By Salman Saeed, Sophie Jeong and Amy Woodyatt, CNN At least 52 people were killed when a massive fire ripped through a juice factory in Bangladesh, officials said Friday. The fire started Thursday afternoon on the ground floor of a six-story Hashem Foods Ltd. factory in Rupganj, east of the capital Dhaka, Debashis Bardhan, deputy
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By Kara Scannell and Erica Orden, CNN A Mercedes-Benz for his wife, an apartment for his son and school tuition for his grandchildren. Prosecutors described all three as evidence in a sweeping 15-count indictment alleging that Allen Weisselberg, the longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, was part of a 15-year scheme to defraud
Continue Reading By Lauren Dezenski, CNN With Congress on recess, all eyes were on President Joe Biden in Washington this week. Biden defended the US troop departure from Afghanistan and sought to boost Covid-19 vaccination efforts at home and abroad. Meanwhile, behind-the-scenes negotiations continued over the bipartisan infrastructure package. Monday America’s partisan fireworks will be hard for
Continue Reading By Geneva Sands, CNN Homeland Security official John Cohen will take over leadership of the department’s intelligence branch, an office that is still trying to find its footing after a series of controversies during the Trump administration. In a letter to the DHS workforce, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced Friday that Cohen will serve
Continue Reading By Amir Vera, Carma Hassan and Keith Allen, CNN A 17-year-old who died Thursday was shot following a road rage incident after a major league baseball game in Houston, a police spokesman said Friday. David Castro and his brother were passengers in his father Paul Castro’s car on Tuesday when an unidentified suspect in another
Continue Reading By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN Hawaiian authorities are asking for the public’s help to find those responsible for vandalizing a cultural site with paintballs. About 100 Hawaiian petroglyphs are spread across the rock face of Pu’u Kilea in the Olowalu Valley, according to Hawaii’s Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement (DOCARE). The department was notified
Continue Reading By Kate Sullivan, CNN White House officials have begun laying out the contents of President Joe Biden’s sweeping plan to expand the social safety net for its allies inside and outside of Congress as they get ready to move on Capitol Hill without Republican support. A memo obtained by CNN shows top Biden officials sketching
Continue Reading By Kate Sullivan, Brian Fung, Betsy Klein and Jeff Zeleny, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday signed a sweeping executive order to promote competition in the US economy, parts of which target a key business strategy used by Silicon Valley companies. The wide-ranging order aims to lower prescription drug prices, ban or limit non-compete agreements
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe and Jay Croft, CNN Elsa has been downgraded from a tropical storm to a post-tropical cyclone, after its rains and winds hit major cities in the Northeast on Friday. All storm warnings have been discontinued for the New England coast, the National Hurricane Center said in its final advisory on Elsa, though
Continue Reading Elsa brings a severe storm threat to New England throughout the day Friday. We are also monitoring the continuing flood threat in Texas and soaring temperatures for the West. CNN Meteorologist Karen Maginnis has the weekend forecast.
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By Brian Stelter, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. The highest-quality types of news coverage are increasingly “about elites, for elites,” and everyone suffers as a result. That’s one of the arguments in professor Nikki Usher’s new book “News
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CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Leana Wen takes us on her family vacation and shares how she’s keeping her young children safe when the rest of the country is emerging from the pandemic.
Continue Reading By Hannah Seligson, CNN What awaits American visitors to Europe this summer is a byzantine and constantly-changing array of Covid-related restrictions and registration requirements. It’s sort of like shifting mask mandates in the US, just with lots of paperwork and foreign languages thrown in. This is what I discovered on my Kafkaesque odyssey to Greece
Continue Reading By Mirna Alsharif, CNN A 3-year-old boy who was shot over the Independence Day weekend in Buffalo, New York, has died, according to Kait Munro, a spokeswoman with the Erie County District Attorney’s office. Shaquelle Walker Jr. was shot on Monday evening in Buffalo, New York, along with three adults, Munro said. A group of
Continue Reading By Natasha Bertrand The Biden administration scored a key diplomatic victory Friday after Russia agreed to keep a crucial border crossing open in Syria for another year, allowing the United Nations to continue delivering crucial humanitarian aid to millions of Syrians who have been displaced by the decade-long civil war. Friday’s vote at the U.N.
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By Kennedi Walker Click here for updates on this story GRANBURY, Texas (KTVT) — Air Force veteran Rick Dailey is picking up the pieces of his life after his Granbury home burned down last month. “We’ve accumulated a lot of different stuff from places that we’ve been throughout my military career and 90% of that
Continue Reading By Leah Asmelash, CNN In the midst of a right-wing attack on creating a more inclusive education in the US, Illinois just became the first state to require Asian American history to be taught in public schools. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Teaching Equitable Asian American History Act on Friday, set to go into
Continue Reading Illinois became the first state in the nation to require the teaching of Asian American History Friday morning.
Continue Reading By Andrea Nakano Click here for updates on this story SANTA ROSA, California (KPIX) — Fire departments throughout the Bay Area report an increase in fire activity but, so far this season, we haven’t seen a wildfire explode out of control. Still, as temperatures again soar, so does the risk. In the North Bay, fire
Continue Reading By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story CAMDEN, New Jersey (KYW) — A massive pile of garbage is building up in the middle of a Camden neighborhood. Residents are fed up and want something done about it now. The heart of Bergen Square, a low-income community in Camden, is facing a growing
Continue Reading By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, New York (WCBS) — There’s a call for help from former New York Mets third baseman Howard Johnson, who helped the team win the 1986 World Series. Johnson says his nearly 2-year-old grandson, Tanner, was involved in a tragic lawnmower accident that severed
Continue Reading By Daniel Dale He keeps saying it. It’s still wrong. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Thursday about his new lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, former President Donald Trump argued that it is “unconstitutional” for social media companies to prevent specific people from posting or to block specific kinds of statements. The op-ed
Continue Reading Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are the targets of Donald Trump’s newest lawsuit. CNN’s Brianna Keilar delves into the litigious history of the former President.
Continue Reading By Liz Collin Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (WCCO) — As the pandemic forced many people to stay home, some adopted furry friends for company. But some rabbits have been left to roam. The bunny love stands out in the south metro home of Debbie Mans, owner and CEO of Rabbit
Continue Reading By Kaitlan Collins and Rachel Janfaza, CNN President Joe Biden is set to announce he’s selecting Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti as his ambassador to India, pending Senate confirmation, according to a White House official. Garcetti’s selection, which has long been anticipated, is one of four picks in the latest round of ambassadors coming from
Continue Reading By Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer and Lauren Fox, CNN More than six months after the deadly Capitol insurrection, the final temporary security structure is coming down, but there are still plenty of concerns about how the campus will be protected going forward and if Capitol Police will have the resources they need to bolster security
Continue Reading By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — The pandemic transformed many things, including the world of dating. Experts say some of those changes may stick around, even as those looking for love come out of lockdown. During the pandemic, a lot of singles turned to online dating apps.
Continue Reading By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story HUNTINGTON BEACH, California (KCAL, KCBS) — A $5,000 reward is being offered for information about the person or persons who operated a drone that crashed in protected coastal wetlands in Huntington Beach. A drone was found on or about May 13 after it crashed in
Continue Reading By Ralph Ellis and Hollie Silverman, CNN Two bronze statues of Confederate generals will be removed from public property in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, almost four years after the statues were the flashpoint for the violent “Unite the Right” rally that left one person dead and many others injured. In a news release, the Charlottesville
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN After a deadly, climate change-fueled heat wave smothered the Pacific Northwest at the end of June, historic heat threatens records once again, particularly in the drought-stricken Southwest region. More than 30 million people are under heat warnings and advisories. The National Weather Service says the risk level for this heat wave
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