By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — UCLA is the latest major institution of higher learning to see promised research funding snatched away by the Trump administration, the university’s leader said in an open letter to students and faculty Thursday. “This is not only a loss to the researchers who rely on critical grants,” wrote Chancellor
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By Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Sebije Nelovic always felt safe at 345 Park Avenue. For nearly three decades, the Albanian native cleaned the ritzy Manhattan skyscraper that houses several corporate headquarters in one of New York’s toniest neighborhoods. That sense of serenity was shattered Monday when a man stormed the Midtown building with an
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By Alexandra Skores, Aaron Cooper, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — In more than 32 hours of testimony across three days the National Transportation Safety Board probed virtually every detail of what led up to the January 29 midair collision between a US Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet, operated by PSA
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Peter Phillips, the son of Britain’s Princess Anne and eldest grandchild of the late Queen Elizabeth II, announced his engagement to nurse Harriet Sperling on Friday. “Mr Peter Phillips, the son of HRH The Princess Royal and Captain Mark Phillips and Ms Harriet Sperling, daughter of the late Mr
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By Darya Tarasova and Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — An 88-year-old Russian man, who gained local fame for building his own aircraft, has died after attempting to take off in a homemade helicopter. The man, a resident of the Omutninsky district of western Russia’s Kirov Region, attempted the flight in the self-built aircraft on Thursday,
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By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Cristen Brink witnessed the unthinkable. Then she did the unimaginable. While on a family hike at Devil’s Den State Park on Saturday, Cristen’s husband Clinton was ambushed and stabbed by an attacker, according to Arkansas State Police. First, investigators say, she ran away with their young daughters to get
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KFSM, LUPITA’S BEAUTY SALON & BARBER SHOP, AR STATE POLICE, GOFUNDME, CNN By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Cristen Brink witnessed the unthinkable. Then she did the unimaginable. While on a family hike at Devil’s Den State Park on Saturday, Cristen’s husband Clinton was ambushed and stabbed by an attacker, according to Arkansas State Police.
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By Michael Rios, Saskya Vandoorne, Joseph Ataman, CNN (CNN) — The French government will deport a Gaza student accused of reposting alleged antisemitic content on her social media and halt all evacuations from the territory, the country’s foreign minister said Friday as outrage grows over her reposts. “She must leave the country. She does not
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By Kathleen Toner, CNN Philadelphia (CNN) — Growing up in his South Philly neighborhood, Tyrique Glasgow fell into street life at a young age. The experience left him with 11 bullet wounds and a prison record – all of which had roots in the same place. “(I) sold drugs on Taney Street. Got shot on
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By Daria Tarasova-Markina, Victoria Butenko, Lauren Kent, Max Saltman, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — The death toll from Russia’s heavy bombardment of Ukraine’s capital this week has risen to 31 people, marking the deadliest single attack on Kyiv in a year, Ukrainian officials said on Friday. The vast majority were killed in a single strike
Continue Reading By Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration issued a memo this week declaring that federal agencies will allow workers to promote their religious beliefs to colleagues, display religious items and pray at work. According to the guidance, a federal worker “may engage another in polite discussion of why his faith is correct and
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By Ibrahim Dahman, Christian Edwards, Abeer Salman, CNN (CNN) — Steve Witkoff, the United States’ special envoy to the Middle East, on Friday visited a controversial US-backed aid distribution site in Gaza, one of three such locations near which hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in recent weeks trying to reach scarce food supplies. Witkoff
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By Nick Paton Walsh, Natalie Wright, Kosta Gak and Brice Laine, CNN Kramatorsk (CNN) — When wars kill many over years, the names of the dead can bleed into faceless lists. But each loss still burns a black hole in the worlds they left behind. And few more so than Tymur Hryhorenko. Most of the
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By Elizabeth Wolfe, Austin Steele, Graham Hurley, CNN (CNN) — The mournful notes of taps echoed through rainy Bronx neighborhood Thursday afternoon as six New York Police Department officers shouldered the casket of one of their own: Officer Didarul Islam. They carried Islam’s remains out of a mosque where his funeral was held, and into
Continue Reading By Emily Scolnick, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! The roots of the modern-day potato have always been a mystery. But biologists have finally traced its origins to an unlikely wild plant relative. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day. 5 things 1️⃣ Tehran running dry The capital of Iran
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CNN By CNN’s Daria Tarasova-Markina, Victoria Butenko and Tim Lister Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Russia says its forces have captured the key town of Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine after nearly 18 months of fierce fighting in the area. The Ukrainian military confirmed Thursday that Russian forces had attacked locations near Chasiv Yar, which lies
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By Ibrahim Dahman, Eyad Kourdi, Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Securing the trucks carrying aid into Gaza is a tight balancing act for the Abu Mughsaib clan. Getting too close to the Israeli military checkpoints can turn deadly. But staying too far away gives looters a chance to get to the precious cargo first. “This
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By Daria Tarasova-Markina and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — A host of European leaders welcomed the news that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a law restoring independence to his country’s main anti-corruption agencies. A total of 331 out of 340 lawmakers present voted in favor of the bill on Thursday, forming an overwhelming constitutional
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards, Muhammad Darwish, CNN (CNN) — At least 23 people were injured, three of them critically, when a fairground ride buckled in Saudi Arabia, sending passengers crashing to the ground, state media reported Thursday. Videos verified by CNN showed the “360 Big Pendulum” ride collapse while in use, causing the passenger-bearing circular carousel
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By Alexandra Skores, Pete Muntean, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — The National Transportation Safety Board questioned witnesses Thursday about air traffic control training, a key part of the investigation into January’s deadly midair collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. It was the second of three days of investigative hearings into what happened in the
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