By Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — A Texas couple who sold an exotic South American cat to an undercover agent was arrested while trying to sell a jaguar cub to the same agent a month later, according to court documents. And while the felines may be small in size, selling them violated the federal Big
Continue Reading By Mengchen Zhang, Teele Rebane and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — A US State Department report that accuses the Chinese government of expanding disinformation efforts is “in itself disinformation,” Beijing’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed Saturday. The ministry shot back after the State Department issued a striking report this week in which it accused the
Continue Reading By Raja Razek and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — The Marion, Kansas, police chief has been suspended after the police raid of a local newspaper and the home of the paper’s publisher last month. Officers in August searched the office of the Marion County Record, as well as the home of the paper’s publisher and
Continue Reading By Marcelo Medeiras, Stefano Pozzebon and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — More than a hundred dolphins have been found dead in the Brazilian Amazon amid an historic drought and record-high water temperatures that in places have exceeded 102 degrees Fahrenheit. The dead dolphins were all found in Lake Tefé over the past seven days, according
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — The Powerball jackpot has soared to an estimated $1.04 billion after no tickets matched all six numbers in Saturday night’s drawing. Saturday night’s drawing produced white balls 19, 30, 37, 44 and 46 and red Powerball 22. The $1.04 billion prize – an estimated $478.2 million in cash value
Continue Reading CNN By Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine will soon face its second winter at war, and the bold campaigns of a year ago that saw significant gains in Kharkiv and Kherson seem a distant memory. The Ukrainian military is now waging a war of intense attrition against stubborn and larger Russian forces along a
Continue Reading By Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine will soon face its second winter at war, and the bold campaigns of a year ago that saw significant gains in Kharkiv and Kherson seem a distant memory. The Ukrainian military is now waging a war of intense attrition against stubborn and larger Russian forces along a front
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová, Sophie Tanno and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — A party headed by a pro-Kremlin figure came out top after securing more votes than expected in an election in Slovakia, official results show, in what could pose a challenge to NATO and EU unity on Ukraine. According to the final tallies released by
Continue Reading By Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — One year on from the Kanjuruhan football stadium disaster that killed more than 130 people in Indonesia, families of the victims are calling on authorities to reopen investigations and declare the incident “a serious human rights violation.” Video footage aired by CNN affiliate CNN Indonesia showed emotional scenes as
Continue Reading By Eve Brennan and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — An Azerbaijani soldier was killed by a sniper near the border with Armenia on Saturday, according to Azerbaijan’s defense ministry. The ministry said in a press release that the Armenian army opened fire on the Azerbaijani army at noon on Saturday using sniper rifles. CNN is
Continue Reading By Mitchell McCluskey and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Saturday blocked two provisions of a near-total ban on abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy from taking effect in North Carolina, saying that one of the provisions is unconstitutionally vague, while the other lacks medical evidence. Senate Bill 20, dubbed the “Care
Continue Reading By Amanda Jackson and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Water levels are so low at Canyon Lake in Texas that an underwater cave and remnants of communities that stood more than a century ago at the site are reappearing. The lake, located in Comal County just northeast of San Antonio, is a man-made lake spanning
Continue Reading By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Cherbourg, Australia (CNN) — Built on the land of the Wakka Wakka people, Cherbourg’s modern motto of “many tribes, one community” reflects the varied origins of its 1,700 residents, descendants of people once forced to live there under laws of segregation. Between 1905 and 1971, more than 2,600 Aboriginal and Torres
Continue Reading By Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — Giles, a charismatic black kitty, took home a trophy and some stitches after finding himself stuck between a cushion and a hard place. Giles won the 15th Annual Hambone Award, and this year’s competition was stiff. Some of the finalists included a Labrador that took an unexpected jump off
Continue Reading By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A suspect has been arrested after the former assistant to the Duchess of York was found dead in a Dallas apartment earlier this week, officials said. Officers responded Monday afternoon to a home in downtown Dallas where they found Jenean Chapman, 46, had died, according to the Dallas Police
Continue Reading By Maria Sole Campinoti and Jessica Xing, CNN (CNN) — The family of an 8-year-old girl who was shot and killed by police gunfire near a Pennsylvania high school football game in 2021 has settled its lawsuit against a Philadelphia suburb, its police chief, and the three officers involved for $11 million. Fanta Bility was
Continue Reading By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Germany has hit back at Elon Musk after the billionaire businessman waded into the country’s debate on migration. Musk reshared a post on the platform X, formerly Twitter, that criticized German NGO operations in the Mediterranean for “unloading illegal immigrants” in Italy. The post also called for a victory
Continue Reading By Kelly Murray (CNN) — Any potential winner of tonight’s nearly $1 billion Powerball jackpot would be very, very rich. Saturday night’s drawing produced white balls 19, 30, 37, 44 and 46 with red Powerball 22. After Wednesday’s drawing became the 30th consecutive drawing without a grand prize winner, the Powerball jackpot grew to $960
Continue Reading By Sara Smart, CNN and Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — A microscopic parasite was detected in the Druid Lake Reservoir in Baltimore, and vulnerable residents are being told to take precautions when drinking water. Traces of Cryptosporidium were found in the lake during a routine test by the Baltimore City Department of Public Works crew
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — After a nearly 4 billion-mile round trip, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully delivered NASA’s first asteroid sample to Earth. The capsule containing rocks and soil, collected from the asteroid Bennu, stuck a perfect landing in the Utah desert on September 24 after blazing through Earth’s atmosphere at blistering temperatures — enough
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