By Lauren Izso, Vasco Cotovio, Jessie Gretener and Jonny Hallam, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military released a video that purportedly shows the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar inside a tunnel below the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, with his wife, children and his brother Ibrahim Sinwar. Israel has publicly accused Sinwar of being the “mastermind” behind Hamas’ terror attack against
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Some European countries say they have stalled arms exports to Israel amid growing consternation about the way it is waging war against Hamas in Gaza, while the United States Senate on Tuesday passed a $95 billion foreign aid package that includes further security assistance for Israel. A court in
Continue Reading By Sebastian Shukla, Anna Chernova and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Russian authorities on Tuesday launched unprecedented criminal proceedings against Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, charges the leader of the Baltic state alleged were politically motivated. The Kremlin accused Kallas, Estonian Secretary of State Taimar Peterkop and Lithuanian Culture Minister Simonas Kairys of destroying or
Continue Reading CNN By Raja Razek and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Sheriff’s deputies in Houston repeatedly shot at a woman after mistaking her for an intruder inside her friend’s apartment, body camera footage released over the weekend shows. The woman, Eboni Pouncy, was shot five times during the February 3 confrontation and her attorney, Ben Crump,
Continue Reading CNN By Taylor Nicioli and Kristin Fisher, CNN (CNN) — A tiny surgical robot in residence at the International Space Station completed its first surgery demo in zero gravity on Saturday, developers of the technology exclusively told CNN. The robot, known as spaceMIRA — which stands for Miniaturized In Vivo Robotic Assistant — performed several
Continue Reading By Taylor Nicioli and Kristin Fisher, CNN (CNN) — A tiny surgical robot in residence at the International Space Station completed its first surgery demo in zero gravity on Saturday, developers of the technology exclusively told CNN. The robot, known as spaceMIRA — which stands for Miniaturized In Vivo Robotic Assistant — performed several operations
Continue Reading By Nadeen Ebrahim and Sarah El Sirgany, CNN (CNN) — Egypt is boosting its security presence at its border with the Gaza Strip, wary of a spillover of Israel’s war on Hamas onto its territory should the Israeli military begin its ground assault on the enclave’s southernmost city, Rafah, where more than half of Gaza’s
Continue Reading By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Multiple large retailers, including Costco and Trader Joe’s, have recalled items containing dairy products linked to a Listeria outbreak. The list of contaminated foods was recently expanded to include particular yogurts, cheese and salad dressings. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Tennessee Republicans and Democratic Rep. Justin Jones remain locked in a bitter back-and-forth nearly a year after the GOP’s failed attempt to expel him from the state House of Representatives instead catapulted Jones to national recognition. Jones, one of two Black lawmakers expelled then swiftly reinstated after calling for
Continue Reading By Sabrina Souza and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A Massachusetts judge dismissed civil claims against Harvard University and some of its employees made by families who said the college is partly responsible for a former medical school morgue manager who allegedly stole and sold human remains. The class action suit was filed in June
Continue Reading By Angela Dewan, CNN (CNN) — The area of Greenland’s ice loss in the past three decades is roughly 36 times the size of New York City — land that is rapidly giving way to wetlands and shrubs, a study published Tuesday shows. The amount of vegetation in Greenland doubled between the mid-1980s and mid-2010s,
Continue Reading By Raja Razek and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Sheriff’s deputies in Houston repeatedly shot at a woman after mistaking her for an intruder inside her friend’s apartment, body camera footage released over the weekend shows. The woman, Eboni Pouncy, was shot five times during the February 3 confrontation and her attorney, Ben Crump, called
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine claims it has evidence Russia fired an advanced hypersonic missile – one that experts say is almost impossible to shoot down – for the first time in the almost 2-year-old war. The government-run Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise said in a Telegram post that debris recovered
Continue Reading By Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — Thailand’s jailed former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will soon walk free from detention after his parole was approved, according to Thailand’s justice minister, just six months after his dramatic return to the kingdom. The announcement caps an extraordinary decades-long political saga that will see
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy, Christina Maxouris and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — The shooting at Houston’s Lakewood Church over the weekend was a “completely preventable horror” as the woman who opened fire had a notable mental illness but was still allowed to own a gun, her mother-in-law said. “My daughter-in-law when she was taking medication for
Continue Reading By Abeer Salman and Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN (CNN) — After being trapped in a building for more than a week in a neighborhood of Gaza City besieged by Israeli troops, a group of Palestinian women told CNN they were forced to flee south with their children, leaving other family members behind and some walking barefoot
Continue Reading By Kathleen Magramo and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Polls opened in the vast country of Indonesia on Wednesday with more than 200 million voters casting their ballots to elect a new president, in what is billed as the world’s biggest single-day election. The sprawling Southeast Asian nation, the world’s third-largest electoral democracy and largest
Continue Reading By Mark Morales, John Miller and Celina Tebor, CNN New York (CNN) — A confrontation between two rival gangs led up to the Monday shooting inside a Bronx subway station that left one person dead and five injured, including two teenagers, New York City police said. Gunfire erupted as a northbound No. 4 train pulled
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A megastructure found in the Baltic Sea may represent one of the oldest known hunting structures used in the Stone Age — and could change what’s known about how hunter-gatherers lived around 11,000 years ago. Researchers and students from Kiel University in Germany first came across the surprising row
Continue Reading By Martha Shade, CNN (CNN) — About one in five American women will die from heart disease, but funding for female-focused cardiology studies lags way behind that of men’s. Only about a third of the participants enrolled in clinical trials for new heart disease treatments are women. Women experiencing heart issues may also have very
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