By Joshua Berlinger, CNN (CNN) — A prominent exiled Iranian journalist was stabbed outside his home in London on Friday, prompting British police to launch a counterterrorism investigation. Pouria Zeraati, a television anchor at the UK-based channel Iran International, was reportedly attacked by a group of men outside his home in south-western Wimbledon. The assailants
Continue Reading By Dalia Faheid, Aditi Sangal, Michelle Watson, Ashley R. Williams and Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — It could take weeks for the Port of Baltimore to reopen, according to the US Army Corps of Engineers, as an arduous cleanup process to clear the massive wreckage from this week’s catastrophic bridge collapse begins, leaving commuters and
Continue Reading By Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — Officials using DNA analysis have identified the remains of a 19-year-old Virginian sailor killed in a World War II attack more than 80 years ago, the United States Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday. David Walker, of Norfolk, Virginia, served as a Mess Attendant 3rd Class while assigned to
Continue Reading By Jessie Gretener and Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — One person has been detained after allegedly taking hostages at a bar in the central Dutch town of Ede, according to local authorities. The incident prompted authorities to evacuate about 150 homes in the area, local police said. They said the assailant’s motive was unclear but
Continue Reading By Ayurella Horn-Muller, CNN (CNN) — It’s midday, and the sun is high in the sky, a natural cyan canvas peppered with puffy, cauliflower-shaped clouds. With little warning, the clouds cluttering the horizon start to vanish before your eyes. Not long after, the world begins to darken, as the golden orb that sustains life on
Continue Reading By Christopher Lamb and Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis pulled out of a Good Friday service at the last minute, the Vatican said, “to preserve his health” ahead of major Easter events over the weekend. The 87-year-old pontiff’s well-being has been watched closely following an operation on his abdomen last year. In recent
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — The truth, as it often is, was less strange than many had thought. After weeks of frenzied conspiracies about why Catherine, Princess of Wales, had been so long out of the public eye, she revealed the reason: She had been diagnosed with cancer, was in the early stages of
Continue Reading By DOUG PADILLA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mookie Betts set a Dodgers record for leadoff home runs and Teoscar Hernández added his first two long balls for Los Angeles in a 6-3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. Betts hit his 29th leadoff homer for the Dodgers on the first pitch from Zack
Continue Reading By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press The largest uranium producer in the United States is ramping up work at a mine less than 10 miles from the rim of the Grand Canyon. The long-contested project is within the boundaries of what is now a national monument. The work is unfolding as global instability and growing
Continue Reading By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press The largest uranium producer in the United States is ramping up work just south of Grand Canyon National Park on a long-contested project that largely has sat dormant since the 1980s. The work is unfolding as global instability and growing demand drive uranium prices higher. The Biden administration and
Continue Reading By DAVID A. LIEB and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press The rapid collapse of a Baltimore bridge that was struck by large cargo ship highlighted the importance that bridges play in the daily lives of many Americans. Six construction workers who were on the bridge are presumed dead. The drivers of more than 30,000 vehicles that
Continue Reading By DAVID A. LIEB, MICHAEL CASEY, JEFF MCMURRAY and CHRISTOPHER KELLER Associated Press After a yearlong closure, a bridge over the Puyallup River reopened in 2019 with a sturdy new span and a brand new name. It even won a national award. But today, the Fishing Wars Memorial Bridge is closed again after federal officials
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Sweden became the newest member of NATO earlier this month, joining 31 nations in the security alliance, including the United States. Well, make that 49 of the 50 United States. Because in a quirk of geography and history, Hawaii is not technically covered by the NATO pact. If a
Continue Reading By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — A team of 14 armed officers with camera traps, a thermal imaging drone and a shoot-to-kill order ran through the woods earlier this month in search of a fugitive. But their target was no serial killer — it was a brown bear that had injured five people as it
Continue Reading By Sebastian Shukla, CNN (CNN) — The four men accused of a deadly terror attack on Moscow’s Crocus City concert hall last week were quickly identified by Russian authorities as being from Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia. In the hours after the attack, videos began surfacing on Russian social media channels of the police detaining and
Continue Reading By Samantha Beech and Sharif Paget, CNN (CNN) — Seven people were taken to a New York hospital for observation after experiencing severe turbulence on a United Airlines flight Friday night, according to a local EMS chief. The flight, which was traveling from Tel Aviv to Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, was forced
Continue Reading By DOUG PADILLA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mookie Betts set a Dodgers record for leadoff home runs, hitting his 29th on the first pitch from Zack Thompson in a 6-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. In his fifth season with the Dodgers after a trade from the Boston Red Sox, Betts broke
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The yard waste drop-off site on Ellis Boulevard in Jefferson City is now reopened, the city wrote in a Thursday social media post. The city expected to have the site reopened by April 1, according to previous reporting. The site on Ellis Boulevard closed in January and the city originally opted to
Continue Reading ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — Natalie Bremer scored 27 points and Minnesota State scored 40 points off 30 turnovers in an 89-73 win over Texas Women’s University on Friday night to win the NCAA Division II championship. Minnesota State (32-5), which extended its winning streak to 11 games, won its second championship in program history,
Continue Reading By Mariya Knight and Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian forces would have to cede further territory to Russia if US military aid does not arrive soon, President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned, in his latest appeal to Congress to pass a multibillion-dollar package. President Joe Biden’s administration is struggling to push a $95 billion international aid
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