CNN By Jennifer Hauser and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has alleged that Russian President Vladimir Putin “must have killed” Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and said there can be no peace negotiation with Putin on Ukraine. Writing in a Daily Mail op-ed on Saturday, Johnson speculated about Prigozhin’s last
Continue Reading By Celina Tebor, Michelle Watson and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — An overnight shooting in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, has left two people dead and five more injured, police say. Officers responded to a shooting call outside the Southern Restaurant & Lounge around 3 a.m., according to the Louisville Metro Police Department. The first victim, an
Continue Reading WLKY By Celina Tebor, Michelle Watson and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — An overnight shooting in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, has left two people dead and five more injured, police say. Officers responded to a shooting call outside the Southern Restaurant & Lounge around 3 a.m., according to the Louisville Metro Police Department. The first victim,
Continue Reading By Michelle Velez, CNN (CNN) — At least seven people are dead after a gang opened fire on a church-led protest in a suburb of Haiti’s capital on Saturday, according to local human rights groups. Hundreds of people gathered by a Christian church leader, marched in Canaan, a northern suburb of capital Port-au-Prince, and rallied
Continue Reading CNN, WJXT By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — Today marks 60 years since the March on Washington when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his pivotal “I Have a Dream” speech on the National Mall. Around 250,000 people rallied for jobs and freedom that day on August 28, 1963. Decades later, many children who attended the
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The launch of a revolutionary satellite that will reveal celestial objects in a new light and the “Moon Sniper” lunar lander has been postponed. Liftoff was expected at at 8:26 p.m. ET Sunday, or 9:26 a.m. Japan Standard Time on Monday, but inclement weather — and specifically high upper
Continue Reading Analysis by Al Goodman, CNN Madrid (CNN) — More than a week after Spain’s historic win over England in the Women’s World Cup final, there is little talk of soccer. Instead, the victory has been overshadowed by an unwanted kiss that has sparked global outrage and put the spotlight on Spain’s enduring culture of machismo
Continue Reading By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — A 37-year-old banker from Turin is being hailed a hero after miraculously catching an Italian toddler who fell from her family’s fifth floor balcony on Saturday. Mattia Aguzzi said he and his girlfriend were walking to a bread shop in central Turin, Italy just before 11 a.m.
Continue Reading By Jillian Sykes and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Pennsylvania Park Manager Sarah Lindgren is no stranger to wildlife, so when she saw a bear cub in distress, she knew exactly what to do. Lindgren was driving through Cross Fork, a small village in northern Pennsylvania on Sunday, when she spotted a young bear on
Continue Reading CNN By Jillian Sykes and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Pennsylvania Park Manager Sarah Lindgren is no stranger to wildlife, so when she saw a bear cub in distress, she knew exactly what to do. Lindgren was driving through Cross Fork, a small village in northern Pennsylvania on Sunday, when she spotted a young bear
Continue Reading CNN By Heather Chen, Brad Lendon, Angus Watson, Jake Kwon and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — Three US Marines have been killed and several others seriously wounded after an Osprey aircraft crashed during military exercises in Australia. Of the 23 Marines on board the MV-22B Osprey aircraft, three died and five others were taken to
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Astronauts aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule docked Sunday at the International Space Station, concluding a one-day trip to rendezvous with the orbiting laboratory after launching from Florida. The capsule made first contact with the space station at 9:16 a.m. ET Sunday and its hatches opened at 10:58 a.m.
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — This summer has been one for the record books with “Barbie” raking in more than $1 billion at the global box office and two of music’s biggest superstars — Beyoncé and Taylor Swift — each on track to exceed that figure with their respective world concert
Continue Reading By Uliana Pavlova, Radina Gigova and Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — Russian investigators have confirmed that Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was among the 10 people killed when their plane crashed Wednesday, after carrying out genetic tests. Prigozhin, who led a failed uprising against the Kremlin, had previously been named as one of those on board
Continue Reading By Chandelis Duster and Justin Gamble, CNN (CNN) — It’s been 60 years since the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, but Fatima Cortez Todd says she still remembers the sense of unity she felt standing on the National Mall that day. “We sat with each other; we sang with each other,” she said.
Continue Reading By Parker Leipzig, CNN (CNN) — Requests to ban books at US public schools and libraries surged to a 21-year record in 2022, according to data from the American Library Association. Last year, the ALA recorded 1,050 requests to censor library books in 2022, a 70% increase over the 619 requests in 2021. As attempts
Continue Reading By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — The connections people experience with their loved ones don’t necessarily end after death, a recent Pew Research Center survey’s results suggest. Just over half of 5,079 surveyed American adults – 53% – reported ever having been visited by a dead relative in dreams “or some other form,” according
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hauser and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has alleged that Russian President Vladimir Putin “must have killed” Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and said there can be no peace negotiation with Putin on Ukraine. Writing in a Daily Mail op-ed on Saturday, Johnson speculated about Prigozhin’s last moments,
Continue Reading By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — One of only 15 competition prize editions ever published of a rare “Harry Potter” book, which nearly went up in flames earlier this year, will soon go up for auction. In 2012, a then-15-year-old Carina Haouchine, from Scotland, scored a winning copy of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s
Continue Reading By Mariya Knight and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — The Ukrainian Air Force has paid tribute to a well-known pilot who belonged to the “Ghost of Kyiv” unit after he died in a plane crash during a combat mission. Andriy Pilshchikov, who went by the call sign “Juice”, and two other pilots died in the
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