By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The first branch of the Taurid meteor showers is set to peak this weekend, presenting an enticing opportunity for patient sky-gazers. Southern Taurid meteors have been blazing bright across the night sky since late September, but around the peak — expected at 8:47 p.m. ET Sunday — is when
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar and Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — A 20-year-old man has been arrested in a shooting that injured six people during a motorcycle rally in Galveston, Texas, Saturday night, police said. Shots were fired as crowds were gathered for the Lone Star Rally in a historic district known as The Strand around 11
Continue Reading KING, MIKE FULOP, CNN By Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — One person died and 12 others were injured when a Metro bus crashed into a Seattle building after colliding with a car Saturday afternoon, authorities said. The crash at an intersection pushed the King County Metro Bus off the road, where it struck a woman
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová and Zeena Saifi, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Dua Abu Sneineh was shocked when a group of police officers – between 10 and 15, she said – barged into her home in East Jerusalem early on October 23. “I was not even considering for a moment that they would be coming for me,” she told CNN. But
Continue Reading By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — The murder of five women within 10 days in Australia, allegedly by men they knew, has left Manuela Whitford feeling “numb.” “We’ve become so conditioned … you hear it all the time, I’ve just become so numb,” she said. “But on the other scale, I go, ‘Oh,
Continue Reading By Inke Kappeler and AJ Davis, CNN (CNN) — A hostage situation that halted all flights to and from Hamburg Airport is now over, according to police in the northern German city. A 35-year-old male suspect has now left his car with his 4-year-old daughter, Hamburg police said on X, formerly Twitter. He did not
Continue Reading By Skylar Harris and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — A student at a New Jersey high school is calling for federal legislation to address AI generated pornographic images after she says photos of her and other female classmates were manipulated and possibly shared online over the summer. Westfield High School student Francesca Mani, 14, and
Continue Reading By Raja Razek, Keith Allen and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — At least five possible hate crime incidents at Stanford University since the Israel-Hamas war’s onset are under investigation, including an apparent hit-and-run crash involving an Arab Muslim student, according to the university’s public safety department. The student was struck by a car Friday
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, and Abby Baggini, CNN (CNN) — As Israel continues its fourth week of intense bombardment of the besieged Gaza strip, huge crowds of protesters have gathered to call for a ceasefire in Washington, D.C. as well as in other capital cities around the globe. Saturday’s turnout is a continuation of protests that
Continue Reading By Sarah Dewberry and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — The $40 million lawsuit filed by Newport News teacher Abigail Zwerner against the school board and administrators after she was shot by a 6-year-old student in a classroom earlier this year can move forward, a Virginia judge ruled Friday. “This victory is an important steppingstone on
Continue Reading By Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — A San Jose, California, police officer is “no longer employed” with the police department after sending a series of racially biased, “disgusting” messages, according to a news release from San Jose Police Chief Anthony Mata. “I hate Black people,” one of the messages read, which were discovered during an
Continue Reading By Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — More than 700 migrants traveling on four different boats were rescued near the shores of Spain’s Canary Islands, Spanish officials said Saturday. Some 247 people were aboard one boat, 238 on another, and 254 on the other two, according to a post on “X,” formerly Twitter, by the Canary
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — A grandmother was sitting in her car before dawn last month when a uniformed police officer in Las Cruces, New Mexico, accused her and her passenger of trespassing, then shouted commands laced with the F-word at her and threatened to arrest her, “tase” her and make her life “a
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The snow-capped Andes in South America have long fascinated humans with their soaring peaks and alien landscapes. Near the summit, there is no vegetation in sight, and freezing temperatures and howling winds add to the inhospitable conditions — which is why scientists were surprised to find life in such
Continue Reading By Svitlana Vlasova, Yulia Kesaieva and Victoria Butenko, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — For many Ukrainians, a recent somber assessment of the battlefield by Ukraine’s military chief was not a surprise. It’s what they have been hearing in conversations with friends, seeing on social media and experiencing personally on the frontlines as Russia’s war against
Continue Reading By Elle Reeve, CNN (CNN) — Students have held hundreds of protests and counterprotests on college campuses since the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israelis and Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza in response. At Tulane, a fight broke out after someone tried to burn an Israeli flag. At Columbia University, posters of kidnapped Israelis were torn
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — A man accused of driving through a fence at a South Carolina nuclear power station and trying to hit a security officer with his vehicle this week was arrested Friday evening, a sheriff’s office said. Doyle Wayne Whisenhunt, 66, of Lockesburg, Arkansas, has been charged in connection with Thursday
Continue Reading Rebecca Wright and Nic Robertson, John Torigoe, Eli Kiko Cohen and Joel Bennett Re’im, Israel (CNN) — Aliza Samuel walks carefully through debris left strewn across the ground, picking up a bracelet before coming across some small clay trinkets that had been handmade during the Nova Music Festival. “People just dropped everything and left,” Samuel
Continue Reading CNN Rebecca Wright and Nic Robertson, John Torigoe, Eli Kiko Cohen and Joel Bennett Re’im, Israel (CNN) — Aliza Samuel walks carefully through debris left strewn across the ground, picking up a bracelet before coming across some small clay trinkets that had been handmade during the Nova Music Festival. “People just dropped everything and left,”
Continue Reading By Sugam Pokharel, Jennifer Hauser and Jerome Taylor, CNN Kathmandu (CNN) — At least 157 people have been killed in an earthquake that struck a remote part of northwestern Nepal overnight on Friday and toppled multiple buildings, according to police, as officials warned that the death toll could rise. The quake measured magnitude 5.6 according
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