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Testimony from US Marines casts doubt on Pentagon’s account of Kabul airport attack aftermath

February 11, 2022 8:28 PM CNN

CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Sandi Sidhu, Julia Hollingsworth, Masoud Popalzai, Sitara Zamani, Abdul Basir Bina, Katie Polglase and Gianluca Mezzofiore,…

Fame and fury: China’s wildly different reactions to US-born Olympians

February 11, 2022 7:39 PM CNN Newsource

By CNN staff In the span of a week, three American-born athletes of Chinese descent have been thrust into the spotlight at the Beijing Winter…

Day 8 of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

February 11, 2022 6:17 PM CNN Newsource

An 11-year-old girl with Down syndrome was being bullied. So her country’s President walked her to school

February 11, 2022 10:44 AM CNN Newsource

By Allegra Goodwin, CNN The President of North Macedonia walked an 11-year-old girl with Down syndrome to school after he heard she was being…

Boy, 12, killed in Ireland after car he was driving collided with truck

February 11, 2022 12:40 PM CNN Newsource

By Elle Pickston, CNN A 12-year-old boy has died after the car he was driving collided with a truck in County Limerick, Ireland, early Friday…

Webb telescope’s first test images include an unexpected ‘selfie’

February 11, 2022 12:22 PM CNN Newsource

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope is setting up shop while it chills out a million miles from Earth. The observatory shared…

Africa ‘on track’ to control the Covid-19 pandemic, WHO says

February 11, 2022 11:01 AM CNN Newsource

By Nimi Princewill, CNN African countries are on course to control the coronavirus and its emerging variants this year, the World Health…

Testimony from US Marines casts doubt on Pentagon’s account of Kabul airport attack aftermath

February 11, 2022 7:33 AM CNN Newsource

By Nick Paton Walsh, Sandi Sidhu, Julia Hollingsworth, Masoud Popalzai, Sitara Zamani, Abdul Basir Bina, Katie Polglase and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN…

Testimony from US Marines casts doubt on Pentagon’s account of Kabul airport attack aftermath

February 11, 2022 7:33 AM CNN

CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Sandi Sidhu, Julia Hollingsworth, Masoud Popalzai, Sitara Zamani, Abdul Basir Bina, Katie Polglase and Gianluca Mezzofiore,…

Why the big table in Moscow? Macron refused a Russian Covid test

February 11, 2022 6:07 AM CNN Newsource

By Tara John, Joseph Ataman, Xiaofei Xu and Anna Chernova, CNN There’s socially distanced, and then there’s French President Emmanuel…

How each state is affected by e-commerce scams

February 11, 2022 2:19 AM Stacker

Wicked Reports broke down state-by-state 2020 data from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaints Center (IC3) to determine how each state is harmed by…

As the Olympics heat up, China clamps down on dissent

February 10, 2022 6:47 PM CNN

CNN By Simone McCarthy, Selina Wang and Sandi Sidhu, CNN As Winter Olympians vie for gold in Beijing, global attention has turned to events in the…

As the Olympics heat up, China clamps down on dissent

February 10, 2022 6:05 PM CNN Newsource

By Simone McCarthy, Selina Wang and Sandi Sidhu, CNN As Winter Olympians vie for gold in Beijing, global attention has turned to events in the…

Day 7 of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

February 10, 2022 5:59 PM CNN Newsource

Venus glows like ‘iron pulled from a forge’ in new image

February 10, 2022 4:16 PM CNN

For the first time, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured images of Venus’ surface in visible light, which may help scientists learn more about the…

New satellite images show continuing Russian military buildup on three sides of Ukraine

February 10, 2022 4:13 PM CNN Newsource

By Tim Lister and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN New satellite images released by a US-based technology company appear to show continuing Russian military…

Venus glows like ‘iron pulled from a forge’ in new image

February 10, 2022 10:40 AM CNN Newsource

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Beneath a thick cover of clouds, Venus is aglow. The Parker Solar Probe mission, intended to study the sun, has revealed…

Discovery of what ailed Dolly the dinosaur is a first, researchers say

February 10, 2022 9:01 AM CNN Newsource

By Ashley Strickland, CNN About 150 million years ago, a young long-necked dinosaur fell ill, likely coughing and suffering from a fever as it…

Third potential planet discovered around star closest to our sun

February 10, 2022 6:12 AM CNN Newsource

By Ashley Strickland, CNN We may have a new planetary neighbor orbiting just four light-years away. Astronomers have detected evidence of a third…

Iraq faces deadlock after ‘West-friendly’ candidate suspended

February 10, 2022 5:51 AM CNN Newsource

By Nadeen Ebrahim and Eoin McSweeney, CNN He’s arguably Iraq’s best-known face abroad. Hoshyar Zebari, a Kurd, was the country’s…

Paris and Brussels ban protests linked to French ‘Freedom Convoy’

February 10, 2022 5:20 AM CNN Newsource

By Joseph Ataman, Lianne Kolirin, Mick Krever and Aliza Kassim Khalidi, CNN Authorities in both Paris and Brussels have announced a ban on protests…

Russia and Belarus hold joint military exercises as diplomatic talks ramp back up

February 10, 2022 3:31 AM CNN Newsource

By Nathan Hodge, Tara John and Anna Chernova, CNN Russia and Belarus began 10 days of joint military drills Thursday amid ongoing diplomatic efforts…

Resistance and revolts: 5 significant uprisings by enslaved people in US history

February 10, 2022 2:19 AM Stacker

Stacker compiled a list of five significant uprisings by enslaved people throughout U.S. history, while also exploring everyday acts of resistance to…

Nathan Chen wins gold with figure skating master class

February 9, 2022 11:29 PM CNN Newsource

By Simone McCarthy, CNN American ice skater Nathan Chen has won his first Olympic Gold medal with a flawless performance that set him well above the…

Here’s where Alliance forces are deployed across Eastern Europe

February 9, 2022 10:03 PM CNN Newsource

By Rob Picheta and Henrik Pettersson, CNN The threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine has placed heightened importance on the United States’…

Russia has surrounded Ukraine on three sides. Here’s where an invasion could be launched

February 9, 2022 9:36 PM CNN

According to experts, a mild winter in Ukraine and the plains and marshes that make up its terrain could prove beneficial to the country, as Russia…

UK anti-Semitism reaches record high in 2021, report says

February 9, 2022 6:21 PM CNN Newsource

By Allegra Goodwin and Richard Allen Greene, CNN More incidents of anti-Semitism were recorded in the United Kingdom in 2021 than at any point since…

Day 6 of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

February 9, 2022 4:59 PM CNN Newsource

Iranian husband beheads teenage wife, authorities say, shocking the country

February 9, 2022 4:27 PM CNN Newsource

By Mostafa Salem and Ramin Mostaghim, CNN The beheading of a 17-year-old girl, allegedly by her husband, in western Iran’s…

A tiny tooth unearthed from a French cave is upending what we know about early humans

February 9, 2022 12:00 PM CNN Newsource

By Katie Hunt, CNN A child’s tooth unearthed from a French cave has revealed the earliest evidence of humans — Homo sapiens —…