By Caroll Alvarado, Dakin Andone, Aya Elamroussi and Michelle Watson, CNN Claire Papoulias was sitting in a history class on Cuba at Michigan State University Monday night when she said a gunman entered the classroom and opened fire. “The teacher was presenting a lesson and all of sudden I heard gunshots directly behind me,” Papoulias
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By BOBBY ROSS Jr. Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The birth of Stanley Francis Rother was by all accounts ordinary, aside from the weather. The Catholic farm boy came into the world during an Oklahoma dust storm. But in life – and in death – he was extraordinary. The 46-year-old priest, shot to death
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN An Atlanta-area police officer has been fired and arrested on suspicion of concealing the death of a 16-year-old girl whose remains were found last week, some six months after her family last saw her, authorities say. Miles Bryant, a 22-year-old Doraville, Georgia, police officer, was arrested on preliminary
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Barney está de regreso, y aunque Mattel aún no lo cofnirmó oficialmente, suponemos que todavía te ama. El gigante de los juguetes Mattel anunció este lunes que Barney, el amigable (y, seamos honestos, motivo de vergüenza para un gran grupo de Millennials que lo vieron cuando tenían edad preescolar) dinosaurio púrpura
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By SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer BRUSSELS (AP) — Three months ago, Club Brugge was hailed as the Bayern of Belgium. It’s now the fourth team in the minor Belgian league. New coach Scott Parker struggles to spark a revival while two-time European champion Benfica travels to Flanders on Wednesday. After Brugge won the Belgian
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Otis, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Recovery efforts are currently underway in the Yukon and Ontario for debris from a pair of unidentified objects that were shot down by U.S. fighter jets on Saturday and Sunday. Described as “cylindrical,” the first object was shot down
Continue ReadingBy Joy Malbon, CTV National News Washington Bureau Chief Click here for updates on this story WASHINGTON, D.C. (CTV Network) — At a Maryland prosthetics lab, a team of experts is making arms and legs to help give wounded Ukrainian soldiers a new lease on life. It’s cutting-edge, state-of-the-art technology that these wounded warriors cannot
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business New Jersey Transit, one of the largest commuter rail services in the country, is now facing the same kind of labor problems that nearly brought service on the nation’s freight railroads to a halt last year. The railroad, which carries tens of thousands of commuters daily between New Jersey and
Continue ReadingCNNEE Nota del editor: Wendy Guerra es escritora cubanofrancesa y colaboradora de CNN en Español. Sus artículos han aparecido en medios de todo el mundo, como El País, The New York Times, el Miami Herald, El Mundo y La Vanguardia. Entre sus obras literarias más destacadas se encuentran “Ropa interior” (2007), “Nunca fui primera dama”
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Nikki Haley quiere ser presidente de Estados Unidos. La exembajadora de EE.UU. ante las Naciones Unidas público un video en redes sociales resaltando sus raíces en Carolina del Sur, donde fue gobernadora por 7 años. Argumentando que es tiempo para una nueva generación de lideres en el partido republicano, Haley
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan, Caroll Alvarado, Amanda Watts, Michelle Watson and Nouran Salahieh, CNN The gunman who killed three Michigan State University students and left five others in critical condition may have had plans to target two schools in New Jersey, police there said. Anthony Dwayne McRae, 43 — who had no known ties to the
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar plans to send 10,000 cabins and caravans from last year’s World Cup to provide shelter for survivors of the Turkish earthquakes. The gas-rich Gulf nation says it had always planned to donate the mobile homes. They were needed to help house some of the 1.4 million fans who
Continue Reading By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An appeals court has prohibited the Netherlands’ military police from using racial profiling as a way of selecting people for identity checks at borders. Tuesday’s ruling is a victory for two citizens and rights groups who sued the government. The Hague Court of Appeal overturned
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Hackers say they have taken down the websites of Bahrain’s international airport, state news agency and chamber of commerce to mark the 12-year anniversary of an Arab Spring uprising in the small Gulf country. A statement posted online by a group calling itself Al-Toufan, or “The Flood” in Arabic,
Continue Reading By MEG KINNARD Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, announced her candidacy for president on Tuesday, becoming the first major challenger to former President Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination. The announcement, delivered in a tweeted video, marks an about-face for the ex-Trump
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN Avian flu has infected a record number of birds and some mammals across the United States, and scientists are keeping close watch. World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Thursday that the risk to humans remains low but added, “we cannot assume that will remain the case.” As with
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan, Terence Burlij and Kaitlan Collins, CNN Former South Carolina Republican Gov. Nikki Haley announced Tuesday in a video that she will run for president in 2024, becoming the first major rival to challenge former President Donald Trump for the GOP nomination. “The Washington establishment has failed us over and over and over
Continue Reading By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Ukraine is again appealing to Western countries for fighter jets. But the United States and its NATO allies and partners are more concerned about Kyiv’s needs for large amounts of ammunition as the war approaches its one-year anniversary. Ahead of the meeting of the Ukraine contact group
Continue Reading By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Gunmen stormed a hospital in north Syria where a baby girl is receiving care after being born under the rubble of her family’s earthquake-shattered home, a hospital official said Tuesday, adding that the attackers beat the clinic’s director. The official denied reports on social media claiming that
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN Like many Americans, the federal government is shelling out a lot more money to cover interest payments on its debt after a series of Federal Reserve rate hikes over the past year. The Treasury Department paid a record $213 billion in interest payments on the national debt in the last quarter
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