JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An elevator suddenly dropped around 200 meters (656 feet) while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75 — 14 of them critically, the mine operator said Tuesday. It happened Monday evening at the end of the workers’ shift at a mine in
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By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Mayo Clinic has announced a $5 billion expansion plan that includes new buildings designed so they can evolve and expand as patient needs change over the coming decades. The project is part of a Mayo strategy to transform both patient care and its flagship campus in
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By Veronica Haynes Click here for updates on this story BOSTON, Massachusetts (WCVB) — The MSPCA-Angell is seeking very special adopters for a unique kitten named Gumby, who arrived in Massachusetts from Texas earlier this month needing medical care and a new home. “We’ve never seen a cat quite like this,” Dr. Rebecca Fellman, MSPCA-Angell
Continue ReadingBy LISA RATHKE and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Far away from the war in Gaza, three college students were enjoying another visit to Vermont, celebrating Thanksgiving and a pair of family birthdays. But the place their Palestinian families thought would be safe was anything but. The 20-year-olds were out for a
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Mark Cuban is swimming away from the show that helped America better come to know the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks. During an appearance on the Showtime podcast “All The Smoke,” Cuban talked to hosts and former NBA players Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson about his time
Continue ReadingBy JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland says it will close its last remaining border crossing with Russia amid concerns that Moscow is using migrants as part of “hybrid warfare” to destabilize the Nordic country following its entry into NATO. Finland already had shut seven of its eight of the checkpoints on its
Continue ReadingTORONTO (AP) — A Canadian man who pleaded guilty to the murder of a Toronto massage parlor employee has received a life prison sentence for what a judge described as an act of terrorism related to an internet subculture that fuels sexual loneliness into rage and misogyny. The man cannot be named because he was
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CNN By Arya Jyothi, CNN (CNN) — November 28 was the third annual Call to Earth Day, an initiative dedicated to sustainability and conservation. Partnering with individuals, schools and organizations across the globe, CNN aims to raise awareness of environmental issues and encourage education. Themed “Our Shared Home,” this year’s Call to Earth Day focuses
Continue Reading CNN, DUNALASTAIR SCHOOL, CHILE By Arya Jyothi, CNN (CNN) — November 28 was the third annual Call to Earth Day, an initiative dedicated to sustainability and conservation. Partnering with individuals, schools and organizations across the globe, CNN aims to raise awareness of environmental issues and encourage education. Themed “Our Shared Home,” this year’s Call to
Continue Reading CNN, CHIREC INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL By Arya Jyothi, CNN (CNN) — November 28 was the third annual Call to Earth Day, an initiative dedicated to sustainability and conservation. Partnering with individuals, schools and organizations across the globe, CNN aims to raise awareness of environmental issues and encourage education. Themed “Our Shared Home,” this year’s Call to
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.N. says gangs are invading Haiti’s rural central region and suffocating a once peaceful area that served as the country’s food basket but that is now plagued by kidnappings, killings and rapes. A report released Tuesday by the U.N. Human
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, Joseph Ataman and Amir Tal, CNN (CNN) — For more than six weeks, the conditions in which the Israeli hostages captured by Hamas were being held in Gaza were virtually unknown to the outside world. But testimony from some of the hostages released by the militant group in recent days is now
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CNN By Rhea Mogul, Aishwarya Iyer, Vedika Sud, Sania Farooqui and Jack Guy, CNN New Delhi, India (CNN) — Cheers greeted a group of 41 workers as they emerged from a collapsed tunnel under the Himalayas on Tuesday, the climax of an incredible rescue operation to drill through rock and debris. The men had been
Continue ReadingMOUNT KISCO, N.Y. (AP) — A customer has filed a lawsuit against the fast casual chain Chopt over a salad that she says contained a piece of the manager’s finger. The lawsuit filed Monday by Allison Cozzi of Greenwich, Connecticut, alleges that she bought a salad at a Chopt location in Mount Kisco, New York,
Continue ReadingBy Arlette Saenz, Tami Luhby and Arit John, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Biden campaign is seizing on former President Donald Trump’s recent threat to repeal Obamacare, marking their latest effort to sound the alarm on the GOP frontrunner’s policy vision. The campaign is readying surrogates, messaging pushes and a TV ad aimed at drawing
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Officials say that a magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the eastern Caribbean island of Barbados but no damage was reported. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake occurred on Tuesday some 30 miles, or about 50 kilometers, south-southwest of the capital of Bridgetown at a depth of 24
Continue Reading By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Fresh gunfire was heard in a suburb of the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown, on Tuesday as security forces combed through the city in search of suspects linked to a jailbreak and a foiled attack on a military barracks that left more than 13 people dead. Residents of Freetown said on social
Continue ReadingOpinion by Jill Filipovic (CNN) — Elon Musk is trying to make amends, or at least do damage control, after endorsing an antisemitic post on his platform X, formerly Twitter. Musk, however, isn’t actually adequately apologizing or doing much of anything to address his own repeated vile actions or the bigotry that has overtaken X since he took
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Among images of the bombed out homes and ravaged streets of Gaza, some stood out for the utter horror: Bloodied, abandoned infants. Viewed millions of times online since the war began, these images are deepfakes created using artificial intelligence. If you look closely you can see clues:
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