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Continue Reading By Casey Tolan, Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken, Jeff Winter and Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN (CNN) — Months before Luigi Mangione allegedly gunned down a top health insurance CEO and then seemingly vanished from Midtown Manhattan, another disappearing act worried his friends and family. The 26-year-old scion of a wealthy Baltimore family who was a high school
Continue Reading By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Haiti’s government says the country’s gangs have crossed a “red line” after allegedly killing over 180 people over the weekend, after a gang leader reportedly blamed Voodoo adherents for his child’s grave illness. A statement by the Haiti Prime Minister’s office accused gang leader Micanor “Mikanò” Altès and associates
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By Ashley R. Williams, Gloria Pazmino, Mark Morales, Brynn Gingras, John Miller, Dakin Andone, Zoe Sottile and Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — New York prosecutors have charged Luigi Mangione with murder in the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, hours after he was apprehended at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday. The 26-year-old Ivy
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CNN By Ashley R. Williams, Gloria Pazmino, Mark Morales, Brynn Gingras, John Miller, Dakin Andone, Zoe Sottile and Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — New York prosecutors have charged Luigi Mangione with murder in the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, hours after he was apprehended at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday. The 26-year-old
Continue Reading By Jake Tapper and Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — The home of a Jewish member of the University of Michigan’s Board of Regents was vandalized early Monday, in what the university described as “a clear act of antisemitic intimidation.” The incident marks the third time Jordan Acker, a Michigan attorney elected to the board overseeing
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CNN By Ashley R. Williams, Gloria Pazmino, Mark Morales, Brynn Gingras, John Miller and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) –– A man arrested Monday on a gun charge in Pennsylvania “is believed to be our person of interest in the brazen, targeted murder of Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, last Wednesday in Midtown Manhattan,” New York
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CNN By Lauren del Valle, Gloria Pazmino, Eric Levenson and Celina Tebor, CNN New York (CNN) — A Manhattan jury found Daniel Penny not guilty of criminally negligent homicide Monday in the death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway last year. Penny also previously faced a more serious second-degree manslaughter charge, but
Continue Reading By Antoinette Radford, CNN (CNN) — At the historic Umayyad Mosque in the heart of Damascus, a red, white, black and green flag flies. On the other side of the Syrian capital, former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s palace burns. An anchor reads the Sunday news: “We announce to you from the Syrian news channel the
Continue Reading By Wayne Chang, Simone McCarthy, Eric Cheung and Nectar Gan, CNN Taipei/Hong Kong (CNN) — Multiple formations of Chinese naval and coast guard vessels are moving in waters around the Taiwan Strait and the Western Pacific, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said Monday, as the island braces for potential military drills by Beijing. Taiwan’s armed forces had
Continue Reading By Sharon Braithwaite and Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — At least two people were killed and four are missing following an explosion Monday at a gas refinery near the Italian city of Florence, according to local authorities. A further nine people were injured in the blast at the facility, which belongs to Eni,
Continue Reading By Lauren del Valle, Gloria Pazmino, Eric Levenson and Celina Tebor, CNN New York (CNN) — A Manhattan jury found Daniel Penny not guilty of criminally negligent homicide Monday in the death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway last year. Penny also previously faced a more serious second-degree manslaughter charge, but Judge
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s brutal dictatorship seemed a distant prospect two weeks ago. But Syria’s rebels completed a speedy and stunning march to power on Sunday, starting an uncertain new era for the country. For half a century, the Assad family ruled over Syria with
Continue Reading By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — A word that has been used incessantly to describe the fraught state of American politics and society is Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year. That word is “polarization.” Defined as a “division into two sharply distinct opposites,” “polarization” grew dramatically in search volume over the past year due to
Continue Reading By Edward Szekeres and Hilary Whiteman, CNN (CNN) — An arson attack on a synagogue in Melbourne last week is being investigated as terrorist incident, Australian officials said Monday, as the government announced it was establishing a new task force to combat antisemitism. The Adass Israel Synagogue in the city’s south – one of Australia’s
Continue Reading By Yoonjung Seo, Gawon Bae and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korean authorities have imposed an overseas travel ban on President Yoon Suk Yeol as prosecutors weigh possible insurrection charges over his botched attempt to impose martial law last week. While Yoon survived an impeachment vote in an opposition-led parliament on
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — Hate crime charges have been dropped for all but three of the 15 students at Salisbury University in Maryland who police said targeted a man and lured him to an off-campus apartment where they beat him, court records show. All of the students were initially charged
Continue Reading By Gabriel Kinder and Allie Torgan, CNN (CNN) — Stephen Knight, whose nonprofit saves lives by providing foster care for dogs while their owners focus on addiction recovery, is the 2024 CNN Hero of the Year. Online voters selected him from this year’s Top 5 CNN Heroes. “This means everything. I represent so much here.
Continue Reading CNN By Gabriel Kinder and Allie Torgan, CNN (CNN) — Stephen Knight, whose nonprofit saves lives by providing foster care for dogs while their owners focus on addiction recovery, is the 2024 CNN Hero of the Year. Online voters selected him from this year’s Top 5 CNN Heroes. “This means everything. I represent so much
Continue Reading CNN By Gabriel Kinder and Allie Torgan, CNN (CNN) — Stephen Knight, whose nonprofit saves lives by providing foster care for dogs while their owners focus on addiction recovery, is the 2024 CNN Hero of the Year. Online voters selected him from this year’s Top 5 CNN Heroes. “This means everything. I represent so much
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