By Yoonjung Seo, Jake Kwon and Joshua Berlinger, CNN Kim Jong Un fired several senior officials who failed to enforce North Korea’s stringent Covid-19 prevention, a dereliction of duty which the young dictator said will have “grave consequences” for the impoverished and isolated nation, state media reported Wednesday. It is unclear who or exactly how
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By Anna Chernova and Katharina Krebs, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin put a positive spin on the sanctions that the United States has imposed on his country in recent years on Wednesday. There are, he claimed, positive sides to them. While not specifically singling out one incident caused by sanctions, he said that, in a
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By Anna Chernova and Katharina Krebs, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin put a positive spin on the sanctions that the United States has imposed on his country in recent years on Wednesday. There are, he claimed, positive sides to them. While not specifically singling out one incident caused by sanctions, he said that, in a
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Nearly a billion years ago, two of the most extreme objects in the universe came together in a death spiral, and one of them didn’t make it out alive. For the first time ever, astronomers have detected two separate instances of black holes swallowing dense neutron stars — and it played
Continue ReadingBy Eliott C. McLaughlin and Rebekah Riess, CNN Sara Nir and her two children were in their ground-floor condo at Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, moments before it partially collapsed. She was checking emails when they heard knocking sounds, she said. The knocking grew louder before she heard a “smash,” as if a wall
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Data from the Missouri State Health Department sewershed project shows the delta variant in several locations across Mid-Missouri.
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By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN The board of trustees at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill voted Wednesday to grant tenure to award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones after facing backlash from Black students and faculty who said the board’s initial failure to do so reflected a history of systemic racism at the school. The board’s 9-4
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Police arrested Darell L. Rogers, 35, in connection with an assault at a Break Time convenience store on Tuesday.
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By Katie Hunt, CNN It was an asteroid strike that doomed the dinosaurs to extinction 66 million years ago. But what were their lives like before it hit? Whether they were thriving or already teetering on the brink has long been a matter of debate for paleontologists. A new study suggests that dinosaurs were in
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By Katie Hunt, CNN It was an asteroid strike that doomed the dinosaurs to extinction 66 million years ago. But what were their lives like before it hit? Whether they were thriving or already teetering on the brink has long been a matter of debate for paleontologists. A new study suggests that dinosaurs were in
Continue ReadingBy Christina Carrega, CNN Zerious Meadows was 16 when a Michigan judge sentenced him to life without the possibility of parole for participating in a felony murder. Now, at 67, Meadows is free. During 20 of the 47 years Meadows was in prison, he said, he earned an associate degree in business accounting and participated
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By Sonia Moghe, CNN Allison Mack, former “Smallville” actress and high-ranking member of the cult-like group Nxivm was sentenced to 3 years in prison Wednesday. Mack is also required to have 3 years of supervised release after serving prison term, plus a has to pay a $20,000 fine. Mack apologized to people she hurt during
Continue ReadingBy Jason Hanna, CNN Dan Gannon wouldn’t mind a full summer break. The Bronx high school history teacher is as drained as anyone by teaching remotely during the pandemic. He sympathizes with any educator taking the summer off. Many worked more hours than usual to adapt lessons and relearn how to instruct — and carried
Continue Reading By Amy Sood, CNN Humanity has been ravaged by the plague — one of the deadliest bacterial infections in history — for thousands of years. Now, scientists have found an ancient strain of the bacteria in the world’s oldest known plague victim. The disease may have killed almost half of Europe’s population during the Middle
Continue Reading By Amy Sood, CNN Humanity has been ravaged by the plague — one of the deadliest bacterial infections in history — for thousands of years. Now, scientists have found an ancient strain of the bacteria in the world’s oldest known plague victim. The disease may have killed almost half of Europe’s population during the Middle
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Police in Japan are questioning a wealthy widow about the mysterious deaths of her past partners.
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Police in Japan are questioning a wealthy widow about the mysterious deaths of her past partners.
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung and Junko Ogura, CNN Japan’s Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence given to a 74-year-old serial killer, known as the “Black Widow,” for the murder of three men, including her husband, and the attempted murder of a fourth. Chisako Kakehi, reportedly received large insurance payouts after poisoning her victims with cyanide,
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN A new space telescope that could spot potentially hazardous asteroids and comets heading for Earth is one step closer to reality. The Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope, or NEO Surveyor, has been approved by NASA to move forward to the design phase. The 20-foot-long (6-meter-long) infrared telescope would bolster planetary defense
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN A new space telescope that could spot potentially hazardous asteroids and comets heading for Earth is one step closer to reality. The Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope, or NEO Surveyor, has been approved by NASA to move forward to the design phase. The 20-foot-long (6-meter-long) infrared telescope would bolster planetary defense
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