CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the Chicago Transit Authority, both its history and its present-day status as the second largest public transportation system in the United States. The largest mass transit system in America is the MTA in New York. Facts The rail system is referred to as the “L” because
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at Alex Rodriguez, former New York Yankees infielder, who is in fifth place for the most career home runs in Major League Baseball history. He was suspended for the entire 2014 season after an investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs. Personal Birth date: July 27,
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s some background information about the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), which serves 15.3 million people across New York City, Long Island, southeastern New York state and Connecticut. Facts The MTA is the largest public transportation network in North America. It is run by the state of New York, not the
Continue Reading By Kareem Khadder, Lucas Lilieholm and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Hamas-led armed groups committed “numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity” against civilians during the October 7 attack in southern Israel, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released Wednesday. In a 236-page report titled “‘I Can’t Erase All the Blood from My Mind’: Palestinian
Continue Reading By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — It’s World Emoji Day, an unofficial holiday acknowledging the thousands of symbols and smileys we use to spice up our text messages. CNN asked how you use emojis, and the responses showed a clear generational split. For instance, Gen Z is more likely to use a skull emoji 💀
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, Kocha Olarn, and Manveena Suri, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — Six people, including two US citizens, who were found dead inside a luxury hotel room in central Bangkok likely drank from tea and coffee cups laced with cyanide following a dispute linked to bad investments, Thai police said Wednesday. The grisly discovery was made
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The fatal stabbing of two people by a man at a residential compound in southern China has ignited an online debate that has amplified during a summer scarred by a spree of similar crimes across the country. Two days after those June 28 killings in the Guangxi region, national
Continue Reading By Michael Mitsanas, Audry Jeong and Yoonjung Seo, CNN (CNN) — A prominent North Korea expert and former CIA analyst has been indicted by a New York grand jury on charges of secretly working for the South Korean government in exchange for designer goods, Michelin star meals and $37,000 for a fund that she controlled.
Continue Reading By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — Here’s something you can text your friends about. It’s World Emoji Day, a completely made up, delightful, and, yes, annual chance to reflect on the thousands of symbols and smileys we’ve come to love, laugh about and, sometimes, lament. In other words, 🎉, 😂 or, 😭, depending who
Continue Reading By Chris Lau and Yumi Asada, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — One in 10 young people in Japan – the vast majority women – have been groped on trains and in other public places, a government survey has found, highlighting an often unreported crime that has long plagued the country despite official efforts to fight it.
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy, Cindy VonQuednow and Caroll Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Ohio police officers who were in Milwaukee to help with security at the Republican National Convention shot and killed a 43-year-old man Tuesday who local authorities said had knives in both hands and was trying to attack another man. The officers from Columbus, Ohio,
Continue Reading By Nick Watt and Stephanie Becker, CNN (CNN) — The Alameda County District Attorney’s office on Tuesday announced the resentencing of two death row inmates amid an ongoing ordered review of dozens of death penalty cases to determine whether prosecutors in those cases intentionally excluded Black and Jewish jurors. Ernest Dykes, the “lead case that
Continue Reading By Cheri Mossburg and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Attorneys for “Rust” movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed – convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the 2021 on-set fatal shooting of a cinematographer – have filed a motion for a new trial or to have her case thrown out after the related case against actor Alec Baldwin
Continue Reading By Sahar Akbarzai, Michael Rios, Michael Mitsanas, Helen Regan and Esha Mitra, CNN (CNN) — From Afghanistan to Bangladesh, India to Nepal, flash flooding and torrential rain have killed hundreds of people in recent weeks, as the climate crisis amplifies the effects of the monsoon season, bringing widespread devastation to South Asia. Millions of people
Continue Reading By Nic F. Anderson and Jason Hanna, CNN (CNN) — Major changes are coming to the ACT college admissions exam in the spring, the CEO of ACT announced Monday. The exam will be evolving to “meet the challenges students and educators face” – and that will include shortening the core test and making the science
Continue Reading By Abel Alvarado and Osmary Hernández, CNN (CNN) — Seventy-one “arbitrary detentions” have been reported within days of the start of campaigning for Venezuela’s presidential election, according to a human rights NGO. A report by Laboratorio de Paz released Monday said that 48 of those detentions involved people who had provided some type of service
Continue Reading By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Covid-19 is on the rise again in the United States, with emergency rooms reporting that visits by people seeking treatment have been increasing for weeks. The virus also is showing up more often during wastewater testing. An expert explains what you should know about the
Continue Reading By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Dozens of Indian nationals held in “slave-like” working conditions near Verona in northern Italy have been freed, a spokesperson for Italy’s financial police told CNN. Thirty-three Indian farm laborers were allegedly forced to work more than 10 hours a day, seven days a week, for wages of
Continue Reading By Heather Law and Abbas Al Lawati, CNN (CNN) — The jihadist ISIS group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Shiite-Muslim mosque in the Gulf Arab state of Oman that killed six people Monday evening. The Sunni-Muslim Islamist group said in a statement late on Tuesday that three of its “suicide attackers” fired
Continue Reading By Rachel Clarke and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Security errors, lapses and missed opportunities to stop a gunman led to the first shooting of a US president or former president in more than a generation. Here are several issues and problems identified by CNN that could or should have been addressed before the attack
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