Ukrainians celebrate Easter in the shadow of war
By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Isa Soares, Madalena Araujo, Sofiya Harbuziuk, Oleksandra Ochman and Marc Seeman, CNN They’ve endured intense…
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Whitby Abbey seeks vampires to beat world record in honor of Dracula’s 125th anniversary
By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Gothic ruins that inspired “Dracula” are inviting in the world’s largest gathering of vampires — or…
Continue Reading April 24, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow has expressed full support of Putin’s war against Ukraine, despite the fact that it’s killing many of the…
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CNN’s Ed Lavandera visits a Ukrainian village where survivors say Russians rounded up the villagers at gunpoint and locked them in a basement for…
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CNN’s Ed Lavandera speaks to 16-year-old Ivan Onufrienko and his family about the damage the war is having on the people of Ukraine, especially the…
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Continue Reading Beijing races to contain ‘urgent and grim’ Covid outbreak as Shanghai lockdown continues
By Simone McCarthy Beijing is racing to track a Covid-19 outbreak that may have been spreading in the capital for a week, city authorities said over…
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By Jessie Yeung, Brad Lendon, Amy Woodyatt, Sana Noor Haq, Emma Tucker, Angela Dewan, Adrienne Vogt and Joe Ruiz, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ &…
Continue Reading Wildlife photography can change the way we see our planet
By Ashley Strickland, CNN “This is planet Earth, you’re looking at planet Earth.” So go the lyrics of Duran Duran’s first hit…
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Nature photography inspired the creation and preservation of Yellowstone National Park. Your snaps of nature could also help the planet. CNN’s Bill…
Continue Reading New Ebola outbreak declared in DRC after single case confirmed
By Radina Gigova and Nimi Princewill, CNN Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) declared a new Ebola outbreak on Friday, after…
Continue Reading Can red states regulate abortions performed outside their borders? A post-Roe landscape would test just that
CNN By Tierney Sneed, CNN If the Supreme Court reverses its long-standing abortion precedent later this year and lets states ban abortions within…
Continue Reading Nine people found from missing Japanese sightseeing boat, coast guard says
By Junko Ogura, CNN and Reuters Nine people from a Japanese tour boat that went missing with 26 people on board have been found, the country’s…
Continue Reading Construction starts on world’s largest wildlife crossing to let animals roam over 10 lanes of L.A. highway
By Cheri Mossburg, CNN Wild animals in Southern California soon will have more turf to roam thanks to the world’s biggest wildlife crossing,…
Continue Reading Suspect in DC shooting that wounded 4 is dead, police say
CNN, WJLA, WUSA By Jamie Crawford, Mike Valerio and Paul P. Murphy, CNN The suspect in a shooting in northwest Washington, DC, that left four people…
Continue Reading All-private SpaceX astronaut mission to return home from the ISS after week-long delay
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business The first all-private mission to the International Space Station is slated to complete the final leg of its journey…
Continue Reading Spider monkey with ‘Batman’ markings born at Florida zoo
By Zoe Sottile, CNN The “Batman Returns” — at a Florida zoo. The Brevard Zoo in Melbourne, Florida, announced the birth of a spider…
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Here’s how spending habits change with age
Which age groups in America were bigger spenders in 2020? To provide answers, Giving Assistant compiled the following information from the Bureau of…
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A brief history of American mail service
Stacker investigated the history of the United States Postal Service from colonial times to present day using a variety of historical, news, and…
Continue Reading 100 people from one California church opened their homes to Ukrainians in need
By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Phil Metzger flew home to California from Ukraine soon after the war broke out, devastated by what he saw. He’d…
Continue Reading William and Kate share new photos of Prince Louis for his 4th birthday
By Emma Tucker Prince Louis is turning four on Saturday, and to mark the occasion, his royal parents Kate and Prince William have shared new photos…
Continue Reading 1 dead and 27 missing after Russian flagship Moskva sunk in Black Sea, Russia says
By Jennifer Hauser, CNN At least one person was killed and another 27 are missing after the Moskva, the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet,…
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Secret of how rare spider fossils formed has been unlocked by scientists
By Katie Hunt, CNN Spiders are not well represented in the fossil record. Their soft external skeletons don’t typically preserve well —…
Continue Reading Thirty-three dead and dozens injured in Afghanistan mosque blast
By Mostafa Salem and Ehsan Popalzai, CNN Thirty-three people are thought to have died in a blast at a mosque in Afghanistan’s Kunduz province,…
Continue Reading Google marks Earth Day with doodle showing stark impacts of the climate crisis
By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Google is marking Earth Day on Friday with a doodle of time lapses, highlighting how the climate crisis is radically changing…
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The inside story of one man’s five-year ordeal in an Iranian prison
By Adam Pourahmadi and Bear Hutchison, CNN Anoosheh Ashoori points on a computer screen to the location of a makeshift shelter in the yard of…
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Anoosheh Ashoori spent nearly five years inside Evin prison in Iran on espionage charges. He was convicted of spying for Israel’s Mossad intelligence…
Continue Reading Scientists restart Large Hadron Collider in quest for dark matter
By Sara Spary, CNN Deep underneath the Alps, on the Swiss-French border, something significant just happened in the world of physics. The Large…
Continue Reading ‘We don’t realize how strong we actually are’: How Alexey Navalny became Russia’s opposition leader
By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Russian opposition leader. Anti-corruption campaigner. Assassination attempt survivor. Prisoner. Alexey Navalny’s crusade…
Continue Reading ‘We don’t realize how strong we actually are’: How Alexey Navalny became Russia’s opposition leader
Winner of the Sundance Festival Favorite Award, “Navalny” follows Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny as he investigates the circumstances of…
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