By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — It’s not uncommon these days to hear the internet described as a hellscape. Hate speech proliferates in online spaces. Algorithms designed to maximize user engagement amplify divisive content that inevitably leaves us outraged. Disinformation and misinformation spread on social media at rates seemingly impossible to contain. If that weren’t
Continue Reading By Hanna Park, Zoe Sottile, Matthew Rehbein, Rafael Romo and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — A 21-year-old man from Honduras accused of killing a mother of five in an Atlanta suburb was in the United States illegally, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Hector Sagastume Rivas crossed the US border illegally just over four
Continue Reading By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN | Photographs by Laura Oliverio, CNN Waterbury, Connecticut (CNN) — “It’s just enough already,” a woman says, standing in front of her neatly trimmed home. She shakes her head and gestures toward the line of news vans parked outside 2 Blake Street before abandoning her gardening tools in the front yard
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Four people have been arrested in connection with a mass shooting in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Friday night that left three teenagers dead and 15 others injured, police said early Sunday. Tomas Rivas, 20, and a 17-year-old boy were arrested Saturday, according to Las Cruces Police. On Sunday, another
Continue Reading CNN By Christopher Lamb, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Antonia Mortensen and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis was released from Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, where he has been battling double pneumonia for the past five weeks, on Sunday, returning to the Vatican where he will continue his recovery. The pontiff left the hospital shortly after he made
Continue Reading By Christopher Lamb, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Antonia Mortensen and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis was released from Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, where he has been battling double pneumonia for the past five weeks, on Sunday, returning to the Vatican where he will continue his recovery. The pontiff left the hospital shortly after he made his
Continue Reading Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent (CNN) — Welcome to the Age of Adaptation, when a growing number of people are coming to realize that the Big, Bad Climate Wolf isn’t going away — and is only getting stronger. As the children’s story warns, many homeowners will learn the hard way that their shelter is
Continue Reading CNN Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent (CNN) — Welcome to the Age of Adaptation, when a growing number of people are coming to realize that the Big, Bad Climate Wolf isn’t going away — and is only getting stronger. As the children’s story warns, many homeowners will learn the hard way that their shelter
Continue Reading By Nadeen Ebrahim and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN (CNN) — More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel’s war with Hamas began, the territory’s health ministry said Sunday, a grim milestone for a war with no end in sight as Israel resumes fighting and warns of even tougher days ahead. The ministry on
Continue Reading By Abeer Salman, Jeremy Diamond, Michael Rios, Dana Karni, Caitlin Danaher and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — An Israeli airstrike hit a hospital in southern Gaza on Sunday night, leaving a part of the hospital in flames and causing multiple casualties, two doctors working at Nasser Medical Complex told CNN, as the country pressed a
Continue Reading By Sebastian Shukla, Claudia Otto and Nadine Schmidt, CNN Central Germany (CNN) — “Do you think you can trust Putin?” German Brig. Gen. Ralf Hammerstein asks with a wry smile. It’s a rhetorical question to which most of Europe would give the same answer – no. As the Trump administration continues to pursue a deal
Continue Reading By Catherine Nicholls and Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Robert Antic has never been to Hungary’s annual Budapest Pride, due to mark its 30-year anniversary this summer. But now, the 37-year-old content creator who is representing Hungary at this year’s “Mr. Gay Europe” wants to join the festivities for the first time – and the
Continue Reading CNN By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — A Colorado business owner called her immigration attorney in a panic this week, wrestling with a worry she never expected: If she travels abroad for a conference, could she end up getting deported? A woman from Cameroon who lives in the Midwest made a heartbreaking decision: Flying
Continue Reading By Yash Roy, CNN (CNN) — A 12-year-old student is facing a hate crime charge in juvenile court after allegedly being part of a group that attacked twin seventh grade Muslim students at their middle school in Waterbury, Connecticut, authorities said Friday. The girl allegedly involved in the altercation was charged with intimidation based on
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and Andrew McNicol, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Raucous, lightning-paced and brimming with eye-catching fan costumes, the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens is like no other sporting spectacle. Each spring since 1982, for one rowdy weekend, Hong Kong Stadium – nestled among skyscrapers and lush jungle, and just a lofted drop-kick from the
Continue Reading KFOX, CNN By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Two people have been arrested in connection with a mass shooting in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Friday night that left three teenagers dead and 15 others injured, police said early Sunday. Tomas Rivas, 20, and a 17-year-old boy were arrested Saturday and charged with three open counts
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Three teenagers were killed and 15 other people were injured in a mass shooting at Young Park in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Friday night during an “unsanctioned car show,” according to local police. The incident marks the 53rd mass shooting of 2025, according to data from the Gun Violence
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Three members of a South Korean family visiting the United States have been missing for more than a week after driving through a winter storm while on a road trip between the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas, according to Arizona officials. Jiyeon Lee, 33, Taehee Kim, 59, and Junghee
Continue Reading By Caitlin Danaher, CNN (CNN) — Iceland’s minister for children and education has resigned after admitting she had a child with a teenager more than three and a half decades ago, according to Icelandic media. Ásthildur Lóa Thórsdóttir revealed that she had started a relationship with a 15-year-old boy when she was 22 and had
Continue Reading By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — A Colorado business owner called her immigration attorney in a panic this week, wrestling with a worry she never expected: If she travels abroad for a conference, could she end up getting deported? A woman from Cameroon who lives in the Midwest made a heartbreaking decision: Flying home
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