By Daria Tarasova-Markina, Antonia Mortensen, Christian Stern, Anna Chernova and Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — A Polish man has been charged over claims he assisted an alleged Russian plot to assassinate Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to authorities in Poland and Ukraine. He was charged with “readiness to act for foreign intelligence against the Republic
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette, Braden Walker and Jillian Sykes, CNN (CNN) — A Maryland high school student was arrested and charged with threat of mass violence Wednesday after police say they discovered evidence revealing the teen had plans to commit a school shooting. Authorities discovered a 129-page document they say was written by 18-year-old Alex Ye,
Continue Reading WJLA, MONTGOMERY COUNTY POLICE, CNN By Chris Boyette, Braden Walker and Jillian Sykes, CNN (CNN) — A Maryland high school student was arrested and charged with threat of mass violence Wednesday after police say they discovered evidence revealing the teen had plans to commit a school shooting. Authorities discovered a 129-page document they say was
Continue Reading CNN By Alex Marquardt, Helen Regan, Hamdi Alkhshali, Artemis Moshtaghian and Adam Pourahmadi, CNN (CNN) — Israel has carried out a military strike inside Iran, a US official told CNN Friday, a potentially dangerous escalation in a fast widening Middle East conflict that Iranian government officials have so far sought to play down. Iran’s air
Continue Reading CNN By Simone McCarthy and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — Iran’s response if Israel takes any further military action against it would be “immediate and at a maximum level,” Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told CNN Thursday, as fears rise of an escalation of the conflict in the Middle East. “In case the Israeli regime embarks on
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — Iran’s response if Israel takes any further military action against it would be “immediate and at a maximum level,” Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told CNN Thursday, as fears rise of an escalation of the conflict in the Middle East. “In case the Israeli regime embarks on adventurism
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, Rhea Mogul and Kunal Sehgal, CNN Muzaffarnagar and New Delhi (CNN) — Polls opened Friday in the first and largest phase of India’s marathon election, in which populist Prime Minister Narendra Modi is widely expected to secure a rare third consecutive term and deepen his historic transformation of the world’s most populous
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A giant prehistoric snake longer than a school bus slithered around what is now India 47 million years ago, according to new research. The extinct snake may have been one of the largest to have ever lived, dwarfing present-day anacondas and pythons that can grow to about 6 meters
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — Several publishing houses joined bestselling authors and Penguin Random House this week in a federal lawsuit challenging an Iowa state law that bans certain books in schools and limits teachings on sexual orientation and gender identity. Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Macmillan Publishers and Simon & Schuster, all members of
Continue Reading By Richard Roth and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The United States on Thursday blocked a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have recognised a Palestinian state. Twelve members of the Security Council had voted in favor of the resolution, while two countries – the UK and Switzerland – abstained. The US vetoed it.
Continue Reading CNN By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Caitlin Clark’s WNBA salary has revived the discussion about the staggering gap in gender equity and pay. The women’s basketball sensation will earn $76,535 this season, while the NBA’s top draft pick will make $10.5 million. Players and sports economists say it’s a complicated
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration is contemplating scrapping the most cutting-edge aspect of its highly anticipated and impactful power plant pollution rules, two sources familiar with the plan told CNN. The administration may also allow a slower phase-in for a portion of the rules, which are due to be finalized as
Continue Reading By Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating how two jetliners were put on an apparent collision course as they were leaving Reagan National Airport Thursday morning, prompting air traffic controllers to frantically radio each plane to stop. Air traffic control audio recordings detail controllers shouting for a
Continue Reading CNN By Emma Tucker, Shimon Prokupecz and John Towfighi, CNN (CNN) — At least 30 people were detained by New York Police Department officers, CNN witnessed, as police entered Columbia University on Thursday to disperse a pro-Palestinian protest that began a day earlier as the university’s president testified before a House committee about the school’s response to
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, Rebekah Riess and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Additional human remains believed to be of Sade Robinson, the 19-year-old college student who went missing earlier this month following a first date, have washed ashore on a Lake Michigan beach in Wisconsin, according to a Thursday update from the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office.
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A huge heart-shaped feature on the surface of Pluto has intrigued astronomers since NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured it in a 2015 image. Now, researchers think they have solved the mystery of how the distinctive heart came to be — and it could reveal new clues about the dwarf
Continue Reading By Artemis Moshtaghian, Eyad Kourdi and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Iranian authorities have warned that crocodiles are being forced from their natural habitats as floods devastate parts of the country’s southeast. Three road construction workers have died in the flooding, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported on Thursday, which came after a record-breaking storm
Continue Reading By Shimon Prokupecz, Emma Tucker, John Miller, Alaa Elassar and John Towfighi (CNN) — More than 100 people were arrested by New York Police Department officers on a preliminary charge of criminal trespass, according to a law enforcement official, as police entered Columbia University on Thursday to disperse a pro-Palestinian protest that began a day
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Land is sinking underneath millions of peoples’ feet in China’s major cities due to human activities, putting the country’s coastal areas more at risk of flooding and rising sea levels, new research shows. Nearly half of China’s urban areas comprising 29% of the country’s population are sinking faster than
Continue Reading By Larry Madowo and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Kenya’s military chief, Francis Ogolla, died in a helicopter crash in the western part of the country on Thursday, President William Ruto announced in a televised address. The helicopter crashed shortly after take-off on Thursday afternoon local time, killing Ogolla and nine other members of the
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