By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — Scroll mindlessly through TikTok and you’re likely to come across someone doing a fit check, sharing a day in the life or performing the latest trending dance. You might also learn something you weren’t taught in school. Scholars and educators are increasingly using TikTok to share history that’s seldom
Continue Reading By Nic F. Anderson, Maria Sole Campinoti, and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN (CNN) — Officials say there have been three possible shark sightings in Long Island and one confirmed shark sighting in Queens throughout Tuesday morning and early afternoon, a day after a woman was hospitalized due to an apparent shark bite, New York authorities told
Continue Reading CNN, WSFA By Alta Spells, Devon M. Sayers, Ryan Young and Christal Hayes, CNN (CNN) — Authorities have issued arrest warrants after a chaotic brawl broke out Saturday on a popular riverfront dock in Montgomery, Alabama, with punches thrown, people hit with chairs and at least one person tossed into the water. The melee began
Continue Reading By Djenane Villanueva and Karol Suarez, CNN (CNN) — Crowds of people accompanied the coffin of soccer player Jesus Lopez Ortiz in Guanacaste, northeastern Costa Rica, last week after his death following a crocodile attack. “Today we said goodbye to you ‘Chucho’; today, around a thousand people accompany you representing all your friends, family, and
Continue Reading By Jennifer Henderson, CNN (CNN) — A Black mother is suing the city of Detroit and a Detroit Police Department detective after she was falsely arrested while eight months pregnant by officers using “an unreliable facial recognition match,” a federal lawsuit filed Thursday says. Porcha Woodruff, 32, was home around 8 a.m. on February 16,
Continue Reading By Alta Spells, Devon M. Sayers, Ryan Young and Christal Hayes, CNN (CNN) — Authorities have issued arrest warrants after a chaotic brawl broke out Saturday on a popular riverfront dock in Montgomery, Alabama, with punches thrown, people hit with chairs and at least one person tossed into the water. The melee began when a
Continue Reading CNN By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Thousands of flights have been delayed or canceled Tuesday following a round of severe storms that hammered the eastern United Sates. More than 350 flights were canceled Tuesday, with another 2,200 delayed, according to data from FlightAware. It’s a significant improvement from Monday when 8,200 flights
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Extreme heat in the US has killed at least 147 people in just five counties, medical examiners report — a mere snapshot of the fatal toll this searing summer is taking. And experts say that estimate is likely far lower than the actual number of lives lost to the
Continue Reading CNN, WXIA By Eli Masket, CNN (CNN) — The husband of a Georgia mother of four who had been missing for more than two weeks was charged with her murder after her body was recovered Friday, authorities said. Donell Anderson was arrested and charged in connection with the disappearance and death of Imani Roberson, Rockdale
Continue Reading By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Beijing on Monday praised ongoing talks aimed at finding a formula for peace in Ukraine, after a Chinese envoy attended a weekend summit in Saudi Arabia that was slammed by Russia as “doomed to fail.” China said the two-day meeting, which took place in the Gulf kingdom’s port sea
Continue Reading By Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — A fire crew’s dog jumped on the pedal of a golf cart which then struck a 4-year-old Michigan girl, leaving her with no visible injuries, firefighters said. Bella, an arson dog, jumped down from the seat of a golf cart and landed on the accelerator pedal, sending the cart
Continue Reading CNN, KABC By Elizabeth Wolfe and Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — National Transportation Safety Board investigators have begun to assess the scene where three people were killed after two helicopters collided in midair Sunday while fighting a fire in Southern California, an agency spokesperson told CNN on Monday. The helicopters were among six aircraft responding
Continue Reading By Tim Lister, Olga Voitovych and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — An alleged informant for Russia has been detained in connection to a plot to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) said Monday. The detained woman has not been named publicly but is from the southern Ukrainian region of Mykolaiv, according
Continue Reading By Brad Parks and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Tou Thao, the former Minneapolis police officer who held back a crowd of bystanders during George Floyd’s fatal arrest in May 2020, was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison Monday for aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. Thao gave a short comment on his
Continue Reading By Catherine Nicholls and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — The first asylum-seekers boarded a controversial barge moored in southern England Monday as public health experts warned of the possible risk of infection in living conditions that campaigners branded as inhumane. Fifteen migrants boarded the boat, named Bibby Stockholm, which is docked in Portland, on
Continue Reading By Duarte Mendonca, CNN (CNN) — Devastating floods and other adverse weather conditions in Slovenia have killed at least six people and caused $500 million worth of property damage, a government spokesperson told CNN on Monday. Slovenia’s Prime Minister Robert Golob said on Saturday the flooding which began on Friday has become the “worst natural
Continue Reading CNN By Duarte Mendonca, CNN (CNN) — Devastating floods and other adverse weather conditions in Slovenia have killed at least six people and caused $500 million worth of property damage, a government spokesperson told CNN on Monday. Slovenia’s Prime Minister Robert Golob said on Saturday the flooding which began on Friday has become the “worst
Continue Reading By Eli Masket, CNN (CNN) — At least one factory worker was injured in an explosion and fire at a Sherwin-Williams paint manufacturing and processing plant in the Dallas suburb of Garland, Texas, fire officials said. Firefighters received a call at 1:21 a.m. Monday, according to a Garland Fire Department public information officer. When the
Continue Reading By Tim Lister, Olga Voitovych, Ivana Kottasová and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has removed Soviet-era signage from a hilltop monument in Kyiv, amid a conflict that has seen the country fight to reassert its cultural identity in the face of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion. Kyiv last week replaced the Soviet hammer
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar, CNN New York (CNN) — Barbara Lakin sits on a bus in New York City, her fingers busy sewing blue thread into a tiny dress. On the seat beside her, six disheveled Barbie dolls stick out of her backpack. “People must think I’m insane, sitting on a bus sewing clothes for dolls,
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