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By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — North Korea is known as a heavily restricted hermit nation, but it does welcome visitors in some rare cases. One Russian student who spent two weeks at a summer camp in the isolated country told CNN about his bizarre experience. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up

By Thomas Lake, CNN Milton, Georgia (CNN) — A few days after the plane crash, Ansley Van Epps visited the house where her brother and his family once lived. There was food in the refrigerator, dishes in the sink. She walked through her nephews’ rooms and looked at their medals, their sports jerseys, their school

By Jamiel Lynch, Colin Jeffery, Jason Hanna and Sharif Paget, CNN (CNN) — A truck driver found a 1-year-old alive in a ditch off an interstate highway in Louisiana this week, a day after the boy’s 4-year-old brother was found dead near the same freeway in what investigators think was a case of abandonment around

By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Prince Harry received the 2024 Pat Tillman Award for Service at the ESPYS event in Los Angeles Thursday amid a backlash prompted by the mother of the football player who gave up his NFL career after 9/11 to serve his country. The honor has been bestowed on unsung heroes

By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Adult cancer deaths in the US could be prevented if people made lifestyle changes, according to a new study. Smoking posed the biggest risk by far, of course. Other important factors include excess body weight, lack of exercise and alcohol consumption. Here’s what else you

CNN By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Adult cancer deaths in the US could be prevented if people made lifestyle changes, according to a new study. Smoking posed the biggest risk by far, of course. Other important factors include excess body weight, lack of exercise and alcohol consumption. Here’s what else

By Sydney Bishop, CNN (CNN) — The family of Taylor Casey, a Chicago woman who has been missing in the Bahamas for nearly a month, gathered Thursday to mark her birthday and to plead with authorities to continue searching for her. “The pain I felt 42 years ago while birthing you doesn’t compare to the

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the July 20, 2012, movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado. Twelve people were killed and 70 injured. On July 16, 2015, James Holmes was found guilty on all 165 counts against him: 24 first-degree murder, 140 attempted murder and one count of possession or control

By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — A West Virginia police chief has resigned after hiring the former Cleveland, Ohio, police officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014. D.S. Teubert resigned as chief of the White Sulphur Springs Police Department after hiring Timothy Loehmann, Mayor Kathy Glover said. The death of Rice, a 12-year-old

By Alisha Ebrahimji and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Hotel employees have been fired following the death last month of a Black man after he was pinned down by hotel security guards outside a Hyatt Regency in Milwaukee in an incident partially captured by witness video. “The conduct we saw from several associates on June

By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — Former NBA player Jontay Porter pleaded guilty Wednesday to wire fraud conspiracy and was released on a $250,000 bond, according to a spokesperson with the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, in a case stemming from an alleged betting scheme. “Estimated sentencing guidelines are 41-51 months, max sentence for

By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Costco is raising membership fees for the first time since 2017. The hikes, which go into effect on September 1, are part of a larger effort to crack down on membership moochers and boost revenue for the warehouse chain. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to

By Jillian Sykes and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — A 2-year-old Arizona girl died after her father left her asleep in a car during a heat wave on Tuesday, police said. An initial investigation indicates the toddler’s father arrived home while she was asleep in the car, and he left her there with the vehicle

By Emma Tucker and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Alabama will forgo an autopsy on a Muslim death row inmate who sued the state, saying the procedure following his execution by lethal injection next week would violate his religious beliefs. Keith Gavin, who is set to be executed next Thursday or Friday, said in the

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — The hourslong disappearance, then confirmed death of a Dartmouth College fraternity member has police investigating the case as a possible hazing incident. The Ivy League school has suspended the 20-year-old’s Greek organization, as well as a sorority. Won Jang, a member of Beta Alpha Omega, had last been seen

By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! When was the last time you wrote a check to pay for something? For me, it’s been years — probably around the same time I used a stamp to mail a letter. But another big retailer just announced it won’t accept checks anymore, so keep

WMUR, CNN By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! When was the last time you wrote a check to pay for something? For me, it’s been years — probably around the same time I used a stamp to mail a letter. But another big retailer just announced it won’t accept checks anymore,

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Costco is raising membership fees for the first time since 2017. The hikes, which go into effect on September 1, are part of a larger effort to crack down on membership moochers and boost revenue for the warehouse chain. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the 1996 Olympic Park Bombing in Atlanta. Facts Two people died and more than 100 others were injured as a result of a bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. Alice Hawthorne, 44, of Albany, Georgia, was killed by the explosion. Turkish cameraman

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the Empire State Building. Facts Located on Fifth Avenue between 33rd and 34th streets in Manhattan. It is 103 stories tall (1,250 feet to top floor, excluding height of antennae, which is 204 feet). Took only one year and 45 days to build, or more than