By David Close, CNN (CNN) — During her nearly 300-day detainment in Russia, Brittney Griner didn’t think she would play basketball again let alone represent her country. On Tuesday, the two-time Olympic gold medalist expressed her thankfulness for the opportunity to play for Team USA again following her wrongful imprisonment abroad. “I didn’t think I
Continue Reading By Dianne Gallagher and Emma Tucker, CNN Colleton County, South Carolina (CNN) — The South Carolina court clerk at the center of Alex Murdaugh’s motion for a new trial on the basis of jury tampering by the court has, for the first time and under oath, denied the disgraced former attorney’s allegations against her. “I
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Two powerful NASA telescopes have detected the oldest and most distant black hole ever found. Data captured via energetic X-rays by the Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers spot the signature of a growing black hole within the early universe just 470 million years
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — An off-duty US Park Police officer fatally shot a fellow officer at a gathering inside a Virginia apartment over the weekend by “unintentionally” pulling the trigger on a firearm he thought was unloaded, police said. Alexander Robinson Roy, 25, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and initially was held at
Continue Reading By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Christian Edwards, CNN Rome (CNN) — Italy will build two detention centers in Albania to house migrants trying to reach its shores, Prime Minister Georgia Meloni said Monday, in an attempt to control migration figures that have almost doubled in the year since she took office. Meloni said the facilities
Continue Reading By Andy Rose and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) -– A 50-year-old man was arrested and is facing a federal charge after being accused of sending an email to the rabbi of an in Arizona synagogue, threatening to “execute” the rabbi and other Jewish people. Jeffrey Mindock is charged with transmitting a threat in interstate commerce
Continue Reading By Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — Bhagavan “Doc” Antle, who appeared in the 2020 Netflix docuseries “Tiger King,” has pleaded guilty to wildlife trafficking and money laundering charges, according to federal court records. Antle, 63, who is not the first figure from “Tiger King” to face criminal charges, admitted in court to directing the
Continue Reading By Adam Pourahmadi, Niamh Kennedy, Jomana Karadsheh and Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi started a hunger strike on Monday in protest over what she said was the jail’s refusal to provide her with medical treatment, according to a family statement provided to CNN. The 51-year-old rights activist
Continue Reading By Denise Royal, CNN (CNN) — Charles Adelson, the man charged in connection with the 2014 murder of his former brother-in-law, Dan Markel, a renowned Florida State University Law School professor, was found guilty Monday in Tallahassee, Florida, of murder, conspiracy, and solicitation. The verdict followed seven days of testimony and three hours of deliberations. Adelson, 47, mouthed the word “No” and slowly
Continue Reading By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — A little over a week ago, Margaret “Maggie” Mbitu was finishing her shift as a nurse in suburban Boston and getting ready for an upcoming girls’ trip to Las Vegas. Now her stunned family is planning her funeral. The first sign of alarm came last Tuesday, when the 31-year-old
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Kyle Richards grew visibly upset over her separation from her husband Mauricio Umansky while on a panel at BravoCon. Richards appeared at “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” panel to discuss the upcoming season, saying it was difficult to discuss her marriage on camera. “I didn’t even know how
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Zac Efron’s transformation for new wrestling film “The Iron Claw” turned heads in a 2022 set photo, and it’s still the talk of moviegoers. The actor looked virtually unrecognizable with huge muscles and a bowl haircut as he was on set in Louisiana to play wrestler Kevin Von Erich
Continue Reading By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — At the top of the world, northern Greenland’s huge glaciers — long thought to be relatively stable — are in trouble, a new study shows. As the ocean warms, Greenland’s last remaining ice shelves are rapidly weakening, destabilizing the nearby glaciers and threatening potentially “dramatic” consequences for sea level
Continue Reading By Sara Smart and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Three men were arrested and authorities seized over 220 pounds of controlled substances in a major drug bust earlier this month that included pink fentanyl-laced pills shaped like hearts, the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts said in a news release. Of an estimated 10
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards, Daria Tarasova, Maria Kostenko and Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said safety rules had been “violated,” leaving soldiers and civilians exposed to a deadly Russian missile strike on a village in the Zaporizhzhia region, which he described as “a tragedy that could have been avoided.” A Ukrainian military
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The first images captured by a powerful space telescope designed to create the most detailed 3D map of the “dark side” of the universe have been revealed. Launched by the European Space Agency in July, the Euclid telescope’s initial release includes five observations made from its orbital home 1
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, Maria Kostenko, Gul Tuysuz, Victoria Butenko, and Kostyantyn Gak, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — An aide to the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s military was killed after receiving a live grenade as a birthday present that was immediately detonated by his 13-year-old son. Major Gennadiy Chastyakov, who served as the assistant to Valery Zaluzhny,
Continue Reading By Oscar Holland, Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Max Foster, CNN Singapore (CNN) — An agritech startup that helps female farmers in India to cut food waste using solar-powered dehydration equipment is among the five green innovations to scoop the Prince of Wales’ prestigious Earthshot Prize. The winners of the annual eco-awards were revealed on Tuesday evening
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By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A former dive boat captain has been convicted of neglect of a ship officer – also known as “seaman’s manslaughter” – in connection with an overnight fire that ravaged his vessel on Labor Day 2019, killing 34 people on board and causing the boat to sink off the coast
Continue Reading KCAL, KCBS, WITNESS VIDEO, UNSOURCED PHOTO, CNN By Dakin Andone, Cindy Von Quednow and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — A 69-year-old Jewish man died after suffering a head injury Sunday following an “interaction” with a pro-Palestinian demonstrator during dueling rallies in Southern California, the Ventura County Sheriff said Tuesday, adding authorities had not ruled out
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