By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — The searing heat from wildfires can transform metals found naturally in the soil into cancer-causing airborne particles, according to a new report. While a growing body of research has focused on the impacts of the gases and particles carried by wildfires, less attention has been paid to the effect
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels are stepping up their strikes on ships in the Red Sea, which they say are revenge against Israel for its military campaign in Gaza. In a significant escalation, the United States and United Kingdom launched strikes against multiple Houthi targets in Yemen, after the Biden administration
Continue Reading CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A laser communications experiment flying aboard NASA’s Psyche mission has beamed back a video to Earth from nearly 19 million miles (31 million kilometers) away — and the short clip stars a cat named Taters. It’s the first time NASA has streamed a video from deep space using
Continue Reading CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Processing times for US passport applications and renewals are back to normal after years plagued by delays and backlogs. Routine services will now take six to eight weeks, the State Department said Monday — a significant improvement from wait times of up to 18 weeks during the pandemic.
Continue Reading By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Processing times for US passport applications and renewals are back to normal after years plagued by delays and backlogs. Routine services will now take six to eight weeks, the State Department said Monday — a significant improvement from wait times of up to 18 weeks during the pandemic. Here’s
Continue Reading By Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Aviation Administration is taking a new step to address its overworked and chronically understaffed air traffic controller corps, CNN has learned. The agency is expected to announce this week that it is convening a special panel to review the impact and safety risks of on-the-job fatigue facing
Continue Reading By Nick Paton Walsh, Kosta Gak and Christian Streib, CNN Mala Tokmachka, Ukraine (CNN) — The front lines where Ukraine and its allies had hoped for a summer breakthrough now epitomize the bleak, dark winter ahead — of Russian resurgence and Kyiv’s mounting losses. “As we like to say in the army, the plan was
Continue Reading CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Kosta Gak and Christian Streib, CNN Mala Tokmachka, Ukraine (CNN) — The front lines where Ukraine and its allies had hoped for a summer breakthrough now epitomize the bleak, dark winter ahead — of Russian resurgence and Kyiv’s mounting losses. “As we like to say in the army, the plan
Continue Reading By Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — A medical examiner’s office has confirmed the wife of a Hollywood agent’s son is dead more than a month after the agent’s son was charged in his wife’s death and the deaths of her parents. Mei Li Haskell’s date of death is listed as November 8 – the
Continue Reading CNN By Isa Soares, Heather Chen and Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN (CNN) — The situation has become “beyond desperate” for people sheltering inside a church in Gaza where an Israeli military sniper allegedly shot and killed two women, British lawmaker Layla Moran, whose family is among hundreds trapped there, has told CNN. Moran, a UK member
Continue Reading By Isa Soares, Heather Chen and Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN (CNN) — The situation has become “beyond desperate” for people sheltering inside a church in Gaza where an Israeli military sniper allegedly shot and killed two women, British lawmaker Layla Moran, whose family is among hundreds trapped there, has told CNN. Moran, a UK member of
Continue Reading By Sophia Saifi and Rhea Mogul, CNN Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistan’s embattled former Prime Minister Imran Khan has delivered a rousing speech to his supporters from behind bars, using artificial intelligence (AI) to create a voice clone that has allowed the jailed politician to campaign for his party months ahead of an expected general
Continue Reading By Sabrina Souza, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Monday temporarily halted a planned removal of the Confederate Memorial at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia a day after two groups filed a lawsuit. US District Judge Ronnie D. Alston in Virginia granted a temporary restraining order barring the memorial’s removal after the groups Defend Arlington and
Continue Reading By Devon M. Sayers and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — For the second time in a little over one week, an Army drill sergeant has been found dead at Fort Jackson in South Carolina. Staff Sgt. Zachary L. Melton, 30, who was with 1st Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, was found unresponsive in his car on
Continue Reading By Mitchell McCluskey, Taylor Ward and Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — A volcano has dramatically erupted in Iceland, expelling spectacular bursts of lava onto the landscape and emitting huge plumes smoke into the sky after weeks of seismic activity prompted the evacuation of a nearby town. The eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula began at around
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A laser communications experiment flying aboard NASA’s Psyche mission has beamed back a video to Earth from nearly 19 million miles (31 million kilometers) away — and the short clip stars a cat named Taters. It’s the first time NASA has streamed a video from deep space using a
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, Mengchen Zhang, Wayne Chang and Maija Ehlinger, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — At least 131 people were killed and hundreds more injured after an earthquake hit northwest China, state media reported Tuesday, as rescue teams scrambled to reach survivors in sub-zero temperatures. The quake, China’s deadliest in nearly a decade, rocked Jishishan
Continue Reading By Chandelis Duster, CNN (CNN) — A school district in Kansas has changed its hair policy after the state’s chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said an 8-year-old Native American boy was forced to cut his hair to comply with his elementary school’s dress code. On Thursday, the Girard Unified School District (USD) Board of Education voted to remove the district’s dress code policy requirements
Continue Reading By Brammhi Balarajan and Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — A judge denied a second motion to dismiss the case against Bryan Kohberger – the man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students last year. Court records show Judge John Judge ruled against Kohberger’s team to dismiss the grand jury indictment in the quadruple
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Apes can recognize old friends they haven’t seen for decades, according to new research, and it’s the longest-lasting social memory ever documented outside humans. Researchers found that chimpanzees and bonobos were able to recognize photos of former groupmates more than 25 years after last seeing them in the flesh,
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