By Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken, Allison Gordon, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Em Steck, Daniel Medina, Kyung Lah and Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN (CNN) — A young man in a white plastic mask beats a pro-Palestinian protester. Another in a maroon hoodie strikes a protester with a pole. A local instigator pushes down barricades. Law enforcement stood by for
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — Pro-Palestinian encampments have been cleared from more US college campuses as school officials have called in law enforcement in recent weeks to quell mounting demonstrations over the institutions’ ties to Israel amid its military action in Gaza. Here are the latest developments: Arts and sciences faculty at Columbia University have passed
Continue Reading By Louis Mian and Ingrid Formanek, CNN (CNN) — At least 56 people died in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, between last Friday and Wednesday, as “deadly fighting escalates,” Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said in a statement. At the city’s South Hospital, 454 casualties have arrived since last Friday, of whom
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A man charged with manslaughter in the death of a Jewish protester he’s accused of striking during dueling demonstrations over the Israel-Hamas war last year will stand trial, a judge ruled Wednesday, according to prosecutors. Prosecutors allege Loay Alnaji hit the 69-year-old protester, Paul Kessler, with
Continue Reading By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Pro-Palestinian protesters occupying a building at the University of Melbourne have been told to leave by university officials, who say they’ve “crossed a line” by entering the building and disrupting class for thousands of students. “Students have a right to protest but that is not a blank
Continue Reading By Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — A Northern California city has agreed to pay $7.5 million to the family of a 30-year-old man who died days after police restrained him in 2020, the parties announced Wednesday, settling a wrongful death claim that the family filed. Angelo Quinto’s family filed the claim against the city
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Police detained at least a dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators at the University of California, Irvine, as they cleared an encampment in front of a lecture hall on Wednesday. “A group of several hundred protestors entered the UC Irvine campus and began surrounding” the school’s Physical Sciences Lecture
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung and Priti Gupta, CNN Photographs by Noemi Cassanelli, CNN Mumbai, India (CNN) — For millions of Indians, it’s the city where dreams come true – just look around. From the gleaming home of Asia’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, towering over “Billionaires’ Row,” to the waterfront mansions of Bollywood stars, Mumbai is the
Continue Reading By Isabel Rosales, CNN (CNN) — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and ACLU of Mississippi have filed a federal complaint against the Harrison County School District on behalf of the mother of a transgender teen who was forbidden from attending her band concert while wearing a dress. The complaint, filed Wednesday with the US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR),
Continue Reading By Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN (CNN) — Rev. William Lawson, a long-time civil rights advocate and founder of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston, has died, according to an obituary posted on the church’s website. He was 95. Lawson was known as “Houston’s Pastor;” a trusted voice in the community who ushered the city through times of crisis and change. In
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to deepen their strategic partnership in Beijing on Thursday, in a stark show of their growing alignment as Moscow’s troops advance in Ukraine. Putin — whose delegation includes top defense and security officials — was welcomed by Xi
Continue Reading By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Eating a vegan or vegetarian diet significantly reduces your risk of developing cancer or heart disease and dying early, a comprehensive new analysis shows. Those types of diets also lower cardiovascular risk factors such as blood pressure and cholesterol. The researchers noted that people who
Continue Reading By Jeremy Diamond and Tamar Michaelis, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to publicly rule out Israeli governance over Gaza and to lay out his post-war plans, warning that he opposes Israeli rule in the Palestinian enclave. “The ‘day after Hamas,’ will only be achieved with Palestinian entities
Continue Reading By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Ten years ago, Dr. Jeff Lichtman — a professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University — received a small brain sample in his lab. Although tiny, the 1 cubic millimeter of tissue was big enough to contain 57,000 cells, 230 millimeters of blood vessels and 150 million
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Mohammad Zarqa trembled with fear as he watched panicked crowds of people, screaming and covered in blood, rush into his small village on the outskirts of Jerusalem. “You have to run,” he remembers a woman crying out, shocking Zarqa out of a daze and sending him racing home to
Continue Reading By Jeremy Diamond, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — The Israeli military is calling on the United Nations to investigate the presence of armed militants at a UN facility in southern Gaza after releasing video that shows armed men at the facility. Drone footage published by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Tuesday, and geolocated by CNN,
Continue Reading By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Egypt could consider downgrading relations with Israel if it presses on with a military operation in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah on the Egyptian border, an Egyptian official told CNN. “Everything is possible and is on the table, including the downgrade of the relations. But we are not there
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Were dinosaurs warm-blooded like birds and mammals or cold-blooded like reptiles? It’s one of paleontology’s oldest questions, and gleaning the answer matters because it illuminates how the prehistoric creatures may have lived and behaved. Challenging the prevailing idea that they were all slow, lumbering lizards that basked in the
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) – The man accused of driving under the influence and causing the deaths of eight farm workers in a crash in north-central Florida told officers he smoked marijuana oil the night before the incident, an arrest report says. Bryan Maclean Howard, 41, faces eight charges of DUI manslaughter stemming from Tuesday’s fatal crash, in which authorities
Continue Reading By Gregory Wallace and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — The cargo ship Dali experienced two blackouts while moored in the Port of Baltimore a day before its catastrophic collision with the Francis Scott Key Bridge, and efforts to resolve those blackouts may have impacted the ship’s operations, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board
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