By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — Everyone’s cell phone in the US will sound off today at around 2:20 p.m. ET with a message from the government, but there’s no need to panic. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, is conducting a nationwide test that will be sent to all cell phones to ensure
Continue ReadingBy Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — Though 10-year-old Frank Rosiles is no longer here, his best friend thinks about him often. Frank and Trevon Alfred met in kindergarten and spent most of their time together – in and out of class – until fourth grade. “He was my No. 1 best friend,” Trevon said, recalling
Continue ReadingCNN By Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — Though 10-year-old Frank Rosiles is no longer here, his best friend thinks about him often. Frank and Trevon Alfred met in kindergarten and spent most of their time together – in and out of class – until fourth grade. “He was my No. 1 best friend,” Trevon said,
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is shaming and challenging world leaders to take concrete action to slow climate change before it’s too late. In an update to his landmark 2015 encycyclical, he’s warning that God’s increasingly warming creation is fast reaching a “point of no return.”
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards, Katie Hunt and Ed Upright, CNN (CNN) — The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists who worked to discover and develop quantum dots, used in LED lights and TV screens, as well as by surgeons when removing cancer tissue. Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Latza Nadeau and Niamh Kennedy, CNN (CNN) — Italian authorities were on Wednesday investigating the cause of a horrific bus crash near Venice that killed at least 21 people including two children. A spokesperson for the Italian fire brigade told CNN that authorities had yet to find the cause of Tuesday’s crash in
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has outlined a new round of federal student loan forgiveness. He says it’s intended to address what he calls the “unsustainable debt” that students accumulate to complete their college education. The announcement at the White House on Wednesday comes as borrowers brace for payments
Continue ReadingBy Kocha Olarn and Helen Regan, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — A teen suspected of shooting two people dead at an upscale shopping mall in Thailand has been charged with six counts including premeditated murder, police told CNN Wednesday. The 14-year-old boy was arrested on Tuesday shortly after the shooting rampage at the busy Siam
Continue ReadingWJZ By Nouran Salahieh, Joe Sutton, Sara Smart and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Four students and another person were wounded when gunfire erupted outside a crowded homecoming event at Morgan State University in Baltimore, police said, sending students on a dash for cover and a SWAT team into a dorm to hunt for suspects.
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe and Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — New York investigators say they anticipate additional charges against the man accused of kidnapping 9-year-old Charlotte Sena as they dig into the timeline of events between her sudden disappearance and subsequent rescue Monday evening. Craig Nelson Ross Jr., 46, was arrested and charged with kidnapping Charlotte
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Washington made history again Tuesday when a sitting House speaker was voted out of his office for the first time in the nation’s history.
Continue ReadingBy Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China appears to have censored a photograph of two Chinese hurdlers embracing after a race because their lane numbers formed an accidental reference to the Tiananmen massacre in 1989. The image captures Lin Yuwei, from lane 6, and Wu Yanni, in lane 4, hugging following the women’s
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, Radina Gigova, Fred Pleitgen and Kostyantin Gak, CNN (CNN) — Western militaries are running out of ammunition to give to Ukraine, NATO and British officials warned Tuesday, as they urged the bloc’s nations to ramp up production to “keep Ukraine in the fight against Russian invaders.” The news of possible ammunition shortfalls
Continue ReadingBy Kathleen Magramo and Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China’s lunar mission to bring back the first samples ever collected from the moon’s far side is on schedule for next year, officials say, as Beijing ramps up its ambitious plan to send astronauts to the moon this decade and build an international lunar
Continue ReadingBy Sophia Saifi and Jessie Yeung, CNN Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistan, home to more than 1.7 million people who have fled violence in neighboring Afghanistan, is launching a mass deportation of “illegal immigrants,” authorities said Tuesday. In a news conference, caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti announced a November 1 deadline for those residing in
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded in Norway on Friday, as Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine rages on and other flashpoints threaten to ignite across the globe. Given that many efforts to promote peace have grown increasingly frustrated, to some observers this seems an inauspicious time to award
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MORGAN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Three people were hurt – two with serious injuries – in a Tuesday crash on Highway 5 in Morgan County, just south of Harrison Road, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The crash occurred when a 2014 Toyota Tacoma – driven by Woodrow Tweed, 75, of Linn Creek
Continue ReadingBy Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — The Philippines is investigating the deaths of three Filipino fishermen after they were killed in a collision with a “foreign” vessel in the South China Sea, authorities in the country said on Wednesday. Philippine fishing boat FFB Dearyn was struck at around 4:20 a.m. on Monday near Scarborough Shoal,
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh, Joe Sutton, Sara Smart and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Four students and another person were wounded when gunfire erupted outside a crowded homecoming event at Morgan State University in Baltimore, police said, sending students on a dash for cover and a SWAT team into a dorm to hunt for suspects. Hours
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BEVIER, Mo. (KMIZ) A Macon County couple who run a daycare in Bevier have been charged with child abuse after authorities say one of them fractured a toddler’s femur. Joshuea Leodon Teter, 28, of Bevier, was charged with child abuse in two separate cases – one stemming from last week and another from November 2022.
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