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A private company runs the control tower where a B-52 got too close to a passenger jet. It’s more common than you might think

By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington (CNN) — The control tower where a Delta Air Lines regional jet had to perform an “aggressive maneuver” to avoid colliding with an Air Force B-52 bomber isn’t staffed by the Federal Aviation Administration, but rather air traffic controllers working for a private company. It’s more common than most fliers

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Neil Armstrong Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of astronaut Neil Armstrong. Personal Birth date: August 5, 1930 Death date: August 25, 2012 Birthplace: Wapakoneta, Ohio Birth name: Neil Alden Armstrong Father: Stephen Armstrong, auditor Mother: Viola (Engel) Armstrong Marriages: Carol (Held Knight) Armstrong (June 12, 1994-August 25, 2012, his death); Janet

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Bryan Kohberger has another chance to explain why he killed 4 Idaho college students. But he doesn’t have to speak

By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Bryan Kohberger has one last chance Wednesday to give the grieving parents of four University of Idaho students he admitted to killing the answers they’ve desperately sought for nearly three years. Why did he do it? Kohberger will have an opportunity to reveal those details before his sentencing Wednesday,

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US citizen among eight Druze family members executed during Syria’s sectarian violence

By Eyad Kourdi, Mohammed Tawfeeq, Nadeen Ebrahim, Jennifer Hansler, Sarah Dewberry and Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — An American citizen from Oklahoma was among eight men, all family members, rounded up and killed in an execution-style attack during the sectarian violence that flared in Syria last week. Hosam Saraya, a 35-year-old Syrian-American, was identified by

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Detained Venezuelans embrace upon arrival at Simon Bolivar International Airport as part of a detainee exchange agreement between Venezuela and the United States on July 18 in Caracas

Venezuela says it will investigate El Salvador officials over alleged abuse of Cecot detainees deported from US

By Michael Rios, Ivonne Valdés and Marlon Sorto, CNN (CNN) — Venezuela says it is opening a formal investigation into several Salvadoran officials, including President Nayib Bukele, over the alleged abuse of Venezuelan migrants deported from the US. Some 252 Venezuelans, who had been imprisoned at the notorious Cecot prison in March following their deportation,

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People carry relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) on June 8

Western nations slam Israel’s ‘drip feeding of aid’ to Gaza as health ministry says 1,000 killed seeking supplies

By Catherine Nicholls, Kareem Khadder and Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — The foreign ministers of 25 Western nations have slammed Israel for “drip feeding” aid into the Gaza Strip, as the health ministry in the territory said that more than 1,000 people have been killed seeking humanitarian relief there since late May. The Palestinian health

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The Idaho Maximum Security Institution pictured in January 2024.

Inside Idaho’s only maximum security prison where Bryan Kohberger may spend the rest of his life

By Alisha Ebrahimji, Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Idaho’s only maximum security prison could soon be home to Bryan Kohberger, the man who admitted to the 2022 gruesome killings of four University of Idaho students in a remarkable change-of-plea hearing earlier this month. The Idaho Maximum Security Institution, opened in 1989 to confine the state’s

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A couple were accused of having an ‘illicit’ relationship. Their community allegedly shot them dead

By Sophia Saifi, Asim Khan and Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Pakistani police have made multiple arrests after a couple were allegedly murdered in broad daylight on the orders of a tribal elder for having an “illicit” relationship, in the latest so-called “honor killing” in the country. The killings last month in the southwestern Balochistan

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