By Hamdi Alkhshali, Richard Allen Greene, Kareem Khadder and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of people were injured in Tel Aviv on Saturday as hundreds of Eritrean government supporters and opponents clashed with each other and with Israeli police, authorities in Israel said. Israel’s Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency service said more than 114
Continue Reading By Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — When it comes to inspecting luggage, “there’s never a dull moment,” customs agents at Washington’s Dulles Airport said after opening the bags of two passengers from Vietnam and discovering herbal medicine, snakes and even seahorses. US Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists found 77 dry seahorses, 50 small boxes
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of people remain trapped at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert after heavy rains inundated the area and created thick, ankle-deep mud which sticks to campers’ shoes and vehicle tires. Attendees were told to shelter in place in the Black Rock Desert and
Continue Reading By Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — When Dr. Janelle Cooper, an OB/GYN, pulled into the parking garage of the hospital where she works in Annapolis, Maryland, and walked toward the building, she saw a man running and thought, “Oh, that’s unusual.” She noticed “a truck that was parked in the middle of the street, and
Continue Reading By Olga Voitovych, Josh Pennington, Pauline Lockwood and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — One of Ukraine’s most powerful oligarchs has been arrested in a fraud investigation, state media in the country are reporting. A Kyiv court on Saturday ordered Ihor Kolomoisky, a key supporter of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s 2019 presidential campaign, to 60 days
Continue Reading By Wayne Chang, Alex Stambaugh and Heather Chen, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — At least 44 people were injured and tens of thousands of homes were left without power as Typhoon Haikui made its way across Taiwan, authorities said. The storm made landfall along the southeastern coastal township of Donghe at about 3:40 p.m. local
Continue Reading CNN By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Happy Labor Day weekend, also known as summer’s unofficial last hurrah. Unfortunately, the long holiday weekend is often punctuated by heavy highway traffic and lengthy airport delays — no doubt exacerbated by the damage caused by Hurricane Idalia last week. If you’re among the millions traveling
Continue Reading By Heather Law and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — North Korea said Sunday it had simulated a nuclear missile attack to warn the United States of “nuclear war danger.” The country launched several cruise missiles, some of them equipped with mock nuclear warheads, state media outlet KCNA said, describing the exercise as a simulation of
Continue Reading By Chris Lau and Junko Fukutome, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — It’s a steamy summer afternoon in the Japanese city of Osaka, where a group of around 60 men and women have gathered for a session of “omiai,” or matchmaking, to find true love. They mingle away, hopping from one end of the conference room at
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Tens of thousands of people attending the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert are being told to conserve food, water and fuel as they shelter in place in the Black Rock Desert after a heavy rainstorm pummeled the area, festival organizers said. Attendees saw their campsites transformed by
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — An alligator bit a child at a New Orleans beach that has been officially closed to the public since 1964, a hospital spokesperson said. The child, whose age and condition were not released, was transported Friday to the Children’s Hospital of New Orleans after the
Continue Reading By Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — The New York City Police Department will deploy a fleet of hi-tech drones during the Labor Day weekend to monitor complaints about large gatherings associated with West Indian American Day celebrations, a tactic that has been denounced by civil liberties advocates. Police enforcement for the yearly festivities, which culminate
Continue Reading By Lauren del Valle and Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — A law enforcement team in northeast Oklahoma believes the prolific serial killer known as “BTK” may be responsible for several additional unsolved missing person and homicide cases. Now they’re hoping the public can help them identify barns and silos in Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri that
Continue Reading By Sophie Tanno and Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis formally began his 8,000-kilometer trip to Mongolia on Saturday, a country sandwiched between Russia and China that has a tiny Catholic population. Catholics from Mongolia and other countries, some seen waving Chinese flags, gathered in the main square of capital city Ulaanbaatar to catch
Continue Reading By Niamh Kennedy, Dan Wright and Olga Voitovych, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s counteroffensive is “moving forward” after Kyiv made some headway in its campaign to recapture territory seized by Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday. “Ukrainian forces are moving forward. Despite everything and no matter what anyone says, we are advancing, and that
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Some of our strongest memories can be rooted in scents and sounds. Human brains are wired in a way to make connections between memory and the senses, such as hearing a favorite song and recalling a road trip in which you listened to it on repeat — or smelling freshly baked
Continue Reading By Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — A ship missing since the late 1800s has been discovered in Lake Michigan, the Wisconsin Historical Society said Friday. “Shipwreck hunters and historians Brendon Baillod and Bob Jaeck located the wreck of the schooner Trinidad in 270 feet of water off Algoma earlier this year,” read a Facebook post.
Continue Reading By Eve Brennan, Sophie Tanno, Niamh Kennedy and Olga Voitovych, CNN (CNN) — The Nobel Foundation has U-turned on a controversial decision to invite the ambassadors of Russia, Belarus and Iran to the Nobel Prize award ceremony after facing widespread criticism. The foundation announced in a press release Saturday that ambassadors from the three countries
Continue Reading By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — A new law in Texas requires convicted drunk drivers to pay child support if they kill a child’s parent or guardian, according to House Bill 393. The law, which went into effect Friday, says those convicted of intoxication manslaughter must pay restitution. The offender will be expected to make
Continue Reading By Maxime Tamsett and Fabiana Chaparro, CNN (CNN) — A 100-year-old African tortoise named Biscuit has been reunited with his family after being rescued from a canal, according to the Parish of Ascension in Louisiana. A local animal control team rescued the tortoise on Wednesday after the sheriff’s office found it “in distress” in New
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