By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers are questioning the theories of planet formation after discovering an exoplanet that technically shouldn’t exist. The planet, about the mass of Neptune and more than 13 times as massive as Earth, was detected orbiting an ultracool M-dwarf star called LHS 3154 — which is nine times less massive
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have created tiny living robots from human cells that can move around in a lab dish and may one day be able to help heal wounds or damaged tissue, according to a new study. A team at Tufts University and Harvard University’s Wyss Institute have dubbed these creations
Continue Reading By Anna Chernova and Lindsay Isaac, CNN (CNN) — Russia’s Supreme Court has declared what it called the “international LGBTQ movement” an extremist organization and banned all activities associated with it in the country. The landmark ruling on Thursday is set to further erode the rights of Russia’s LGBTQ community, who have faced an intensifying
Continue Reading By Andy Rose and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — The city of Fort Worth, Texas, will pay $3.5 million to settle a lawsuit connected to the 2019 death of Atatiana Jefferson, who was fatally shot in her home by a police officer. Money from the settlement, unanimously approved by the city council Tuesday, will be
Continue Reading CNN By Victoria Butenko, Maria Kostenko and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — A fire that ripped through a train as it travelled along a strategic rail tunnel in eastern Russia was the work of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), a Ukrainian defense source has claimed. “Four explosive devices were detonated while the freight train was
Continue Reading By Victoria Butenko, Maria Kostenko and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — A fire that ripped through a train as it travelled along a strategic rail tunnel in eastern Russia was the work of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), a Ukrainian defense source has claimed. “Four explosive devices were detonated while the freight train was in
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — A group of University of California professors signed a public letter pushing back on the UC president’s efforts to develop what he described earlier this month as a “viewpoint-neutral history of the Middle East,” saying it violates their academic freedom. “We find your use of the term ‘viewpoint-neutral history’
Continue Reading By Yong Xiong, Melissa Gray and David Culver, CNN (CNN) – Three giant pandas left their enclosure at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, DC, and departed by plane back to China on Wednesday, marking the end of more than 50 years of Chinese pandas being housed at the zoo. The black and white bears
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For the first time, astronomers have glimpsed a young star outside the Milky Way galaxy that’s ringed by a dense disk where planets may form. The massive star, called HH 1177, and its rotating disk were spotted in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring dwarf galaxy that’s about 160,000
Continue Reading By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — This week, the Iowa Lottery made payouts to its lucky Powerball winners – along with some lucky losers – thanks to a reporting error that led to incorrect winning numbers being posted on the state’s website. The lottery mistakenly posted incorrect winning numbers for Monday’s Powerball game online. During
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — A Las Vegas man accused of leaving antisemitic voicemail messages threatening to kill a US senator last month has been indicted by a federal grand jury over the calls and on charges he threatened to kill close relatives of that official and another senator, according to the indictment and
Continue Reading By Angela Dewan, Ella Nilsen and Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Global delegates at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai formally adopted a damage fund that was decades in the making, and several countries pledged millions of dollars to it to help nations hit hardest by the climate crisis – an early success on the
Continue Reading By Ibrahim Dahman and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Hamas said the attackers behind a Jerusalem bus stop shooting that killed three people on Thursday were members of its military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades. Seven people were also injured after the two attackers, identified by Hamas as two brothers, opened fire on a group of people
Continue Reading By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season ends today as one of the busiest on record with 20 named storms, including seven hurricanes. The three storms that made landfall in the US — Harold, Idalia and Ophelia — were among the fraction that unleashed their fury on land as most veered
Continue Reading By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Cole Allick remembers growing up on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in northern North Dakota and watching his mother struggle to navigate the overburdened and under-resourced health care system. Allick said his mom, who suffered from lupus and thyroid disease, would often struggle to get appointments with doctors.
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Oklahoma on Thursday executed 59-year-old death row inmate Phillip Hancock, who was sentenced to death for the 2001 double murder of Robert Jett and James Lynch, according to a statement from the Department of Corrections. Hancock – who had claimed the killings were done in self-defense – was pronounced dead
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy and Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The death of Henry Kissinger on Wednesday saw the loss of a diplomat Beijing has long considered a trusted friend, with China’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday hailing the former American secretary of state as “a pioneer and architect of China-US relations” for his central
Continue Reading By Khalil Abdallah, Nicole Grether, Polo Sandoval and Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — A Palestinian college student described how his training as an emergency medical technician helped him respond when he and his friends were shot in Vermont over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Kinnan Abdalhamid spoke to CNN by phone Wednesday night, detailing a harrowing
Continue Reading By Jason Hanna and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — More than a year after human remains were found in a barrel in the receding waters of Lake Mead, Nevada authorities on Wednesday released images they say are an approximation of the dead man’s face, hoping the images will spur the public to help investigators identify
Continue Reading By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Climate chaos spared no region this year. Canada burned, the US Southwest boiled, a Libyan city was swept away by floods and global heat was, as one scientist said, “gobsmackingly bananas.” Climate records fell like dominoes, and more are predicted — it is all but certain that 2023 will
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