By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN (CNN) — Sean “Diddy” Combs was hit with a second lawsuit in as many weeks, accusing him of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman who claims she was also a victim of alleged “revenge porn” by the music artist. The civil suit filed under the New York Adult Survivors Act names
Continue Reading CNN, WABC By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been accused of a 1993 sexual assault under a New York law that’s set to expire this week, according to a court document filed Wednesday. The “plaintiff was sexually assaulted by Defendant Eric Adams in New York, New York in
Continue Reading By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been accused of a 1993 sexual assault under a New York law that’s set to expire this week, according to a court document filed Wednesday. The “plaintiff was sexually assaulted by Defendant Eric Adams in New York, New York in 1993 while
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Space scientists seeking to understand the enigmatic origins of powerful cosmic rays have detected an extremely rare, ultra-high-energy particle that they believe traveled to Earth from beyond the Milky Way galaxy. The energy of this subatomic particle, invisible to the naked eye, is equivalent to dropping a brick on
Continue Reading CNN By CNN’s Becky Anderson, Zeena Saifi and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — A four-day truce between Israel and Hamas will begin on Friday morning, with civilian hostages and Palestinian prisoners to be released later in the afternoon, Qatar announced Thursday, hours after the deal was originally meant to take effect. The pause in fighting
Continue Reading By Chris Youd, CNN (CNN) — After “fighting for months” for access to the footage, the family of a Black man who died after being tased by an Alabama police officer in July was finally able to view body camera video from the incident Wednesday. “This is one of the worst videos of a police killing that I have ever witnessed,” family attorney Harry Daniels told reporters at a news conference following the viewing. “And I’ll put it right up there with George
Continue Reading By Laura Paddison and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — It began with a law about heat pumps. It ended with stones being thrown at politicians and a surge in popularity for the far right. For an example of how climate change is increasingly becoming a flashpoint in the culture wars, Germany is a good place
Continue Reading By Tara John, CNN Hebron, West Bank (CNN) — Palestinian educator Tarik Betar has known only a life of repression and indignity, he told CNN, with longstanding restrictions, checkpoints and curfews, put in place by the Israeli military in the 1990s, meaning he is unable to walk across his street in the West Bank city of Hebron. Betar,
Continue Reading By CNN’s Radina Gigova and Xiaofei Xu CNN – The Netherlands woke up Thursday to an unexpected victory for Dutch anti-EU far-right populist Geert Wilders and his Freedom Party (PVV) – a forecast win that has triggered shockwaves in the Netherlands and could have reverberations across Europe and beyond. The provisional outcome based on 98% of
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, CNN New York (CNN) — When Americans sit down for Thanksgiving dinner, 7-year-old Jean Luis Hernandez will be in the single room he shares with his family in a once-elegant Manhattan hotel, missing his beloved grandparents in Venezuela. “He thinks about them all the time,” said Lucelys Garcia, 27, the boy’s mother.
Continue Reading By Raja Razek, Aya Elamroussi and Caroll Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Kentucky residents who evacuated after more than a dozen freight train cars derailed, spilling molten sulfur, can now return home safely as the fire has been extinguished and the air monitored, train operator CSX said Thursday. At least 16 cars were involved in the
Continue Reading By John Miller, Elizabeth Wolfe and Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — Investigators have identified the married couple killed Wednesday in a fiery explosion near the US-Canadian border that prompted a massive law enforcement response. Kurt P. Villani and his wife Monica Villani, both 53, died in the car crash on the US side of the
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — North Korea said Thursday it will deploy new military hardware along the military demarcation line that separates it from the South after Seoul partially pulled back from a 2018 agreement designed to ease tensions along the border, state-run media reported. North Korea acted
Continue Reading CNN By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — A former Obama-era National Security Council official was arrested Wednesday after a series of videos shared widely on social media showed him using hate-laden, Islamophobic language against an employee working inside a New York City food cart, police said. Stuart Seldowitz, 64, pleaded not guilty Thursday to two
Continue Reading By Isabel Rosales and Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — Newly released video shows a 62-year-old man struggling with an Atlanta police officer and saying “I can’t breathe” moments before he is tased. The man died less than two hours later, and now his family is calling for the former officer to be prosecuted. The Fulton
Continue Reading By CNN’s Becky Anderson, Zeena Saifi and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — A four-day truce between Israel and Hamas will begin on Friday morning, with civilian hostages and Palestinian prisoners to be released later in the afternoon, Qatar announced Thursday, hours after the deal was originally meant to take effect. The pause in fighting will
Continue Reading By Macie Goldfarb, CNN (CNN) — A couple and their dog had to be rescued as water began to fill their sailboat while they were 90 miles off Florida’s Gulf Coast, according to a news release from the US Coast Guard. Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg received a digital selective calling alert at about 11 a.m. Saturday
Continue Reading By Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — After a Monday landslide that authorities say killed at least three people near a remote community in southeast Alaska, a group rescued about 20 people from the affected area, a resident involved in the effort said. Search efforts for three people who remain missing have finished for the evening,
Continue Reading By Mark Morales and Jessica Xing, CNN (CNN) — A woman was arrested and charged with a hate crime assault after she allegedly accused a man wearing a traditional Arab scarf of supporting the Palestinian militant group Hamas and threw her cell phone and hot coffee at him and his 18-month-old son this month, authorities
Continue Reading CNN By John Miller, Elizabeth Wolfe and Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — Investigators believe a New York husband and wife were the two people killed in a car that crashed and exploded at a US-Canada border crossing near Niagara Falls, law enforcement sources said, and the FBI sees no link to terrorism. Alarms were raised from
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