Japan’s Prime Minister dissolves Parliament ahead of October 31 general election
By Emiko Jozuka, CNN Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida dissolved Parliament’s lower house on Thursday, setting the stage for a general…
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Despite soothing words, the Taliban are much as they were
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…
Continue Reading Texas state website that included LGBTQ resources disabled after governor’s Republican primary challenger criticized its content
By Raja Razek and Carma Hassan, CNN The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) disabled a website with resources for LGBTQ youth…
Continue Reading Parents say Walgreens mistakenly injected them and their two kids with the Covid-19 vaccine instead of flu shot
By Amy Simonson and Madeline Holcombe, CNN Joshua and Alexandra Price say they and their two children were mistakenly given the Covid-19 vaccine…
Continue Reading Yellowstone sets September and year-to-date attendance records
By Forrest Brown, CNN Yellowstone National Park has done it again. After setting an attendance record in August of more than 920,000 recreational…
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Smuggler caught on video abandoning child after scaling 30-ft. border wall
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…
Continue Reading Dallas man sentenced in plot targeting gay men for violent crimes using a dating app
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…
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Assailant with bow and arrows kills 5 people in Norway
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…
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A statue of civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune is getting a place in the US Capitol. She’s replacing a Confederate general
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…
Continue Reading Man arrested and charged in death of woman fatally shot by toddler while on Zoom work call, authorities say
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…
Continue Reading Colorado postal worker is third to be shot and killed in US in the past two days
By Steve Almasy, CNN A US Postal Service worker in Longmont, Colorado, was shot and killed Wednesday, according to a statement from police. The…
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A ‘living fossil’ alligator gar is found for the first time in a Kansas river
By Sherry Liang, CNN A creature known as a “living fossil” — the alligator gar — has found its way to Kansas for the first…
Continue Reading What will happen when Texas’ ban on Covid-19 vaccine mandates conflicts with the federal vaccine requirement
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…
Continue Reading Smithsonian webcam offers view of its adorable litter of just-born cheetahs
By Megan Marples, CNN Say hello to a litter of cute, newborn cheetahs. Five cubs arrived Tuesday morning at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology…
Continue Reading Suspect charged after 5 killed in bow and arrow attack in Norway, police say
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…
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‘Huge problem’: Passengers are bringing a record number of guns to airports, TSA says
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…
Continue Reading Brazil’s Bolsonaro says he will not be vaccinated against Covid-19
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…
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Police: Drunk driver was going 152 mph on Virginia highway
LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) — Authorities say a drunk driver was going 152 mph when he was pulled over in Rockbridge County over the weekend. According to…
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EXPLAINER: Why the Social Security COLA is jumping next year
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rising inflation has triggered a jump in Social Security’s annual cost-of-living…
Continue Reading New findings a ‘complete reversal’ in understanding why Earth became hospitable to life and its ‘twin’ didn’t
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Venus may be a sweltering wasteland today, but scientists have questioned whether the planet was always so inhospitable.…
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Borrowers denied student loan relief will get a second look
By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer Thousands of public servants who were rejected from a student loan forgiveness program will get their cases…
Continue Reading Bereaved relatives of Covid victims slam Boris Johnson after UK Prime Minister pictured painting on vacation
By Allegra Goodwin, Vasco Cotovio, Sharon Braithwaite and Lianne Kolirin, CNN Relatives of Covid-19 victims have hit out at “deeply…
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Killed on Zoom: Dad held after toddler finds gun, shoots mom
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — Police in central Florida have arrested the 22-year-old father of a toddler who fatally shot his mother while she…
Continue Reading Social Security checks getting big boost as inflation rises
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of retirees on Social Security will get a 5.9% boost…
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China to test thousands of Wuhan blood samples in Covid-19 probe
Exclusive by Nick Paton Walsh, International Security Editor China is preparing to test tens of thousands of blood bank samples from the city of…
Continue Reading The world’s tallest living woman is a 24-year-old from Turkey
By Jack Guy, CNN A 24-year-old Turkish woman who stands 215.16 centimeters (7 feet, 0.7 inches) tall has been confirmed as the world’s tallest…
Continue Reading 5 things to know for October 13: Covid-19, debt ceiling, economy, North Korea, Petito
By AJ Willingham, CNN Synthetic chemicals found in items such as makeup, perfume and food storage containers have been linked to up to 107,000…
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CNN’s Brian Todd looks at a recent weapons display put on by Kim Jong Un that has analysts and experts…
Continue Reading 5 things to know for October 13: Covid-19, debt ceiling, economy, North Korea, Petito
Dr’s Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci changed the course of history with the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine. They call it a miracle born of science and human…
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An influx of tropical moisture is prompting a level 3 out of 4 risk for flash flooding that stretches from the Texas border to Arkansas. CNN…
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