By Isabel Rosales and Susannah Cullinane, CNN (CNN) — Groups representing defendants in the lawsuits that culminated in the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children have filed an application asking the court to rehear the case, according to court records. In its ruling – stemming from two lawsuits over the destruction of
Continue Reading CNN, ELIZABETH GOLDMAN, GOOGLE EARTH, JAMI TATUM, By Isabel Rosales and Susannah Cullinane, CNN (CNN) — Groups representing defendants in the lawsuits that culminated in the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children have filed an application asking the court to rehear the case, according to court records. In its ruling – stemming
Continue Reading By Dalia Faheid and Camila Bernal, CNN (CNN) — The biggest inferno in Texas history was being fueled by winds and high temperatures as it raged Sunday, threatening to incinerate more buildings, cattle and livelihoods across the Texas Panhandle while residents sift through ashes of what used to be homes. Critical fire weather conditions continued
Continue Reading CNN By Dalia Faheid and Camila Bernal, CNN (CNN) — The biggest inferno in Texas history was being fueled by winds and high temperatures as it raged Sunday, threatening to incinerate more buildings, cattle and livelihoods across the Texas Panhandle while residents sift through ashes of what used to be homes. Critical fire weather conditions
Continue Reading CNN By Caitlin Hu and Manveena Suri, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of prisoners have escaped from Haiti’s National Penitentiary in the capital, Port-au-Prince, after fighting broke out on Saturday, according to a law enforcement source. In a post on X, one of Haiti’s Police Unions pleaded for all officers in the capital with access to cars and
Continue Reading By Michelle Velez, Stefano Pozzebon, Caitlin Hu and Manveena Suri, CNN (CNN) — Haiti’s government declared a state of emergency on Sunday after thousands of inmates apparently escaped from its largest prison during a surge of gang violence that has upended the Caribbean nation for months. The government cited the “deterioration of security,” notably in
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — A Texas man has been arrested and charged in connection with the disappearance of a Houston-area minor under age 13 who was missing for eight days before being found safe. The girl went missing on February 22 from her home near Houston. Police issued an Amber Alert on Wednesday
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — A child and at least one other person were injured in a shooting outside of a Missouri high school Saturday, North Kansas City Police said, less than a month after a mass shooting at a Super Bowl celebration shook the area. Two victims were transported from
Continue Reading By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — For more than two decades, no one listened to Sally Leydon as she begged for help to find her mother who mysteriously vanished during a trip abroad in 1997. At the time, Australian police dismissed her concerns, insisting that her mother, Marion Barter, had disappeared by choice,
Continue Reading By Artemis Moshtaghian and Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a derailment involving three Norfolk Southern trains in eastern Pennsylvania on Saturday, NTSB spokesperson Sarah Taylor Sulick said. The freight train wreck occurred along the Lehigh River in Lower Saucon Township, just east of Allentown, causing multiple container cars
Continue Reading By Kaitlyn Schwanemann and Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — Alexa Doblado hasn’t felt safe at the University of Georgia since Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, was found dead on campus. Riley was killed while on a jog at the university’s intramural fields, and her body was later found behind a nearby lake. In the
Continue Reading CNN By Kaitlyn Schwanemann and Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — Alexa Doblado hasn’t felt safe at the University of Georgia since Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, was found dead on campus. Riley was killed while on a jog at the university’s intramural fields, and her body was later found behind a nearby lake. In
Continue Reading By Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — Norway’s King Harald has had a temporary pacemaker fitted at a hospital in Malaysia after falling ill on holiday there. The procedure, which took place Saturday at Hospital Sultanah Maliha on the island of Langkawi, was undertaken due to the 87-year-old monarch’s low heart rate, the royal household said
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Fungi are fascinating and integral parts of the web of life. They also have a bit of a mixed reputation. On one hand, mushrooms and networks of fungal roots are sought-after sources of nutritionally rich food, mind-altering drugs and eco-friendly materials — and they help trees share nutrients and store
Continue Reading By Justin Gamble, CNN (CNN) — After 35 years, the cast of “A Different World” has reunited on a tour of historically Black colleges and universities to promote enrollment and raise scholarship funding for current and future students. “A Different World” was a spin-off of “The Cosby Show” that followed Denise Huxtable’s character, played by
Continue Reading By Xiaofei Xu and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Germany says it will investigate after a recording leaked of a conversation between several top-ranking German officers on the country’s Ukraine war strategy. During the conversation, posted online by the head of Russia’s state-backed RT channel, Margarita Simonyan, air force officers discuss the possible delivery of Taurus
Continue Reading By Virginia Langmaid and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Following the death of tenth grader Nex Benedict, the US Department of Education said Friday it is opening an investigation into whether an Oklahoma school district “failed to appropriately respond to alleged harassment,” according to a letter from the department. Nex, who family and friends say
Continue Reading By Josh Campbell and Michelle Krupa, CNN Portland, Oregon (CNN) — Biking in one of the West Coast’s biggest cities, police Officer Donny Mathew spotted something out of the corner of his eye. It was a glint, shining off a piece of aluminum foil in the hand of someone on the sidewalk. Mathew knew the
Continue Reading By Maria Kostenko and Catherine Nicholls, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — The death toll from a Russian drone attack on an apartment block in the Ukrainian city of Odesa has risen to 12, with the bodies of five children removed from the rubble, officials said Sunday, the latest civilian victims of a relentless Russian bombing campaign.
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, Dalia Faheid, Camila Bernal, Zoe Todd and Christal Hayes, CNN (CNN) — The wildfire in Texas has already killed two people, demolished hundreds of structures and obliterated thousands of cattle as it became the biggest blaze in the state’s history. And now, weather conditions threaten to make things even worse. Some 8
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