By Casey Tolan and Ed Lavandera, CNN (CNN) — As Covid cases spread in 2020, visitors to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences were greeted by a colorful sign put up by grateful neighbors outside the university’s medical center: “Heroes Work Here.” The university adopted the message in glossy promotional videos it posted online,
Continue Reading By Max Foster, Amy Cassidy, Rob Picheta and Sophie Tanno, CNN London (CNN) — Police in London are combing through the city’s largest park for a fugitive terror suspect who escaped from a prison by strapping himself to the underside of a truck. The Metropolitan Police said Friday they were searching Richmond Park in southwest
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — The escape of a convicted murderer from a Chester County correctional facility in late August is not the only incident of its kind in Pennsylvania in the past few months. For one, there was a similar incident in May at that facility. The same month, two people escaped from
Continue Reading By Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — One day, we could be Martians. Not the luminous green blobs with three eyes and wobbly antennae, but humans, born and raised on the Red Planet. NASA researchers are currently spending a year in a simulated Mars habitat in Texas, in preparation for the space agency’s ambitious plan to
Continue Reading By Holly Yan, Aya Elamroussi and Aaron Cooper, CNN (CNN) — The Pennsylvania prison tower guard who did not see or report the escape of convicted killer Danelo Cavalcante nine days ago has been fired, a source with knowledge of the decision tells CNN. A massive manhunt involving hundreds of officers is underway for Cavalcante,
Continue Reading CNN, KYW, WPVI By Aya Elamroussi, Brian Todd and Aaron Cooper, CNN (CNN) — As the manhunt for a convicted killer who slipped out of a Pennsylvania prison continues for the 10th day Saturday, authorities conducting an intense 24-hour operation now have nearly 400 officers on search efforts. Officials assigned additional law enforcement personnel to
Continue Reading By Jennifer Henderson and Travis Nichols, CNN (CNN) — A Nevada rapper was arrested on a murder charge after Las Vegas police said he “confessed to the murder in his (song) lyrics.” Kenjuan McDaniel was arrested August 29 on a charge of open murder with a deadly weapon, a news release from the Las Vegas
Continue Reading By Teele Rebane, Stephanie Busari, Niamh Kennedy and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Mali has been hit by a wave of attacks over a 24-hour period, sparking fears of spiraling insecurity in the aftermath of two coups in the volatile Sahel country. On Friday, Mali’s armed forces reported a “complex” suicide attack on the airport
Continue Reading By Denise Royal, Carlos Suarez and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Florida’s Board of Governors voted Friday to approve the use of results from the Classic Learning Test, or CLT, in college admissions. The approval makes Florida the first state university system to accept the SAT and ACT alternative, the New York Times reported.
Continue Reading By Jessica Xing, CNN (CNN) — Veterans’ constitutional rights continue to be violated in two of New Jersey’s state-run veterans nursing homes after a lack of basic hygiene and infection control in the facilities allowed Covid-19 to spread “virtually unchecked” in the pandemic’s early days, according to a Justice Department report released Thursday. The Justice
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Record-breaking rainfall paralyzed much of Hong Kong on Friday, with flash flooding submerging metro stations and trapping drivers on roads, as authorities suspended schools and urged the public to seek safe shelter. Photos and videos showed residents wading through murky brown floodwaters as heavy rain continued to
Continue Reading CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When the Perseverance rover landed on Mars in February 2021, it wasn’t alone. In addition to the Ingenuity helicopter, the rover carried a suite of science instruments designed to search for ancient signs of life. And tucked in its chassis, Percy also had MOXIE — the Mars Oxygen
Continue Reading By Virginia Langmaid, CNN (CNN) — Multiple structural issues led to the partial collapse of an apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, in May, that killed three people, according to report released Thursday. Commissioned by the city and completed by Iowa engineering firms White Birch Group and SOCOTEC Engineering, the report identified improper support for an
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Senior NASA officials say that the agency’s Space Launch System — the massive rocket designed to propel its ambitious Artemis program to establish a base on the moon — is “unaffordable,” according to a report Thursday from the US Government Accountability Office. The report, which breaks down SLS program expenditures,
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — North Korea claims to have launched a new “Korean-style” tactical nuclear attack submarine that it says heralds “the beginning of a new chapter” for its navy. But analysts say those claims should be taken with a large pinch of salt, with South Korean
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The first experiment to produce oxygen on another planet has come to an end on Mars after exceeding NASA’s initial goals and demonstrating capabilities that could help future astronauts explore the red planet. The microwave-size device called MOXIE, or Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, is on the Perseverance
Continue Reading By Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — A federal grand jury has indicted 21 people in connection to dogfighting and drug trafficking, Indiana authorities announced Thursday. The charging allegations include armed fentanyl trafficking, cocaine trafficking, methamphetamine trafficking, money laundering and participation in an animal-fighting venture, said US Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana Zachary Myers
Continue Reading By Holly Yan, Holmes Lybrand, Rashard Rose and Adrienne Winston, CNN (CNN) — Authorities have released new details about how a fugitive managed to escape police custody and dart out of a hospital in Washington, DC – with a handcuff on one wrist. Police are searching for Christopher Haynes, 30, who is suspected of killing
Continue Reading By Claudia Colliva, Chris Liakos and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Paris (CNN) — France’s highest court on Thursday upheld the government’s ban on students in public schools from wearing the abaya, a long, robe-like garment often worn by Muslim women, in a decision that rights groups warn will lead to more discrimination. “As things stand, the
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s some background information about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Facts The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was created in 1978. It exists to oversee and authorize activities carried out under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA). About the Court Before the Patriot Act (2001), foreign intelligence had to
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