By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — In the days after immigration officers detained a pro-Palestinian activist on campus, the head of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School has been inundated with inquiries from students seeking answers to basic questions. “I have been individually counseling students on whether or not they should travel abroad,
Continue Reading By Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — The finances of low-income Americans are getting worse, and more shoppers are going without basic necessities. That’s according to Dollar General, whose “core customers” earn less than $40,000 a year. The discount chain is considered a bellwether of low and middle-income shoppers’ spending. Here’s what else you need to
Continue Reading CNN By Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — The finances of low-income Americans are getting worse, and more shoppers are going without basic necessities. That’s according to Dollar General, whose “core customers” earn less than $40,000 a year. The discount chain is considered a bellwether of low and middle-income shoppers’ spending. Here’s what else you need
Continue Reading By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Officials in North Macedonia are investigating a fire that tore through a nightclub killing 59 people and injuring more than 150, with many crushed in the rush to escape flames suspected to have been sparked by on-stage pyrotechnics. Around 500 revelers were at the “Pulse” nightclub in the town
Continue Reading By Joseph Ataman, CNN Paris (CNN) — It’s a new day in Europe. Gone are the halcyon years of unshakeable American commitment to Europe’s defense against Russia. Here to stay – at least while Donald Trump is in the White House is something more transactional. And the stakes couldn’t be higher. Europe must “step up
Continue Reading By Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — “Hi, Mom. All good. I will be offline, probably for a long time, maybe a week or month. Don’t worry.” That was the last message Nazar Ocheretnyi sent his mother, on March 30, 2022. Nearly three years later, he still hasn’t been in touch. The Ukrainian combat
Continue Reading By Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — A Peruvian fisherman has been found alive in the Pacific Ocean after spending 95 days lost at sea, Peru’s state news agency Andina reported Saturday. Máximo Napa Castro, 61, set off on his fishing boat on December 7 from Marcona, a coastal town in the south of the country,
Continue Reading By Fred He, Nectar Gan, Marc Stewart and Yong Xiong, CNN Beijing/Hong Kong (CNN) — The shopfronts are decked out in white, blue and red, with Chinese and Russian flags hanging side by side from the ceiling. Waist-high Russian dolls greet customers at the entrance. Inside, shelves are stocked with an array of Russian goods
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards, Maria Kostenko and Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainian troops have not been encircled by Russian forces in Kursk region, accusing Russian leader Vladimir Putin of “lying” about the situation on the ground. Ukraine launched its shock incursion into Kursk in August, swiftly capturing territory in what
Continue Reading By Christopher Lamb, CNN Rome (CNN) — Pope Francis has approved a new three-year reform process for the Catholic Church, sending a strong signal he plans to continue in the post despite spending a month in hospital battling pneumonia. The Vatican announced on Saturday that the 88-year-old pope had signed off on the reform plans
Continue Reading By Ibrahim Dahman and Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — At least nine people have been killed and several others injured in an Israeli strike in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, the enclave’s health ministry said, making it the deadliest incident since a ceasefire went into effect in January. A British-based charity say almost all of those
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards, CNN London (CNN) — The Russian captain of the Solong cargo ship that crashed into a US-flagged tanker earlier this week in the North Sea appeared in an English court on Saturday on charges of gross negligence manslaughter. The Portuguese-flagged Solong hit the Stena Immaculate on Monday while it was at anchor
Continue Reading By Polo Sandoval, CNN (CNN) — The undocumented parents of a 10-year-old US citizen whose family was removed to Mexico filed a complaint against Customs and Border Protection and are seeking humanitarian parole to return to the US with the girl so she can continue brain cancer treatment. The girl’s care was interrupted last month,
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Nimrod Cohen’s mother never got to ask him why he chose a raven for the tattoo he got in October 2023. Three days after getting inked, Nimrod was kidnapped and taken to Gaza. The next time Cohen saw that bird was more than 500 days later, in a Hamas
Continue Reading CNN By Hanna Park, Eric Zerkel, Angela Fritz and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Large tornadoes are carving paths of destruction across the South for the second day in a row as a deadly storm system churns across the United States. EF-4 or EF-5 tornadoes, the most violent on the damage scale, are possible if
Continue Reading By Hanna Park, Eric Zerkel, Angela Fritz and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Large tornadoes are carving paths of destruction across the South for the second day in a row as a deadly storm system churns across the United States. EF-4 or EF-5 tornadoes, the most violent on the damage scale, are possible if not
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — After undergoing surgery, Ashton Colby was confined to bed and couldn’t move his arms or carry out basic tasks. But his father Rick Colby was there every step of the way, helping him recover from his top surgery – support that meant the world from his conservative Republican father
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Romania, a country on Europe’s eastern fringe, is perhaps a surprising focus of attention for a new US administration whose foreign policy priorities include ending the war in Ukraine, reshaping the Middle East and expanding American territory. Accustomed to flying under the radar, many in the country have been
Continue Reading By Nic Robertson, Edward Szekeres, Christian Edwards, Maria Kostenko and Sophie Tanno, CNN London (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s response to a US-proposed ceasefire in Ukraine is “not good enough,” Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer said, after hosting a virtual summit aimed at drumming up support for Kyiv and piling pressure on Russia. After
Continue Reading CNN By Mary Kay Mallonee and Edward Szekeres, CNN (CNN) — US forces working with Iraqi intelligence and security services killed a high-profile leader of the Islamic State in an airstrike in western Iraq, according to officials from the two countries. Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, alias ‘Abu Khadijah,’ was known as the “deputy caliph” of
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