By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A California man spent ten days stranded in the mountains after he got lost on a hike, relying in part on large volumes of water to survive. Lukas McClish, 34, set out for what he thought would be a three-hour hike in the Santa Cruz Mountains on June 11,
Continue Reading By Darya Tarasova, Jen Deaton, Mariya Knight, Andrew Raine and Josh Pennington, CNN (CNN) — Gunmen opened fire on places of worship in two cities of Russia’s southernmost Dagestan province on Sunday, killing at least 15 police officers and four civilians, including an Orthodox priest, in what appeared to be a coordinated attack. Sergey Melikov,
Continue Reading KTVT, EULESS POLICE DEPARTMENT, CNN By Alaa Elassar, Camila Bernal and Sarah Moon, CNN (CNN) — A woman in Texas has been charged with attempted capital murder and injury to a child after trying to drown a 3-year-old child at an apartment complex pool and making racist statements, according to police. The Texas chapter of the
Continue Reading By Housam Ahmed and Zahid Mahmood, Mostafa Salem and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Saudi Arabia said Sunday that more than 1,300 people died on this year’s Hajj pilgrimage – with “numerous cases” due to heat stress and “unauthorized” trips accounting for more than four out of five of the fatalities. “The health system addressed
Continue Reading By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — These days, Tennessee middle school student Aubrey Sauvie, 12, who was born with no hands, says she can bang on her snare drum as hard or fast as she wants. It’s all thanks to a generous gift from a group of college engineering students who created a custom
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — The birth of the American mall in the 1950s ushered in a new era of shopping. But have you ever wondered why malls don’t have windows? It’s all part of a carefully constructed strategy to get people to stay longer and spend more. Here’s what else
Continue Reading By Michael Schwartz, Tim Lister and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended his decision to go public about delays in the supply of weapons from the United States, saying months of private discussions did not yield any results. At the beginning of a cabinet meeting Sunday, Netanyahu said that
Continue Reading By Thomas Lake, CNN (CNN) — Faye Bauman was wearing her diamond ring when she fell and broke her hip. It was June of last year, and she was 85. At North Florida Hospital in Gainesville, she took off several pieces of jewelry, including the ring, and gave them to a nurse. After the surgery,
Continue Reading By Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — A 4-year-old boy who went missing at a lake in Fresno County, California, on Thursday has been found safe after surviving nearly 24 hours alone in the woods, the sheriff’s office said. Members of the Tulare County Search and Rescue Team found Christian Ramirez around 8 a.m. on Friday
Continue Reading By Dalia Faheid, Raja Razek and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — The suspect in a mass shooting at a grocery store in Arkansas was armed with a pistol, a 12-gauge shotgun and had a bandolier with dozens of extra shotgun rounds, authorities said. It was one of at least 14 mass shootings in the US
Continue Reading By Ibrahim Dahman, Benjamin Brown, Tim Lister and Lauren Izso, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military strapped an injured Palestinian man to the hood of a military vehicle during an operation on Saturday in the occupied West Bank. Video shows the man lying across the front of the Israeli jeep as it drove through a
Continue Reading By Kaila Nichols, CNN (CNN) — After nearly 47 years, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals this week exonerated Kerry Max Cook for the 1977 murder of Linda Jo Edwards, declaring him innocent of a crime for which he spent nearly 20 years on death row. “This case is riddled with allegations of State misconduct that
Continue Reading By Luke McGee, CNN London (CNN) — Four-and-a-half years ago, Britain’s Labour Party suffered its worst election defeat since 1935. The historic election victory of Boris Johnson in 2019 – which allowed him to finally implement Brexit – was supposed to mark another 10 years of Conservative rule in Britain, with Labour resigned to rebuild
Continue Reading By Pauline Lockwood and Maija-Liisa Ehlinger, CNN (CNN) — Saida Wurie said it was her parents’ lifelong dream to participate in Hajj, the religious pilgrimage that brings Muslims from around the world to Saudi Arabia each year. They’d spent $23,000 on an all-inclusive travel package through a tour company registered in the state of Maryland.
Continue Reading By Lauren Izso and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of people gathered in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on Saturday to commemorate the 20th birthday of Naama Levy, who has been held captive for 260 days. It was one of the first and most searing viral videos to emerge as the October 7 attack
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar, Camila Bernal and Sarah Moon, CNN (CNN) — A woman in Texas has been charged with attempted capital murder and injury to a child after trying to drown a 3-year-old child at an apartment complex pool and making racist statements, according to police. The Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations identified
Continue Reading By Denise Royal and Carlos Suarez, CNN (CNN) — A former top official for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) is accusing the agency and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis of retaliating against him after he disclosed alleged misconduct by them. Shane Desguin says he was forced to resign from his job as chief of
Continue Reading CNN By Xiaofei Xu and Masrur Jamaluddin, CNN (CNN) — There were not enough medics or basic facilities to protect Hajj pilgrims from the effects of the sweltering heat in Saudi Arabia last week, two pilgrims recently returned from Hajj told CNN, as the official death toll from this year’s Hajj pilgrimage soared to almost
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — When Simon An and his family heard screaming from a store next door to their family taekwondo studio on Wednesday outside Houston, Texas, they knew they had to find out what was happening. An, 20, and his famiy – all of whom practice martial arts –
Continue Reading By Niamh Kennedy, Rosa Rahimi and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — Iranian dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi had his death sentence overturned by the Iranian Supreme Court this week in what his lawyers have deemed a victory for human rights in Iran. Salehi had become a key voice of anti-government dissent in Iran, strongly criticizing the
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