By Jamiel Lynch, Jason Hanna and Amir Vera, CNN The deadly Fairview Fire burning in Southern California has upended the lives of many Riverside County residents who said they felt blindsided by the flames that have been spreading rapidly since Monday. Norman Nielsen, 65, told CNN Thursday he and his wife were going to bed
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ABC 17 News spoke Thursday with Lawrence Goldman, a professor at St. Peter’s College at Oxford University, about the effect of Queen Elizabeth II’s death.
Continue ReadingBy Toyin Owoseje, CNN Queen Elizabeth II’s corgis will live with the Duke and Duchess of York, Andrew and Sarah, a source close to the Duke of York told CNN on Sunday. The pair, who divorced in 1996, both reside at the Royal Lodge on the Windsor estate. The source told CNN that the Duchess
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Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability across much of a turbulent century, has died. She was 96.
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung and Frank Pallotta, CNN Disney’s analysis of Twitter in connection with a potential 2016 acquisition led the entertainment giant to conclude that “substantial” numbers of accounts on the social media service were fake, according to former Disney CEO Bob Iger. The revelation prompted Disney to lower its estimated value for Twitter, said
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning British monarch whose rule spanned seven decades, died on Thursday at the age of 96, Buckingham Palace has announced. The Queen’s oldest son Charles has now become King Charles III. “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, Hannah Rabinowitz and Shawna Mizelle, CNN Former Donald Trump aide Steve Bannon pleaded not guilty Thursday in a New York court to state charges of money laundering, conspiracy and fraud related to an alleged online scheme to raise money for the construction of a wall along the southern US border, according to
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TODAY: Thursday is looking to be another sunny start, with sunny skies remaining the rule the rest of the day. Despite a cool start at sunrise, temperatures should still warm into the mid-80s with little or no influence from a north breeze today, unlike Wednesday. TONIGHT: Skies remain clear tonight, setting us up for another
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung and Frank Pallotta, CNN Disney’s analysis of Twitter in connection with a potential 2016 acquisition led the entertainment giant to conclude that “substantial” numbers of accounts on the social media service were fake, according to former Disney CEO Bob Iger. The revelation prompted Disney to lower its estimated value for Twitter, said
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Former CNN anchor Bernard Shaw died Wednesday at a Washington, DC, hospital of pneumonia unrelated to Covid-19, Shaw’s family announced Thursday. Shaw was 82. Shaw was CNN’s first chief anchor and was with the network when it launched on June 1, 1980. He retired from CNN after more than 20 years
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, Tim Lister, Yulia Kesaieva, Denis Lapin, Josh Pennington and Victoria Butenko, CNN When Ukrainian forces entered the city of Izium Saturday, it was more than a major military victory. It was a sign the war in Ukraine might be entering a new phase, one in which Russian troops are scrambling to hold
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, Rob Picheta, Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning British monarch whose rule spanned seven decades, died on Thursday at the age of 96, Buckingham Palace has announced. The Queen’s oldest son Charles has now become the King. “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Sarisohn and Steve Almasy, CNN Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles was charged with murder with a deadly weapon in the stabbing death of Las Vegas investigative journalist Jeff German, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday. In the chilling case that has raised concerns about press freedoms in the United States, German
Continue ReadingBy Scottie Andrew, CNN Elijah Wood, Sean Astin and the core cast of Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” film trilogy are understandably protective of the beloved fantasy property. But they won’t tolerate racism or hatred toward the new generation of Tolkien actors. Several performers in Amazon’s new series “Lord of the Rings: The Rings
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN Covid-19 cases are on the rise among kids in the United States as another school year gets underway. New cases reported among children in the last week of August were 14% higher than they were two weeks earlier, according to data tracked by the American Academy of Pediatrics. They jumped even
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe and Melissa Alonso, CNN Dewayne Tunstall had aspirations of running a food truck and planned to name it “EBE,” inspired by the phrase he lived his life by: “Everybody eats,” his friend Marcus Cash told CNN affiliate WMC. But in the early hours of Wednesday, Tunstall was shot and killed while visiting
Continue ReadingBy Derek Van Dam, Judson Jones, Brandon Miller, Allison Chinchar and Monica Garrett, CNN Hurricane Kay made landfall in Mexico, along the west coast of the central Baja California Peninsula on Thursday afternoon, triggering flooding concerns not just in that region, but in parts of California and Arizona too. Hurricane conditions were impacting the peninsula
Continue ReadingBy Amir Vera and Andi Babineau, CNN Eliza “Liza” Fletcher routinely ran 8.2 miles in the predawn hours. But her final run ended tragically unfinished. Fletcher, a 34-year-old wife, mother and teacher, was violently abducted last week in Memphis, Tennessee; her body was found Monday behind a vacant complex. A week to the day after
Continue ReadingBy Sara Sidner and Meridith Edwards, CNN Six-year-old Charles Wilson V is scared to drink out of the water fountain at his school. “I will die,” he says matter-of-factly when asked the reason why. It’s a fear his father agrees with. At home in Jackson, Mississippi, Charles Wilson III — who lost his first namesake
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN When artist Robert McCurdy was taking the high-resolution photograph he would use to paint President Barack Obama‘s official portrait, he had some instructions: No smile, no gestures and look directly into the camera. And, Obama joked at the unveiling Wednesday, no tan suit. “We’re not looking for a gestural moment,” McCurdy
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