By Sam Kiley, CNN (CNN) — It is with a weird retrospective guilt that I have to admit: Hamas once saved me from a kidnapping in Gaza. The militant group behind massacres and abductions, the slaughter of civilians, and the cynical endangerment of their own people, stopped an Islamist gang seconds before they were about
Continue Reading By Tamara Qiblawi, Sarah El Sirgany, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Allegra Goodwin and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN Southern Lebanon (CNN) — The journalists were wearing body armor clearly labeled as “press” when Israeli forces struck Lebanon on Friday; the sudden blast killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and wounded at least six others, according to official statements and videos
Continue Reading By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. More than 1,000 years ago, carvers in what is now Denmark set their chisels to rock to etch runestones — monuments to Viking leaders naming their deeds and achievements. Two
Continue Reading By Athena Jones and Mallika Kallingal, CNN (CNN) — The average composite score on the ACT college admissions test dropped to their lowest levels since 1991, according to data released this week. The average composite score fell to 19.5 out of a possible 36 for the class of 2023, according to the nonprofit ACT. “This
Continue Reading By Amy O’Kruk and Rachel Wilson, CNN (CNN) — Over two million people in the Gaza Strip face complete isolation from the world, with internet and power access shrinking as Israel continues to retaliate against Hamas atrocities. Gaza is approaching a near total internet blackout as the region suffered its worst loss in connectivity today
Continue Reading By Helen Regan and Jerome Taylor, CNN (CNN) — New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has conceded his Labour party lost Saturday’s election, as voters punished the government and took the country rightwards nine months after his predecessor Jacinda Ardern suddenly resigned. The rising cost of living dominated campaigning with voters New Zealanders ending six
Continue Reading By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Most polls have closed in an Australian referendum that will set the tone of relations with the country’s First Nations people for decades to come. Counting was underway Saturday in several eastern states and territories, with very early results pointing to a possible defeat for the proposal,
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Matias was an American citizen born in Boone County, Missouri, and living in Israel who was killed by Hamas gunfire while shielding her son from bullets, along with her husband, Israeli citizen Shlomi Matias, CNN previously reported.
Continue Reading By Sabrina Souza, CNN (CNN) — A survivor of the 2018 Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting that left 11 worshippers dead said the attack on Israel “feels familiar,” and brought back the trauma. Jeffrey Myers, the rabbi of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood, posted Thursday on the congregation’s website in support of
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft. Personal Birth date: October 28, 1955 Birth place: Seattle, Washington Birth name: William Henry Gates III Father: William Henry Gates II, attorney Mother: Mary (Maxwell) Gates, schoolteacher Marriage: Melinda (French) Gates (January 1, 1994-August 2, 2021, divorced)
Continue Reading CNN By Lianne Kolirin and Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — When he heard that Hamas militants were attacking a music festival his family was attending, Ben said Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, for his mother. “I didn’t know what to do. I said please kill her because it would be better than being
Continue Reading CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA has launched its first mission to a mysterious world made largely of metal, on a journey to find out whether the asteroid is the exposed core of an early planetary building block from the beginning of the solar system. The Psyche mission lifted off at 10:19 a.m.
Continue Reading By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Egypt is facing mounting pressure to act as neighboring Gaza gets pummeled by Israeli strikes after October 7’s brutal assault in Israel by Hamas. In the wake of the Hamas attacks, Israel closed its two border crossings with Gaza and imposed a “complete siege” on the territory, blocking supplies
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine, Kelly McCleary and Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — An instructor at Stanford University has been removed from teaching duties as the school investigates reports that during a discussion on the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the instructor downplayed the Holocaust and singled out students “based on their backgrounds and identities.” “Without prejudging
Continue Reading By Jennifer Henderson, CNN (CNN) — Police have arrested a 17-year-old in connection with the mass shooting at Morgan State University in Baltimore on October 3 that injured five people, the Baltimore Police Department said in a news release Friday. He was taken into custody without incident Thursday, and faces charges of multiple counts of
Continue Reading By Rob Frehse and Jay Croft, CNN (CNN) — Security is being increased in some US cities Friday after a former Hamas leader called for protests amid the escalating war between Israel and Hamas militants, though officials in several cities said they have found no credible threats. Rallies are expected across the country, some in
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA has launched its first mission to a mysterious world made largely of metal, on a journey to find out whether the asteroid is the exposed core of an early planetary building block from the beginning of the solar system. The Psyche mission lifted off at 10:19 a.m. ET
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Michal Muszkat-Barkan is a natural leader. The kind of person who can rally the troops and knows exactly how to get help where it’s needed. A professor at the Hebrew Union College, Muszkat-Barkan had spent the past 10 months organizing protests against the Israeli government’s plans to weaken
Continue Reading By Vasco Cotovio, Svetlana Vlasova and Yulia Kesaieva, CNN (CNN) — Russian forces have launched a “fierce,” large-scale attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, intensifying the fighting there, but they have so far been unable to make significant progress, according to Ukrainian officials, analysts and geolocated footage shared on social media. “The fighting
Continue Reading By Isabelle Chapman, Audrey Ash, Daniel A. Medina and Allison Gordon, CNN. Visuals by Tal Yellin, Ian Berry and Vanessa Leroy. (CNN) — Homemade rockets. Modified AK-47s. Decades-old Soviet machine guns. Cheap, second-hand, and purloined weapons comprised Hamas’ deadly makeshift arsenal that fueled a devastating, multi-pronged attack on Israel over the weekend. CNN analyzed dozens
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