By Andrew Torgan, CNN (CNN) — Welcome to 5 things Sunday: solar eclipse edition. As excitement surrounding this week’s celestial event continues to build, several companies are looking to jump on the bandwagon with eclipse-themed offerings like doughnuts, pizza, chips, and — of course — MoonPies. Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your
Continue Reading By Hanako Montgomery, Junko Ogura and Simone McCarthy, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Spiraling geopolitical tensions have pushed the world to a “historic turning point” and are forcing Japan to change its defense posture, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told CNN Sunday ahead of a closely watched summit with US President Joe Biden next week. “As
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers across North America are in for a treat on April 8 when a total solar eclipse will pass over Mexico, the United States and Canada. The event will be visible to millions — including 32 million people in the US alone — who live along the route the moon’s shadow will travel
Continue Reading By Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — A Powerball ticket sold in Oregon has won the nearly $1.33 billion jackpot – the fourth-largest jackpot in the history of the game, according to Powerball. Saturday’s winning numbers are 44, 27, 52, 22, 69 and Powerball 9. A single ticket sold in Oregon matched all six numbers drawn
Continue Reading CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Huge swaths of North America today will suddenly darken and the clouds will eerily vanish — a cue for sky-watchers that the total solar eclipse is about to begin. The celestial event itself will have no effect on wireless networks but phone providers are preparing for potential disruptions
Continue Reading By Mohammad Al Sawalhi, Abeer Salman and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — The courtyard of Um Ihab’s family home in Jabalya, northern Gaza, once bloomed with citrus trees. On most weekends, dozens of relatives would gather for a birthday party or a university graduation. The Palestinian grandmother would decorate the house with gold streamers and multi-colored
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — New Jersey authorities have rescued over 120 dogs that were part of a suspected dogfighting ring run at a compound in Cumberland County. Police executed search and seizure warrants on multiple properties in the early morning Wednesday, according to a news release from the Humane Society of the United
Continue Reading KMAX, KPNX, CNN By Jason Kravarik and Josh Campbell, CNN Orange County, California (CNN) — Carol and Jeff Starr celebrated their daughter’s wedding last month with a bit of irony: neither was wearing their own wedding rings at the ceremony. Thieves had broken into their Southern California home last spring and cleaned out a safe full of jewelry.
Continue Reading By Bianna Golodryga, Becca Porath and Rachel Clarke, CNN (CNN) — Life changed in Israel on October 7 last year. The unexpected and overwhelming assault by at least 1,500 Hamas fighters, pouring into Israel by land, sea and even paragliders, killed about 1,200 people, Israeli authorities said. More than 250 people were taken hostage and moved
Continue Reading CNN By Bianna Golodryga, Becca Porath and Rachel Clarke, CNN (CNN) — Life changed in Israel on October 7 last year. The unexpected and overwhelming assault by at least 1,500 Hamas fighters, pouring into Israel by land, sea and even paragliders, killed about 1,200 people, Israeli authorities said. More than 250 people were taken hostage and
Continue Reading CNN By Bianna Golodryga, Becca Porath and Rachel Clarke, CNN (CNN) — Life changed in Israel on October 7 last year. The unexpected and overwhelming assault by at least 1,500 Hamas fighters, pouring into Israel by land, sea and even paragliders, killed about 1,200 people, Israeli authorities said. More than 250 people were taken hostage and
Continue Reading CNN By Bianna Golodryga, Becca Porath and Rachel Clarke, CNN (CNN) — Life changed in Israel on October 7 last year. The unexpected and overwhelming assault by at least 1,500 Hamas fighters, pouring into Israel by land, sea and even paragliders, killed about 1,200 people, Israeli authorities said. More than 250 people were taken hostage and
Continue Reading By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — When an Australian judge made the unusual decision to reopen a blockbuster defamation trial brought by an alleged rapist against a media company, he declared, “Let sunlight be the best disinfectant.” That’s how claims later described by Justice Michael Lee as “sordid” found their way into the
Continue Reading By Kaylin Blue, CNN (CNN) — Tennessee could soon become the latest state to require public school students to watch a three-minute computer-generated video on fetal development created by an anti-abortion group. The state Senate passed the legislation, commonly known as the “Baby Olivia Act,” in a 21-6 vote Thursday and the bill is now
Continue Reading WFOR, CNN By Sarah Dewberry and Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — A security guard was killed and seven others injured in a shooting in Doral, a city just five miles west of Miami, early Saturday morning. The shooting occurred around 3:30 a.m. after “an altercation amongst patrons at a local establishment,” according to Doral Police
Continue Reading By Elise Hammond, CNN (CNN) — People across the United States will be looking to the sky on Monday to witness a total solar eclipse. Others will be listening to it. And to Harvard University astronomers working to transform the rare sight into sound, the eclipse should create a symphony. “We mapped the bright light
Continue Reading CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Huge swaths of North America today will suddenly darken and the clouds will eerily vanish — a cue for sky-watchers that the total solar eclipse is about to begin. The celestial event itself will have no effect on wireless networks but phone providers are preparing for potential disruptions
Continue Reading By Radina Gigova and Maria Kostenko, CNN (CNN) — Two Russian strikes have killed at least seven people in Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, officials said, as Kyiv continues to urge allies for more air defenses. At least one person died and three were injured in a strike on Kharkiv on Saturday afternoon, according to
Continue Reading By Sarah Dewberry, Alaa Elassar and Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — Police in Doral, Florida, have identified the suspected gunman they said was killed in an exchange of gunfire with officers following a dispute at a bar early Saturday that ended with a security guard dead, an officer shot and six innocent bystanders injured in
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The bear scientists shot in the Canadian arctic in 2016 was a biological mystery. It looked like a grizzly bear, complete with long claws and a prominent snout, but most of its fur was white. Call it a pizzly or maybe a grolar bear. Either way, scientists determined the
Continue Reading