By Dalia Faheid, Betsy Klein, Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — As investigators pore through online messages, notes and engraved shell casings in their search for a motive in the killing of one of the country’s most prominent conservative activists at a Utah Valley University campus event, authorities are also looking into whether suspect Tyler Robinson’s
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Story by Reuters Sydney (Reuters) — Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles said on Sunday that the United States would be able to use planned defense facilities in Western Australia to help deliver submarines under the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal. The government on Saturday said it would spend A$12 billion ($8 billion) to upgrade facilities at
Continue Reading By Esha Mitra, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — In the home he thought was safe, Mohammad Ismail pines for the daughter who was snatched from him and sent back to the country they fled eight years ago; a country where their community officially does not exist. Mohammad and his daughter Asma ran from their village
Continue Reading By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Police officers were “attacked with projectiles” and “assaulted” during far-right anti-immigration protests in London on Saturday, the British capital’s force said, as more than 110,000 people took to the city’s streets. The Unite the Kingdom protest was organized by far-right political activist Tommy Robinson. Counter-protesters also flocked to the
Continue Reading By Max Saltman, Lauren Izso, CNN (CNN) — Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker and activist Basel Adra said soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) searched his house in the occupied West Bank after a group of Israeli settlers attacked him, his family members and a foreign activist on Saturday. On Saturday afternoon, a group of settlers
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By Christopher Lamb, Antonia Mortensen, CNN Rome (CNN) — The Vatican has brought together an eclectic mix of thinkers and music artists as it seeks to influence both the development of artificial intelligence and the future of humanity. A summit held Friday and Saturday on “human fraternity” convened Nobel prize winners to discuss everything from
Continue Reading By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — It’s been more than five years since Clare Yeo got her masters in piano performance, but this fall, she’s assigned herself a semester of coursework. Yeo, 33, is studying the relationship between good and evil through a series of classic texts: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” and “The Idiot,”
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By Max Saltman, Isa Cardona, Abel Alvarado, Isabel Rosales, Ana Melgar, CNN San Juan, Puerto Rico (CNN) — It was a “mind blowing” idea, Jorge Perez remembers, two years after he first heard it: Bad Bunny wasn’t going to tour the US. In August 2023, Perez – a tourism official who manages the island’s biggest
Continue Reading By Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — The United States has suspended some funding for its flagship AIDS relief program, according to international organizations and members of Congress who warn the cuts are already hurting patients and halting critical projects globally. The full extent of the budget cuts related to US-funded HIV/AIDS relief work is highly
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By Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Like thousands of Americans captivated by the manhunt for the shooter who killed conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, a Utah father had seen the photos and video footage of the suspect released by authorities. The man in the images, dressed in a black T-shirt plastered with an eagle and
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By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — For decades, wealthy Gulf Arab states cast themselves as oases of stability in a region mired in conflict, building gleaming capitals with fast-growing economies powered by millions of foreign workers drawn to economic opportunity and a tax-free lifestyle. But this year, their sense of safety was shattered when two
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By Meena Duerson, Matthew J. Friedman, CNN Phoenix, Arizona (CNN) — Prayer beads hang over a banner with Charlie Kirk’s face and the exhortation: “May Charlie be received into the merciful arms of Jesus, our loving Savior.” Flowers and US flags are laid beneath, outside the Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, and a
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By Joyce Jiang, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — For Chinese students, a degree from a US university was once considered a “golden ticket” to coveted jobs back home. But many are now finding that geopolitics is blunting their ambitions. The Trump administration’s threat of visa cancellations – later shelved after a trade-truce phone call between
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By Nic F. Anderson, CNN (CNN) — A Cuban national, who officials say is in the US illegally, has admitted to using a machete to kill a man in Dallas, according to a court affidavit filed in the case. The suspect is accused of attacking and ultimately beheading another man in a violent incident at
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CNN By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a man who resisted arrest and dragged the officer during a vehicle stop in a Chicago suburb Friday morning, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The man, Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, was an undocumented immigrant, according to DHS. The officer, who
Continue Reading By Aaron Cooper, CNN (CNN) — A United Airlines Boeing 737-800 flying from Tokyo to Cebu in the Philippines made an emergency landing Friday after an “indication of potential fire in the cargo hold,” the airline said in a statement. United Flight 32 was about an hour into the four-hour flight, flying at 34,000 feet
Continue Reading By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington (CNN) — A firefighting helicopter crew’s decision to fly an altitude higher than they were cleared for and the subsequent rapid descent led to the deaths of three people in a midair collision in 2023, according to a final report from the National Transportation Safety Board. Thursday’s report concludes the
Continue Reading By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a man who resisted arrest and dragged the officer during a vehicle stop in a Chicago suburb Friday morning, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The man, Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, was an undocumented immigrant, according to DHS. The officer, who was
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By Mitchell McCluskey and Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — NATO has launched an initiative to reinforce the defense of Europe’s eastern flank after a Russian drone incursion into Polish airspace this week, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte announced on Friday. The “Eastern Sentry” operation will commence in the coming days and will involve assets from
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By Rhea Mogul, Sugam Pokharel, and Aishwarya S. Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Nepal’s first female prime minister was sworn in Friday as interim leader, capping a tumultuous week that saw massive and deadly youth-led protests against corruption and nepotism topple the country’s leader and plunge the nation into political turmoil. Former chief justice Sushila Karki,
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