By Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — Mass shootings in major metropolitan areas in the United States disproportionately affect Black people, and structural racism may play a role, according to a study published on Wednesday in the journal JAMA Surgery. Researchers at Tulane University analyzed data relating to the 51 largest metropolitan areas, including demographic and
Continue Reading By Nadia Bidarian, CNN (CNN) — Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne said on Wednesday he would resign from his post after a review by a panel of scientists concluded that research papers he contributed to contained “manipulation of research data,” according to a report released by a special university committee. The panel’s report determined that data was manipulated in scientific papers to which Tessier-Lavigne, a neuroscientist, contributed, although the panel found no
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. It is a suspension bridge that crosses the Golden Gate, a strait that leads to the San Francisco Bay. Characteristics The bridge is 8,981 feet long (1.7 miles) and contains about 83,000 tons of steel. The total weight of
Continue Reading By Amy Simonson and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Children in the custody of Louisiana’s Office of Juvenile Justice being held in a former death row building at an adult prison are suffering dangerous heat conditions and routine isolation in their cells that experts say could cause serious and irreversible harm, according to a federal
Continue Reading By Laura Dolan and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Wesleyan University will stop giving preferential treatment to applicants who are the children of alumni – joining a growing list of schools to end legacy admissions after the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action. “We will still value the ongoing relationships that come from multi-generational Wesleyan
Continue Reading CNN By Vasco Cotovio, Katharina Krebs, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Paul P. Murphy and Allegra Goodwin, CNN (CNN) — A video emerged on Wednesday that appears to show Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin greeting his fighters in Belarus, in what would be his first public appearance since he led an armed rebellion in Russia last month. “Welcome guys!
Continue Reading By Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — With jackpots reaching ludicrous amounts, lottery pools are quickly flooding offices. At first, they sound like a great idea. Why play alone, when teaming up with your coworkers could improve your odds of hitting the jackpot? But before you either chip in or organize an office pool, experts say
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — A Minnesota woman was severely injured by a bison in Theodore Roosevelt National Park in Medora, North Dakota, according to the National Park Service. It’s the second instance of a bison injuring a person in the past week. A bison gored a 47-year-old Arizona woman Monday morning in Yellowstone
Continue Reading By Olga Voitovych, Mick Krever and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — A series of explosions roared through a Russian ammunition storage facility in occupied Crimea on Wednesday, forcing thousands of residents of nearby areas to flee and prompting leaders there to redirect traffic away from a local highway. Footage showed smoke and flames rolling
Continue Reading CNN By Olga Voitovych, Mick Krever and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — A series of explosions roared through a Russian ammunition storage facility in occupied Crimea on Wednesday, forcing thousands of residents of nearby areas to flee and prompting leaders there to redirect traffic away from a local highway. Footage showed smoke and flames
Continue Reading By Yoonjung Seo and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Seoul (CNN) — New details have emerged about a US soldier who crossed into North Korea on Tuesday – but his exact whereabouts remain a mystery since the secretive country hasn’t said a word about the incident. Court documents showed that Private Travis King, believed to be the
Continue Reading By David McKenzie, Catherine Nicholls and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend in person the BRICS summit hosted by Johannesburg in late August, his South African counterpart confirmed on Wednesday, halting months of speculation triggered by an arrest warrant issued against the Kremlin leader for alleged war crimes
Continue Reading By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Prague, Czech Republic (CNN) — It was a rare moment when the publicly visible Kremlin matched the reality behind closed doors. That is according to the head of Britain’s MI6, who in a rare speech in Prague, gave the first confirmation from Western intelligence that private military group Wagner boss
Continue Reading By Sabrina Souza, CNN (CNN) — Wrenching testimony from family members of the victims caused jurors to get emotional Tuesday, with some shedding tears during the second day of the final phase of the Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting trial. Prosecutors continued to call on family members of the 11 worshippers who were shot and killed
Continue Reading By Vasco Cotovio, Katharina Krebs, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Paul P. Murphy and Allegra Goodwin, CNN (CNN) — A video emerged on Wednesday that appears to show Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin greeting his fighters in Belarus, in what would be his first public appearance since he led an armed rebellion in Russia last month. “Welcome guys! I
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers may have found a rare “sibling” that shares the same orbit of a Jupiter-like planet around a young star. Researchers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array of telescopes, or ALMA, in Chile to observe the PDS 70 system, located 370 light-years away in the Centaurus constellation. Two Jupiter-like planets, known
Continue Reading By Holly Yan and Tina Burnside, CNN (CNN) — The winning numbers for Wednesday’s colossal $1 billion Powerball jackpot – the third largest jackpot prize in the game’s history – have been drawn. The numbers are 7, 13, 10, 24, 11 and the Powerball is 24. If a lucky winner scores the grand prize, they
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, Steve Almasy, Nouran Salahieh and Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — Police shared new details Wednesday on the case of Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell, the Alabama woman who went missing for 49 hours last week after calling 911 to report a toddler walking alone on the side of the highway, saying investigators “have
Continue Reading By Nick Paton Walsh and Katharina Krebs, CNN Prague (CNN) — The head of Britain’s foreign intelligence service used a rare speech Wednesday to issue a plea to disaffected Russians to spy for the UK. Speaking in Prague, Richard Moore appealed to Russians “wrestling with their conscience” to take a stand against Russian President Vladimir
Continue Reading By Tom Page, CNN (CNN) — The woolly mammoth has not walked the Earth for 4,000 years. Killed off at the end of the last ice age, it’s part of a group of extinct species that continue to inspire biologists, and one that US biotech startup Colossal – the self-proclaimed “de-extinction company” – has set
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