By Ashley Strickland, CNN It’s time to go back to the moon. Almost 50 years after the last Apollo mission ventured to the lunar surface, NASA has established a program that promises to land humans on unexplored lunar regions and eventually the surface of Mars — and it all begins with Artemis I. It’s no
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Russia said it’s imposing entry bans on another 100 Canadian citizens in response to Canada’s sanctions on Moscow. They include American-Canadian actor Jim Carrey. The Russian foreign ministry’s “black list” contains hundreds of western officials and notable people. Russia said it’s adding a hundred more Canadians to the list in response to Canada’s continued practice
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The chances of a railroad strike have gone up, after a third rail union rejected a tentative labor deal. Rank and file members of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers voted against a tentative agreement reached in September. I.B.B said it expects to continue negotiating. The union, which represents about 300 workers, is the smallest of
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(CNN) — [Breaking news update, published at 11:17 a.m. ET] Police have in custody a University of Virginia student suspected of fatally shooting three football players and wounding two other people Sunday at the school’s main campus in Charlottesville. [Original story, published at 11:02 a.m. ET] A manhunt is underway for a University of Virginia student
Continue Reading By Kiely Westhoff and Theresa Waldrop, CNN All 18 students and a driver have “varying degrees of injuries” after their bus crashed in eastern Kentucky early Monday, a school official said. No fatalities have been reported, Magoffin County School District Superintendent Chris Meadows said in a statement. The students range from elementary to high school,
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Finding a free Covid test, whether it’s at home or a clinic, may soon be a thing of the past. The United States has spent trillions of dollars during the pandemic. That money is almost gone and what’s left of the funding is expected to be used up early next year. The Biden Administration has
Continue Reading Explorers trudged the Atlantic Ocean searching for World War II artifacts lost at sea, but they stumbled on something else — a 20-foot-long piece of debris from the Space Shuttle Challenger, which exploded shortly after liftoff in 1986. CNN’s Kristin Fisher has the details.
Continue Reading By Nimi Princewill, CNN Two TikTok comedians have been publicly whipped in Nigeria for making a video that a court in the northern Kano State ruled had defamed the state Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, according to a judicial spokesperson. Mubarak Isah Muhammad, 26, and Nazifi Muhammad Bala, 23, each received 20 lashes for making defamatory
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Elon Musk is selling more of his Tesla stock. The Government reports Musk has sold nearly $4 Billion worth of Tesla stock since he bought Twitter. Musk bought the social media company on October 27th. The Securities and Exchange Commission reported Tuesday night he waited until November 4th to start selling more of his Tesla
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By Simone Pathe, CNN The US will have a record number of female governors in 2023. Still, the record-setting number — 12 — will represent a small fraction of the top executives across the 50 states. The previous record of nine female governors serving concurrently was set in 2004, according to the Center for American
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy, CNN Massive Hurricane Nicole was dumping rain on Florida Wednesday night as the storm bore down on the east coast of the Sunshine State, threatening to bring damaging winds and heavy precipitation to some places still recovering from Hurricane Ian. Earlier the storm battered the Bahamas while strengthening from a tropical storm
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(CNN) — President Joe Biden is addressing reporters Wednesday after appearing to withstand historic and political headwinds in the midterm elections, staving off resounding Republican wins even as his presidency is now likely entering a new period of divided government. The results, he said, are a sign American democracy is intact, despite coming under threat over the past several
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Herschel Walker and Democrat Raphael Warnock advance to a runoff election for U.S. Senate in Georgia.
Continue Reading By Tim Lister, Darya Tarasova and Rob Picheta, CNN Russia has ordered a retreat from the key southern city of Kherson, the only regional capital it has captured since February’s invasion, in a dramatic strategic setback for Russian President Vladimir Putin. In the face of Ukrainian advances in the region, Russian troops across the Kherson
Continue Reading Nicole has become a tropical storm — with scattered showers impacting parts of Florida this midterm Election Day — and is expected to strengthen more before slamming the state’s east coast early Thursday as the first hurricane to strike the United States in November in nearly 40 years. CNN meteorologist Chad Myers has more.
Continue Reading By Abby Phillip and Rhea Mogul, CNN US women’s basketball star Brittney Griner is being moved to a Russian penal colony where she is due to serve the remainder of a nine-year drug smuggling sentence that was upheld in late October. Griner “is now on her way to a penal colony,” her attorneys said in
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A Texas Judge has sealed the autopsy reports of those killed in the May mass shooting at a Uvalde Elementary School. The District Judge ordered the records be given to the local District Attorney, “for the purpose of assisting in the investigation and potential prosecution or prosecutions” connected to the ongoing investigation. Before they were sealed,
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One person was killed and another was injured after 72 projectiles were launched from Russia over the past 24 hours, targeting a community in a northeastern Ukrainian city. That’s according to a local Ukrainian Military Official. A Telegram from a high-ranking official states, “the same community was also hit by multiple launch rocket systems.” A 62-year-old woman was
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(CNN) — Aaron Carter, a singer who first found fame as a boy with pop songs like “I Want Candy,” has died, a source close to the family told CNN. He was 34. A spokesperson for the LA County Sheriff’s Department told CNN they responded to a call for help at Carter’s Lancaster, California home
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN The first complete skeleton of a prehistoric marine reptile was thought to be lost forever in a bombing raid in London in 1941. Paleontologist Mary Anning discovered the ichthyosaur fossil in 1818, two decades before the word dinosaur was even part of our lexicon. The ancient marine reptiles got the name
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Sources say the Justice Department is considering a special counsel to oversee investigations into Former President Trump. The step may be necessary if Trump officially declares his candidacy for President again because of the political implications. The DOJ has been observing a quiet period prior to the midterm elections of not making overt moves that
Continue Reading (CNN) — [Breaking news update, published at 8 p.m. ET] The Brooklyn Nets in a statement announced the suspension of Kyrie Irving, saying in a statement, “he is currently unfit to be associated with the Brooklyn Nets. We have decided that Kyrie will serve a suspension without pay until he satisfies a series of objective remedial
Continue Reading By Jamie Gangel and Augie Martin, CNN Paul Pelosi has been released from a San Francisco hospital after recovering from surgery to repair a skull fracture and injuries to his hand and arm, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday. “Paul is grateful to the 911 operator, emergency responders, trauma care team, ICU staff, and the
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson and Sara Finch, CNN The parents of Gabby Petito filed a $50 million wrongful death lawsuit against the Moab City Police Department on Thursday alleging its officers were negligent in their interactions with the 22-year-old and her fiancé Brian Laundrie two weeks before her death last summer. “The purpose of this lawsuit
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The Powerball Lottery Jackpot is now $1.5 billion after 39 consecutive drawings with no jackpot winner. According to Powerball, the cash value of the prize will be roughly 745.9 million dollars. The winning numbers for Wednesday’s Powerball drawing for an estimated 1.2 billion dollars were 2, 11, 22, 35, and 60 with a Powerball of
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The White House is distributing billions of dollars to help families with heating costs through a Federal Program. The Biden Administration is giving families across the country 4.5 billion dollars through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. The funds will go to state and local governments to help people pay their home heating and
Continue Reading (CNN) — The Federal Reserve approved a fourth-straight rate hike of three-quarters of a percentage point on Wednesday as part of its aggressive battle to bring down the white-hot inflation that is plaguing the US economy. The decision marks the Fed’s toughest policy move since the 1980s and will likely deepen the economic pain for millions of American
Continue Reading By Katharina Krebs, Chris Liakos and Lianne Kolirin, CNN Russia has announced that its “partial mobilization” of hundreds of thousands of citizens to fight in the country’s war on Ukraine has been completed, bringing to an end a controversial draft that sparked protests and an exodus of men from the country. The Russian Ministry of
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(CNN) — The man alleged to have attacked Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was charged on Monday with federal counts of assault and attempted kidnapping. David DePape, 42, was charged with one count of “attempted kidnapping of a US official on account of the performance of official duties,” according to the
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By Devan Cole, CNN The man who is alleged to have attacked Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is expected to be charged with multiple felonies Monday as the shock and horror over the attack continues to cast a pall over Washington. David DePape, 42, faces potential charges of attempted homicide, assault
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