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Month: February 2023

San Francisco police arrest man who allegedly fired ‘possible blanks’ inside a synagogue

By Taylor Romine, CNN San Francisco police arrested a man suspected of firing several apparently blank rounds inside a synagogue and a movie theater earlier this week, authorities said Friday. Officers found the man around 5:00 p.m. PT Friday and detained him “without further incident,” the San Francisco Police Department said in a statement. Investigators

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First on CNN: House Foreign Affairs chair to highlight plight of Afghan women by bringing former ambassador to SOTU

By Alayna Treene, CNN House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Mike McCaul has invited former Afghanistan Ambassador to the US Roya Rahmani to be his guest for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address next week, CNN has learned exclusively. Rahmani, a fierce defender of women’s rights in Afghanistan, was the country’s first female ambassador

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NY man pleads guilty to threatening Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene

SYRACUSE, New York– A man in New York state pleaded guilty to federal charges Wednesday for sending threatening voicemails to Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. Joseph Morelli pleaded guilty to three counts of interstate threatening communications in federal court in Syracuse. Authorities say Morelli, who plainly identified himself in the voicemails, left seven threatening

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Teachers are leaving, forcing this school to cancel classes. Lowering professional qualifications does not fix shortage, educators say

By Rene Marsh, CNN It’s January, the middle of the school year, and yet tenth grader Lala Bivens is preparing for her first day at a new school. Bivens started fall classes at One City Preparatory Academy, a new charter middle and high school in Madison, Wisconsin, but on January 13 a teacher shortage forced

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These Florida brothers ran one of the largest opioid ‘pill mills’ in US history. The FBI says it was linked to thousands of deaths

By Faith Karimi, CNN Throngs of people hang outside the American Pain clinic in Boca Raton, Florida, waiting their turn. Inside, a doctor greets them one by one and prescribes them pain medication, a handgun peeking out from under his white coat. American Pain is a one-stop shop, supplying both prescriptions and painkillers. At the

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