CNN, WCTV, @MIAMERP, TMX, BRYCE VANCE, GABRIEL SANTORO, @miamerp/TMX By Dalia Faheid and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — As multiple rounds of gunfire erupted near Florida State University’s student union minutes before noon on Thursday, students ran away from the campus trying to get to safety as the sound of emergency sirens grew louder. Just
Continue Reading By Kylie Atwood and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is ready to recognize Russian control of Crimea as part of the US proposal to drive an end to the war with Ukraine, an official familiar with the framework told CNN on Friday. Crimea, southern Ukraine, has been under Russian occupation since it
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — For hundreds of thousands of people every year who dream of studying or researching in the United States, a student visa is the golden ticket. Now, for hundreds of people already at US colleges and universities, it is turning into a one-way ticket back to their home countries as
Continue Reading By Graham Hurley, Aaron Fisher and Katherine Jennings, CNN (CNN) — The campus of Florida State University was bustling as the noon hour approached Thursday, with students walking between classes, anticipating their final exams and graduation day just a couple of weeks away. Then, the tranquility was shattered by the sound of gunfire. Students fled
Continue Reading By Lauren Kent, CNN London (CNN) — The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has ruled that a woman is defined by “biological sex” under the country’s equality law – excluding transgender women – in a case that is expected to impact accommodations for trans women in bathrooms, hospital wards, sports clubs and more. The court ruling
Continue Reading By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — If the idea of robots taking on humans in a road race conjures dystopian images of android athletic supremacy, then fear not, for now at least. More than 20 two-legged robots competed in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon in China on Saturday, and – though technologically impressive
Continue Reading By Taylor Galgano, CNN (CNN) — As Ilana Badiner took shelter in the student union during the Florida State University shooting on Thursday, she remembers thinking “I kind of knew the drill already.” Seven years ago, Badiner was an eighth grader at the middle school adjacent to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the shooting
Continue Reading By Dalia Faheid and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — As multiple rounds of gunfire erupted near Florida State University’s student union minutes before noon on Thursday, students ran away from the campus trying to get to safety as the sound of emergency sirens grew louder. Just two minutes after 911 calls reported the shooting, the
Continue Reading By Lauren del Valle and Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — Bryan Kohberger’s legal team won’t be able to tell a jury in his upcoming death penalty trial about his autism diagnosis unless he takes the stand in his own defense, a judge ruled Friday. Kohberger faces four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of
Continue Reading By Jeff Winter, CNN (CNN) — An American citizen says he and his wife were detained for hours by US border agents when they returned to the United States after a short trip to Canada. Bachir Atallah told CNN he and his wife, Jessica, were driving back into the US Sunday evening after visiting family
Continue Reading By Abeer Salman and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Fatima Hassouna, a war documentarian who had covered the conflict in Gaza on the ground for 18 months and the subject of a new documentary to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival next month, was killed along with seven members of her family in an
Continue Reading By Fernando Ramos and Sanika Tank, CNN (CNN) — Colombia’s health ministry declared a nationwide health emergency on Thursday due to the “active circulation” of yellow fever. Since September 2024, there have been 75 recorded cases of yellow fever and 34 deaths from the illness, according to the Colombian Health Ministry. Nine of the country’s
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Florida State University’s dining coordinator, one of two people who died Thursday when a gunman opened fire on campus, was remembered Friday at an emotional campus vigil as a dedicated member of the community. Robert Morales “… didn’t just do the job. He lived the job,”
Continue Reading By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Despite being dead for more than 300 years, this Indian ruler is still making waves in the nation’s politics. Aurangzeb Alamgir has become so central to India’s fraught political moment, his memory is leading to sectarian violence across the country. The sixth emperor of the famed Mughal dynasty, he
Continue Reading By Mariya Knight and Caitlin Danaher, CNN (CNN) — A St Petersburg court has sentenced a 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after she was accused of repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian army, including by gluing a quotation on a statue of a Ukrainian poet. Darya Kozyreva was sentenced to two years
Continue Reading By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — A second round of nuclear talks between the United States and Iran concluded on Saturday, with both sides indicating progress. Delegations from both countries met in Rome for negotiations following an initial round in Oman last weekend. The Gulf Arab nation has mediated both rounds of the indirect talks,
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — UK police have seized a 4-foot-long caiman – a carnivorous reptile native to Central and South America – during a drugs raid in Essex, the force said on Friday. Officers found the animal at a property in Aveley, a small town in Essex on the outskirts of Greater London.
Continue Reading By Christopher Lamb, CNN Rome (CNN) — Holy Week and Easter marks the high point of the Christian calendar. It is an intense period of prayer and reflection and a time when the pope would be expected to be front and center of celebrations, presiding at several long public liturgies as Catholics mark the suffering,
Continue Reading CNN By Casey Tolan, John Miller, Curt Devine, Audrey Ash and Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — The suspect accused of gunning down two people and injuring five others at Florida State University on Thursday is the son of a local sheriff’s deputy, authorities say, and spent time training with law enforcement and serving on a
Continue Reading By Gul Tuysuz, CNN Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) — Turkey started hastily organized mass trials on Friday to prosecute some of the hundreds of people who took part in the widespread demonstrations over the jailing of Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the major rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Some 189 people, including journalists, students and activists,
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