By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — The Olympic Games have been filled with a whirlwind of emotions: joy and ecstasy, sadness and anger, amazement and awe. Take a look at some of the most compelling photos we’ve seen from the Games as athletes line up to compete on the world’s biggest stage. Here’s what else
Continue Reading By Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn, CNN (CNN) — A Thai court on Wednesday ordered the kingdom’s most popular political party to be disbanded, a verdict that delivers a major blow to a vibrant progressive movement and one that threatens to bring more political turbulence to Thailand. The Move Forward Party won a stunning electoral
Continue Reading By Claudia Otto and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Two people have died and others remain trapped after a hotel collapsed in a village in the heart of western Germany’s Mosel wine-growing region. There were 14 people in the building in Kröv at the time of the collapse, a fire department spokesperson told CNN Wednesday. A man and
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck near Lamont, California, on Tuesday night and rumbled through a broad stretch of Southern California, including Los Angeles. The US Geological Survey reported the earthquake’s epicenter hit about 15 miles southwest of Lamont – and roughly 25 miles south of Bakersfield – around 9:09 p.m.
Continue Reading WDJT, WTMJ, CNN By Sara Smart and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — Four former hotel workers were charged Tuesday with felony murder in connection with the June death of a Black man who authorities say was pinned to the ground outside a downtown Milwaukee hotel in an encounter partially captured on video, court documents show.
Continue Reading By Chandelis Duster, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed claims of racial discrimination while allowing claims of sex discrimination to proceed in a federal civil rights lawsuit regarding a Texas student who has faced suspensions and disciplinary actions over the length of his locs hairstyle. US District Court Judge Jeffrey Vincent Brown said
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — The owners of a funeral home accused of failing to cremate or bury human remains despite being paid to do so have been ordered to pay a judgment that could top $1 billion. Judge Lynette Wenner of the Fremont County District Court entered a judgment of more than $956 million
Continue Reading By Sara Smart and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — Four former hotel workers were charged Tuesday with felony murder in connection with the June death of a Black man who authorities say was pinned to the ground outside a downtown Milwaukee hotel in an encounter partially captured on video, court documents show. The charges relate
Continue Reading By Daniel Wine, CNN Editor’s Note: CNN’s 5 Things newsletter is your one-stop shop for the latest headlines and fascinating stories to start and end your busy day. Sign up here. 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Fast-food customers are looking for ways to stretch their dollars, and this chain’s strategy seems to be working. Sales
Continue Reading CNN By Daniel Wine, CNN Editor’s Note: CNN’s 5 Things newsletter is your one-stop shop for the latest headlines and fascinating stories to start and end your busy day. Sign up here. 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Fast-food customers are looking for ways to stretch their dollars, and this chain’s strategy seems to be working.
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards, CNN Rotherham, England (CNN) — Like many nondescript hotels in provincial cities around the UK, the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham has been used for years by the British government to house asylum seekers trapped in administrative limbo. There have been hostile protests here before. But none, residents say, like the spasm
Continue Reading By Kareem Khadder, Tim Lister, Abeer Salman, Eyad Kourdi and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — Hamas has named Yahya Sinwar – its leader in Gaza and one of the planners of the October 7 terror attack on Israel – as the new head of its political bureau, following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh last week.
Continue Reading By Tamara Qiblawi, Sarah El Sirgany, Ben Wedeman and Mostafa Salem, CNN Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) — Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said his group will respond to Israel “regardless of the consequences” to avenge the assassination of the group’s top commander a week ago, but keeping Israelis waiting is “part of the punishment.” “Their government, their
Continue Reading Originally Published: 05 AUG 24 17:26 ETUpdated: 06 AUG 24 12:15 ETBy Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Seven US personnel were injured when two rockets hit Al Asad Airbase in Iraq on Monday, a defense official said on Tuesday. “Five US servicemembers and two US contractors were injured in the attack. Five injured personnel are receiving
Continue Reading CNN By Zeena Saifi and Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — Every day for two months, Michael Ofer Ziv spent hours watching grainy, black-and-white footage of the Gaza Strip from a tiny room across the border. As an operations commander, he was tracking Israeli forces inside Gaza and approving airstrikes. Every day, he said, his unit had a certain
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — The office of Alabama’s attorney general has settled a federal lawsuit filed by death row inmate Alan Miller over the state’s plan for him to become the second known person in the nation to be executed using nitrogen gas. The terms of the settlement are confidential and the inmate’s
Continue Reading By Amy Simonson, Eric Levenson and Whitney Wild, CNN (CNN) — The former police chief who led a raid last year on a small Kansas newspaper will be charged with interfering with the judicial process for actions he took after the raid, special prosecutors announced in a report Monday. The charge against Gideon Cody will be filed in
Continue Reading KAKE By Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — Former big leaguers and current youth baseball players were on hand Monday in Kansas as officials unveiled a new statue memorializing Jackie Robinson to replace one stolen and damaged beyond repair this year. The League 42 youth baseball league revealed the statue of Robinson, who broke baseball’s color
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — Former big leaguers and current youth baseball players were on hand Monday in Kansas as officials unveiled a new statue memorializing Jackie Robinson to replace one stolen and damaged beyond repair this year. The League 42 youth baseball league revealed the statue of Robinson, who broke baseball’s color barrier
Continue Reading By Dana Karni, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said “it may be just and moral” to starve 2 million Gaza residents until Israeli hostages are returned, but “no one in the world would let us.” In a speech on Monday at the Katif Conference for National Responsibility in the town of
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