By Omar Jimenez, CNN (CNN) — Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, died at 111 years old Monday, her grandson Ike Howard told CNN. “She had a beautiful smile on her face,” Howard said. “She loved life, she loved people.” Oklahoma State Senator Regina Goodwin said she was with
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CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Civil rights leader Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955. This led to African-Americans boycotting public transportation to protest Parks’ arrest and, in turn, segregation laws. Here’s a look at her life. Personal Birth date: February
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By Tal Shalev, Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — The controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) will officially close its operations in the besieged territory, according to the organization’s director and two Israeli sources, after suspending its work in Gaza last month at the beginning of the ceasefire. “We are winding down our operations as we have
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By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron is calling for a targeted screening programme for prostate cancer after revealing that he has been treated for the disease. Speaking to British newspaper The Times in an interview published Sunday, Cameron, 59, revealed that his wife Samantha had encouraged him to
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By Emma Tucker, CNN Baltimore (CNN) — Cars stop on the street for Rochelle Johnson, a mother of five, when she walks through her Baltimore neighborhood greeting every person she encounters, running up to children and adults alike as she gives countless hugs. She approaches a man sitting alone outside in the alley behind an
Continue Reading By Tricia Escobedo, CNN An unusual trend in the economy is rattling the people charged with wrangling inflation and keeping the labor market intact. And that’s creating a challenge for Fed policy decisions to avoid a recession. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day. 1️⃣
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — In New Orleans, people are used to having their resilience tested. There was Hurricane Katrina, the BP oil spill, a major hotel collapse, a vicious early pandemic surge and a terror attack during the 2025 New Year’s celebrations. Now immigrants and organizers say they’re preparing for what feels like
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By Amanda Musa, Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Morgan Geyser, who was living under supervised release at a group home in Wisconsin for her role in the high-profile 2014 stabbing of her 12-year-old classmate, was found late Sunday about 150 miles away in Illinois. She had disappeared Saturday night after cutting off her monitoring bracelet,
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By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — A 21-year-old Ukrainian sumo wrestler who fled the Russian invasion has won an elite-level sumo competition in Japan, where he’s been lauded for his rapid rise in the hyper-competitive sport. Yavhusishyn Danylo, known by his ring name Aonishiki, emerged victorious from the November Grand Sumo Tournament on Sunday, according
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — Thea Jaffe never expected to use a baby bank. In fact, she was responsible for referring other single parents from her local community group to the charity Little Village, which provides essential supplies for new parents who otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford them – everything from strollers
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CNN By Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — Two dozen schoolgirls who were kidnapped from a boarding school in Nigeria’s northwestern Kebbi state last week have been freed, according to officials, as the country grapples with a wave of mass abductions in recent days. Nigerian President Bola Tinubu welcomed their release on Tuesday. “I am relieved
Continue Reading By Esha Mitra and Aishwarya S Iyer, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — It’s easy to tell when it’s smog season in New Delhi; the air gets darker, heavier and starts scratching the throats and testing the lungs of the city’s 34 million residents. Pollution been an issue for so long in the Indian capital that
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By Chris Boyette, Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — A woman who stabbed her sixth-grade classmate to win favor with a fictional internet character named “Slender Man” more than a decade ago has been taken into custody, a day after cutting off her monitoring bracelet and leaving a group home where she’d been living, police said.
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CNN, CATHERINE LOUISE BIRMINGHAM, GETTY IMAGES By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — The self-described idyllic life of a family of five living in an Italian forest with horses, donkeys and chickens has stalled after a court ordered the children be removed and placed in foster care. Patrol cars were dispatched to remove the children
Continue Reading By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — The self-described idyllic life of a family of five living in an Italian forest with horses, donkeys and chickens has stalled after a court ordered the children be removed and placed in foster care. Patrol cars were dispatched to remove the children from their home in Abruzzo to
Continue Reading By Nimi Princewill, Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — Fifty students who were abducted from a Catholic school in northern Nigeria on Friday have returned to their families after they managed to escape, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said on Sunday. Armed bandits kidnapped 303 children and 12 teachers from the St. Mary’s Private Catholic
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By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Like any American school, Mooresville High School in Indiana had long since set up security protocols and mental health services to try to prevent violence on campus. Yet those policies didn’t fully prepare them psychologically for the arrest in February of an 18-year-old senior accused of planning “Parkland part
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By Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — Armed with shovels and wheelbarrows, municipal workers from Tulum, Mexico, were deployed to the resort town’s famed beaches in June, tasked with removing large quantities of sargassum that had piled up to cover the crystal-clear waters. By that point in the year, authorities said they had collected 1,900 tons
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By Charbel Mallo and Dana Karni (CNN) — The Israeli military says it killed Hezbollah’s second most senior figure in the first air strikes in months on southern Beirut. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) called Haytham Ali Tabatabai, Hezbollah’s Chief of Staff, “a key operative and veteran in the terrorist organization.” “The strike was intended
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By Chelsea Bailey, CNN Washington (CNN) — For years, Joy Kenley would open the doors of the Washington, DC, Metro bus she drove to the rush of federal workers and business professionals. Her passengers, she said, would often shuffle on board silently to begin their days in the nation’s capital. And though she saw many
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