By Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Your dream of buying 654 castles or maybe 171 private islands could become reality after tonight’s $720 million Mega Millions jackpot drawing. The six coveted numbers will be plucked at 11 p.m. ET Friday. If you hit the jackpot but don’t want to wait 29 years to collect all
Continue Reading CNN By Manveena Suri, Vedika Sud, Sania Farooqui, Tara John, Sahar Akbarzai and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — A graphic video showing two women forced by a baying mob to walk naked in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur has sparked outrage after it emerged on social media and prompted the country’s leader Narendra Modi
Continue Reading By Mick Krever, Nathan Hodge, Olga Voitovych, Uliana Pavlova and Josh Pennington, CNN (CNN) — A prominent Russian pro-war blogger who has criticized President Vladimir Putin and his military’s mishaps in Ukraine was arrested on Friday, in a move that suggested the Kremlin’s patience with dissent has grown thinner in the wake of the Wagner
Continue Reading By Mick Krever, Sharon Braithwaite and Christian Edwards, CNN London (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fired his ambassador to the United Kingdom on Friday. The ambassador, Vadym Prystaiko, had criticized Zelensky over his reaction to recent remarks by British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, who had suggested Ukraine had not expressed sufficient “gratitude” for Western
Continue Reading By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese engineers on Thursday broke ground on a new super deep borehole that will burrow far into the Earth’s crust as the country steps up its search for natural resources hidden tens of thousands of feet underground. The hole will eventually reach 10,520 meters (34,514 feet) into
Continue Reading WBZ, NEW HAMPSHIRE ATTORNEY GENERAL, CNN By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A homicide case that went cold for more than 40 years has been solved with the help of forensic genetic genealogy technology, New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella said Thursday. Investigators sifted through hundreds of leads after 23-year-old Laura Kempton was found
Continue Reading By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A homicide case that went cold for more than 40 years has been solved with the help of forensic genetic genealogy technology, New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella said Thursday. Investigators sifted through hundreds of leads after 23-year-old Laura Kempton was found dead in her Portsmouth apartment in
Continue Reading By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Two tourists who snapped selfies with dingoes have been fined more than $1,500 each for taking the “extremely dangerous decision” to interact with the native wild dogs following a recent spate of ferocious attacks, Australian authorities said. In a statement Friday, Queensland Department of Environment and Science compliance manager
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Rex Heuermann has been charged with killing three women whose bodies were discovered along a stretch of Long Island’s Gilgo Beach in 2010, bound with belts or tape and wrapped in burlap. A married father accused by authorities of leading a double life, Heuermann faces three counts of first-degree
Continue Reading By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A 6-year-old girl with special needs died in New Jersey this week after her wheelchair harness constricted her breathing while she was riding a school bus, leading prosecutors to charge the bus monitor with manslaughter, officials said. Authorities identified the child on Friday as Fajr Atiya Williams of Franklin
Continue Reading NEWS 12 NEW JERSEY LLC, FAMILY HANDOUT, POLICE HANDOUT, CNN By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A 6-year-old girl with special needs died in New Jersey this week after her wheelchair harness constricted her breathing while she was riding a school bus, leading prosecutors to charge the bus monitor with manslaughter, officials said. An investigation
Continue Reading By Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN (CNN) — Two pregnant migrant women who were looking to turn themselves in to US immigration authorities last week say Texas National Guard members denied them water when they asked for it. CNN spoke with Maria from El Salvador and Carmen from Honduras on Thursday at a shelter
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Spain’s far-right Vox party looks set to continue its meteoric rise in Sunday’s general election, and it aims to use its growing influence to roll back decades of progress in women’s rights by blocking abortion access, repealing legislation on gender-based violence and shutting down the ministry of equality. The
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN London (CNN) — Britain’s beleaguered Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered a damaging political blow on Friday as voters rejected his party in two parliamentary elections it could ordinarily have expected to win. The Conservatives lost to the resurgent Labour Party in Selby and Ainsty, a region in the north of England
Continue Reading By Roxanne Garcia and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — A Florida judge tentatively agreed Thursday that live ammunition could be used in a reenactment of 2018’s mass shooting inside Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as part of a civil lawsuit. The judge also agreed the reenactment – part of a civil lawsuit against
Continue Reading By Ashley Killough and Ed Lavandera, CNN (CNN) — On the second day of hearings addressing the emergency medical exception for abortion restrictions in Texas, an obstetrics and gynecology specialist gave emotional testimony about getting an abortion out of state last year after learning her fetus had a life-threatening condition. Dr. Austin Dennard, an OB/GYN
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A woman accused of having an illegal abortion in Nebraska when she was 17 and disposing of the fetus was sentenced Thursday to 90 days in jail following a plea agreement. Celeste Burgess, 19, of Norfolk, had entered a guilty plea in May to a felony charge of removing,
Continue Reading WSVN, MIAMI-DADE CO., COURT, MIAMI-DADE CORRECTIONS, RENT-A-HITMAN, CNN, Miami-Dade Co./Court By Eli Masket (CNN) — Police arrested an 18-year-old mother Tuesday after she attempted to hire a hitman to kill her 3-year-old son, according to police. Jazmin Paez was flagged to authorities after she filled out a form on a parody hit-for-hire website designed to
Continue Reading By Sabrina Souza, CNN (CNN) — A clinical psychologist called by the defense Thursday in the Pittsburgh synagogue gunman’s death penalty trial highlighted the defendant’s troubled childhood, noting the impact of trauma that put him at risk for mental illness. Dr. Katherine Porterfield testified in detail about Robert Bowers’ early years to adulthood, signaling he
Continue Reading By John Miller and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — Since the spring of this year, investigators looking into the Gilgo Beach serial killings case have been operating on the theory that the suspect, Rex Heuermann, committed the killings in his Massapequa Park, New York, home. A source involved in the investigation told CNN the fact
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