Story by Reuters Paris (CNN) — A French senator has been placed under formal investigation over suspicions that he drugged a member of parliament with the intention to sexually abuse her, the senator’s lawyer and the Paris prosecutor’s office said. Conservative senator Joel Guerriau, 66, is under investigation for administering to MP Sandrine Josso, 48,
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — To say that space is a challenging environment is putting it lightly. During a recent spacewalk outside the International Space Station, a tool bag got away from NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara. The bag has gone into orbit around Earth and may be visible through binoculars until it disintegrates
Continue Reading CNN, KHNL, KGMB By Mike Valerio and Amber Sumpter, CNN (CNN) — One hundred days after the reverberating roar of wildfire moved through West Maui and destroyed centuries of stories in Lahaina, Maui officials confirmed four people are still considered missing from the disaster – an unfinished and plaintive chapter in paradise. A former NASA engineer, a
Continue Reading By Mike Valerio and Amber Sumpter, CNN (CNN) — One hundred days after the reverberating roar of wildfire moved through West Maui and destroyed centuries of stories in Lahaina, Maui officials confirmed four people are still considered missing from the disaster – an unfinished and plaintive chapter in paradise. A former NASA engineer, a published author, a
Continue Reading By Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — A 25-year-old hiker who had been missing since November 9 in Big Bend National Park in Texas has been rescued, the National Park Service said in a news release. The hiker, Christy Perry, “was found awake and talking approximately 1/4 mile below the summit of the Lost Mine Trail”
Continue Reading By Akanksha Sharma, Manveena Suri, Sania Farooqi and Vedika Sud, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — Indian authorities are exploring new ways to rescue 40 construction workers trapped underground for more than a week. The workers became stranded when a highway tunnel they were building partially collapsed in the northern state of Uttarakhand last Sunday. Although
Continue Reading CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s gargantuan deep-space rocket system, Starship, safely lifted off Saturday morning but ended prematurely with an explosion and a loss of signal. The Super Heavy booster and Starship spacecraft successfully separated after liftoff, as the Starship lit up its engines and pushed away. That process ended up destroying
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s gargantuan deep-space rocket system, Starship, safely lifted off Saturday morning but ended prematurely with an explosion and a loss of signal. The Super Heavy booster and Starship spacecraft successfully separated after liftoff, as the Starship lit up its engines and pushed away. That process ended up destroying the
Continue Reading By Stephanie Busari, CNN (CNN) — Liberia’s President, George Weah, has conceded defeat to opposition candidate Joseph Boakai after a tight run-off election. Weah, a former soccer star, called Boakai after the country’s National Elections Commission (NEC) released provisional results on Friday. With nearly all ballots counted, Boakai, a 78-year-old former vice president of Liberia,
Continue Reading By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN (CNN) — Nicole was walking through an affluent part of Alexandria, Virginia, with a friend last month, when a man approached her and began screaming. He railed about the hijab she wore, saying she looked Muslim, and made comments about Hamas raping Israeli women, she said. Her friend corroborated the account. It
Continue Reading By Nicquel Terry Ellis CNN, CNN (CNN) — Melissa Franklin has always decorated her home for Hanukkah – proudly hanging a Star of David on her porch and placing her family’s menorah in the front window. This year, however, will be different. “I just can’t see us doing it because I don’t want retaliation,” Franklin
Continue Reading By Chloe Liu and Lucas Liliehom, CNN (CNN) — Renewed fighting between the Myanmar Armed Forces (MAF) and the Arakan Army (AA) has displaced more than 26,000 people in the country’s western Rakhine state since Monday, according to the United Nations. In a statement Friday, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Continue Reading Jeremy Harlan, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Florence was targeting Campbell Coxe’s farm. Days earlier, the 2018 storm had rapidly intensified in the Atlantic, and now Darlington County, South Carolina, was in the path. Coxe had to make a quick decision: Which of his family’s crops was he going to save? “When you only have 24
Continue Reading By Mariya Knight, Chris Stern, Victoria Butenko, Martin Goillandeau, Anna Chernova, Sophie Tanno, Kostyantyn Hak, Svitlana Vlasova, Josh Pennington and Michael Rios, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — Ukraine this week claimed to have “gained a foothold” on the left bank of the Dnipro River, a welcome boost after its much vaunted counteroffensive failed to make major gains. But
Continue Reading By Dianne Gallagher, Wesley Bruer and Alta Spells, CNN (CNN) — Police in North Carolina confirmed an officer who was involved in an initial encounter with a woman, who was later seen on video getting struck 17 times by a second officer, hit her in the face but claimed the woman assaulted him first. In
Continue Reading By Jake Tapper and Kirsten Appleton, CNN (CNN) — Israeli police are using forensic evidence, video and witness testimony and interrogations of suspects to document cases of rape amid the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel. Women and girls caught in the rampage were brutalized sexually, as well as physically tortured and killed, witnesses to the
Continue Reading By Sarah Dewberry and Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — A 52-year-old man was shot outside a mosque while selling goods in Providence on Friday, according to Rhode Island officials. Patricia Socarras, the city’s director of communications, told CNN the shooting happened at the Islamic Center of Rhode Island. She added the victim appeared to have
Continue Reading By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor Karim Khan says his office has received a referral from five countries to investigate whether crimes have been committed in the Palestinian territories as part of Israel’s response to the October 7 Hamas terror attacks. South Africa, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Comoros and Djibouti submitted the
Continue Reading By Rob Frehse and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — A security guard working at a New Hampshire psychiatric hospital was fatally shot Friday and a suspect was shot dead by a state police trooper assigned to the facility, authorities say. The incident happened at the New Hampshire Hospital in Concord Friday afternoon, the New Hampshire
Continue Reading By Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — Kaitlin Armstrong was sentenced by a jury Friday to 90 years in prison after being found guilty of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 25-year-old professional cyclist Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson in Texas in May 2022. Armstrong’s case drew national attention after she traveled to Costa Rica and
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