By Chris Lau, CNN A severe sandstorm has cloaked Beijing and China’s northeastern regions for the fourth time in a month forcing some residents to stay indoors to protect themselves from dense air pollution. Images showed the Chinese capital engulfed in a cloud of orange haze on Monday which hung thick in the air into
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh, CNN After being sworn back into the Tennessee House of Representatives, a lawmaker who was expelled just days ago over a gun control demonstration on the chamber floor said he’ll continue to call for gun reform. “The first thing I do when I walk into this building as a representative is to
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess, Amanda Jackson and Andi Babineau, CNN A shelter-in-place order has been lifted for neighborhoods near a burning fishing vessel in the Hylebos Waterway in Tacoma, Washington, officials said. The vessel — which was still burning Monday and believed to be carrying 55,000 gallons of diesel and 19,000 pounds of freon — caught
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, CNN A 25-year-old bank employee in Louisville, Kentucky, wrote a note to loved ones before heading to his job Monday morning and opening fire — killing five people and injuring eight others, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation. The gunman, identified as Connor Sturgeon, started his attack around
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh, CNN After being sworn back into the Tennessee House of Representatives, a lawmaker who was expelled just days ago over a gun control demonstration on the chamber floor said he’ll continue to call for gun reform. “The first thing I do when I walk into this building as a representative is to
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker and Celina Tebor, CNN A 26-year-old rookie Louisville police officer — who graduated from the police academy just 11 days ago — was hospitalized after being shot in the head while responding to a mass shooting Monday at a downtown bank that left five people dead and others injured, police said. Louisville
Continue Reading By Abeer Salman and Jo Shelley, CNN Israeli forces shot and killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in the Aqbat Jaber refugee camp near the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, Palestinian officials said, as violence in the region continued to simmer on Monday. Mohammad Fayez Balhan was “killed by live occupation bullets in the head,
Continue Reading By Andi Babineau and Rebekah Riess, CNN A surfer has been hospitalized in serious condition following an encounter with a shark off the south shore of Oahu in Hawaii, according to a spokesperson for Honolulu Emergency Services. Shayne Enright told CNN on Sunday morning, a 58-year-old man was bitten by a shark while surfing in
Continue Reading By Andi Babineau and Rebekah Riess, CNN A surfer has been hospitalized in serious condition following an encounter with a shark off the south shore of Oahu in Hawaii, according to a spokesperson for Honolulu Emergency Services. Shayne Enright told CNN on Sunday morning, a 58-year-old man was bitten by a shark while surfing in
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, CNN A 25-year-old bank employee in Louisville, Kentucky, wrote a note to loved ones before heading to his job Monday morning and opening fire — killing five people and injuring eight others, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation. The gunman, identified as Connor Sturgeon, started his attack around
Continue Reading By Sara Smart and Steve Almasy, CNN The mother of a 6-year-old who shot his first-grade teacher in Newport News, Virginia, in January has been indicted on charges of felony child neglect, and one count of recklessly leaving a firearm to endanger a child, a news release from the office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney said
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hauser, Sana Noor Haq, Saskya Vandoorne and Xiaofei Xu, CNN At least six people were killed and several others injured in an avalanche that struck the French Alps over the weekend. Emergency workers were deployed after the incident at the Armancette glacier near Mont Blanc in southeast France, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin tweeted
Continue Reading By Annette Choi and Devan Cole, CNN Following the Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which eliminated a constitutional right to abortion nationwide, more than a dozen US states have banned or severely restricted access to the procedure. Nine states, including Alabama, Kentucky and Missouri, have banned abortions with
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen, CNN; Photographs by Will Lanzoni, CNN Across the Southwest, the signs of a phenomenal winter are everywhere. Snow blankets the tops of the San Gabriel Mountains outside Los Angeles. And in downtown Phoenix, the Salt and Verde rivers are full. After three years of record-breaking drought and plummeting water levels at Lake
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, Kristina Sgueglia, Celina Tebor and John Miller, CNN A 23-year-old bank employee opened fire at his workplace in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday morning and livestreamed the attack that left four dead and nine others wounded, authorities said. The gunman was identified as Connor Sturgeon, an employee at Old National Bank, according
Continue Reading By Celine Alkhaldi, CNN A highly addictive drug that became Syria’s economic lifeline over a decade of isolation may now be serving as a bargaining chip as it tries to normalize ties with neighboring states, analysts say. Captagon, a drug that is relatively unknown outside the Middle East, helped Syria turn into a narco-state after
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, Kristina Sgueglia, Celina Tebor and John Miller, CNN A 25-year-old bank employee opened fire at his workplace in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, Monday morning and livestreamed the attack that left five dead and eight others injured, authorities said. The gunman was identified as Connor Sturgeon, an employee at Old National Bank, according to
Continue Reading By Celina Tebor and Miguel Marquez, CNN The 32-year-old man accused of stabbing an imam at a mosque Sunday in New Jersey pleaded not guilty to an attempted murder charge in court Monday afternoon. Serif Zorba was arrested for allegedly stabbing Imam Sayed Elnakib of the Omar Mosque in Paterson. Elnakib, who is in stable
Continue Reading By Shawn Nottingham, Theresa Waldrop, Amy Simonson, Ritu Prasad and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Four days after being expelled by Tennessee’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives, Democrat Justin Jones marched back to the Capitol on Monday following a unanimous vote by the Nashville Metropolitan Council to reappoint him as an interim representative. His return representing Nashville’s House
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Four days after being expelled by Tennessee’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives, Democrat Justin Jones marched back to the Capitol on Monday following a unanimous vote by the Nashville Metropolitan Council to reappoint him as an interim representative. His return representing Nashville’s House District 52 put a exclamation point on a remarkable
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