By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration has finalized a rule to significantly cut the US oil and gas industry’s emissions of methane, a powerful planet-warming gas that scientists and climate advocacy groups have pressed nations to rapidly reduce as global temperature soars. The announcement came amid a wave of commitments at the
Continue Reading By Akanksha Sharma, CNN (CNN) — North Korea has warned any potential interference or attack on its “space assets” by the United States will be “deemed a declaration of war,” the state media outlet KCNA reported on Saturday. “The US Space Force’s deplorable hostility toward the DPRK’s reconnaissance satellite can never be overlooked as it
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar, Sara Smart and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — One man was killed and four others were injured in a shooting Friday evening at a homeless encampment in eastern Las Vegas, and investigators are trying to determine who fired the shots and what led to the violence, police said. The shooting happened around
Continue Reading By Maya Szaniecki and Claudia Colliva, CNN Paris (CNN) — When the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, French women were paying close attention. They watched with alarm as those across the Atlantic lost their long-standing right to abortion, seemingly overnight. What if France came next? “It was a wake-up
Continue Reading By David Shortell, CNN (CNN) — Venezuelans will vote Sunday in a referendum to decide whether the country should create its own state within a large swath of its oil-rich neighbor Guyana – a move that has been denounced by Guyana as a step towards annexation and raised concerns of a possible military conflict between
Continue Reading By Victoria Butenko, Maria Kostenko, Daria Markina Tarasova, Yulia Kesaieva and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — The eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka is increasingly becoming a flashpoint in the conflict, where fighting remains intense even when the front lines have barely moved for months. Russia appears to have made tactical advances in the outskirts of the embattled
Continue Reading By Daria Tarasova-Markina and Anna Coren, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian soldier Serhii sits on his hospital bed in a public clinic in central Ukraine. There are small pieces of shrapnel embedded in his legs that the doctors can’t retrieve. Despite the pain, he says he is feeling good. “I can’t believe that now I’m in the hospital, not in the trench. I did
Continue Reading By Cheri Mossburg and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Officials in Los Angeles are asking for the public’s help to find a suspect believed to be targeting the homeless community after three unhoused people were fatally shot in their sleep this week. The first killing happened Sunday around 3 a.m. in an alley; the second
Continue Reading By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Some 220 flamingos have been found dead in the province of Catamarca in northwestern Argentina due to an outbreak of avian influenza, otherwise known as bird flu, an official told local media. Bird flu is a highly contagious and deadly viral disease that naturally spreads through wild aquatic birds, such
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland and Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have used the remains of some 500 people to create a series of “bone biographies” that provide a glimpse inside the ordinary lives of plague survivors of the English city of Cambridge. The skeletons, which came from a series of archaeological digs that began in
Continue Reading By Victoria Butenko, Maria Kostenko and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s Security Service is responsible for explosions on two trains traveling along a strategic rail route in eastern Russia this week, a Ukrainian defense source claimed Friday. The first explosion occurred Wednesday along the Baikal-Amur railway as the train passed through the Bessolov Severomuyskiy
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of former National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Personal Birth date: May 27, 1923 Death date: November 29, 2023 Birth place: Furth, Germany Birth name: Heinz Alfred Kissinger Father: Louis Kissinger, teacher Mother: Paula (Stern) Kissinger Marriages: Nancy (Maginnes) Kissinger (March 30, 1974-November
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of award-winning actor Dick Van Dyke. Personal Birth date: December 13, 1925 Birth place: West Plains, Missouri Birth name: Richard Wayne Van Dyke Father: Loren “Cookie” Van Dyke, a traveling salesman, Sunshine Biscuit Company Mother: Hazel (McCord) Van Dyke Marriages: Arlene (Silver) Van
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democratic senator from New York and a former Democratic presidential candidate for 2020. Personal Birth date: December 9, 1966 Birth place: Albany, New York Birth name: Kirsten Elizabeth Rutnik Father: Douglas Paul Rutnik, attorney and lobbyist Mother: Polly (Noonan)
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of General (ret.) Jim Jones, former National Security Adviser to President Barack Obama. Personal Birth date: December 19, 1943 Birth place: Kansas City, Missouri Birth name: James Logan Jones Jr. Father: James L. Jones Sr. Mother: Charlotte Ann (Ground) Jones Marriage: Diane (Johnson)
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of activist and award-winning actress Jane Fonda. Personal Birth date: December 21, 1937 Birth place: New York, New York Birth name: Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda Father: Henry Fonda, actor Mother: Frances Ford Seymour (Brokaw) Fonda, socialite Marriages: Ted Turner (December 21, 1991-May 22, 2001,
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of award-winning actress, singer and dancer Rita Moreno. Personal Birth date: December 11, 1931 Birth place: Humacao, Puerto Rico; raised in New York, New York Birth name: Rosita Dolores Alverio Father: Paco Alverio, a farmer Mother: Rosa Maria Alverio, a garment worker Marriage: Leonard
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. December 21, 1988 – Pan Am Flight 103 explodes 31,000 feet over Lockerbie, Scotland, 38 minutes after takeoff from London. Two hundred fifty-nine people on board the New York-bound Boeing 747 were killed, along with 11 people on the
Continue Reading CNN, WLBT, WAPT, NEWS 12 WESTCHESTER, INC. By Ryan Young, Pamela Kirkland and Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — On a Tuesday night in January, five sheriff’s deputies from Rankin County, Mississippi, and a police officer from a neighboring department forced their way into the home where Eddie Parker and Michael Jenkins were living in Braxton, Mississippi. The six White law
Continue Reading By Sara Smart and Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — A dead longhorn cow was found on the lawn of an Oklahoma State University fraternity house Friday morning, a day before a championship game between the school and the Texas Longhorns football team. The longhorn carcass was found around 6:39 a.m. in the front
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