UPDATE: According to ABC News, Nashville Police Chief John Drake says the suspect was female and identified as transgender but didn’t immediately provide more details. Originally Published: 27 MAR 23 12:13 ETUpdated: 27 MAR 23 15:14 ETBy Eric Levenson and Jennifer Henderson, CNN (CNN) — An armed 28-year-old woman fatally shot three students and three adults
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(CNN) — An armed woman fatally shot three 9-year-old students and three adults at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville before she was shot and killed by police, authorities said, in the deadliest school shooting in nearly a year. The 28-year-old shooter, who was not identified, entered the Covenant School via a side door and
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UPDATE 12:18 p.m.: Nashville police say the shooter, who was previously described as a teen, is now described as a 28-year-old Nashville woman. UPDATE: 3 students & 3 adult staff members from Covenant School were fatally shot by the active shooter, who has now been identified as a 28-year-old Nashville woman.— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville)
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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania— Philadelphia officials are monitoring the city’s drinking water system carefully following a chemical spill just a few miles upstream of a key tap water intake in the Delaware River, saying the water would be safe to drink until at least 11:59 p.m. on Monday. None of the three chemicals that leaked into the river when
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WEST READING, Pennsylvania— The death toll from last week’s explosion at a Pennsylvania candy factory is now seven. At a press conference Sunday night, West Reading Police announced all missing people are now accounted for, including two bodies found over the weekend. Rescue crews worked overnight to inspect the rubble at the R.M. Palmer Company
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A U.S. official told ABC News that there were two new attacks late Friday on two U.S. facilities in Deir ez-Zor Province in eastern Syria after another earlier in the day and a drone attack on Thursday that prompted retaliatory U.S. airstrikes that targeted Iranian-backed militias believed responsible. Both attacks late Friday happened about the
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(CNN) — Prosecutors in Brazil have agreed to a deal with Rep. George Santos in a case in which he is accused of defrauding a Rio de Janeiro area clerk of $1,300 over clothes and shoes in 2008, documents obtained by CNN show. A petition from Santos’ attorney requesting a deal says Santos would agree to formally
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The Biden administration is threatening to ban TikTok in the US unless some changes are made. It’s a decision that could affect more than 150-million Americans and their respective audiences. The company’s CEO, Shou Chew is scheduled to testify before Congress today. Chew will testify on “TikTok’s consumer privacy and data security practices, the platforms’ impact on
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(CNN) — The extraordinary legal peril surrounding Donald Trump is reaching a fever pitch at the same time the former president is forging ahead in a 2024 Republican primary that is increasingly dominated by criminal investigations in New York, Washington and Atlanta. But there’s no public information as to when or whether an indictment could
Continue Reading (CNN) — Denver Police said in a Twitter post that they are responding to a shooting at East High School in Denver, Colorado. “At this time, two adult victims have been located and transported to area hospitals. It is believed the suspect is no longer on scene, and investigators are working to develop additional info,” according to
Continue Reading Originally Published: 21 MAR 23 10:02 ETUpdated: 21 MAR 23 22:39 ETBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business (CNN) — Google is opening up access to Bard, its new AI chatbot tool that directly competes with ChatGPT.Starting Tuesday, users can join a waitlist to gain access to Bard, which promises to help users outline and write essay
Continue Reading Originally Published: 21 MAR 23 12:56 ETUpdated: 21 MAR 23 22:47 ETBy Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — [Breaking news update, published at 10:44 p.m. ET]Japan won the World Baseball Classic on Tuesday night, downing Team USA 3-2 in the championship game at loanDepot Park in Miami. The title is the third for Japan, which also won
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(CNN) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday officially designated a new national monument in Southern Nevada while speaking at a conservation event at the Interior Department. At more than 506,000 acres, the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument is one of the largest tracts of land to come under federal protection so far during Biden’s presidency, preserving Nevada’s
Continue Reading Originally Published: 20 MAR 23 10:48 ETUpdated: 20 MAR 23 15:13 ETBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN (CNN) — Amazon is cutting 9,000 more jobs, CEO Andy Jassy announced Monday in a memo to staff.The latest cuts come after the company announced earlier this year that it was eliminating some 18,000 positions as part of a major cost-cutting
Continue Reading (CNN) — The US Capitol Police force “is not currently tracking any direct or credible threats to the US Capitol” ahead of a possible indictment of former President Donald Trump, according to a department intelligence assessment obtained by CNN. But officials in Washington are preparing for demonstrations that could erupt, a district official told CNN on Monday.
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Jason Sudeikis and his fellow Ted Lasso cast members will visit President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden at the White House on Monday. Sudeikis and other cast members will join Biden and First Lady for a conversation on mental health. The Emmy award winning show has tackled the issue of mental health in its story line. The third season
Continue Reading (CNN) — Hunter Biden is accusing the Delaware computer repair shop owner who worked on a laptop of trying to invade his privacy and wrongfully sharing his personal data for political purposes, according to new federal court filings. Biden’s lawyers also say that John Paul Mac Isaac opposed the presidential candidacy of Hunter’s father, Joe Biden,
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(CNN) — The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian official Maria Lvova-Belova for an alleged scheme to deport Ukrainian children to Russia. The court said there “are reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Putin bears individual criminal responsibility” for the alleged crimes, for having committed them directly alongside
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Honda is recalling nearly 500,000 vehicles over a manufacturing issue with the front seat belts that could prevent them from latching, the company announced. More than $448,000 vehicles are covered in the recall. Affected models include certain 2018-2019 Accord and Accord Hybrids, the 2017-2018 CR-V, 2018-2020 Odysseys, the 2019 Insight and 2019-2020 Acura RDXs. Honda says the
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T-Mobile announced Wednesday that it’s buying budget wireless provider Mint Mobile in a larger deal for up to $1.35 billion. The acquisition of Mint Mobile’s parent Ka’ena Corporation will also include Ultra Mobile, an international calling service, and wireless wholesaler Plum. Reynolds purchased a minority ownership stake in Mint Mobile in 2019. He will stay as a
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(CNN) — The US Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed the first national drinking water standard for “forever chemicals” that are dangerous to human health. The move could radically affect drinking water for nearly everyone in the United States. The new rule intends to set drinking water standards for six per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as
Continue Reading (CNN) — Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday cited an “uptick” in recent aviation incidents and called on participants at a Federal Aviation Administration safety summit to help find the “root causes” of the problem. “We are particularly concerned because we have seen an uptick in serious close calls,” Buttigieg said in his opening
Continue Reading (CNN) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin vowed on Wednesday that US aircraft will continue to “fly and to operate wherever international law allows,” one day after Russian aircraft hit a US drone over the Black Sea, forcing it to be brought down in international waters. “This hazardous episode is part of a pattern of aggressive, and risky,
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Vinyl records could be making a big comeback. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) says for the first time in more than three decades vinyl records outsold CD’s. More than 41 million vinyl albums were sold last year, bringing in a whopping $1.2 billion. According to the BBC, only 33 million CDs were sold
Continue Reading Originally Published: 14 MAR 23 13:00 ETUpdated: 14 MAR 23 14:00 ETBy Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — A Russian fighter jet forced down a US Air Force drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday after damaging the propeller of the American MQ-9 Reaper drone, according to the US Air Force.The Reaper drone and two SU-27 Flanker
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SAN DIEGO, California– The US Coast Guard in San Diego has ended its search for missing migrants after two smuggling boats were found capsized along the California shoreline over the weekend, leaving eight people dead in what officials called “one of the worst maritime smuggling tragedies” the city has seen amid a spike in human trafficking. Seven
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This week is sleep awareness week. A new study suggests Americans aren’t getting enough sleep, that’s according to new data from Apple and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. As part of the Apple Heart & Movement Study, researchers reviewed data from over 2.9 million nights of sleep. They found that among over 42,000 people who have Apple Watches
Continue Reading (CNN) — Lithium-ion batteries, found in many popular consumer products, are under scrutiny again following a massive fire this week in New York City thought to be caused by the battery that powered an electric scooter. At least seven people have been injured in a five-alarm fire in the Bronx which required the attention of 200 firefighters. Officials believe
Continue Reading (CNN) — An elderly man survived on croissants, candy and biscotti for nearly a week alone in his car, stuck in a snowbank on a desolate California highway. Jerry Jouret, 81, set out from his mountain house in Big Pine, California, on February 24 to return to his family home in Gardnerville, Nevada — just over three
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For the first time in 31 years Adidas is facing an operating loss. On Wednesday, the shoe maker says it will lose about $736 million this year because of a potential $527 million hit related to unsold Yeezy stock, and the cost of a strategic review. Shares for the German company fell 2.2%t after it
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