By Aishwarya S Iyer, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — Saffron flags are flying in the majority Hindu town of Ayodhya as excited locals prepare to host Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the inauguration of a new multimillion-dollar temple. But like many of the town’s 500,000 Muslims, 65-year-old Maulana Badshah Khan says he’ll be staying at
Continue Reading CNN By Sarah El Sirgany, Adam Pourahmadi, Artemis Moshtaghian and Jonny Hallam, CNN (CNN) — At least five Iranian military advisors and a number of Syrian forces were killed in an Israeli missile strike on a building in Damascus on Saturday, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, in another sign of building hostilities in the
Continue Reading By Sarah El Sirgany, Adam Pourahmadi, Artemis Moshtaghian and Jonny Hallam, CNN (CNN) — At least five Iranian military advisors and a number of Syrian forces were killed in an Israeli missile strike on a building in Damascus on Saturday, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, in another sign of building hostilities in the Middle
Continue Reading By Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — Years after Florida military officials say they were first notified about potential graves of a former Black cemetery on the grounds of what is currently MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, 121 possible graves have now been located. In 2019, the Tampa Bay History Center reached out to the
Continue Reading By Sara Smart and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — The good Samaritan who risked electrocution to save a baby in northeast Portland after a power line fell on top of a car and killed three people said she didn’t think twice about jumping in to help. “I wasn’t thinking, like, ‘Oh, I could be
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — A former National Security Council official has reached a plea deal on hate crime charges after going on racist, anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic rants against a food cart vendor in New York in November. Stuart Seldowitz, 64, pleaded not guilty in November to two counts of fourth-degree
Continue Reading By Cindy Von Quednow and Jay Croft, CNN (CNN) — The family of Kristin Smart, a freshman who disappeared from a California campus in 1996, is suing the school for negligence and wrongful death, saying it botched the investigation and allowed her killer to attend the school despite previous accusations against him. Smart went missing
Continue Reading By Chandelis Duster, CNN (CNN) — Brad Hatch takes pride in his work as a Patawomeck Indian Tribe master eel pot maker. When Hatch works to weave split white oak into baskets used to capture the slippery creatures, he’s helping preserve a craft that has been passed down for generations. The tribe, he told CNN,
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The moon is hundreds of thousands of miles away from Earth, but humankind has played a major role in shaping it for more than six decades. In fact, human exploration has had such a significant impact in altering the lunar surface that some scientists argue it’s time to declare
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN January 20, 2024 I am currently reading “How Infrastructure Works” by engineer and materials science expert Deb Chachra. It’s one of those books that has to be read in sips of about 20 pages or so. To do otherwise would be akin to chugging a bottle of barrel-aged Scotch: a waste
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — A Texas man who kidnapped a 13-year-old girl in San Antonio and sexually assaulted her multiple times while driving her to Southern California last year pleaded guilty to a federal kidnapping charge Friday as part of a plea agreement, the US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said.
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — In November 2004, Scott Peterson was convicted of murdering his wife, Laci, and their unborn son, Conner. Prosecutors alleged that Peterson’s motive for the murders was to escape married life and upcoming fatherhood. His death sentence was overturned in 2020, and he is serving a life sentence without parole. In
Continue Reading By Nadine Schmidt and Sophie Tanno, CNN Berlin (CNN) — Huge crowds of protesters have descended on cities in Germany as calls for a ban on the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) gain momentum. Tens of thousands had already braved sub-zero temperatures during the week to protest against the party after it emerged senior AfD members discussed
Continue Reading By Akanksha Sharma and Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — At least 13 people have died in a fire at a school dormitory in central China, according to Chinese state media. The fire broke out around 11 p.m. Friday evening local time at Yingcai School near the city of Nanyang, Henan province, Xinhua reported. Local authorities
Continue Reading By Mariya Knight and Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Belarus on Friday adopted a new military doctrine that – if approved – would be the first step toward deploying nuclear weapons across the country. “The deployment of tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of the Republic of Belarus is considered an important measure of the
Continue Reading By Jeremy Diamond, Muhammad Darwish, Abeer Salman, Benjamin Brown and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN Tel Aviv (CNN) — The Israeli military has desecrated at least 16 cemeteries in its ground offensive in Gaza, a CNN investigation has found, leaving gravestones ruined, soil upturned, and, in some cases, bodies unearthed. In Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, where
Continue Reading By Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — An experienced hiker died in New Hampshire’s White Mountains after making a distress call in which he said he was “very cold,” and his body was recovered by a helicopter amid severe winter conditions, officials said. Christopher Roma, 37, made the distress call to acquaintances Tuesday night, the New
Continue Reading By Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — A New York man pleaded not guilty Friday to attempted murder and other charges in what police have claimed was a mostly unprovoked series of stabbings across the city this week. Jermain Rigueur, 27, was arraigned Friday afternoon in connection to what the Queens District Attorney’s Office said were five random
Continue Reading Explainer by Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Ornate gifts have started arriving in the Indian city of Ayodhya as the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepares to inaugurate a vast Hindu temple that he hopes will firm his chances for a rare third election win in just a few months’ time. Though still not complete,
Continue Reading By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — On the edge of a dark, suburban park in Brisbane, teams of volunteer toad-catchers gather around Gary King as he shoves another squirming specimen into a cooler box. “Who’s got some more?” asks King, a local leader of this year’s Great Cane Toad Bust, a small and
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