By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — The wave of drones and missiles that flew towards Israel overnight on Sunday brought with it a new phase of tension, uncertainty and confrontation in the Middle East. Iran launched the unprecedented attack in response to a suspected Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria, earlier this
Continue Reading CNN By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN If your work schedule has you dreading the return to the office tomorrow, we have good news: Nearly one-third of large US companies are exploring new schedule shifts such as four-day or four-and-a-half-day workweeks, according to a recent survey of CEOs by KPMG. Here’s what else you
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN If your work schedule has you dreading the return to the office tomorrow, we have good news: Nearly one-third of large US companies are exploring new schedule shifts such as four-day or four-and-a-half-day workweeks, according to a recent survey of CEOs by KPMG. Here’s what else you need
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Israel pledged that it will “exact a price” from Iran as the country weighs its response to an unprecedented overnight barrage of drone and missile strikes while facing international pressure to de-escalate. The overnight attack – which saw Tehran launch a series of strikes at Israel over a five-hour
Continue Reading WTMJ, FAMILY PHOTO, MAYA LOPEZ, CNN By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — When 19-year-old Sade Robinson didn’t show up for her shift at a Wisconsin pizza restaurant on April 2, her co-workers immediately suspected something was wrong. The evening before, Robinson had planned a first date with Maxwell Anderson, 33, at a local seafood restaurant,
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — When 19-year-old Sade Robinson didn’t show up for her shift at a Wisconsin pizza restaurant on April 2, her co-workers immediately suspected something was wrong. The evening before, Robinson had planned a first date with Maxwell Anderson, 33, at a local seafood restaurant, according to a criminal complaint against
Continue Reading By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — Maria Acosta’s heart sinks every time she hears the question. “Señora, do I need to move?” Immigrants in Iowa keep asking her. And Acosta says she doesn’t know how to respond. “I feel powerless. I feel frustrated,” says Acosta, a community organizer for the Iowa Migrant Movement for
Continue Reading By Dalia Faheid and Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — An 8-year-old girl died and seven other people were wounded – including two young children – when shots were fired while they were standing outside at a family gathering in Chicago Saturday night, police said. The girl was pronounced dead after being shot in the head,
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards, Victoria Butenko, Olga Voitovych and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — For the past two winters, Ukraine has withstood a barrage of Russian airstrikes seeking to disable its energy infrastructure, plunge its citizens into darkness and use the freezing temperatures as a weapon of war. Ukraine survived the assault thanks to Western air
Continue Reading By Stephanie Busari, CNN Chibok and Yola, Nigeria (CNN) — They were abducted from school and held in the depths of the vast Sambisa forest for years. Punished for daring to seek an education, the girls endured forced marriages, religious coercion and physical violence at the hands of their captors. Over the last decade, more
Continue Reading By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — O.J. Simpson’s final will was filed in Clark County, NV on Friday following his death earlier this week after a battle with cancer. Simpson’s longtime Las Vegas attorney Malcolm LaVergne was named as Simpson’s “personal representative” and executor of the will and testament, according to court records. Justin Simpson, Simpson’s son,
Continue Reading CNN Analysis by Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Almost all the ballistic missiles and drones Iran launched at Israel in an unprecedented attack late Saturday were intercepted and failed to meet their mark, according to Israeli and American officials, highlighting the formidable, and multi-layered missile defense deployed by the two allied partners. Most of the more
Continue Reading By Jeremy Diamond, Hamdi Alkhshali, Nectar Gan, Adam Pourahmadi, Tamar Michaelis and Andrew Raine, CNN (CNN) — Iran launched an unprecedented large-scale drone and missile attack at Israel on Saturday night, in retaliation for a suspected Israeli strike on an Iranian diplomatic complex in Syria, bringing the long-running shadow war between the two sides into
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess and Mallika Kallingal, CNN (CNN) — One person is dead and several others injured after a shuttle bus rammed into them at a Honolulu cruise terminal in Hawaii on Friday, according to police and Carnival Cruise Line. The cruise port bus was dropping off people near a pier when a bystander informed the driver that the bus was moving forward. The driver
Continue Reading By Mallika Kallingal and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — Fifty-six years after a Florida milkman failed to return home after his rounds, his homicide has been solved, closing the oldest cold case in Indian River County Sheriff’s Office history. The emergence of two people who say the suspect confessed to them helped investigators determine who killed
Continue Reading By Tara John and Ivonne Valdés, CNN and CNN en Español (CNN) — Juan Brito López was in his mid-20s when soldiers rushed into his home in the village of Pexla, nestled in Guatemala’s western highlands. He escaped, hiding in the wilderness, but could not save his wife and four daughters. Now 70 years old, Brito López recounted the
Continue Reading By Abeer Salman, Zeena Saifi and Eugenia Yosef, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of Israeli settlers surrounded Palestinian villages and attacked residents across the occupied West Bank, eyewitnesses told CNN, after an Israeli boy who had gone missing from a settlement was found dead. The body of Binyamin Achimair, 14, was found in the area of
Continue Reading By Adam Pourahmadi and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seized an Israeli-linked container ship in a helicopter operation near the Strait of Hormuz, state news agency IRNA reported, with tensions already high after Iran warned it would retaliate for a suspected Israeli strike on its consulate in Syria. IRNA reported that Iran’s
Continue Reading By Tamara Qiblawi, Ben Wedeman, Muhammad Darwish and Charbel Mallo, CNN Kafr Kila, Lebanon (CNN) — Shredded Lebanese and Hezbollah flags tower over a destroyed boardwalk where a panoramic view of Israel’s Upper Galilee stretches out for miles. “Buses (of people) used to come here just to see the Holy Land,” says Lt. Col. Juan
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Standing alongside my colleagues as we watched the total solar eclipse, I was struck by the way that wonder unites us all. We were a few of the more than 16,000 people gathered at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland to observe the celestial spectacle. People struck up friendships
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