By Amy Cassidy, CNN (CNN) — A ferocious debate that has raged across social media, legal chambers, police stations and Scottish politics also played out on the streets of Edinburgh this weekend. Scotland’s Hate Crime and Public Order Act came into force last week, a contentious law that expands existing legislation to include transgender identity
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Opening statements were delivered Wednesday in Chad Daybell’s “doomsday” triple murder trial in the deaths of his first wife and two stepchildren – a case Idaho prosecutors said was fueled by power, sex, money and apocalyptic spiritual beliefs. Daybell has pleaded not guilty to murder and conspiracy charges stemming
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, Ryan Young, Devon M. Sayers and Holly Yan, CNN Brandon, Mississippi (CNN) — Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who abused two Black men for hours were sentenced in state court Wednesday to 15 to 45 years in prison. Their sentences will run concurrently with their federal sentences handed down last month,
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and Wayne Chang, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping held rare talks on Wednesday with a former president of Taiwan who supports closer ties with China, a highly unusual meeting just weeks before the democratic island swears in a new leader Beijing openly loathes. Ma Ying-jeou, who led Taiwan
Continue Reading CNN By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — The state of Missouri on Tuesday executed Brian Dorsey for the 2006 murders of his cousin, Sarah Bonnie, and her husband, Benjamin Bonnie, after an effort to have his life spared failed in recent days. Dorsey’s time of death was recorded as 6:11 p.m, the Missouri Department of
Continue Reading WTKR, FACEBOOK, ABBY ZWERNER, NEWPORT NEWS JUDICIAL COURT, CNN, Facebook/Abby Zwerner By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN New York (CNN) — A former Virginia elementary school administrator was indicted last month and charged with eight felony counts after a 6-year-old student brought a gun to school and shot his teacher last year. Ebony Parker, the former assistant
Continue Reading CNN By Brammhi Balarajan, CNN (CNN) — More than two years after a shooting at a Michigan high school left four students dead, a court heard gut-wrenching impact statements from the victims’ families as the parents of the shooter were sentenced to prison. James and Jennifer Crumbley were found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in separate trials earlier this year
Continue Reading By Brammhi Balarajan, CNN (CNN) — More than two years after a shooting at a Michigan high school left four students dead, a court heard gut-wrenching impact statements from the victims’ families as the parents of the shooter were sentenced to prison. James and Jennifer Crumbley were found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in separate trials earlier this year but
Continue Reading By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Now that Monday’s celestial spectacle has come and gone, millions of people across North America may find their protective eclipse eyewear lying around the house. For the fortunate folks who witnessed the rare solar event, there may not be a need to throw out gently used pairs of solar
Continue Reading By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN New York (CNN) — A former Virginia elementary school administrator was indicted last month and charged with eight felony counts after a 6-year-old student brought a gun to school and shot his teacher last year. Ebony Parker, the former assistant principal at Richneck Elementary in Newport News, was indicted and charged
Continue Reading By Chris Lau and Wayne Chang, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — A labrador retriever who failed to become a drug sniffing dog because he was overly friendly and playful has won hearts across Taiwan for his detection work in the aftermath of last week’s 7.4-magnitude earthquake. Rescue dogs play a crucial role in helping to locate
Continue Reading WDIV, CNN Opinion by Mary Mueller and Sarah Rogerson (CNN) — As sisters, we have shared many things in life, but one thing we never expected to share was the trauma of living through a mass shooting that seriously injured our son and nephew. On November 30, 2021, a teenaged schoolmate armed with a Sig Sauer
Continue Reading By Nadine Schmidt and Niamh Kennedy, CNN Berlin (CNN) — Germany has hit back at allegations by Nicaragua that it has been “facilitating genocide” in Gaza, telling an international court on Tuesday that history undergirds German support for Israel. Addressing the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Germany’s lawyer Tania von Uslar-Gleichen said
Continue Reading By Heather Law and Ana Melgar, CNN (CNN) — Colombia’s capital, Bogotá, will begin rationing water this week as several of its reservoirs face unprecedented lows amid a drought made worse by the El Niño climate pattern. Speaking to the media on Monday, Bogotá Mayor Carlos Fernando Galán said reservoirs had reached “historically low” levels and been worsened
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — “Uh oh, the goldfinch gang is fighting.” This is a real sentence that has been uttered multiple times in my household. Blame the bird feeders — all three of them (plus a bird bath and a hummingbird feeder, of course). I didn’t mean to become a bird person. I’ve
Continue Reading CNN By Omar Jimenez and Holly Yan, CNN Chicago (CNN) — Newly released bodycam footage reveals the mayhem that unfolded in a residential neighborhood when Chicago police fired as many as 96 bullets toward a man during a traffic stop, killing the 26-year-old and raising questions about whether officers used excessive force. While a preliminary
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, Lauren del Valle and Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — The parents of the teenager who killed four students in the 2021 school shooting in Oxford, Michigan, were each sentenced Tuesday to 10 to 15 years in prison, weeks after being convicted of manslaughter. James and Jennifer Crumbley, who each had faced up
Continue Reading By Kareem Khadder and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Health workers in northern Gaza exhumed the first corpses from mass graves in and around Al-Shifa Hospital on Tuesday, after they said Israeli forces killed hundreds of Palestinians and left their bodies to decompose during their two-week siege of the complex. At least 381 bodies
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The total solar eclipse has come and gone after creating a celestial spectacle Monday in the skies over Mexico, the US and Canada. But some people may be experiencing eye discomfort, rather than awe, in the aftermath. You might be wondering if maybe your eclipse glasses were fake. Perhaps
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Why did the toad cross the road? Because it had the help of kind volunteers to ensure its safety from oncoming vehicles, of course. And this is why a Russian nature reserve is looking for people to help its local toads traverse a busy road later
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