By Kevin Conlon and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — Three Baton Rouge Police Department officers have been placed on administrative leave as investigations continue into an alleged police “torture warehouse” in Louisiana dubbed the Brave Cave. Among the three now on leave is Deputy Chief Troy Lawrence, Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul announced Wednesday.
Continue Reading By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — An Australian man who faked his own kidnapping to spend time with his mistress on New Year’s Eve has been ordered to pay back the cost of the police operation to find him. Paul Iera appeared at Wollongong Local Court in New South Wales on Tuesday and was told
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, Gawon Bae and Larry Register, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — North Korea has amended its constitution to bolster and expand its nuclear force, with leader Kim Jong Un pointing to the growing cooperation between the United States, South Korea and Japan as “the worst actual threat” facing the isolated nation. The
Continue Reading By Gawon Bae and Jessie Yeung, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — A South Korean man has been sentenced to jail for using artificial intelligence to generate exploitative images of children, the first case of its kind in the country as courts around the world encounter the use of new technologies in creating abusive sexual
Continue Reading By Jonny Hallam, Mariya Knight, Simone McCarthy and Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — At least one person was killed and 163 people were injured in a massive warehouse explosion in the Uzbekistan capital Tashkent early on Thursday morning, health officials said. The situation at the scene of the warehouse explosion in Tashkent, Uzbekistan is “under
Continue Reading CNN, WBFF By Elizabeth Wolfe and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A convicted felon suspected of killing tech executive Pava LaPere in Baltimore this week has been arrested, ending a dayslong manhunt across the city, police said early Thursday. Jason Dean Billingsley was wanted on first-degree murder and other charges in connection with the death
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy, Andi Babineau and Jeremy Harlan, CNN (CNN) — The remains of Suzanne Morphew, a Colorado woman who went missing on Mother’s Day 2020 while on a bike ride, have been found, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Morphew, 49, vanished after going cycling in the area of County Road 225 and
Continue Reading By Olga Voitovych, Vasco Cotovio, Fred Pleitgen, Yulia Kesaieva, CNN (CNN) — Fighters who had previously fought in Ukraine for the Russian mercenary group Wagner have returned to the battlefield in the east, according to the Ukrainian military. Wagner mercenaries had withdrawn from the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut in May as they handed control
Continue Reading By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — And the winner is … anonymous. The lucky player who won the $1.6 billion Mega Millions prize last month has stepped forward to claim the winnings, the Florida Lottery told CNN. The winning numbers were announced on August 8. The ticket was bought at a Publix supermarket in Neptune
Continue Reading CNN By Paula Newton, CNN Ottawa (CNN) — Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau formally apologized on behalf of Canada’s parliament Wednesday, referring to the “deeply embarrassing” incident last week that saw the chamber applaud a Ukrainian veteran who fought for a Nazi military unit during World War II. “This was a mistake that has deeply
Continue Reading By Katharina Krebs, Anna Chernova and Clare Sebastian, CNN (CNN) — The Russian admiral whom Ukraine forces said died in a strike on occupied Crimea last week has appeared in a video posted by a Russian military channel Wednesday – the second video released in as many days which has cast further doubt on Kyiv’s
Continue Reading By Paula Newton, CNN Ottawa (CNN) — Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau formally apologized on behalf of Canada’s parliament Wednesday, referring to the “deeply embarrassing” incident last week that saw the chamber applaud a Ukrainian veteran who fought for a Nazi military unit during World War II. “This was a mistake that has deeply embarrassed
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez and Eric Zerkel, CNN (CNN) — Water barges and salt-filtering reverse osmosis units will not be enough to prevent saltwater from contaminating New Orleans’ largest water facility, officials said at city council meeting on Wednesday. Instead, a pipeline will be needed to deliver freshwater from upstream — not just for New Orleans,
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A building block of life may exist inside the global ocean on Europa, one of Jupiter’s icy moons. Two independent teams of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe the frozen surface of Europa, and each analysis of the space observatory’s detections revealed an abundance of carbon
Continue Reading By Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — Three people, including two minors, were arrested after multiple 3D-printed firearms were found inside a Manhattan day care, New York City officials said Wednesday. The arrests come nearly two weeks after a 1-year-old boy died of suspected fentanyl exposure and two other children overdosed at a Bronx day care.
Continue Reading By Raja Razek and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — A homicide suspect who was mistakenly released from a detention center in Indianapolis two weeks ago due to a clerical error was captured Wednesday in St. Paul, Minnesota, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office said. Kevin Mason, 28, was apprehended at about 2 p.m. ET by the
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Emmy-winning actor and writer, Chevy Chase. Personal Birth date: October 8, 1943 Birth place: New York, New York Birth name: Cornelius Crane Chase Father: Edward Tinsley Chase, book editor Mother: Cathalene (Crane) Chase, concert pianist Marriages: Jayni (Luke) Chase (1982-present); Jacqueline Carlin (1976-1980,
Continue Reading By Nadeen Ebrahim and Nechirvan Mando, CNN Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) — A popular Iraqi TikTok personality was shot dead on Monday in Baghdad, an Iraqi security source told CNN. Known on social media as “Noor BM,” 23-year-old Noor Alsaffar had over 370,000 followers collectively on Instagram and TikTok. Alsaffar mostly posted short videos showing dresses,
Continue Reading By Inke Kappeler and Martin Goillandeau, CNN (CNN) — Germany announced Wednesday that it is ramping up its border controls with neighboring Poland and the Czech Republic to “limit human trafficking,” as the country faces fierce debate on its migration policy while asylum applications surge. Police will carry out “additional flexible checks and mobile controls
Continue Reading By Amy Croffey, CNN (CNN) — The biggest-ever drug seizure in the history of Ireland was intercepted off the coast of Cork in the southeast of the country on Tuesday, Irish police said. Cocaine weighing 2,253 kg, worth an estimated 157 million euros ($165 million), was seized from the vessel “MV Matthew” traveling from South
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