By Amanda Jackson and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Water levels are so low at Canyon Lake in Texas that an underwater cave and remnants of communities that stood more than a century ago at the site are reappearing. The lake, located in Comal County just northeast of San Antonio, is a man-made lake spanning
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN Cherbourg, Australia (CNN) — Built on the land of the Wakka Wakka people, Cherbourg’s modern motto of “many tribes, one community” reflects the varied origins of its 1,700 residents, descendants of people once forced to live there under laws of segregation. Between 1905 and 1971, more than 2,600 Aboriginal and Torres
Continue ReadingBy Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — Giles, a charismatic black kitty, took home a trophy and some stitches after finding himself stuck between a cushion and a hard place. Giles won the 15th Annual Hambone Award, and this year’s competition was stiff. Some of the finalists included a Labrador that took an unexpected jump off
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A suspect has been arrested after the former assistant to the Duchess of York was found dead in a Dallas apartment earlier this week, officials said. Officers responded Monday afternoon to a home in downtown Dallas where they found Jenean Chapman, 46, had died, according to the Dallas Police
Continue ReadingBy Maria Sole Campinoti and Jessica Xing, CNN (CNN) — The family of an 8-year-old girl who was shot and killed by police gunfire near a Pennsylvania high school football game in 2021 has settled its lawsuit against a Philadelphia suburb, its police chief, and the three officers involved for $11 million. Fanta Bility was
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Germany has hit back at Elon Musk after the billionaire businessman waded into the country’s debate on migration. Musk reshared a post on the platform X, formerly Twitter, that criticized German NGO operations in the Mediterranean for “unloading illegal immigrants” in Italy. The post also called for a victory
Continue ReadingBy Kelly Murray (CNN) — Any potential winner of tonight’s nearly $1 billion Powerball jackpot would be very, very rich. Saturday night’s drawing produced white balls 19, 30, 37, 44 and 46 with red Powerball 22. After Wednesday’s drawing became the 30th consecutive drawing without a grand prize winner, the Powerball jackpot grew to $960
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart, CNN and Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — A microscopic parasite was detected in the Druid Lake Reservoir in Baltimore, and vulnerable residents are being told to take precautions when drinking water. Traces of Cryptosporidium were found in the lake during a routine test by the Baltimore City Department of Public Works crew
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — After a nearly 4 billion-mile round trip, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully delivered NASA’s first asteroid sample to Earth. The capsule containing rocks and soil, collected from the asteroid Bennu, stuck a perfect landing in the Utah desert on September 24 after blazing through Earth’s atmosphere at blistering temperatures — enough
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — An Iowa firefighter has been arrested and charged with 13 counts of arson after he allegedly set a series of fires and then later responded to them, authorities say. Kendall Rhoads, 60, was also charged with one count of reckless use of fire or explosives, according to the Grundy
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — The long fractious ties between Kosovo and Serbia are once again on edge after one of the worst outbreaks of violence in years. The trigger for the latest flare-up was the killing of a Kosovar police officer and an ensuing shootout at a monastery last weekend, but the roots
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — At least five people were killed and parts of an Illinois neighborhood were evacuated due to a Friday crash involving a semi-truck carrying thousands of gallons of anhydrous ammonia. The truck was carrying about 7,500 gallons of the toxic substance at the time of the wreck
Continue ReadingCNN By Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — As far back as 1998, Duane Keith Davis was telling a cable channel that he was a front-seat passenger in a car from which a fellow passenger fired the shots that killed Tupac Shakur. In 2009, Davis, known as “Keffe D,” confessed to police a role in the
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — As far back as 1998, Duane Keith Davis was telling a cable channel that he was a front-seat passenger in a car from which a fellow passenger fired the shots that killed Tupac Shakur. In 2009, Davis, known as “Keffe D,” confessed to police a role in the case,
Continue ReadingCNN By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, Daniel Hodge and Kostyantin Gak, CNN Zaporizhzhia, southern Ukraine (CNN) — A group of Ukrainian soldiers moves swiftly through a front-line training ground, overcoming obstacles and firing at distant targets. They are fine-tuning their battle skills here as Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russian forces rages just few miles to the
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Slovaks have been voting in a knife-edge parliamentary election on Saturday that could radically reshape Slovakia’s approach to Ukraine and create deep rifts within NATO and the European Union. The frontrunner, former Prime Minister Robert Fico, has made no secret of his affinity for the Kremlin during the election
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Emirati president-designate for the upcoming United Nations COP28 climate conference offered a full-throated defense Saturday of his nation hosting the talks, dismissing those who “just go on the attack without knowing anything, without knowing who we are.” Climate activists roundly criticized Sultan al-Jaber’s
Continue ReadingBy Chandelis Duster, CNN Northumberland County, Virginia (CNN) — Everyday when PJ Haynie wakes up, he prays to God for two things. “As farmers, we go out and as they say, we plant and pray,” Haynie said. “We plant a crop … we pray for rain; we pray for prices.” It’s a hot Saturday morning
Continue ReadingBy Benjamin Brown, Aren Melikyan and Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — At least 100,000 people have now fled the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karbakh – more than four-fifths of the population – since Azerbaijan reclaimed the territory in a lightening offensive, authorities in neighboring Armenia said. The rapid exodus has prompted the United Nations to send
Continue ReadingBy Chris Liakos, Maya Szaniecki, Claudia Colliva and Xiaofei Xu, CNN Paris (CNN) — France’s health minister has assured the French public that there’s “no reason for widespread panic” as Paris reports a “widespread” rise in bedbugs. Speaking to French radio station France Inter, Aurelien Rousseau condeded that “when you see them around you, when
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