By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Ancient plant fossils that puzzled scientists have turned out not to be plants after all, new research has revealed. Instead, the small round shapes bearing a leaflike pattern were once the shells of baby turtles that lived during the time of dinosaurs. Scientists have nicknamed the turtle species “Turtwig,”
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, Nicki Brown and Aditi Sangal, CNN (CNN) — Teenager Ethan Crumbley was sentenced to life in prison without parole Friday for gunning down four classmates and wounding six others and a teacher at Michigan’s Oxford High School in 2021. Dismissing last-minute defense pleas that Crumbley’s life is salvageable, Oakland County Circuit Court
Continue Reading By Abbas Al Lawati and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s relations with the United Nations have sunk to a historic low after a spat between the two escalated this week. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday invoked a rarely used but powerful tool in his determined push for a ceasefire in Gaza, causing outrage among Israeli
Continue Reading By Anna Chernova and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Vladimir Putin says he will run for president again in Russia’s elections in March 2024, in a move that could see him retain power until at least 2030. Putin made the announcement Friday after a ceremony at the Kremlin, the official residence of the Russian president.
Continue Reading By Callum Sutherland, CNN (CNN) — In Nigeria’s northern state of Kano, doctors and health workers are grappling with one of the worst diphtheria outbreaks in recent times. Cases have been reported in the country since May of last year, but in the past few months, the outbreak has spread at an alarming rate, health
Continue Reading By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — A multi-threat storm will traverse through the eastern half of the US this weekend, unloading heavy rain and snow across several states. Powerful wind gusts could also knock out power and disrupt travel in busy cities as the adverse weather stretches more than 1,200 miles from the Gulf Coast
Continue Reading By Maria Kostenko, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Russia fired a barrage of cruise missiles at targets in Ukraine early Friday morning after a nearly 80-day pause, Ukrainian officials said. The air raid in Kyiv lasted almost two hours but all missiles heading towards the Ukrainian capital were destroyed by air defenses, according to Serhii
Continue Reading By Rikki Klaus, CNN (CNN) — Like many 6-year-olds, Declan Lopez wishes unicorns were real. She told CNN in an operatic voice she aspires to be a singer, and if that doesn’t work out, a fashion designer. At first glance, many wouldn’t suspect the rambunctious Rockaway, New Jersey, kindergartner is a member of Mensa, an international society for people with high intelligence
Continue Reading By Dave Alsup and Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — Good Samaritans helped thwart a woman’s attempt to set a fire at the birth home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta, police said. Police were called to the historic home in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood around 5:45 p.m. Thursday on a vandalism report,
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe, Taylor Romine, Jay Croft and Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — The 67-year-old career college professor who fatally shot three faculty members this week at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, kept a “target list” of faculty at the school and elsewhere, said authorities searching for a motive. Investigators found ammunition at Anthony
Continue Reading By Eric Cheung, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — Beijing has ramped up its push to interfere in next month’s Taiwan presidential election, with a top Chinese leader urging officials to be more effective and discreet in their work at a recent high-level meeting, according to a senior Taiwanese security official. Wang Huning, the fourth-ranking leader
Continue Reading CNN By Tess Conciatori (CNN) — The exiled leader of Belarus’ democratic opposition is warning the United States that abandoning Ukraine in its fight against Russia and its President Vladimir Putin would threaten the security of all of Eastern Europe. “Belarusian people and Ukrainians are facing the same enemy – imperialistic ambitions of Russia. And
Continue Reading By Angela Dewan, CNN (CNN) — Azerbaijan and Armenia have agreed to a prisoner exchange, and to work towards normalizing ties and a peace deal to a decades-long conflict — a move the United States and European Union have welcomed. Azerbaijan will release 32 prisoners of war to Armenia in exchange for two, all members of the
Continue Reading By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — A tropical cyclone has rapidly intensified off the northern coast of Australia as millions across the country endure heat wave conditions that are forecast to stretch into the weekend. Severe tropical cyclone Jasper strengthened to the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane Friday, with maximum winds of 220 kilometers
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi and Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — Three officers in Alabama were fired and another was suspended without pay in connection to September’s fatal police shooting of a man outside his home as a towing company tried to repossess his vehicle, Decatur city officials announced Thursday. Stephen Perkins, 39, was fatally shot by
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Italy, the only G7 country to join China’s flagship Belt and Road Initiative, will leave the global infrastructure program when its contract expires next year – the latest sign of hardening European attitudes to Beijing and its global ambitions. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday confirmed the
Continue Reading CNN By Ashley Killough, Ed Lavandera and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A Texas judge ruled Thursday that a pregnant woman who sued the state seeking a court-ordered abortion can legally terminate her pregnancy. The decision marks a significant development in the ongoing debate over the state’s medical exception to its controversial ban on abortions after
Continue Reading CNN, KVVU, KTNV, KSNV By Elizabeth Wolfe, Taylor Romine and Jay Croft, CNN (CNN) — The 67-year-old career college professor who fatally shot three faculty members this week at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, kept a “target list” of faculty at the school and elsewhere, said authorities searching for a motive. Investigators found ammunition
Continue Reading CNN By Abeer Salman, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Images from Gaza circulating on social media Thursday showed a mass detention by the Israeli military of men who were made to strip to their underwear, kneel on the street, wear blindfolds, and pack into the cargo bed of a military vehicle. The exact circumstances and dates of the detentions are
Continue Reading By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — The son of North Dakota Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer has been charged with manslaughter after crashing into an unoccupied patrol vehicle that struck and killed a sheriff’s deputy who was outside of the car on Wednesday. Responding to a report of a stolen vehicle in Bismarck, law enforcement began
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