By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN By his father’s final act of heroism, Aiden McCarthy survived Monday’s carnage at a July Fourth parade in suburban Chicago. But the 2-year-old now is left to grow up without either of his parents — an orphan of America’s bane of mass shootings. Kevin McCarthy, 37, and his wife, Irina, 35,
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By Tara John and Hafsa Khalil, CNN Covid-19 vaccine boosters might look a little different by the end of this year. US regulators advised manufacturers last week to update the Covid-19 vaccine in time for the fall booster program with new formulas that would better protect against the more infectious Omicron subvariants, which are dominating
Continue Reading CNN By Tara John and Hafsa Khalil, CNN Covid-19 vaccine boosters might look a little different by the end of this year. US regulators advised manufacturers last week to update the Covid-19 vaccine in time for the fall booster program with new formulas that would better protect against the more infectious Omicron subvariants, which are
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The Great Salt Lake in Utah has dropped to its lowest level on record for the second time in less than a year as a climate change-fueled megadrought tightens its grip in the West. The lake’s surface water elevation fell to 4,190 feet on Sunday, according to data from the US
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WLS By Alisha Ebrahimji, Sara Smart, Sharif Paget and Caroll Alvarado, CNN What was supposed to be a patriotic celebration turned into a day of tragedy and fear when a gunman killed seven people and injured dozens more at a July Fourth parade in Highland Park, Illinois. Now, yet another community in America is grieving
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By Amy Simonson, CNN Bradford Clark Freeman, believed to be the last surviving original member of the historic World War II parachute infantry regiment of the US Army known as Easy Company, died Sunday in Columbus, Mississippi. He was 97. Freeman died at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle, according to an obituary posted by Lowndes Funeral
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By Jorge Engels and Nimi Princewill, CNN Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and rebel group Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) are blaming each other’s military forces after an unconfirmed number of civilians were killed Monday in the country’s Oromia region. The incident appears to be an ethnically targeted attack, according to a statement from the state-appointed
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By Travis Caldwell, Jason Hanna and Dakin Andone, CNN The gunman in Monday’s massacre at a Fourth of July parade in the Illinois city of Highland Park admitted he carried out the attack, killing seven and wounding dozens of others, prosecutors said in court Wednesday. Robert E. Crimo III, 21, told authorities in a voluntary
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CNN By Nectar Gan and Shawn Deng, CNN China’s northwestern city of Xi’an, home to 13 million people, was partially shut down on Wednesday after it reported the country’s first outbreak of a highly transmissible new Omicron subvariant that is fast dominating the United States and Europe. The city recorded 18 Covid infections from Saturday
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By Amy Simonson, CNN Three men pleaded guilty to defrauding 14 Rhode Island seniors out of more than $350,000 in what authorities described Tuesday as a “Grandparent Scam.” “Few things are more frightening than thinking a family member is in trouble,” U.S. Attorney Zachary A. Cunha said in a news release. “These defendants exploited that
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and Shawn Deng, CNN China’s northwestern city of Xi’an, home to 13 million people, was partially shut down on Wednesday after it reported the country’s first outbreak of a highly transmissible new Omicron subvariant that is fast dominating the United States and Europe. The city recorded 18 Covid infections from Saturday to
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By Jessie Yeung and Gawon Bae, CNN South Korea, one of the world’s most fossil fuel-reliant economies, is re-embracing nuclear energy, with the government announcing Tuesday it will restart construction on two nuclear reactors and extend the life of those already in operation. By 2030, the Energy Ministry wants nuclear to make up at least
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By Brad Lendon and Gawon Bae, CNN Top-of-the-line F-35 stealth fighter jets from the United States and South Korea are teaming up for the first time in a 10-day exercise meant to send a message to North Korea. Six US Air Force F-35As from Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska arrived in South Korea on
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CNN By Paula Hancocks and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Choi Jung-hun smiled as I read out the latest official Covid-19 figures from North Korean state media: fewer than 5 million cases of “fever” and just 73 fatalities — a fraction of the death toll of every other country in the world. “North Koreans call them rubber
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Story by Reuters North Korea appears to have released water from a dam near its border with South Korea, prompting vacationers in the neighbouring country to evacuate due to rising water levels on the Imjin River, officials said Tuesday. The water level at a bridge on the river in the South’s border county of Yeoncheon
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By Iqbal Athas, Chris Liakos, Rhea Mogul and Daniela Gonzalez-Roman CNN Sri Lanka is “bankrupt,” Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said Tuesday, as the country suffers its worst financial crisis in decades, leaving millions struggling to buy food, medicine and fuel. Wickremesinghe told lawmakers that negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to revive the country’s
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Story by Reuters For months, Kazumi Sato, a nutritionist at a middle school in eastern Tokyo, has received notices about hikes in ingredient prices. Mindful of the economic hardships many of the students’ families face, local authorities are loath to pass the burden of pricier school lunches on to them. For Sato, that has meant
Continue Reading By Paula Hancocks and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Choi Jung-hun smiled as I read out the latest official Covid-19 figures from North Korean state media: fewer than 5 million cases of “fever” and just 73 fatalities — a fraction of the death toll of every other country in the world. “North Koreans call them rubber band
Continue Reading By Polo Sandoval and John Couwels, CNN Jayland Walker was handcuffed behind his back when his body arrived at the coroner’s office to be processed as part of the investigation into the officers who shot and killed him in Akron last week, according to a medical examiner’s report that was reviewed by CNN. The preliminary
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