By Melissa Alonso and Kelly McCleary, CNN Schools and parks in Doral, Florida, will reopen Tuesday after a fire at a waste-to-energy facility that has been burning over a week raised air quality concerns. Firefighters are still battling the flames, but smoke conditions in the area have improved, Miami-Dade County officials said in an update
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By Laura Paddison, CNN Antarctic sea ice has reached record low levels for the second time in two years, with some scientists alarmed that dramatic drops are a signal the climate crisis may now be more clearly influencing this vast, complex and isolated region. The sea ice that fringes Antarctica dropped to just 737,000 square
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CNN, WPBF, WPTV By Claire Colbert and Amy Simonson, CNN An 85-year-old woman walking her dog was killed Monday when an alligator pulled her into a nearby retention pond in southeast Florida, according to wildlife officials. Gloria Serge was walking her small dog along the pond in her community in Ft. Pierce when the alligator
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By Rob Picheta, Anna Chernova, Nathan Hodge, Lauren Kent and Radina Gigova, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin said he is suspending his country’s participation in the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with the United States, imperiling the last remaining pact that regulates the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals. Putin made the declaration in his
Continue Reading CNN By Rob Picheta, Anna Chernova, Nathan Hodge, Lauren Kent and Radina Gigova, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin said he is suspending his country’s participation in the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with the United States, imperiling the last remaining pact that regulates the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals. Putin made the declaration in
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By Simone McCarthy, CNN’s Beijing bureau, Anna Chernova and Uliana Pavlova China’s top diplomat Wang Yi arrived in Moscow on Tuesday, in the first visit to Russia by a Chinese official in that role since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began nearly a year ago. Wang, who was named Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s top
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By Nimi Princewill and Stephanie Busari, CNN Nigerians will head to the polls Saturday in a fiercely-contested presidential vote that analysts say is too close to call. It will be the largest democratic exercise on the continent as Africa’s most populous nation picks a new president. The crucial election comes as the country battles myriad
Continue Reading WPTV By Claire Colbert and Amy Simonson, CNN An 85-year-old woman walking her dog was killed Monday when an alligator pulled her into a nearby retention pond in southeast Florida, according to wildlife officials. Gloria Serge was walking her small dog along the pond in her community in Ft. Pierce when the alligator attempted to
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By Tara Subramaniam, CNN Archeologists in China have found the remains of what may be the world’s oldest known flush toilet. Broken parts of the 2,400-year-old lavatory, as well as a bent flush pipe, were unearthed last summer by a research team among ancient palace ruins in the Yueyang archaeological site in the central city
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By Taylor Romine, Josh Campbell and Aya Elamroussi, CNN The suspect in the shooting death of a prominent Catholic bishop in Los Angeles is currently being held on $2 million bail, according to records from the Los Angeles County Jail. Carlos Medina, 61, was arrested on Monday morning in connection to the death of Auxiliary
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By Dakin Andone, Randi Kaye and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Alex Murdaugh was “destroyed” by the fatal shootings of his wife and son, his surviving son testified in his father’s double murder trial Tuesday, as the defense worked to counter prosecutors’ allegations that Murdaugh is responsible for the killings. “He was heartbroken. I walked in the
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CNN By Nouran Salahieh, CNN The nation’s top environmental official promised to support East Palestine, Ohio, throughout the cleanup of a toxic train derailment there that fueled anxiety about potential health effects and said the train’s operator must pay to clean “the mess that they created.” The US Environmental Protection Agency ordered the operator, Norfolk
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By Meridith Edwards, Holly Yan, Nouran Salahieh and Celina Tebor, CNN The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office will investigate the toxic derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train after receiving a criminal referral from state environmental officials. “Our office has been monitoring the train derailment in East Palestine and we are outraged on behalf of the
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CNN By Jonny Hallam, Yusuf Gezer, Isil Sariyuce, Eyad Kourdi, Jomana Karadsheh, Celine Alkhaldi and Kareem Khadder, CNN At least six people have died and hundreds left injured after major aftershocks struck southern Turkey Monday, as the region reels from a devastating earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people on February 6. A magnitude
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By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Philippine authorities on Monday launched a search mission atop a restive volcano after spotting the suspected wreckage of a missing plane carrying two Australians along with a Filipino pilot and crew member. The six-seater Cessna 340 aircraft was bound for the capital Manila when it lost contact with air traffic control
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By Junko Ogura, Emiko Jozuka and Brad Lendon, CNN Japan pledged $5.5 billion in humanitarian aid to Ukraine on Monday, nearly quadrupling the amount of money Tokyo has promised to Kyiv since Russia invaded its neighbor nearly a year ago. “Japan is in a position to lead the world’s efforts to support Ukraine in its
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By Duarte Mendonca, Hira Humayun and Rhea Mogul, CNN Police in Papua New Guinea have launched a rescue mission after a group of foreign citizens and local guides were taken hostage by armed criminals in a remote region of the country, police said in a statement Monday. Among those being held for ransom is an
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CNN, KGO, KPIX By Kyung Lah, CNN Kris He walked into Arcadia Firearm & Safety in Arcadia, California, three days after his gun license became official. The 22-year-old immigrant from mainland China walked past a Trump flag, past the rifles, and headed to the glass case displaying handguns. He didn’t grow up around guns, but
Continue Reading By Kyung Lah, CNN Kris He walked into Arcadia Firearm & Safety in Arcadia, California, three days after his gun license became official. The 22-year-old immigrant from mainland China walked past a Trump flag, past the rifles, and headed to the glass case displaying handguns. He didn’t grow up around guns, but after seeing the
Continue Reading By Claire Colbert and Amy Simonson, CNN An 85-year-old woman walking her dog was killed Monday when an alligator pulled her into a nearby retention pond in southeast Florida, according to wildlife officials. Gloria Serge was walking her small dog along the pond in her community in Ft. Pierce when the alligator attempted to take
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