By Nick Valencia, CNN The Memphis City Council on Tuesday passed an ordinance that puts an end to pretextual police stops. The “Driving Equality Act in Honor of Tyre Nichols,” named after the 29-year-old Black man who was beaten to death by Memphis officers during a traffic stop, was passed unanimously and will become the
Continue Reading By Leah Asmelash, CNN If you’re cool, you’ll donate blood. That’s the message being sent in the latest American Red Cross partnership with “Peanuts.” Everyone who donates blood by April 23 will receive a T-shirt while supplies last, featuring Snoopy as his alter ego, Joe Cool, in front of the Red Cross logo with the
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Jessica Lynch, motivational speaker and former prisoner of war. Personal Birth date: April 26, 1983 Birth name: Jessica Dawn Lynch Birth place: Palestine, West Virginia Father: Gregory Lynch, truck driver Mother: Deadra Lynch Children: with Wes Robinson: Dakota Ann Education: West Virginia University at
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Bank employees, an “incredible friend,” a beloved parishioner, police officers and a “huge fan and supporter” of the community are among the five people killed and others hospitalized after a gunman opened fire inside a bank in downtown Louisville. Monday’s attack was the 146th US mass shooting this year, according to
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen, CNN The Biden administration on Tuesday released a highly anticipated analysis of the Colorado River crisis that paints a dire picture of what that river system’s collapse would portend for the West’s major cities, farmers and Native tribes. In the draft analysis, the US Interior Department’s Bureau of Reclamation offers two different
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN As the Texas pardons board weighs a request from the governor for an expedited review of the conviction of an Army sergeant who fatally shot a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally, an attorney for the victim’s family is calling for the full legal process to play out first, including
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN As the Texas pardons board weighs a request from the governor for an expedited review of the conviction of an Army sergeant who fatally shot a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally, an attorney for the victim’s family is calling for the full legal process to play out first, including
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, CNN A 25-year-old bank employee in Louisville, Kentucky, wrote a note to loved ones before heading to his job Monday morning and opening fire — killing five people and injuring eight others, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation. The gunman, identified as Connor Sturgeon, started his attack around
Continue Reading By Mostafa Salem and Anna Chernova, CNN A senior Egyptian official denied that the country’s military was planning to produce 40,000 rockets for Russia, following reporting by the Washington Post citing a leaked US intelligence document, Egyptian state-affiliated media said. A leaked US intelligence document obtained by the Washington Post said Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope has spied colorful, never-before-seen details in one of the most well-observed remnants of an exploded star. The glowing gas and dust of Cassiopeia A is all that remains of a star that exploded in a supernova, and its light reached Earth for the first time 340
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN The future of artificial intelligence promises technology with a human touch. But is it human enough to deliver a convincing spiritual message? Pastors and rabbis have recently discovered that ChatGPT, an AI language learning model that can spit out passable prose with just a few prompts, is not that bad at
Continue Reading By Gawon Bae, Yoonjung Seo, Larry Register and Helen Regan, CNN South Korea said on Tuesday that information contained in the leaked classified Pentagon documents that appeared to be based on sensitive conversations between top South Korean security officials is “fabricated,” without providing further details. The documents have become a domestic issue in South Korea
Continue Reading By Celine Alkhaldi and Ehsan Popalzai, CNN The United Nations has instructed all of its personnel in Afghanistan to stay away from its offices in the country, after the Taliban banned Afghan women from working with the organization. “UN national personnel — women and men — have been instructed not to report to UN offices,
Continue Reading By Mark Morales, Elizabeth Wolfe, Laura Ly, John Miller and Holly Yan, CNN [Breaking news update, published at 12 p.m. ET] The gunman in the deadly rampage at a Louisville bank legally bought the weapon used in the killing spree at a local gun dealership six days before the attack, interim Louisville Metro Police Chief
Continue Reading By Angus Watson, Jake Kwon, Alex Stambaugh and Kocha Olarn, CNN Around 100 people, including women and children, have been killed after Myanmar’s military junta bombed the Kant Balu township in the Sagaing region on Tuesday, according to the shadow government of the ousted administration. The attack resulted in the “loss of scores of innocent
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN As the Pentagon investigates a major leak of classified documents that recently turned up on social media sites, dozens of them remain viewable on Twitter. This type of sensitive government information can slip under the radar for weeks, analysts say, because some social networks lack policies against posting classified information. Here’s
Continue Reading By Anna-Maja Rappard Iowa’s Attorney General has paused funding for emergency contraception and abortions for sexual assault victims, according to an email Iowa’s Coalition Against Sexual Assault received that was also shared with CNN. The email was sent from Chief Deputy Attorney General Sam Langholz. Attorney General Brenna Bird’s office did not respond to CNN’s
Continue Reading By Alex Stambaugh and Anna Chernova, CNN The Shiveluch volcano erupted early Tuesday morning in Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka region, spewing ash up to 20 kilometers above sea level, according to the local branch of the Russia Academy of Sciences (RAS) Geophysical Survey. Seismic activity was first reported around 12:54 a.m. local time on Tuesday
Continue Reading By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Alex Stambaugh, CNN The Italian Coast Guard was on Tuesday escorting two boats carrying 1,200 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, as part of a major operation in a region that has seen migrant arrivals spike in the past year. Emergency workers were racing to rescue a barge with 400 migrants
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe and Laura Ly, CNN As Louisville investigators piece together what led up to a mass shooting inside a downtown bank that left five people dead, several victims remain hospitalized, including a police officer in critical condition after a shootout with the 25-year-old gunman. The gunman, identified by police as employee Connor Sturgeon,
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