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The drought in California this summer was the worst on record

October 14, 2021 6:31 AM CNN

The water level at Lake Tahoe has hit a four-year…

Pakistani airline suspends Afghanistan flights due to Taliban ‘heavy-handedness’

October 14, 2021 6:01 AM CNN Newsource

By Sophia Saifi, CNN Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) announced Thursday that it was suspending flights to Afghanistan due to what it described…

At least 46 people killed after fire tears through 13-story residential building in Taiwan

October 14, 2021 5:34 AM CNN

CNN By Eric Cheung, CNN At least 46 people died and dozens were injured after a major fire broke out in a building in southern Taiwan on Thursday,…

Beirut’s worst street violence in more than a decade kills at least 6

October 14, 2021 2:57 AM CNN Newsource

By Tamara Qiblawi and Mostafa Salem, CNN A fierce political dispute over a probe into Beirut’s August 2020 port blast prompted the worst…

Suspect in Norway attack named as police say they’re treating it as terrorism

October 14, 2021 2:55 AM CNN Newsource

By James Frater and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN Norwegian police have named the suspect in Wednesday’s bow-and-arrow attack in the southern town of…

At least 46 people killed after fire tears through 13-story residential building in Taiwan

October 14, 2021 2:43 AM CNN Newsource

By Eric Cheung, CNN At least 46 people died and dozens were injured after a major fire broke out in a building in southern Taiwan on Thursday,…

Child suicides in Japan are at a record high

October 14, 2021 1:54 AM CNN Newsource

By Emiko Jozuka, CNN Suicides among Japanese schoolchildren hit a record high during the last school year, according to an education ministry report…

New York barbershops and salons are open. That doesn’t mean business as usual

October 14, 2021 1:44 AM CNN Newsource

Samantha Chaney, CNN On a sticky September Saturday, Linwood Dillard and Shakeya Mervin work tirelessly on two of their regulars. Both barbers and…

New York barbershops and salons are open. That doesn’t mean business as usual

October 14, 2021 1:44 AM CNN

In the war on Covid-19 the US may finally be turning a corner, what top health officials say has led to fewer cases being reported and why they say…

Indonesia's Bali and Riau Islands are reopening to visitors from 19 countries starting Thursday. Airport security personnel are shown here during a briefing in preparation of the reopening of International Ngurah Rai Airport in Bali

Bali now open to tourists from 19 countries

October 14, 2021 12:52 AM CNN Newsource

By Masrur Jamaluddin, CNN Indonesia’s Bali and Riau Islands are reopening to visitors from 19 countries starting Thursday, according to the…

Japan’s Prime Minister dissolves Parliament ahead of October 31 general election

October 13, 2021 11:35 PM CNN Newsource

By Emiko Jozuka, CNN Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida dissolved Parliament’s lower house on Thursday, setting the stage for a general…

Despite soothing words, the Taliban are much as they were

October 13, 2021 10:02 PM CNN Newsource

By Nic Robertson and Tim Lister, CNN The Taliban are the most unlikely of populists: brutal, myopic, the epitome of intolerance. During five years in…

Texas state website that included LGBTQ resources disabled after governor’s Republican primary challenger criticized its content

October 13, 2021 9:27 PM CNN Newsource

By Raja Razek and Carma Hassan, CNN The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) disabled a website with resources for LGBTQ youth…

Parents say Walgreens mistakenly injected them and their two kids with the Covid-19 vaccine instead of flu shot

October 13, 2021 9:19 PM CNN Newsource

By Amy Simonson and Madeline Holcombe, CNN Joshua and Alexandra Price say they and their two children were mistakenly given the Covid-19 vaccine…

Yellowstone sets September and year-to-date attendance records

October 13, 2021 8:57 PM CNN Newsource

By Forrest Brown, CNN Yellowstone National Park has done it again. After setting an attendance record in August of more than 920,000 recreational…

Smuggler caught on video abandoning child after scaling 30-ft. border wall

October 13, 2021 7:11 PM KVIA ABC-7

CALEXICO, California — U.S. Border Patrol cameras captured the moments when a smuggler scaled a portion of border wall with a 7-year-old child on…

Dallas man sentenced in plot targeting gay men for violent crimes using a dating app

October 13, 2021 6:30 PM CNN Newsource

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN A Dallas man has been sentenced in a scheme to target gay men for violent crimes using the dating app Grindr, according to…

Assailant with bow and arrows kills 5 people in Norway

October 13, 2021 1:34 PM Associated Press

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A man armed with a bow and arrows killed five people and wounded others near the…

A statue of civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune is getting a place in the US Capitol. She’s replacing a Confederate general

October 13, 2021 5:29 PM CNN Newsource

By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN A larger-than-life marble statue of civil rights pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune is replacing one of a Confederate general in…

Man arrested and charged in death of woman fatally shot by toddler while on Zoom work call, authorities say

October 13, 2021 5:11 PM CNN Newsource

By Rebekah Riess, CNN A Florida man has been arrested and charged after a woman was fatally shot by her toddler while she was on a Zoom conference…

Colorado postal worker is third to be shot and killed in US in the past two days

October 13, 2021 5:07 PM CNN Newsource

By Steve Almasy, CNN A US Postal Service worker in Longmont, Colorado, was shot and killed Wednesday, according to a statement from police. The…

Angler Danny Lee "Butch" Smith caught the 4.5-foot

A ‘living fossil’ alligator gar is found for the first time in a Kansas river

October 13, 2021 4:51 PM CNN Newsource

By Sherry Liang, CNN A creature known as a “living fossil” — the alligator gar — has found its way to Kansas for the first…

What will happen when Texas’ ban on Covid-19 vaccine mandates conflicts with the federal vaccine requirement

October 13, 2021 2:45 PM CNN Newsource

By Eric Levenson, CNN Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s new executive order bans any entity in Texas from enforcing a Covid-19 vaccine mandate — a…

Smithsonian webcam offers view of its adorable litter of just-born cheetahs

October 13, 2021 2:09 PM CNN Newsource

By Megan Marples, CNN Say hello to a litter of cute, newborn cheetahs. Five cubs arrived Tuesday morning at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology…

Suspect charged after 5 killed in bow and arrow attack in Norway, police say

October 13, 2021 1:51 PM CNN Newsource

By Vasco Cotovio, James Frater and Lianne Kolirin, CNN A 37-year-old man has been arrested and charged after five people were killed and two injured…

‘Huge problem’: Passengers are bringing a record number of guns to airports, TSA says

October 13, 2021 12:56 PM CNN Newsource

By Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN Airline passengers are bringing guns to the airport in numbers never seen before, and it is a “huge…

Brazil’s Bolsonaro says he will not be vaccinated against Covid-19

October 13, 2021 12:46 PM CNN Newsource

By Rodrigo Pedroso, CNN Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said he decided not to get a Covid-19 vaccine, in an on-air interview with Jovem Pan radio…