By Brad Lendon, Manveena Suri, Josh Pennington and Sophie Jeong, CNN (CNN) — Russia says it killed large numbers of Ukrainian soldiers with a destructive so-called “vacuum bomb” in a claim Ukraine swiftly called nonsense. The deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces told Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during a
Continue Reading By Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Residents are surveying the damage to their homes as cleanup efforts continue this weekend after several tornadoes ripped across the Midwest, killing at least three people and destroying neighborhoods. Powerful tornadoes, large hail and damaging wind gusts – part of a storm system that stretched from Texas to Pennsylvania
Continue Reading CNN By Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Residents are surveying the damage to their homes as cleanup efforts continue this weekend after several tornadoes ripped across the Midwest, killing at least three people and destroying neighborhoods. Powerful tornadoes, large hail and damaging wind gusts – part of a storm system that stretched from Texas to
Continue Reading By Sarita Harilela and Sophie Jeong, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A Hong Kong court on Saturday sentenced 12 people to between 54 and 82 months in prison over the storming of the city’s legislature council building during a pro-democracy protest in 2019, the city’s public broadcaster RTHK said. RTHK said the defendants were convicted
Continue Reading By Kareem El Damanhoury and Julia Vargas Jones, CNN São Paulo, Brazil (CNN) — Former President Jair Bolsonaro presented top Brazilian military leaders with a plan to stage a coup after he lost the 2022 election, newly released court documents have alleged. The country’s Supreme Court released the testimonies from former army commander Marco Antonio Freire
Continue Reading By Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — A United Airlines flight was discovered to be missing an external panel on the aircraft after it landed in Medford, Oregon, Friday afternoon after taking off from San Francisco, California, according to the airline. The plane carrying 145 passengers and crew landed safely and was parked at the gate
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Law enforcement officers had probable cause to confiscate the firearms from Robert Card and take him into protective custody before he went on a shooting rampage in northern Maine, but failed to invoke a state law that could have been used to disarm him, according to an independent report
Continue Reading CNN By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Eliantes Jean Jacques, a Haitian immigrant who has lived in Florida for more than three decades, is long familiar with the political instability, economic turmoil, and natural disasters that have left his homeland teetering on the precipice of collapse. But Haiti’s recent descent into gang-fueled lawlessness and chaos,
Continue Reading By Caitlin Stephen Hu, David Culver, Evelio Contreras and Tara John, CNN Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — In a city silenced by gangs, everyone notices the thrum of a helicopter beating overhead in the night – a brief sign that someone very lucky has been able to leave Port-au-Prince. CNN was able to land in the
Continue Reading By Jeff Winter, CNN (CNN) — Brooklyn’s district attorney is not pursuing charges against the man who shot another man in the head on a crowded New York City subway train on Thursday, according to the office. “Yesterday’s shooting inside a crowded subway car was shocking and deeply upsetting,” Oren Yaniv, a spokesperson for the
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — A 19-year-old Michigan man who alleges in a lawsuit his then-best friend shot him in the face in 2021 with a ghost gun is suing the supplier he says illegally sold the underage friend the parts to assemble the weapon. The lawsuit, filed by Guy Boyd on Monday in Michigan’s Washtenaw County Circuit Court,
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of convicted Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols. Personal Birth date: April 1, 1955 Birth place: Lapeer County, Michigan Birth name: Terry Lynn Nichols Father: Robert Nichols, farmer Mother: Joyce Nichols Marriages: Marife (Torres) Nichols (1990-2003, divorced); Lana (Osentoski) Nichols (1981-1989, divorced) Children:
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft. Personal Birth date: March 24, 1956 Birth place: Detroit, Michigan Birth name: Steven Anthony Ballmer Father: Fred Ballmer, manager for Ford Motor Co. Mother: Bea (Dworkin) Ballmer Marriage: Connie Snyder (1990-present) Children: Three sons Education: Harvard
Continue Reading By CNN Impact Your World (CNN) — Storms and tornadoes tore through parts of Indiana and Ohio on Thursday night, leaving death and destruction in their wake. At least three people are dead and dozens more are injured. Those numbers are expected to rise as search and rescue operations continue. Officials believe a “likely tornado”
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the Taliban, a Sunni Islamist organization operating primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Facts The group’s aim is to impose its interpretation of Islamic law on Afghanistan and remove foreign influence from the country. Taliban, in Pashto, is the plural of Talib, which means student. Most members
Continue Reading By Shimon Prokupecz, Samantha Guff, Rachel Clarke and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — School employees and victims of the Uvalde mass shooting began giving testimony Friday before a grand jury investigating the failed police response at Robb Elementary School in 2022, according to several people familiar with the proceeding. Investigators who responded to the scene
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected commonplace chemical ingredients found in vinegar, ant stings and even margaritas around two young stars, according to NASA. The complex organic molecules they observed using the space observatory’s Mid-Infrared Instrument included acetic acid, a component of vinegar, and ethanol —
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar, CNN Christchurch, New Zealand – (CNN) — Sitting side by side in the mosque’s meeting room, Temel Ataçocuğu and Imam Gamal Fouda hunch over in laughter. To an outsider, they look like two old friends bonding over an inside joke. Beneath the table, though, Ataçocuğu’s knees bounce nervously. His hands shake. His
Continue Reading By Jeremy Diamond and Abeer Salman, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — A senior Hamas official told CNN that he cannot provide any assurances about the wellbeing of Israeli hostages held in Gaza, but rejected a United Nations special representative’s finding that there is “clear and convincing information” that some of them have been sexually abused. “I cannot now reassure
Continue Reading By Nic F. Anderson and Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — A jury found Connecticut State Trooper Brian North not guilty of first-degree manslaughter with a firearm and two other charges in connection with the fatal 2020 shooting of a 19-year-old accused of carjacking. The trooper was charged with first-degree manslaughter with a firearm, second-degree manslaughter
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