By Uliana Pavlova and Joshua Berlinger, CNN (CNN) — Russia has a stockpile of cluster munitions and will consider using them against Ukraine “if they are used against us,” President Vladimir Putin said. Putin’s comments come just days after Ukraine received a delivery of American-made cluster munitions, though a top Ukrainian military official told CNN
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered yet another astounding discovery, spying an active supermassive black hole deeper into the universe than has ever been recorded. The black hole lies within CEERS 1019 — an extremely old galaxy likely formed 570 million years after the big bang — making
Continue Reading By Hadas Gold and Michael Schwartz, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — An Israeli man was seriously wounded and his two daughters were hurt in a shooting in the West Bank, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israeli emergency services said Sunday. The shooting took place in the Israeli-occupied southern West Bank, which is normally calmer than
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh and Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — A tsunami advisory issued after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska late Saturday has since been canceled, officials said. The earthquake hit offshore about 55 miles southwest from Sand Point, Alaska, at a depth of 13 mi. on Saturday around 10:48 p.m.
Continue Reading By Melissa Alonso and Jeremy Grisham, CNN (CNN) — An Alabama woman who went missing after telling a 911 dispatcher that she saw a toddler walking alone on the side of an interstate has returned home, authorities said. Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell, 25, had been missing since Thursday night, when she called 911 and told
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — The Powerball jackpot grand prize grew once again, climbing to a whopping $900 million after no ticket matched all six numbers in Saturday night’s drawing. The winning numbers for the estimated $875 million prize Saturday were 2-9-43-55-57 and the Powerball was 18. The jackpot for the next drawing on
Continue Reading By Jake Kwon and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Rescue workers pulled seven bodies from vehicles trapped in a flooded underpass in central South Korea, authorities said Sunday, after days of torrential rain caused landslides and flash floods that have killed at least 33 people. A large-scale search and rescue operation involving 400 workers and
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — A Houston-area man was arrested Thursday and federally charged with the sexual exploitation of children for obtaining explicit images and videos of women throughout the United States, many of whom were minors, and using them for extortion, according to a criminal complaint. The man, identified as 23-year-old Andrew Venegas,
Continue Reading CNN By Brian Todd, Danny Freeman, Artemis Moshtaghian and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Michael Burham, the inmate with survivalist skills who escaped a prison in Pennsylvania, has been captured in a wooded area near Warren after more than a week on the run, authorities announced Saturday. A Warren County official told CNN they
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Before she left North Korea, the woman known as “C” had caught glimpses of life across the border through smuggled television shows. People caught with foreign materials like books and movies, which are banned in the hermit nation, can face severe punishment. But
Continue Reading By Brian Todd, Danny Freeman, Artemis Moshtaghian and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Michael Burham, the inmate with survivalist skills who escaped a prison in Pennsylvania, has been captured in a wooded area near Warren after more than a week on the run, authorities announced Saturday. A Warren County official told CNN they “are
Continue Reading By Claudia Dominguez, Joe Sutton and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Andre Longmore, the man accused of fatally shooting four people in Hampton, Georgia, on Saturday morning, was killed in a shootout with police, according to Henry County Sheriff Reginald Scandrett. At a Sunday news conference, Scandrett announced authorities tracked the suspect and confronted him.
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Federal officials are investigating after five wild burros were found shot and killed in Death Valley National Park earlier this week. In a Thursday news release, park officials made clear it is illegal to fire a gun in a national park, and said the animals’ abandoned
Continue Reading By Andrew Carey and Yulia Kesaieva, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Despite an underwhelming first month of Ukraine’s much-anticipated summer push to liberate territory from Russian forces, Kyiv says its Western backers are not pressuring the country for quick results. Since the Ukrainian counteroffensive began in June, the fighting has proved tougher than some anticipated,
Continue Reading By Melissa Alonso, Zoe Sottile and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — A Fargo police officer was killed in a Friday afternoon shooting that left two other officers in critical condition and one civilian injured, according to police. Police identified the deceased officer as Jake Wallin, 23, in a Saturday news release. Officers Andrew Dotas and
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Rocks, cliffs, muddy sediment. These natural features may not be that exciting to look at for some of us, but for geologists they bristle with meaning. The story they tell is our planet’s history, chronicling how continents, mountain ranges and oceans formed and glaciers spread and receded. Fossils embedded
Continue Reading By Niamh Kennedy London (CNN) — Over 100 people were trapped for several hours in Greenway, the former home of famed British mystery writer Agatha Christie, in the English countryside on Friday. In a series of events which could have been lifted straight out of the pages of one of Christie’s mystery novels, the group
Continue Reading By Amir Tal, Hadas Gold and Richard Allen Greene, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left hospital Sunday after being admitted the previous day for dehydration amid a heat wave in the country. Amit Segev, the cardiology unit director at the Sheba Medical Center – where Netanyahu was treated – said the
Continue Reading CNN, WVTM, WBRC By Jamiel Lynch and Chenelle Woody, CNN (CNN) — An Alabama woman has gone missing after telling a 911 dispatcher that she saw a toddler walking alone on the side of an interstate, according to local police. The woman, 25-year-old Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell, called 911 around 9:34 p.m. local time on
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN Pasadena, California (CNN) — Just steps away from High Bay 1, where many of NASA’s pioneering robotic missions have been assembled, is the first image of Mars ever seen on television, broadcast in 1965. The groundbreaking image is part of a small exhibit tucked away in a corner of the second
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