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Woman involved in Montgomery riverfront brawl sentenced to anger management classes as second defendant given jail time

By Devon M. Sayers, Holly Yan and Fabiana Chaparro, CNN Montgomery, Alabama (CNN) — Two people involved in a melee at an Alabama riverfront dock that caught national headlines over the summer were sentenced, with one receiving jail time and the other ordered to go to anger management classes. Richard Roberts pleaded guilty to misdemeanor

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India ‘deeply shocked’ after Qatar sentences 8 nationals to death on reported spy charges

By Vedika Sud, Akanksha Sharma, Aishwarya S Iyer, and Kathleen Magramo, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — Qatar has sentenced eight Indian nationals to death, India’s government said, following their reported detention in Doha last year on espionage charges. In a statement Thursday, India’s Ministry of External Affairs said it was “deeply shocked” by the verdict

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Nations overwhelmingly vote for humanitarian truce at the UN, as Gazans say they have been ‘left in the dark’

By Tara John, Helen Regan and Christian Edwards, Eyad Kourdi and James Frater, CNN (CNN) — An overwhelming majority of nations – 120 countries – voted on Friday for a United Nations resolution calling for a “sustained humanitarian truce” in Gaza, even as Israel’s military announced it is “expanding ground operations” in the besieged enclave.

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US strikes 2 facilities linked to Iranian-backed militias in Syria following series of attacks on US forces in Middle East

Originally Published: 26 OCT 23 22:14 ET By Oren Liebermann, Haley Britzky and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The US carried out airstrikes targeting two facilities linked to Iranian-backed militias in eastern Syria on Thursday, according to a statement from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, following a series of drone and rocket attacks against US forces in the region.

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DC-area fugitive who escaped from a university hospital captured after nearly 2 months on the run

By Adrienne Winston and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Fugitive Christopher Haynes is back in police custody after escaping from a Washington, DC, hospital in September, the Metropolitan Police Department said Thursday. US Marshals captured Haynes, 30, in Oxon Hill, Maryland, and returned him to the department’s Homicide Branch, where he will be charged with

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Judge in case of Idaho student killings suspect Bryan Kohberger denies one of two motions to dismiss grand jury indictment

By Veronica Miracle and Jeffrey Kopp, CNN (CNN) — A district court judge in Idaho has denied a request to dismiss a grand jury indictment in the case of Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students. During a public hearing Thursday, the defense argued there was an error in the grand

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