By Eric Levenson, Jeff Winter and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Grief-stricken Nashville residents came together for a vigil Wednesday to mourn three 9-year-old children and three adults killed in the mass shooting at a private Christian school. First lady Jill Biden was in attendance as community members honored the victims, prayed and shared in the heartache.
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon, Paula Hancocks and Yoonjung Seo, CNN North Korea has been building up a ballistic missile arsenal on the stated premise that it needs to deter an attack on it by United States and South Korean forces. Washington and Seoul have been showing their firepower through an increasing number of exercises, all of
Continue Reading By Taylor Nicioli, CNN The weather is slowly changing on Jupiter and Uranus, according to our galaxy’s own interplanetary meteorologist. The NASA Hubble Space Telescope captured Earth’s outer planetary neighbors in images from 2014 to 2022, documenting changes in the planets’ weather and seasons over time. With Jupiter at about 484 million miles (779 million
Continue Reading By Justin Gamble Using artificial intelligence and archival news articles, a teenager in Northern Virginia created a program to measure media biases — and in researching older news articles, she found that Black homicide victims were less likely to be humanized in news coverage. Emily Ocasio, an 18-year-old from Falls Church, Virginia, created an AI
Continue Reading By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old former Covenant School student who killed six people at the school Monday, carefully planned the attack, according to officials. Hale’s parents, who lived with the shooter, said Hale was under a doctor’s care for an “emotional disorder,” Nashville Police Chief John Drake said at a news conference
Continue Reading By Christina Maxouris and Sara Smart, CNN A Maryland appellate court on Tuesday reinstated the conviction of Adnan Syed, the man who spent over two decades behind bars for the 1999 killing of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee and whose murder case was featured in the landmark podcast “Serial.” In a 2-1 ruling, the appellate
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN Night sky lovers can typically spot a smattering of a few planets, but in late March, a stunning visual takes shape when five planets line up beneath the moon in a display sometimes called a planetary parade or alignment. Onlookers will be able to catch the best glimpse of the alignment
Continue Reading By Anna Chernova and Tim Lister, CNN A Russian man whose teenage daughter drew an anti-war picture at school has been sentenced to two years in prison by a court for his own online posts critical of the invasion of Ukraine. Alexey Moskalyov had been charged with “discrediting the Russian military” and was under house
Continue Reading By Shimon Prokupecz and Rachel Clarke, CNN Two active shooters in two elementary schools, both armed with assault rifles and both ready to kill. Police in both Uvalde, Texas, last May and Nashville just this week rushed to answer 911 calls of gunfire. But while the Nashville shooter was stopped within minutes, with six innocents
Continue Reading By Isabel Rosales and Jaide Garcia, CNN When Dominique Green left her 2-year-old daughter Aubrey with her parents in their Mississippi mobile home Friday evening, she didn’t know she would lose a daughter and give birth to a son within 24 hours. Green was heading to the hospital to give birth to a baby boy
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, Nouran Salahieh, Christina Zdanowicz, Sharif Paget and David Williams, CNN Another American community is reeling after a shooter killed three 9-year-olds and three adults at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville. Monday’s attack was the deadliest US school shooting in nearly a year and the 19th shooting at a school or
Continue Reading By Rob Frehse and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office announced it has assumed control of the Paterson Police Department until new leadership can be installed, saying there is a “crisis of confidence” in the city’s law enforcement. “People throughout Paterson deserve a public safety system that protects and serves all members
Continue Reading By Mallika Kallingal, Nouran Salahieh and Eric Levenson, CNN Some of the 911 calls from The Covenant School shooting have been released by the City of Nashville, capturing some of the tense moments as the carnage played out. One woman who says she is in the building as the shooting is happening tells the operator,
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN Woolly mammoth remains, with fur and tissue still in tact, are regularly found entombed in Arctic permafrost. Their discovery has allowed scientists to sequence the mammoth genome and learn intriguing details about the lives of these extinct Ice Age giants. Now, some of that information is being used to grow an
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN Woolly mammoth remains, with fur and tissue still in tact, are regularly found entombed in Arctic permafrost. Their discovery has allowed scientists to sequence the mammoth genome and learn intriguing details about the lives of these extinct Ice Age giants. Now, some of that information is being used to grow an
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN An adorable Great Dane has become a supermom after birthing 21 pups over the course of 27 hours. Namine, a 2-year-old Great Dane, started her epic birthing journey last Wednesday, according to CNN affiliate WVVA. The big dog belongs to Tanya Dubbs of Pocahontas, Virginia, reports WVVA. It took a total
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN An adorable Great Dane has become a supermom after birthing 21 pups over the course of 27 hours. Namine, a 2-year-old Great Dane, started her epic birthing journey last Wednesday, according to CNN affiliate WVVA. The big dog belongs to Tanya Dubbs of Pocahontas, Virginia, reports WVVA. It took a total
Continue Reading By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old former Covenant School student who killed six people at the school Monday, carefully planned the attack, according to officials. Hale’s parents, who lived with the shooter, said Hale was under a doctor’s care for an “emotional disorder,” Nashville Police Chief John Drake said at a news conference
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN After traumatic events like school shootings, parents often struggle with how to talk to their children about the upsetting headlines. This is how you can open a healthy conversation about gun violence with kids while calming their anxiety, a grief specialist explains. Here’s what else you need to know to Get
Continue Reading By Pauline Lockwood, Hannah Ritchie, Pierre Bairin, Oliver Briscoe and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Protesters on the tracks at a Paris rail station. Smoke bombs let off at Biarritz airport. Anger at French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms showed no sign of letting up on Tuesday as the nation saw its 10th day of nationwide
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