Nine-year-old child genius to graduate university
A child prodigy from Belgium is on course to gain a bachelor’s degree at the tender age of 9. Laurent Simons is studying electrical engineering…
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The story behind the first batch of cookies in space and the first zero-gravity oven
It’s science rule #1: Don’t eat your experiments. Typically, this is good advice, but for the astronauts aboard the International Space…
Continue Reading After Parkland, Saugus High students walked out to protest school shootings. Thursday, their school was the target
A gunman opened fire at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita on Thursday morning. It’s a reality many students there had been fighting to end.…
Continue Reading What we know about the suspect in the California school shooting
After sheriff’s deputies responded to a shooting at Saugus High School in Southern California on Thursday, six students were rushed to local…
Continue Reading 5 things to know for November 15: School shooting, impeachment, Gaza, Chile, plague
Those deadly bushfires are still raging in Australia, and now the country’s biggest city, Sydney, may be facing a water shortage. Here’s…
Continue Reading US Park Police involved in fatal shooting of Bijan Ghaisar won’t face federal criminal civil rights charges
No federal criminal civil rights charges will be brought against the United States Park Police officers involved in the fatal shooting of unarmed…
Continue Reading Hong Kong’s government is being willfully blind to the chaos it’s creating
In almost six months of protests, you might be forgiven for thinking Hong Kong had seen it all. And yet, this week brought a new sight: men in suits…
Continue Reading A doorbell camera captured a woman screaming for help from a passing car. Police want to find her
A Los Angeles doorbell camera captured the gut-wrenching screams of a woman police say they believe may have been kidnapped, but it did not capture…
Continue Reading Her daughter was shot dead in a movie theater. Now she travels to mass shooting sites to help others
Seven years after her daughter was killed in the Aurora movie theater shooting, Sandy Phillips says she can barely keep up with the nation’s…
Continue Reading China’s President calls for end to violence in Hong Kong as elderly man dies
China’s President Xi Jinping has called for an end to violence in Hong Kong, in strongly worded comments that coincide with the second protest…
Continue Reading Italian council is flooded immediately after rejecting measures on climate change
Veneto regional council, which is located on Venice’s Grand Canal, was flooded for the first time in its history on Tuesday night — just…
Continue Reading Security is the key issue as terror-hit Sri Lanka votes for a new President
Sri Lankans head to the polls Saturday to elect a new President months after deadly terrorist attacks shook confidence in the government and security…
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Now a GOP congressman is asking Texas’ governor to stop the execution of Rodney Reed
In Republican-led Texas, the state that executes the most death row inmates, a GOP lawmaker is urging the governor to delay the execution of Rodney…
Continue Reading 2 teens are dead after a 16-year-old SoCal gunman shot 5 classmates and himself in 16 seconds, cops say
SANTA CLARITA, California — A teen whose birthday was Thursday went to his Southern California high school, pulled a pistol from his backpack…
Continue Reading Police use forensic genealogy to make arrest in ‘Potomac River Rapist’ case
A serial assailant known as the Potomac River Rapist assaulted at least 10 women — killing one of them — during the 1990s, police and FBI…
Continue Reading As El Paso’s Cielo Vista Walmart reopens, residents find healing after the horror
EL PASO, Texas — Erika Contreras still shivers whenever she drives by or pumps gas near the Cielo Vista Walmart in El Paso where an assailant…
Continue Reading Democracy is being tested around the world
This was originally published as the November 15 edition of CNN’s Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers.…
Continue Reading Some ran. Others hid. Their parents worried. Inside the panic-filled moments after the California school shooting
Larry Everhart was leaving his house to get a coffee in his quiet Santa Clarita neighborhood Thursday morning when he noticed an onslaught of…
Continue Reading Marine deserter wanted for murder spotted in Roanoke, Virginia, prompting a school shutdown
The manhunt for a Marine deserter wanted for murder led Roanoke, Virginia, police to shut down all schools in the city on Thursday. Authorities…
Continue Reading Japan’s Emperor has a dinner date with a sun goddess
Japan’s new Emperor Naruhito will take part in a ritual feast with a sun goddess on Thursday night as part of a centuries-old ceremony to…
Continue Reading A Texas family was told to remove their Christmas decorations because it’s too early
When’s the best time to put up Christmas decorations? A homeowners association in San Antonio thinks it knows the answer, and it’s not…
Continue Reading Alleged Ponzi scheme targeted military veterans and other pension holders, federal authorities say
A California man and a business entity called Future Income Payments LLC (FIP) have been charged in connection with a Ponzi scheme that took…
Continue Reading Walmart displays #ElPasoStrong banner as store reopens to cheers
The Cielo Vista Walmart reopened Thursday, almost four months after 22 people were killed in a mass shooting here. A banner that read #ELPASOSTRONG…
Continue Reading The mediators hired to work on Jeffrey Epstein’s estate also handled the 9/11 victims fund and Catholic Church abuse scandal
The executors managing the estate of Jeffrey Epstein have hired prominent mediators to figure out how to compensate his alleged victims of sexual…
Continue Reading Bank teller charged in home invasion of a customer who’d made a large withdrawal, authorities say
A bank teller has been charged in connection with a home invasion at the residence of a customer who’d made a large withdrawal of money,…
Continue Reading Turkey begins deporting suspected ISIS fighters to US, UK, Germany
Turkey has begun the process of returning alleged foreign ISIS fighters to their home countries, starting with an American, a Briton and seven…
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Trump asks U.S. Supreme Court to block subpoena for tax returns
WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to block a Manhattan grand jury subpoena for copies of his…
Continue Reading The new John Lewis holiday ad will set your heart on fire
We don’t usually think of dragons as holiday-oriented creatures, but don’t worry about that. The new John Lewis ad is here to change your…
Continue Reading 4 of 9 USC deaths this semester are suspected overdoses. The school is warning students about opioid use
The University of Southern California has sent students another letter addressing the high number of student deaths this semester, this time warning…
Continue Reading Dutch government slashes highway speed limit to tackle climate change
Motorists in the Netherlands will soon have to slow down to do their bit to tackle climate change. The Dutch government put forward a new climate…
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