By Alisha Ebrahimji and Tina Burnside, CNN Two teenage cheerleaders were shot after one said she mistook the suspect’s vehicle for her own in a supermarket parking lot near Texas’ capital — one of at least four incidents this week in which young people who’d made an apparent mistake were met with gunfire. Pedro Tello
Continue Reading By Marshall Cohen, CNN Dominion Voting Systems’ blockbuster defamation case against Fox News is over after the right-wing network cuts a check for a staggering $787 million, but there’s still an avalanche of pending lawsuits that are seeking accountability from the right-wing figures who championed false claims about the 2020 election. After more than two
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN A toddler crawled through a White House fence on Tuesday, prompting a swift Secret Service response. Photos of the breach show the tiny intruder being caught by officers before being quickly reunited with his parents. While security alerts were rapidly lifted, it remains unclear if the infiltration resulted in a timeout.
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN A toddler crawled through a White House fence on Tuesday, prompting a swift Secret Service response. Photos of the breach show the tiny intruder being caught by officers before being quickly reunited with his parents. While security alerts were rapidly lifted, it remains unclear if the infiltration resulted in a timeout.
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, Emiko Jozuka, Celine Alkhaldi, Mostafa Salem and journalists in Sudan Clashes erupted north of Sudan’s capital Khartoum on Wednesday night, upending a temporary ceasefire between the Sudanese Army and its rival, the Rapid Support Force, just hours after it was struck. The two factions have been battling for days, and Wednesday saw
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh, Virginia Langmaid and Eric Levenson, CNN A Black teenager who authorities say was shot in the head by an 84-year-old White homeowner after going to the wrong Kansas City address received a positive prognosis but still faces a long road to recovery, according to his attorneys. In a new photo, 16-year-old Ralph
Continue Reading By Zahid Mahmood, CNN Mohammad Zafri says his memory is patchy after surviving relentless beatings by the Taliban. But one event that’s hard to forget is being summoned last spring to the militant group’s headquarters to collect documents he had left behind, having been an employee of the previous, internationally-backed administration. Not wanting to cause
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, Wayne Chang and CNN’s Beijing bureau The deadliest fire to hit the Chinese capital in two decades killed 29 people in a hospital Tuesday, but most people didn’t hear about it until several hours later, and even then the details were slim as authorities kept a tight lid on details. As flames
Continue Reading By Bryan Mena, CNN Businesses across the country said banks have tightened their lending standards since last month’s banking crisis, according to an economic survey from the Federal Reserve released Wednesday. Overall economic activity held steady in recent weeks, with nine of the central bank’s 12 regional districts reporting no change, or slight growth; and
Continue Reading By Julian Cummings, Brynn Gingras, Laura Ly and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN A parking garage that collapsed Tuesday in lower Manhattan, killing one person and injuring five others, had six open building violations, three of which were classified as “hazardous,” New York City Department of Buildings records show. The garage, on Ann Street in the Financial
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby, CNN Just how much longer the federal government can keep paying its bills on time and in full depends greatly on this year’s tax collections. With tax season coming to a close for many filers on Tuesday, the Treasury Department will soon know the amount of tax revenue it has received for
Continue Reading By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Apple and Goldman Sachs launched a new high-yield savings account on Monday that offers a 4.15% interest rate, more than 10 times higher than the US national average. The move is one of many that Apple has made in recent months to increase its financial services footprint — adding some lofty
Continue Reading By Marshall Cohen and Oliver Darcy, CNN Fox News reached a last-second settlement with Dominion Voting Systems on Tuesday as the case raced toward opening statements, paying more than $787 million to end a colossal two-year legal battle that publicly shredded the right-wing network’s credibility. Fox News’ $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems is
Continue Reading By Jennifer Korn Geoffrey Hinton, who has been called the ‘Godfather of AI,’ confirmed Monday that he left his role at Google last week to speak out about the “dangers” of the technology he helped to develop. Hinton’s pioneering work on neural networks shaped artificial intelligence systems powering many of today’s products. He worked part-time
Continue Reading By Tina Burnside and Raja Razek, CNN The governor of Oklahoma is calling on four McCurtain County officials to resign after they allegedly participated in a secretly recorded conversation that included racist remarks about lynching Black people and talking about killing journalists. The McCurtain Gazette-News over the weekend published the audio it said was recorded
Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue and Tierney Sneed, CNN A group of doctors opposed to abortion asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to restrict access to a key medication abortion drug while other legal challenges play out, as Wednesday night’s deadline for the court to act approaches. The filing means that after the Justice Department files a
Continue Reading By Matt Foster, CNN The Philadelphia Eagles and quarterback Jalen Hurts have agreed to a five-year extension of the star’s contract, the NFL team announced Monday. According to reports, the extension is worth $255 million, making Hurts the highest-paid player in league history. The contract keeps Hurts with the franchise through 2028. ESPN’s Adam Schefter
Continue Reading By Mark Morales and Brynn Gingras, CNN The man who fatally shot 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis, who was in a car that mistakenly turned into his driveway, will remain in jail after a judge remanded him back to police custody at a bail hearing Wednesday. Gillis was one of several passengers in a vehicle, along with
Continue Reading By Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Universal Music Group — the music company representing superstars including Sting, The Weeknd, Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande — has a new Goliath to contend with: artificial intelligence. The music group sent urgent letters in April to streaming platforms, including Spotify and Apple Music, asking them to block artificial intelligence platforms
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By Stephanie Halasz, CNN Jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was denied an appeal to change the terms of his detention at a court hearing in Moscow on Tuesday. The US citizen was arrested in Russia last month in a sign of the Kremlin’s crackdown on foreign media news outlets since it invaded Ukraine
Continue Reading By Tim Lister, Teele Rebane, Angus Watson, Josh Pennington and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin visited troops at a military base in the southern Kherson region on Tuesday, at a critical stage in the war in Ukraine as Kyiv prepares to launch a spring offensive. In his second public trip to territory
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby, CNN Just how much longer the federal government can keep paying its bills on time and in full depends greatly on this year’s tax collections. With tax season coming to a close for many filers on Tuesday, the Treasury Department will soon know the amount of tax revenue it has received for
Continue Reading By Oliver Darcy and Marshall Cohen, CNN The high-stakes showdown between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News finally commences in earnest Tuesday when the $1.6 billion defamation trial begins, shining a spotlight on Fox’s election denialism and the toxic role of its disinformation on American politics. The trial, initially set to begin with opening statements
Continue Reading By Rashard Rose and Theresa Waldrop, CNN A grand jury has declined to indict a Virginia police officer who shot and killed an unarmed shoplifting suspect, according to the county prosecutor. Former Fairfax County Police Sergeant Wesley Shifflett was fired and faced a criminal investigation after the shooting death of Timothy Johnson in February. Officers
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh, Taylor Romine and Holly Yan, CNN The 84-year-old White man accused of shooting a Black teenager who rang his doorbell in Kansas City turned himself in Tuesday and was later released on bail, authorities said. Andrew Lester, who faces two felony charges — assault in the first degree and armed criminal action
Continue Reading By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN New data from a trial of an investigational mRNA vaccine shows that it reduced the risk of recurrence of the serious skin cancer melanoma when combined with immunotherapy, according to drugmakers Moderna and Merck. In a trial of 157 people who had had surgery to treat melanoma, 78.6% of those who
Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Justice Clarence Thomas intends to amend his financial disclosure forms to reflect a 2014 real estate deal he made with a GOP megadonor — an acknowledgment that the transaction should have been disclosed almost a decade ago, a source close to Thomas tells CNN. The deal between
Continue Reading By Isabel Rosales, Holly Yan and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Three people — including two teenagers — have been arrested and now face murder charges in connection with the deadly rampage at a weekend Sweet 16 birthday party in Dadeville, Alabama authorities say. Wilson LaMar Hill Jr., 20, of Auburn, was arrested Wednesday afternoon and charged
Continue Reading By Annie Grayer and Sara Murray, CNN House Republicans on the Judiciary Committee are exemplifying the lengths they are willing to go to discredit Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s criminal case against former President Donald Trump with a Monday New York field hearing on Bragg’s home turf. House Republicans are seeking to make the case
Continue Reading By Katherine Dillinger and John Bonifield, CNN Ninety-seven confirmed or probable cases of blastomycosis have been identified in Michigan’s Delta and Menominee counties, according to the local health department, and they are believed to be associated with a paper mill in the town of Escanaba. One death has been associated with the outbreak: A contractor
Continue Reading By Steve Contorno, CNN Gov. Ron DeSantis’ political allies overseeing Disney’s special taxing district threatened on Wednesday to hike taxes, raise utility rates and develop land around the entertainment giant’s Central Florida theme parks as retribution for the company’s efforts to avoid a state takeover. In a meeting full of harsh words for one of
Continue Reading By Nicole Goodkind, Nicky Robertson and Haley Talbot, CNN Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Monday previewed what he hopes House Republicans can pass in the next few weeks to raise the debt ceiling during a speech at the New York Stock Exchange. “So here is our plan: In the coming weeks, the House will vote on
Continue Reading By Forrest Brown, CNN Two simple words can spark mouth-watering bliss or a series of blistering retorts in Texans: Breakfast tacos. In the Lone Star State, who gets the credit for these morning tortilla sensations can be a matter of habañero-hot debate. A highly contested Eater article in 2016 helped start a full-on Breakfast Taco
Continue Reading By Deidre McPhillips, CNN As more communities reel from deadly mass shootings — including Dadeville, Alabama, where four people were killed and 28 injured at a Sweet 16 birthday party over the weekend — there’s evidence that the trauma of gun violence in the United States is taking a collective toll on the nation’s mental
Continue Reading By Carlos Suarez, Zoe Sottile and Denise Royal, CNN A Florida man who served three decades behind bars for a murder he says he didn’t commit returned to prison Monday after spending the past two years building a life outside prison walls. Since his conditional release in 2021 amid appeals, Crosley Green, 65, had held
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson and Marshall Cohen, CNN For all the interest in big-name witnesses and eye-opening private text messages, at the core of the defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News are 20 specific broadcasts and tweets in which the voting company says Fox knowingly promoted lies, destroying its reputation. According to
Continue Reading By Cheri Mossburg, Taylor Romine and Steve Almasy, CNN A White 84-year-old homeowner who allegedly shot and wounded Ralph Yarl, a Black teen, after the 16-year-old went to the wrong home to pick up his siblings will face two felony charges, Clay County Prosecuting Attorney Zachary Thompson announced early Monday evening. Andrew Lester will face
Continue Reading By Cheri Mossburg, Taylor Romine and Steve Almasy, CNN A White 84-year-old homeowner who allegedly shot and wounded Ralph Yarl, a Black teen, after the 16-year-old went to the wrong home to pick up his siblings will face two felony charges, Clay County Prosecuting Attorney Zachary Thompson announced early Monday evening. Andrew Lester will face
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, Elizabeth Wolfe and Isabel Rosales, CNN As a room full of Sweet 16 attendees in Dadeville, Alabama, moved to the sounds of a DJ Saturday night, their party was abruptly ended by an eruption of gunfire that injured dozens and left four partygoers dead, at least two of whom were local high
Continue Reading By Junko Ogura, Alex Stambaugh and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Police have raided the home of a man suspected of throwing an explosive near Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, as the leader vowed to ensure maximum security to keep global dignitaries safe during G7 meetings in the country next month. Kishida had to abandon a speech
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy European countries are demanding answers from Beijing after its top diplomat in Paris questioned the sovereignty of former Soviet republics, in comments that could undermine China’s efforts to be seen as a potential mediator between Russia and Ukraine. The remarks by China’s ambassador to France Lu Shaye, who said during a television
Continue Reading By Oliver Darcy and Marshall Cohen, CNN Dominion Voting Systems’ high-stakes defamation trial against Fox News, which was supposed to begin Monday, was abruptly delayed on Sunday evening, in a stunning eleventh-hour twist that threw into question whether a settlement was in the works. Opening statements were expected on Monday, but the Delaware Superior Court
Continue Reading By Janelle Davis, CNN You’ll no doubt be hungry after watching “Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico.” Every episode is full of mouthwatering regional specialties prepared by chefs all over the country. For those wanting to follow in Eva Longoria’s footsteps, below is a guide to the restaurants and locations she visited. Veracruz: Cradle of Mexican
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Whenever you fill out a survey, chances are you’re asked two questions about your race and ethnicity: Whether you are of Hispanic or Latino descent, and then separately, if your race is White, Black, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American or another race. The government now wants to change those questions to
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed The logjam stalling the Senate confirmation of President Joe Biden’s judicial appointees loosened somewhat Thursday when the Judiciary Committee approved seven nominees on a bipartisan basis, though Republicans still maintain the ability to block nominees they don’t support. The advancement of the nominees comes amid the ongoing absence of California Democratic Sen.
Continue Reading By Paul LeBlanc and Chris Boyette, CNN Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has a message for his fellow Republicans looking to win back the White House: “We cannot get distracted.” “We have to tell people, No. 1, what we’re for. No. 2, that we’re going to be focused on the future and what we’re going to
Continue Reading By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Patricia Pouncey feels numb whenever she thinks about her daughter Nikita Washington’s tragic death last December. Washington, a Black mother from Detroit, died at Harper University Hospital one day after giving birth via cesarean section to her 12th child, a boy named Nathaniel. Pouncey, who is now raising Nathaniel and
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar, Rebekah Riess and Zoe Sottile, CNN All passengers have safely disembarked a passenger ferry that ran aground on Saturday in Rich Passage near Bainbridge Island in Washington state. A total of 596 passengers and 15 crew members were aboard the ship, according to a tweet from US Coast Guard Pacific Northwest, which
Continue Reading By Jasmine Wright, Shawna Mizelle and Aileen Graef, CNN Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York said Sunday she has “a lot of questions” for the Biden administration about the circumstances around the leak of highly classified Pentagon documents. “I have a lot of questions about: Why were these documents lying around? Why did this
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN Did you make paper airplanes as a kid? Remember all the folding and refolding in the hopes of creating something that might float all the way across the room? Well, some people take their paper airplanes very seriously — and the results are nothing short of amazing. Here’s
Continue Reading By Eric Bradner and Jeff Zeleny, CNN Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine activist and environmental lawyer, described himself as a truth-teller who will “end the division” as he launched his bid for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday in Boston. Kennedy used his campaign launch speech to lambast school and business closures during
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, CNN About half an hour before opening for business, employees at the Old National Bank branch near the Ohio River in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, gathered for a morning board meeting. There was Thomas Elliott, the bank’s 63-year-old senior vice president; Deana Eckert, a 57-year-old executive administrative assistant; and Juliana Farmer, 45, who
Continue Reading By Sana Noor Haq, Caolán Magee and Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN As a boat carrying 400 migrants drifted, out of fuel, along a perilous migration route in the central Mediterranean last week, Italian authorities led a major rescue operation following the reported refusal of Maltese authorities to retrieve those on board. Passengers’ desperate pleas for
Continue Reading By Jillian Sykes, CNN Bears are a common sight in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, but one got a little too close for comfort for a man outside his Asheville home this week. David Oppenheimer was relaxing outside Tuesday when he heard an alarm sound from his motion detector. “I looked behind me
Continue Reading By Marnie Hunter, CNN With 32 states, dozens of indigenous cultures, culinary traditions that date back thousands of years and a blend of colonial influences, there’s a lot to discover during a visit to Mexico. Actor and producer Eva Longoria explores a range of cultures and traditions — and modern twists — this season in
Continue Reading By Alicia Wallace, CNN Last month’s upheaval within the banking sector hasn’t pushed America off course from achieving a soft landing, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an exclusive interview Friday. “I do think there’s a path to bring down inflation while maintaining what I think all of us would regard is
Continue Reading By Kristen Rogers, CNN Since Tupperware, the iconic kitchen brand that’s been a household name for decades, signaled recently that it might be going out of business, you might be wondering how long your stash of its food storage containers is safe to use — especially if it’s vintage. Figuring out the answer to that
Continue Reading By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Torrents and torrents of rain have drowned thousands of acres of farmland in California’s Central Valley this winter and resuscitated a lake that vanished decades ago. As far as the eye can see, water stretches to the horizon — across roads, across crop fields, through homes and buildings.
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine, Ashley Killough and Ed Lavandera, CNN As the Texas pardons board considers a request from Gov. Greg Abbott to pardon a man convicted last week of fatally shooting a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally, newly unsealed documents show the Army sergeant talked about killing people and shared racist comments on
Continue Reading By Fredreka Schouten, Jeremy Herb, Maegan Vazquez, Melissa Holzberg DePalo and Kate Sullivan, CNN Former President Donald Trump on Friday filed his personal financial disclosure report with the Federal Election Commission — offering the public a first look at his post-presidential finances. The reports, however, provide an imprecise financial picture because candidates are only required
Continue Reading By Brian Fung, CNN Montana became the first US state on Friday to pass legislation banning TikTok on all personal devices, sending a bill to Gov. Greg Gianforte prohibiting TikTok from operating within state lines and barring app stores from offering TikTok for downloads. The legislation marks the furthest step yet by a state government
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN Like so many Americans do each year, President Joe Biden returned to Ireland this week in search of his roots, seeking some connection and some answers in the land his people left so many years ago. He found it in pubs, priests and Parliament, which he said (in
Continue Reading By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, said she has “huge confidence” the US will not allow the country to default on its own debt during an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday. “I just cannot believe that they would let such a major, major disaster happen,” Lagarde said,
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Ingenuity helicopter just achieved a huge milestone on Mars. The little chopper successfully completed its record-breaking 50th flight on Thursday, a few days shy of the second anniversary of its first aerial journey. Ingenuity flew for the first time on Mars on April 19, 2021, reaching a height of 10
Continue Reading By Nicole Goodkind, CNN The strength of the US economy rests on the shoulders of consumers. If people are spending money, companies keep employees in their jobs … and those workers keep spending. In theory, anyway. Consumer spending accounts for about 70% of America’s gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the economy, so it’s
Continue Reading By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN A giant snow corridor near the otherworldly Mount Tateyama, one of Japan’s three sacred mountains, is reopening to travelers on April 15. Called Yuki no Otani (or Great Valley of Snow), this 500-meter-long (1,620-foot-long) pathway cuts through towering snow walls that rise up to 20 meters (66 feet) at the
Continue Reading By Annette Choi, CNN Medication abortions provided by virtual-only providers accounted for an increasing share of total abortions in the United States, since the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion in June 2022, according to a new report by the Society of Family Planning, a nonprofit focused on abortion and contraception. While total
Continue Reading By Hannah Rabinowitz and Jeremy Herb, CNN The suspect in the leak of classified Pentagon documents posted on social media has been charged under the Espionage Act with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information and unauthorized removal of classified information and defense materials. Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old airman with the Massachusetts Air National
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, Brian Todd and Sara Smart, CNN The mother of a 6-year-old student who shot his first-grade teacher in a classroom in Newport News, Virginia, earlier this year turned herself in Thursday on charges of child neglect and recklessly leaving a firearm so as to endanger a child, her attorney said. Deja Taylor
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN The European Space Agency has sent a spacecraft to explore Jupiter and three of its largest and most intriguing moons. The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission, or Juice, launched Friday at 8:14 a.m. ET aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The spacecraft separated from the
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Barry” has taken chances from the very beginning, which is certainly true of a fourth and final season that picks up where the third left off, with its hitman-turned-wannabe actor getting arrested. That paves the way for an even darker season that accentuates the show’s ensemble aspect while leaning a
Continue Reading By Steve Contorno, CNN Floridians woke up Friday morning to discover Gov. Ron DeSantis had signed into law a six-week abortion ban overnight, meeting behind closed doors with a select group of invited guests to give final approval to a bill that had just passed the state legislature earlier in the day. In backing a
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN More than 100 temperature records could be broken across the Midwest and Northeast today as some cities brace for temperatures as much as 30 degrees above normal. View this map to see if you may be impacted by the possible record-setting heat. Here’s what else you need to know to Get
Continue Reading By Veronica Miracle, Cheri Mossburg and Phil Gast, CNN Nima Momeni, the man accused of killing Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco, intends to plead not guilty next week, his attorney said. Momeni was to be arraigned on a murder charge Tuesday but that was put off until May 2 after defense attorney
Continue Reading By Saskya Vandoorne and Sophie Tanno, CNN Heightened security is in place in the French capital Paris as the country braces for a crucial ruling on the constitutionality of divisive changes to France’s pension system. The Constitutional Council in Paris, France’s equivalent of the US supreme court, has been barricaded ahead of the decision, which
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi, Leyla Santiago and Denise Royal, CNN Fort Lauderdale and other communities across southeast Florida are working to get life back to normal after monumental flooding wreaked havoc on the area, closing transportation hubs, schools and government offices. During the peak of Wednesday’s torrential barrages, a month’s worth of rain fell in just
Continue Reading By Steve Contorno, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill that would ban most abortions in the state after six weeks, according to a release from the governor’s office late Thursday night. The six-week ban would not go into effect until the state Supreme Court overturns its previous precedent on abortion. “We are
Continue Reading By Nimi Princewill and Stephanie Busari, CNN South African prosecutors have dropped a murder charge against Zolile Sekeleni, the father of the girlfriend of high-profile convicted murderer Thabo Bester, who is accused of escaping from a South African prison after faking his own death in a fire, officials told CNN Monday. Sekeleni’s daughter, Nandipha Magudumana,
Continue Reading By Evan Perez, Jeremy Herb, Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen and Kevin Liptak, CNN A member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard was arrested by the FBI on Thursday in connection with the leaking of classified documents that have been posted online, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday. The arrest of Jack Teixeira, 21, comes following
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar, CNN The city of Minneapolis has reached settlements totaling more than $8.8 million in two civil lawsuits that accuse former police officer Derek Chauvin of using excessive force in two incidents that happened nearly three years before he killed George Floyd during an arrest. The plaintiffs, John Pope and Zoya Code —
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar, CNN The city of Minneapolis has reached settlements totaling more than $8.8 million in two civil lawsuits that accuse former police officer Derek Chauvin of using excessive force in two incidents that happened nearly three years before he killed George Floyd during an arrest. The plaintiffs, John Pope and Zoya Code —
Continue Reading By Chris Youd, CNN The family of Lashawn Thompson, an inmate who died in the Fulton County Jail last year, is demanding a criminal investigation into his death and for the facility to be closed and a new one to be built. Family attorney Michael Harper, speaking at a news conference Thursday, blamed unsanitary conditions
Continue Reading By Ed Lavandera, Andy Rose and Ashley Killough, CNN A rural Texas county voted Thursday afternoon to drop discussion for now of possibly defunding the county’s library system after a federal judge ordered it to return more than a dozen banned books to library shelves. By a unanimous vote, the Commissioner’s Court in Llano County,
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France and Taylor Romine, CNN Arnold Schwarzenegger is not just an action star, he’s also a man of action. The former governor of California is well-versed in public works projects and on Tuesday he posted a video on social media showing him and his team filling in a hole on a street.
Continue Reading By Kara Scannell and Devan Cole, CNN Donald Trump appeared for a deposition Thursday as part of a high-stakes civil case brought by New York state against the former president, some of his children and his sprawling business empire. The former president answered numerous questions in the deposition with the New York attorney general’s office,
Continue Reading By Brenda Goodman, CNN A lab test that can tell doctors if someone has Parkinson’s disease is a long-sought goal of researchers. Doctors currently diagnose the progressive condition by looking for telltale physical symptoms: tremors, a halting gait, stiffness or trouble balancing. About 90,000 Americans are diagnosed on the basis of these symptoms each year,
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, CNN An explosion and fire at a dairy farm this week near Dimmitt, Texas, killed thousands of cattle and injured one person, according to Castro County authorities. About 19,000 cattle had been at the South Fork Dairy when Monday’s explosion happened, Castro County Sheriff Salvador Rivera told CNN in an email. “The
Continue Reading By Kate Golembiewski, CNN An elephant’s trunk is a remarkable organ: a fusion of nose and upper lip, capable of movement via a dense network of muscles. It’s strong enough to lift a log, and sensitive enough to perform delicate tasks like picking up a single tortilla chip without breaking it. Now a team of
Continue Reading By Jen Christensen, CNN What happened in one judge’s courtroom in Texas could have drastic effects for the United States’ entire drug approval process, experts warn. US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling that suspended the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the medication abortion drug mifepristone was an unprecedented one, the first time a
Continue Reading By Betsy Klein, CNN The nation’s largest employer says it’s time for employees to return to the office more regularly, offering the latest salvo in America’s work from home battle. The Biden administration on Thursday detailed new guidance for a return to work for federal employees, making clear that they must “substantially” increase in-office work.
Continue Reading By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN So far this tax season, the IRS has received more than 100 million income tax returns for 2022. That means tens of millions of households have yet to file their returns. If yours is among them, here are some last-minute tax-filing tips to keep in mind as the Tuesday, April 18
Continue Reading By Evan Perez, Jeremy Herb, Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen and Kevin Liptak, CNN A member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard was arrested by the FBI on Thursday in connection with the leaking of classified documents that have been posted online, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday. The arrest of Jack Teixeira, 21, comes following
Continue Reading By Xiaofei Xu, Oliver Briscoe and Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Hundreds of thousands of people took part in a fresh round of demonstrations across France on Thursday over government plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, a day before a crucial court ruling on the constitutionality of the divisive law. Protesters in Paris
Continue Reading Delta Air Lines reported record advanced bookings for this coming summer, a further sign that the US airline industry is putting the pandemic-caused losses behind it.
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Dwight Frye is hardly a household name, but the character actor left his mark on Universal horror movies of the 1930s, including his portrayal of Dracula’s maniacal henchman in the Bela Legosi classic. Enter “Renfield,” a cheeky homage to the vampire genre that blends horror and comedy into a beyond-bloody
Continue Reading By Zachary Cohen and Sean Lyngaas, CNN The person behind a massive leak of classified US military documents worked on a military base and posted sensitive national security secrets in an online group of acquaintances, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The Post reporting, which CNN could not independently verify, covers new ground in identifying the
Continue Reading By Marshall Cohen, CNN Jury selection began Thursday in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation trial against Fox News over the right-wing network’s promotion of debunked conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election. Almost the entire process took place outside of public view, with Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis privately questioning prospective jurors. Davis
Continue Reading By Joe Sutton, Taylor Ward and Travis Caldwell, CNN More rain is in the forecast after substantial downpours inundated Fort Lauderdale and parts of South Florida in a 1-in-1,000 year rainfall event, leading to a flash flood emergency in Broward County that closed schools, forced drivers to abandon their cars and shut down the airport
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar and Andi Babineau, CNN An Indiana man with a history of schizophrenia died in the summer of 2021 due to organ failure following nearly three weeks in solitary confinement at a Jackson County jail, according to a newly filed lawsuit. The lawsuit says jailers placed Joshua McLemore, 29, in a windowless, padded
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Louisville’s mayor called on his grieving community to seek comfort in each other during a vigil Wednesday hours after officials released 911 calls revealing the horrific moments of a mass shooting that left five dead and eight wounded. As more distressing details emerge about Monday’s shooting at Old National Bank in
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