How skateboarding went mainstream in Japan
As skateboarding makes its Olympic debut in Tokyo, Japan’s home team is gunning for gold. CNN’s Blake Essig speaks with the Osaka Daggers, a…
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Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony just hours away
By Joshua Berlinger, Adam Renton, Aditi Sangal, John Sinnott and Matias Grez, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2021 Cable News Network, Inc., a…
Continue Reading Problems at China nuclear power plant are serious enough to warrant shutdown, French co-owner warns
By Barbara Wojazer, Zachary Cohen, Michael Callahan and Jessie Yeung, CNN The French power company that co-owns a nuclear plant in China would shut…
Continue Reading Afghan interpreter for US Army was beheaded by Taliban. Others fear they will be hunted down too
By Sandi Sidhu, Anna Coren, Helen Regan and Abdul Basir Bina, CNN Sohail Pardis was driving from his home in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul to…
Continue Reading Tragic death of translator highlights plight of allies left behind in Afghanistan
CNN’s Anna Coren speaks with Afghan interpreters who risked their lives helping the US government, and now face reprisals from the Taliban as many of…
Continue Reading Mississippi asks US Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade
By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Mississippi’s attorney general told the Supreme Court on Thursday that Roe v. Wade was…
Continue Reading As the West winds down its ‘war on terror,’ jihadists are filling the vacuum, UN warns
By Paul Cruickshank, Tim Lister and Nic Robertson, CNN As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, the United Nations is warning that the threat from…
Continue Reading Internet outage that took down major websites now fixed
NEW YORK, NY — A sweeping internet disruption on Thursday briefly took out a wide range of major corporate websites — from FedEx and Delta…
Continue Reading More than 150 people still missing in German floods unlikely to be found, officials fear
CNN’s Sam Kiley takes a walk in Schuld, Germany, where the scale of destruction from the deadly flash flooding is revealed after the floodwater has…
Continue Reading More than 150 people still missing in German floods unlikely to be found, officials fear
By Nadine Schmidt, Frederik Pleitgen, Barbara Wojazer and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN A week after severe flooding hit western Europe, devastating Germany,…
Continue Reading GM is shutting down most of its pickup production for a week
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business General Motors will stop making most of its full-size pickup trucks for a week starting Monday. It’s another…
Continue Reading Daughter of detained man behind ‘Hotel Rwanda’ says she was spied on by Israeli software
By Stephanie Busari and Nimi Princewill, CNN The daughter of Paul Rusesabagina, a former hotelier who inspired the movie “Hotel Rwanda,”…
Continue Reading Chimpanzees have been spotted attacking and killing gorillas in the wild for the first time
By Rob Picheta, CNN Chimpanzees‘ lethal attacks on gorillas in the wild have been observed for the first time, a team of researchers has said.…
Continue Reading Astronomers spy first moon-forming disk around an exoplanet
By Ashley Strickland, CNN For the first time, astronomers have found a disk around a Jupiter-like planet outside of our solar system — the kind…
Continue Reading Death toll rises as passengers recount horror of China subway floods
By Nectar Gan and Zixu Wang, CNN At least 33 people have died and eight remain missing in central China, as authorities ramp up rescue and recovery…
Continue Reading Wildfires have erupted across the globe, scorching places that rarely burned before
By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Photo editor Sarah Tilotta, CNN Yakutsk in Russian Siberia is known as the world’s coldest city. In a place where even…
Continue Reading A far-right extremist killed 77 people in Norway. A decade on, ‘the hatred is still out there’ but attacker’s influence is seen as low
By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN Ten years ago, Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Brevik killed 77 people, many of them teenagers, in a bomb…
Continue Reading Chinese government rejects WHO plan for second phase of Covid-19 origins study
By Ben Westcott, Isaac Yee and Yong Xiong, CNN The Chinese government will not participate in a second phase of the World Health Organization’s…
Continue Reading The Tokyo 2020 Olympics
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Continue Reading This is what athletes are getting up to in the Olympic Village
Olympic athletes at the 2020 Games in Tokyo are sharing what life is like inside the Olympic…
Continue Reading Myanmar doctors in hiding and hunted by the junta as Covid crisis ravages the country
By Helen Regan, CNN A severe Covid-19 wave is devastating Myanmar — a country already on its knees following February’s military coup…
Continue Reading Judge rules conservative radio host Larry Elder will be on ballot in recall election of California Gov. Gavin Newsom
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Conservative talk radio host Larry Elder will be a candidate in California’s upcoming recall election aimed at removing…
Continue Reading GOP blocks U.S. Senate debate on bipartisan infrastructure bill
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Senate Republicans rejected an effort Wednesday to begin debate on the big infrastructure deal that a bipartisan group…
Continue Reading Perseverance rover prepares to collect Martian samples that will be sent to Earth
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Almost a year after NASA’s Perseverance rover was launched on its nearly seven-month journey to Mars, the robotic…
Continue Reading Harvey Weinstein pleads not guilty to 11 sexual assault counts in Los Angeles court
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Harvey Weinstein has pleaded not guilty in a Los Angeles courtroom to four counts of rape and seven other sexual assault…
Continue Reading House GOP leader McCarthy threatens to boycott Jan. 6 panel after Pelosi blocks appointment of 2 Trump allies
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is rejecting two Trump allies tapped by House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy to sit on a committee…
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Federal judge temporarily blocks enforcement of Arkansas ban on gender confirming treatment for transgender youth
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked Arkansas’ ban on gender confirming treatments for transgender youth while a…
Continue Reading Speaker Pelosi rejects 2 Republicans tapped by GOP leader to serve on panel investigating Jan. 6 riot at Capitol
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is rejecting two Republicans tapped by House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy to sit on a committee…
Continue Reading Men have a bigger carbon footprint than women, thanks to their appetite for cars and meat
By Hannah Ryan, CNN Gender stereotypes are alive and well and harming our planet, a new study from Sweden shows, as men’s passion for meat and…
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Official tells lawmakers US, Germany have reached deal allowing completion of Russian pipeline without new sanctions
WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior State Department official says the U.S. and Germany have reached a deal that will allow the completion of a…
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