Mexican soldiers, police kill 9 in shootout near US border
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican soldiers and police have killed 9 suspected gunmen near the U.S. border. The government of the northern border state of…
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Minnesota Supreme Court rules Minneapolis voters may decide on changing the police department in upcoming elections
By Raja Razek, CNN The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Thursday that voters in Minneapolis may decide on changing the police department in the upcoming…
Continue Reading Family of Brian Laundrie, Gabby Petito’s fiancé, tell police they have not seen him since Tuesday
CNN has obtained the bodycam footage from the Moab Police Department that shows Gabby Petito and her boyfriend Brian Laundrie after they were pulled…
Continue Reading Wrongly convicted man dies of Covid-19, nine years after he was exonerated
By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN After spending the last nine years taking back his life after being exonerated of murder and released from prison, Damon…
Continue Reading A timeline of 22-year-old Gabby Petito’s case
By Christina Maxouris, CNN The FBI says its investigation into the case of Gabby Petito, the 22-year-old woman whose case captured America’s…
Continue Reading Federal judge blocks Biden administration from expelling migrant families under public health order
By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN A federal judge blocked the Biden administration from expelling migrant families apprehended at the US-Mexico border under…
Continue Reading Lawyer charged in probe of Trump-Russia investigation
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A prominent cybersecurity lawyer has been charged in the special counsel’s probe of the U.S.…
Continue Reading The Murdaugh family saga: a tangled web of secrets and murder
Alex Murdaugh, a South Carolina lawyer whose wife and son were killed in June, was arrested in connection to an insurance fraud scheme that court…
Continue Reading COVID-19 surge forces health care rationing in parts of West
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — In another ominous sign about the spread of the delta variant, Idaho public health leaders…
Continue Reading Italy to mandate Covid-19 ‘Green Pass’ for all workers
By Sarah Dean and Nicolo Ruotolo, CNN The Italian government has approved a decree making it mandatory for all public and private sector workers to…
Continue Reading Italy to mandate Covid-19 ‘Green Pass’ for all workers
Couple Katherine and Matthew Walden thought they had everything planned for their trip to Italy until Matthew tested positive for Covid- 19 and is…
Continue Reading Colorado governor weds longtime partner in first same-sex marriage for a sitting governor
By Ashley Killough and Leslie Perrot, CNN Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and his partner of 18 years, Marlon Reis, were married on Wednesday, according to…
Continue Reading Dutch Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag resigns over Afghanistan crisis
Mahbouba Seraj, human rights activist and CEO of Afghan Women’s Network, sits down with CNN’s Nic Robertson in Kabul, Afghanistan, to discuss women’s…
Continue Reading Dutch Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag resigns over Afghanistan crisis
By Katharina Krebs, CNN Dutch Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag announced her resignation on Thursday after a majority of the Dutch parliament said she…
Continue Reading Mass shootings in the US increased during the coronavirus pandemic, study finds
By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Mass shootings in the United States increased during the coronavirus pandemic, and even doubled in July 2020 compared to a…
Continue Reading Gabby Petito’s family makes plea for information about missing daughter
By Melissa Alonso, Ray Sanchez and Taylor Romine, CNN The father of Gabby Petito, who was reported missing over the weekend, made a public plea…
Continue Reading 3D animation shows giant hole forming in ozone
The Antarctic ozone hole, which forms every year over the South Pole between August and October, is now larger than Antarctica, according to…
Continue Reading One of America’s oldest cities has only elected White men as mayors. In November, that changes
By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Boston is poised to make history in November with two women of color competing for a mayor’s seat that has been won…
Continue Reading Lawyer Murdaugh exits jail after $10M insurance fraud arrest
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A prominent South Carolina lawyer has surrendered to face insurance fraud and other…
Continue Reading Putin says ‘several dozen’ in his inner circle test positive for coronavirus
By Zahra Ullah, Ivana Kottasová and Anna Chernova, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday morning that “not just one or two but…
Continue Reading South Carolina law enforcement opens criminal investigation into 2018 death of Murdaugh family’s housekeeper
By Caroline Kenny, Angela Barajas and Rebekah Riess, CNN The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division on Wednesday announced it was opening a criminal…
Continue Reading ISIS chief in Sahara killed by French forces, Macron says
French forces have killed Adnan Abou Walid al Sahraoui, leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISIS-GS), in a drone strike, the French…
Continue Reading When did humans start wearing clothes? Discovery in a Moroccan cave sheds some light
By Katie Hunt, CNN In popular culture, cave men (and women) are often draped in furs, but archaeological evidence of what our Stone Age ancestors…
Continue Reading Fossil reveals bird with long, flashy tail feathers that lived 120 million years ago
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Scientists have uncovered the fossil of a bird that lived 120 million years ago, and it definitely had flair, including…
Continue Reading Germany averted possible attack on synagogue during Yom Kippur, minister says
By Nadine Schmidt and Rosa Steindorff, CNN German officials on Thursday said a possible Islamist terror attack on a synagogue in the western city of…
Continue Reading Former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin pleads not guilty to federal charges
By Omar Jimenez and Brad Parks and Ray Sanchez, CNN Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted in April on state murder…
Continue Reading The ozone hole over the South Pole is now bigger than Antarctica
By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN The hole in the ozone that forms every year over the South Pole is now larger than Antarctica, scientists from the European…
Continue Reading Climate change could wipe out iconic California landmarks
Almost everything about a sequoia tree is giant, yet the iconic tree’s footprint is shrinking. As CNN’s Stephanie Elam reports, human-induced climate…
Continue Reading A Florida chiropractor signed hundreds of mask exemption forms for students. Now, the district has tightened its mask policy
By Randi Kaye and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A school district in Sarasota County, Florida, has tightened its mask policy after a chiropractor signed…
Continue Reading A Florida chiropractor signed hundreds of mask exemption forms for students. Now, the district has tightened its mask policy
CNN’s Randi Kaye attempts to speak with chiropractor Dan Busch, who despite not being a medical doctor, wrote medical exemptions for students wishing…
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