By Jamiel Lynch and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — A man suspected of fatally shooting a Blount County deputy and injuring another deputy in Tennessee was taken into custody Tuesday after a several-day manhunt, according to the Blount County Sheriff’s Office. More than 150 law enforcement personnel went searching for Kenneth Wayne DeHart, 42, after
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — Some National Guard members and publicly contracted relief workers tasked with caring for people who sought asylum in New York stand accused instead of sexually exploiting migrant women and children, violently assaulting at least one shelter guest and generally placing the newcomers into decrepit conditions, according to
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — At least 63% of American Jews said their place in American society is less secure than a year ago, according to a new report released Tuesday by the American Jewish Committee. The “State of Antisemitism in America 2023 Report” was commissioned by the advocacy group and is based on
Continue Reading By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) — White House spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Tuesday that the US government is “deeply concerned” by the arrest of activist and security analyst Rocio San Miguel in Caracas, Venezuela. “This is a time when Mr. Maduro needs to meet the commitments that he made about how they’re going
Continue Reading By Sophia Saifi, CNN Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — Two of Pakistan’s major political parties – the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) – say they will form a coalition government after last week’s inconclusive elections. The move means the party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan will not be in power,
Continue Reading By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — “The meeting of lips is the most perfect, the most divine sensation given to human beings, the supreme limit of happiness.” So wrote the 19th century French author Guy de Maupassant in his 1882 short story, “The Kiss.” He wasn’t alone in his flowery thoughts about kissing. Romantic kisses
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By Lauren Izso, Vasco Cotovio, Jessie Gretener and Jonny Hallam, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military released a video that purportedly shows the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar inside a tunnel below the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, with his wife, children and his brother Ibrahim Sinwar. Israel has publicly accused Sinwar of being the “mastermind” behind Hamas’ terror attack against
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Some European countries say they have stalled arms exports to Israel amid growing consternation about the way it is waging war against Hamas in Gaza, while the United States Senate on Tuesday passed a $95 billion foreign aid package that includes further security assistance for Israel. A court in
Continue Reading By Sebastian Shukla, Anna Chernova and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Russian authorities on Tuesday launched unprecedented criminal proceedings against Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, charges the leader of the Baltic state alleged were politically motivated. The Kremlin accused Kallas, Estonian Secretary of State Taimar Peterkop and Lithuanian Culture Minister Simonas Kairys of destroying or
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CNN By Raja Razek and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Sheriff’s deputies in Houston repeatedly shot at a woman after mistaking her for an intruder inside her friend’s apartment, body camera footage released over the weekend shows. The woman, Eboni Pouncy, was shot five times during the February 3 confrontation and her attorney, Ben Crump,
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CNN By Taylor Nicioli and Kristin Fisher, CNN (CNN) — A tiny surgical robot in residence at the International Space Station completed its first surgery demo in zero gravity on Saturday, developers of the technology exclusively told CNN. The robot, known as spaceMIRA — which stands for Miniaturized In Vivo Robotic Assistant — performed several
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By Taylor Nicioli and Kristin Fisher, CNN (CNN) — A tiny surgical robot in residence at the International Space Station completed its first surgery demo in zero gravity on Saturday, developers of the technology exclusively told CNN. The robot, known as spaceMIRA — which stands for Miniaturized In Vivo Robotic Assistant — performed several operations
Continue Reading By Nadeen Ebrahim and Sarah El Sirgany, CNN (CNN) — Egypt is boosting its security presence at its border with the Gaza Strip, wary of a spillover of Israel’s war on Hamas onto its territory should the Israeli military begin its ground assault on the enclave’s southernmost city, Rafah, where more than half of Gaza’s
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By Steve Almasy, Christina Maxouris and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — The shooting at Houston’s Lakewood Church over the weekend was a “completely preventable horror” as the woman who opened fire had a notable mental illness but was still allowed to own a gun, her mother-in-law said. “My daughter-in-law when she was taking medication for
Continue Reading By Sabrina Souza and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A Massachusetts judge dismissed civil claims against Harvard University and some of its employees made by families who said the college is partly responsible for a former medical school morgue manager who allegedly stole and sold human remains. The class action suit was filed in June
Continue Reading By Raja Razek and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Sheriff’s deputies in Houston repeatedly shot at a woman after mistaking her for an intruder inside her friend’s apartment, body camera footage released over the weekend shows. The woman, Eboni Pouncy, was shot five times during the February 3 confrontation and her attorney, Ben Crump, called
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine claims it has evidence Russia fired an advanced hypersonic missile – one that experts say is almost impossible to shoot down – for the first time in the almost 2-year-old war. The government-run Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise said in a Telegram post that debris recovered
Continue Reading By Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — Thailand’s jailed former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will soon walk free from detention after his parole was approved, according to Thailand’s justice minister, just six months after his dramatic return to the kingdom. The announcement caps an extraordinary decades-long political saga that will see
Continue Reading By Abeer Salman and Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN (CNN) — After being trapped in a building for more than a week in a neighborhood of Gaza City besieged by Israeli troops, a group of Palestinian women told CNN they were forced to flee south with their children, leaving other family members behind and some walking barefoot
Continue Reading By Kathleen Magramo and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Polls opened in the vast country of Indonesia on Wednesday with more than 200 million voters casting their ballots to elect a new president, in what is billed as the world’s biggest single-day election. The sprawling Southeast Asian nation, the world’s third-largest electoral democracy and largest
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