By Sophie Jeong and Yasmin Coles, CNN Fifty people were killed when a Philippine Air Force plane crashed in the southern Philippines on Sunday, the country’s worst military air disaster in decades. The C-130 military plane was transporting troops from Cagayan de Oro, in Mindanao, to Sulu province when it missed the runway on the
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By Dakin Andone, Hollie Silverman and Melissa Alonso, CNN The remaining portion of the Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Florida, was demolished just after 10:30 p.m. ET Sunday. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told CNN in a briefing Sunday night that once the area has been deemed secure following the building’s demolition,
Continue ReadingBy David Williams, CNN A former sugar cane farmer in Puerto Rico has been confirmed as the world’s oldest man by Guinness World Records, just a few weeks shy of his 113th birthday. Emilio Flores Márquez was born on August 8, 1908, in Carolina, Puerto Rico, making him 112 years and 326 days old as
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By Angela Dewan, CNN The tiny town of Lytton has come to hold a grim record. On Tuesday, it experienced Canada’s highest-ever temperature, in an unprecedented heat wave that has over a week killed hundreds of people and triggered more than 240 wildfires across British Columbia, most of which are still burning. Lytton hit 49.6
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An Atlanta woman woke up to a surprise when an exotic cat native to Africa — that was not hers — jumped onto her bed. CNN affiliate WGCL reports.
Continue ReadingBy Christina Maxouris, CNN As Chicago leaders work to address violence across the city, police said Saturday that at least 16 people have been shot — including six fatally — across the city since Friday. A 39-year-old man was shot in the head while traveling in the back seat of a vehicle on Chicago’s west
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Salute to America kicked off Friday in Jefferson City, with large crowds coming from across Missouri to celebrate the holiday weekend and check out new attractions brought in this year.
Continue ReadingA tropical storm watch is now in effect for parts of the Florida Keys in advance of Tropical Storm Elsa. CNN Meteorologist Gene Norman is tracking the latest.
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A standoff overnight between Massachusetts State Police and “several heavily armed men” in the woods ended with 11 arrests, authorities said. CNN’s Evan McMorris-Santoro reports the ordeal, which started during a police traffic stop, led to the shutdown of part of Interstate 95 on a busy holiday weekend, according to police.
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Trent, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning against swimming with diarrhea this summer, and the visual it’s using to give that warning is making quite a splash. The agency tweeted a warning that “one person with diarrhea can contaminate the entire pool,” along with a cartoon gif of
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Trent, CNN An Atlanta woman woke up to a surprise when a cat — that was not hers — jumped onto her bed Wednesday morning. She was even more shocked to discover the cat was a serval — an exotic cat native to Africa. Kristine Frank, who lives in the Brookhaven neighborhood, told
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Trent, CNN A California rowing team is celebrating after it claims its journey from San Francisco to Honolulu set a new record for the fastest Mid-Pacific crossing. Lat 35 Racing says it took the four-man team 30 days, 7 hours and 30 minutes to complete the journey. The team’s feat tops the previous
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A tractor trailer caught fire Saturday afternoon around 1:00 p.m. near the St. Charles Lake of the Woods exit on I-70. Both westbound lanes of I-70 near the exit were closed due to the vehicle fire. One lane opened up a short time later. Brad Frazier, with the Columbia Fire Department, said
Continue ReadingBy Kelly Murray, CNN Talk about luck. Stephen C. Toto of Framingham, Massachusetts, made a last-minute decision to buy a lottery ticket, and for the second time in his life, collected a $1 million prize, according to the Massachusetts State Lottery. He bought the winning ticket at an A-1 Gulf gas station in Framingham for
Continue ReadingOfficials said they may allow a crew to demolish the remaining units of the partially collapsed South Florida condo building ahead of Tropical Storm Elsa arrival. As search and rescue efforts continue at the site, officials announced that two more victims were pulled from the Surfside rubble.
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The increase in positivity comes along with additional confirmed cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total to 526,631. In total, 94,819 probable cases of COVID-19 were discovered through antigen testing. DHSS has recorded a total of 9,339 deaths in the state since the start of the virus. The state dashboard says new cases are up
Continue Reading A standoff overnight between Massachusetts State Police and “several heavily armed men” in the woods ended Saturday morning with 11 people arrested, authorities said. CNN national security analyst Juliette Kayyem discusses.
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By John Allen, Delia Gallagher and Mia Alberti, CNN The Vatican has indicted 10 people, including an Italian cardinal, for several alleged financial crimes including extortion, corruption, fraud, forgery, embezzlement and abuse of power. The investigation, which started in July 2019, was carried out by the Vatican in cooperation with Italian authorities and revealed “a
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By David McKenzie, CNN Jacob Zuma and his lawyers successfully delayed the former South African president’s prison sentence for contempt of court on Saturday when the country’s top court agreed to hear his application for a review of their decision to sentence him to 15 months in prison. In the application, 79-year-old Zuma and his
Continue ReadingBy Kelly Murray and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN A standoff overnight between Massachusetts State Police and “several heavily armed men” in the woods ended Saturday morning with 11 people arrested, authorities said. The ordeal, which started during a police traffic stop, led to the shutdown of part of Interstate 95 and a shelter-in-place order for the
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