor Ariana DeBose and a puzzled kid stumbling to answer questions on live TV have in common? They’re all Latinos who’ve been shamed for the way they speak Spanish. The issue regularly emerges in debates online – and even on stage during
Continue Reading By Kareem Khadder, Hadas Gold and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN Jerusalem and Gaza (CNN) — Six Palestinians have been killed and dozens injured by Israeli military fire in three separate incidents across the occupied West Bank and Gaza over the past 24 hours, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in both areas said. Four people were killed
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Ethnic Armenian fighters in Nagorno-Karabakh agreed to lay down their arms after Azerbaijan launched a brief but bloody military offensive on Tuesday, handing a boost to Azerbaijan as it seeks to bring the enclave under its control. Whether this leads to a lasting peace is not yet clear. Armenia
Continue Reading By Lauren Mascarenhas and Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — The Alabama band director who was shocked by a police stun gun and arrested after refusing to stop his band’s performance at a high school football game said the post-game songs had been arranged ahead of time and the whole experience has left him traumatized. “I
Continue Reading By Holly Yan and Virginia Langmaid, CNN Liberty, Missouri (CNN) — The 85-year-old White homeowner accused of shooting a Black teenager who rang the wrong doorbell pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of first-degree assault and armed criminal action. Andrew Lester did not speak during the brief arraignment in a courtroom in Clay County, Missouri.
Continue Reading By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — A shoe belonging to a child and dating back more than 2,000 years has been unearthed in Austria with its laces still intact. The design of the leather shoe, whose size roughly corresponds to EU 30 (US 12), suggests it was likely made in the second century BC, according
Continue Reading By Mengchen Zhang, CNN Beijing (CNN) — Ten people have died as two tornadoes ripped through two cities in China’s eastern Jiangsu province. It’s the latest deadly extreme weather event to hit the country, which over the last few months has been grappling with severe floods as well as extreme heat waves. Five people were
Continue Reading CNN By Nadia Leigh-Hewitson, video by Kriti Gandhi, CNN (CNN) — In 2023, it isn’t hard to imagine we’re living through the end times, with apocalyptic weather events happening throughout the year and across the globe. Since the turn of the millennium, there has been a “staggering rise in climate-related disasters,” according to the UN. Between 2000 and 2019,
Continue Reading By Nadia Leigh-Hewitson, video by Kriti Gandhi, CNN (CNN) — In 2023, it isn’t hard to imagine we’re living through the end times, with apocalyptic weather events happening throughout the year and across the globe. Since the turn of the millennium, there has been a “staggering rise in climate-related disasters,” according to the UN. Between 2000 and 2019, 3.9
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — A Danish artist received $76,000 from a museum to create two works of art, but instead submitted blank canvases entitled “Take the Money and Run.” The bold move has reignited debate about the value of conceptual art after a court ruled this week that the artist must return nearly
Continue Reading By Tim Lister, Anna Chernova, Christian Edwards and Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — Azerbaijan said it had taken back the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh after launching a lightning 24-hour assault that forced ethnic Armenian forces to surrender and agree to a Russia-brokered ceasefire. Under the agreement, Azerbaijan said it would halt its military offensive –
Continue Reading By Andi Babineau, Christina Maxouris and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Prosecution and defense attorneys delivered opening statements Wednesday in the trial of two Aurora, Colorado, police officers who arrested Elijah McClain, an unarmed 23-year-old Black man who died after their encounter more than four years ago. “You will hear no evidence in this case,
Continue Reading By Gawon Bae and Jessie Yeung, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korean police have arrested two people and questioned more than a dozen American soldiers on suspicion of smuggling and distributing synthetic cannabis after raiding two US army bases. The raids, which took place in May, were reported by the Pyeongtaek police department
Continue Reading By Jared Formanek and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — The US Marshals Service is offering $10,000 for those who come forward with information leading to the arrest of a suspect in a 2021 killing who was released from a detention center in Indianapolis last week due to a clerical mistake, officials said. Kevin Mason, 28,
Continue Reading By Tara Subramaniam, CNN (CNN) — The threat of intense bushfires looms over New South Wales as record spring temperatures and high winds fan the flames of more than 60 blazes already burning in Australia’s most populous state, authorities have warned. Several cities along the east coast saw record spring temperatures Tuesday, according to Australia’s
Continue Reading By Jeremy Harlan and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A Utah woman charged with killing her husband with fentanyl and subsequently accused of writing a letter encouraging her brother to provide false testimony claims the letter was part of a fictional book she was writing, court documents show. Kouri Richins is facing murder and drug
Continue Reading By Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Max Foster CNN Paris (CNN) — Britain’s King Charles and Queen Camilla arrived in Paris on Wednesday, marking the start of a three-day state visit intended to highlight the close ties between France and the United Kingdom. French President Emmanuel Macron will honor the British sovereign and his wife with a
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