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News by the numbers: April 2–8

April 9, 2022 2:19 AM Stacker

Stacker compiled a list of five notable numbers in the news this…

Consumer price inflation hit a new 40-year high in March

April 12, 2022 6:31 AM CNN

CNN By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business America’s inflation problem didn’t abate in March. Prices kept creeping up, hitting a fresh 40-year…

The night sky is changing before our eyes

April 9, 2022 9:37 AM CNN Newsource

By Katie Hunt, CNN I hate to fail. I suspect this trait would make me a very bad NASA scientist, many of whom have been putting the Artemis I moon…

Zoos are moving their birds indoors to protect them against a deadly strain of the avian flu

April 9, 2022 1:23 AM CNN Newsource

By Abby Bustin and Claudia Dominguez, CNN Zoos across the country are moving their birds indoors to protect them from the spread of a contagious and…

1 killed and 4 others injured in shooting outside Houston-area sports bar

April 9, 2022 6:26 AM CNN Newsource

By Jason Hanna, CNN Gunshots from two groups of people fighting outside a Houston-area sports bar early Saturday left one man dead and four other…

NASA’s third attempt at crucial moon mission test delayed to Tuesday due to malfunctioning valve

April 9, 2022 8:12 AM CNN Newsource

By Zoe Sottile and Ross Levitt, CNN NASA announced Saturday that a crucial moon mission test has again been delayed and is now scheduled to begin on…

He won $217 million in the lottery, then spent nearly all of it to help save the planet

April 8, 2022 11:00 PM CNN Newsource

By Camille Knight and Xiaofei Xu, CNN A lucky Frenchman has decided to dedicate most of his record-breaking $217 million lottery jackpot to a nature…

Russia invades Ukraine

April 8, 2022 10:00 PM CNN Newsource

Mexico to hold first presidential recall election in nation’s history

April 8, 2022 9:48 PM Heriberto Perez Lara

CD. JUAREZ, Chihuahua – This weekend, a recall election will be held to decide Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s fate. This type…

Joint US-Indonesia war games to expand to 14 nations as tensions simmer in Indo-Pacific

April 8, 2022 7:16 PM CNN Newsource

By Masrur Jamaluddin and Brad Lendon, CNN The Indonesian and United States militaries are expanding their annual bilateral exercises to 14…

Ukrainians shocked by ‘crazy’ scene at Chernobyl after Russian pullout reveals radioactive contamination

April 8, 2022 6:37 PM CNN

CNN’s Fred Pleitgen visits the abandoned Russian military positions in Chernobyl where Russian soldiers went into the Red Forest, the most nuclear…

Ukrainians shocked by ‘crazy’ scene at Chernobyl after Russian pullout reveals radioactive contamination

April 8, 2022 3:06 PM CNN Newsource

By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, Byron Blunt and Daria Markina, CNN The sudden ear-piercing beep of a radiation meter fills the room as a…

April 8, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news

April 8, 2022 9:28 AM CNN

Dozens have been killed and injured in a Russian missile strike on a train station used as an evacuation hub in the eastern Ukraine city of…

NASA to begin third attempt at crucial moon mission test on Saturday

April 8, 2022 9:14 AM CNN Newsource

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN A third attempt at a crucial prelaunch test for NASA’s Artemis I mission to the moon will begin on Saturday, after…

A Covid worker beat a dog to death in Shanghai after its owner tested positive

April 8, 2022 4:27 AM CNN

CNN By Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing bureau A pet dog was beaten to death by a health worker in Shanghai in an incident that sparked fury…

Dozens killed in train station missile strike in eastern Ukraine as civilians try to flee Russian onslaught

April 8, 2022 5:52 AM CNN

The mayor of Kramatorsk says that a Russian missile strike on a train station full of evacuees killed at least 30 people and wounded 100 more, but…

How a political shakeup in Yemen risks prolonging its war

April 8, 2022 5:27 AM CNN Newsource

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Yemen’s exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi ceded power to a presidential council on Thursday in a shock move…

Dmitry Muratov, Russian Nobel Peace Prize winner, says he was attacked with red paint

April 8, 2022 4:55 AM CNN Newsource

By Uliana Pavlova, Anna Chernova and Lianne Kolirin, CNN A Nobel Peace Prize-winning newspaper editor says he was attacked with red paint while…

Dozens killed in train station missile strike in eastern Ukraine as civilians try to flee Russian onslaught

April 8, 2022 3:50 AM CNN Newsource

By Olga Voitovych and Nathan Hodge, CNN At least 50 people, including five children, were killed after Russian forces carried out a missile strike on…

Every Supreme Court justice of the past 50 years

April 8, 2022 2:19 AM Stacker

Stacker takes a look at the justices that have presided over the Supreme Court over the last 50 years, and the impact their confirmations had on the…

Former jobs of every Supreme Court justice

April 8, 2022 2:19 AM Stacker

Stacker researched the former jobs of all current U.S. Supreme Court justices, including education, early career, and position held prior to their…

Where US first ladies went to college

April 8, 2022 2:19 AM Stacker

Stacker looks at where every first lady went to…

A Covid worker beat a dog to death in Shanghai after its owner tested positive

April 8, 2022 1:26 AM CNN Newsource

By Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing bureau A pet dog was beaten to death by a health worker in Shanghai in an incident that sparked fury online,…

Russia invades Ukraine

April 7, 2022 10:54 PM CNN

CNN’s Clarissa Ward speaks to survivors and tours the destruction left behind by Russian forces in Chernihiv,…

Nancy Pelosi postpones Asia trip after testing positive for Covid-19

April 7, 2022 10:26 PM CNN Newsource

By Annie Grayer, Kevin Liptak, Clare Foran and Kristin Wilson, CNN A US Congressional delegation to Asia has been postponed after House Speaker Nancy…