By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Singapore is drawing fans from all over Southeast Asia and beyond to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, much to the annoyance of the city-state’s regional neighbors. The anger is not directed at the superstar but at the Singaporean government for an exclusive deal it struck with concert organizers to make
Continue Reading By Rob Frehse, Elizabeth Wolfe, Alisha Ebrahimji and Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN (CNN) — Authorities believe the Michigan vaping supplies distributor that went up in flames Monday night in Clinton Township was illegally storing canisters of butane and other materials, township officials said Tuesday. A 19-year-old man was killed by flying debris and a firefighter was
Continue Reading CNN By Caitlin Stephen Hu, David Culver and Jeremy Dupin. Video by David von Blohn and Lacey Russell, CNN Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — From above, Haiti’s capital city Port-au-Prince still looks serene, its white-washed homes climbing steep green hills that encircle a glittering bay. But to step onto its cracked streets requires a careful calculation of risk and reward.
Continue Reading By Joe Sutton, Elizabeth Wolfe and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — A small plane crashed into the shoulder of Nashville’s Interstate 40 and burst into flames Monday night, killing a Canadian family of five, police said. Two adults and three children were on the plane, National Transportation Safety Board air safety investigator Aaron McCarter said
Continue Reading By Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — Serhiy Haidarzhy is likely alive because his wife Anna fell asleep. Like every night, Anna was in the bedroom with their 4-month-old baby boy Tymofii, while Serhiy was putting their older daughter Liza to bed in her own room. “Usually, very often, I fall asleep in the room with
Continue Reading By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Across sweeping desert vistas, spectacular star dunes stand out. The distinctive mounds are among the tallest sand dunes on Earth, and their pyramid shapes are sculpted by a crossfire of winds gusting from multiple directions, creating spiraling sand ridges that pinwheel outward from a central peak. While star dunes
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — A former school bus driver in Utah faces both federal and state arson charges for allegedly lighting his school bus on fire in two separate incidents, including at least once with students onboard. Michael Austin Ford, 58, of West Valley City, was indicted by a federal grand jury last
Continue Reading By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Iran has recorded the lowest electoral turnout since the Islamic Republic’s founding in 1979, with officials portraying the participation of those who did vote as a victory against the country’s “obstinate opponents.” Out of Iran’s 61 million eligible voters, some 25 million cast their ballots in parliamentary and Assembly
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A woman whose home near Canadian, Texas, was destroyed in the record-breaking and deadly Smokehouse Creek Fire is suing a power company, alleging a fallen utility pole near Stinnett started the devastating fire. Melanie McQuiddy filed the lawsuit late Friday against Xcel Energy; its subsidiary Southwestern Public Service Company;
Continue Reading By Richard Roth, CNN United Nations (CNN) — A United Nations team has found “clear and convincing” information that hostages in Gaza were sexually abused, Pramila Patten, the UN special envoy on sexual violence in conflict told reporters on Monday. There are “reasonable grounds” to believe the sexual violence is ongoing, she added. According to Patten, the team
Continue Reading By Joshua Berlinger and Xiaofei Xu, CNN Paris (CNN) — France became the world’s first country to enshrine abortion rights in its constitution on Monday, the culmination of an effort that began in direct response to the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Lawmakers from both houses of the French Parliament voted
Continue Reading By Jeremy Diamond, CNN Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) — The UN agency for Palestinian refugees on Monday accused Israel of detaining and torturing some of its staffers, coercing them into making false confessions about the agency’s ties to Hamas. “Some of our staff have conveyed to UNRWA teams that they were forced to (make) confessions
Continue Reading By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — Police are searching for three suspects who they say pulled up to a King City, California, house party and opened fire Sunday evening, killing at least four people and injuring three others. Three men died at the scene and a woman who was shot was taken to a hospital,
Continue Reading By Ally Barnard and Manveena Suri, CNN (CNN) — Malaysia may renew the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, the country’s transport minister said Sunday, as the 10th anniversary of its disappearance nears. Flight MH370 became one of the world’s most puzzling aviation mysteries when it vanished with 239 aboard en route from
Continue Reading By Eve Brennan and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Around 170 people have been “executed” in attacks on three villages in Burkina Faso’s northern Yatenga province, the regional public prosecutor has said. Aly Benjamin Coulibaly said in a statement on Friday that his office was initially informed of the “massive murderous attacks” in the villages
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker and Omar Jimenez, CNN Baltimore (CNN) — Last summer, on a hot and humid July night at her home in Baltimore, Krystal Gonzalez was jolted to her feet by her husband’s screams. He almost never raised his voice. Gonzalez could not register the words her husband was crying out, except their daughter’s
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — Will it end in fire or ice? Texas is still coping with the record-setting Smokehouse Creek Fire which has burned more than 1 million acres, while parts of Northern California were buried this weekend under a raging blizzard. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed
Continue Reading CNN By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — There’s cutting cable and then there’s literally cutting cable: Telecom cables running along the bottom of the Red Sea have been damaged, disrupting an estimated quarter of internet and communications between Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed
Continue Reading By Caitlin Stephen Hu, David Culver and Jeremy Dupin. Video by David von Blohn and Lacey Russell, CNN Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — From above, Haiti’s capital city Port-au-Prince still looks serene, its white-washed homes climbing steep green hills that encircle a glittering bay. But to step onto its cracked streets requires a careful calculation of risk and reward. Ruthless
Continue Reading By Camila Bernal, Zoe Todd, Zoe Sottile and Jeremy Moorhead, CNN Hemphill County, Texas (CNN) — When Shane Pennington, a 56-year-old cattle farmer near Canadian, Texas, first saw flames from an enormous wildfire approaching the ranch he manages, his first concern wasn’t his home. It was his animals. Pennington told CNN he returned to the
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