By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — The mother of a Chicago woman who has been missing in the Bahamas for nearly two weeks is pleading with the US government to intervene in the case and help find her daughter. Forty-one-year-old Taylor Casey was last seen on June 19 around Paradise Island, a small resort enclave just off
Continue Reading By Saskya Vandoorne, CNN (CNN) — As French citizens get set to vote in runoff parliamentary elections on Sunday hundreds of contenders have bowed out in an effort to block the far-right party from the gates of power. Over 200 candidates from President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist camp and the left-wing alliance have stepped down in
Continue Reading By Amy Cassidy, CNN, and Eugenia Yosef (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the idea of starting a ceasefire in Gaza while Hamas remains in power, after The New York Times published an article citing six current and former security officials who said a truce would give Israeli troops time to prepare for a
Continue Reading By Dianne Gallagher, Shawn Nottingham and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — Leonard Peltier, the Indigenous activist convicted of the 1975 murders of two FBI agents, has been denied parole from federal prison, his attorney told CNN on Tuesday. Peltier, 79, has long maintained his innocence in the shooting deaths of agents Ronald A. Williams and
Continue Reading By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — The driver who authorities say plowed his SUV into a Long Island nail salon Friday, killing four people and injuring nine others, told police he had consumed 18 beers the night before the accident, according to CNN affiliate WABC. Steven Schwally, 64, was intoxicated when he drove his SUV into Hawaii Nail & Spa. When
Continue Reading By Kaila Nichols and Shawn Nottingham, CNN (CNN) — The Atlanta City Council voted Monday to approve a $2 million settlement for two students forcibly pulled from their car and tased by police during a protest following the death of George Floyd. Messiah Young and Taniyah Pilgrim will each receive $1 million as part of the settlement.
Continue Reading By CNN Impact Your World (CNN) — Older than dinosaurs and trees, sharks have endured a lot throughout their 450 million years on Earth. They’ve even survived five mass extinctions, including the asteroid that wiped out 75% of life on the planet. But many species of these aquatic apex predators are now in danger of dying out forever.
Continue Reading CNN By Zahid Mahmood and Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Thirty passengers were injured after a flight from Madrid to Uruguay was hit by “strong turbulence” and had to make an emergency landing in Brazil, Spanish airline Air Europa said on Monday. “Our flight UX045 bound for Montevideo has been diverted to the Natal airport
Continue Reading By Aishwarya S Iyer, Mariya Knight, Sugam Pokharel, Rhea Mogul and Esha Mitra, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — A crowd crush at a religious gathering in northern India killed more than a hundred people Tuesday, mostly women, in one of the deadliest such incidents the country has seen in recent years. Many of the scores
Continue Reading By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — China now has the first samples ever collected from the far side of the moon and says it will share them with scientists around the world. But US access could be hampered by a 2011 law that prohibits space coordination between NASA and China without special authorization. Here’s what
Continue Reading By Matt Stiles and Curt Merrill, CNN (CNN) — More than 1,000 tornadoes sprout up across the United States in the average year, causing billions of dollars in damage and killing scores of Americans. The storms occur across the country throughout the year, but are most common during the spring and summer months in the
Continue Reading By Luke McGee, CNN (CNN) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has made his first visit to Kyiv since Russia’s full-scale war began, and urged Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky to consider a “ceasefire” in order to “speed up peace talks” with Moscow. Standing alongside Zelensky on Tuesday, Orban, who is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin
Continue Reading By Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman, Michael Schwartz and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders on Monday for areas in southern Gaza, including eastern Khan Younis and Rafah. This forced residents, many already displaced, to find new shelter, due to the suggestion of the possibility of another ground operation. The
Continue Reading By Duarte Mendonca, Manveena Suri and Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — India’s T20 World Cup-winning cricket team will finally be able to fly home Tuesday after being stuck in Barbados due to Hurricane Beryl, a powerful storm churning through the Caribbean. The team, which claimed a seven-run victory over South Africa on Saturday to lift the
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder and Eugenia Yosef, CNN (CNN) — The head of Gaza’s largest hospital has claimed he was repeatedly tortured during his seven months in Israeli detention, following his sudden release Monday, in a move that highlighted growing rifts in the Israeli establishment. Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya, the director of the
Continue Reading By Mariya Knight and Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has foiled an alleged plot to overthrow the government that “would have played into Russia’s hands,” security officials in the war-torn country said Monday. In a Telegram post, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) claimed the plot organizers planned to trigger a riot in Kyiv on June
Continue Reading By Abel Alvarado and Omar Fajardo, CNN (CNN) — The US and Panama have signed an agreement on immigration issues that aims to “close the passage of illegal migrants” through the Darién Gap, the Central American government announced Monday. “In the agreement signed today by the Panamanian Foreign Minister Javier Martínez-Acha and the Secretary of
Continue Reading By Scott McLean and Isil Sariyuce, CNN Istanbul (CNN) — Allegations of sexual abuse against a child by a Syrian man in Kayseri, Turkey, have sparked overnight riots that targeted Syrian businesses and cars in the city. According to Turkish state news agency Anadolu, a Syrian man was arrested on allegations that he sexually abused
Continue Reading By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! People around the world are all too familiar with the “stupid American” tourists who embarrass themselves while visiting another country. Here’s how you can avoid that stereotype the next time you travel abroad. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day: 5
Continue Reading CNN By Jean Casarez, Eric Levenson, Faith Karimi and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — A judge declared a mistrial in the murder trial of Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman accused of drunkenly driving into her police officer boyfriend and leaving him to die in January 2022, in a case featuring accusations of a vast police
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