By Barbie Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck south of Naples, Italy, on Tuesday, just days after the volcanic region saw its strongest earthquake in 40 years, according to Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV). Italy’s fire brigade said there was slight damage to buildings in the latest earthquake,
Continue Reading By Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — A man who authorities say sexually assaulted and killed a 20-year-old woman three decades ago has been identified. The Wichita Police Department named Paul Hart, who died in a traffic collision in 1999, a suspect in the 1989 death of Krista Martin, according to a Wichita Police Department statement
Continue Reading By Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — Five people killed after a multi-vehicle crash in Illinois died from exposure to a toxic chemical that spilled from an overturned semi-truck, the Effingham County Coroner’s Office said Tuesday. A preliminary investigation shows the fatalities were the result of the “toxic chemical anhydrous ammonia exposure,” the coroner office told
Continue Reading By Nick Valencia and Maxime Tamsett, CNN (CNN) — The family of an Alabama man who died after being shot by police outside his home early Friday morning is asking for clarity as to what happened, his brother told CNN in a phone call on Monday. Police shot Stephen Perkins, 39, outside his home in
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An annular solar eclipse will make its appearance in the skies over North, Central and South America on October 14, creating a singular spectacle for those in its path — and a rare opportunity for scientists. The dazzling celestial event will allow millions of people to witness “the awe
Continue Reading CNN By Elizabeth Wolfe and Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — New York investigators say they anticipate additional charges against the man accused of kidnapping 9-year-old Charlotte Sena as they dig into the timeline of events between her sudden disappearance and subsequent rescue Monday evening. Craig Nelson Ross Jr., 46, was arrested and charged with kidnapping
Continue Reading By Nimi Princewill, Stephanie Busari, Manveena Suri and Jessie Gretener, CNN (CNN) — Concerns over Kenya’s human rights record have cast a shadow over a UN decision that gave Kenya the go ahead to lead an armed multinational force to Haiti amid brutal gang violence in the Caribbean country. For a year, the multinational force, comprising
Continue Reading By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Port Sulphur, Louisiana (CNN) — Massive barges brought over a million gallons of fresh water to Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, on Monday as the community tackles the intrusion of saltwater that’s threatening drinking supplies. The emergency transports by the Army Corps of Engineers to water treatment and pumping stations
Continue Reading By Kocha Olarn and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — Police in Thailand arrested a 14-year-old boy after a shooting at a luxury shopping mall in the capital Bangkok on Tuesday left at least two people dead and five others injured, causing terrified shoppers to flee the scene. Video shows crowds of people running
Continue Reading By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, Daniel Hodge and Kostyantin Gak, CNN Donetsk region, Ukraine (CNN) — A Ukrainian solider rushes through the front-line in Klishchiivka, eastern Ukraine, as gun and artillery fire erupt around him. Armed with an American-made M16 rifle, he and his unit storm an area that moments before was held by Russian
Continue Reading CNN By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, Daniel Hodge and Kostyantin Gak, CNN Donetsk region, Ukraine (CNN) — A Ukrainian solider rushes through the front-line in Klishchiivka, eastern Ukraine, as gun and artillery fire erupt around him. Armed with an American-made M16 rifle, he and his unit storm an area that moments before was held by
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards, Katie Hunt and Ed Upright, CNN (CNN) — The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a team of scientists who created a ground-breaking technique using lasers to understand the extremely rapid movements of electrons, which were previously thought impossible to follow. Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “demonstrated
Continue Reading By Michelle Krupa, CNN (CNN) — They’d never really had a solid tuba player. The legendary New Orleans music family, of course, had its trumpeters and trombonists, saxes and drummers. But the tuba – namely the circular kind called a sousaphone – is big. And it requires a lot of air. And it scares little
Continue Reading By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Hunter Biden, the president’s son, has arrived at a federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, to be arraigned on firearms charges brought by special counsel David Weiss. The hearing, though a procedural part of any criminal case, will mark an extraordinary moment: the first time that a
Continue Reading By Sophia Saifi and Helen Regan, CNN Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — Police in eastern Pakistan have smashed an illegal organ harvesting ring, arresting eight people for surgically removing kidneys from hundreds of patients for wealthy people needing a transplant, authorities said Monday. The alleged gang leader, identified as “Dr Fawad,” is accused of conducting 328
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe, Andy Rose, John Miller and Sabrina Shulman, CNN (CNN) — The 46-year-old man accused of kidnapping 9-year-old Charlotte Sena in upstate New York wrote a ransom note with intent to get money, according to an arraignment memorandum released Tuesday. Craig Nelson Ross Jr., abducted the girl “and wrote a ransom letter with
Continue Reading CNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — Late-night TV hosts returned to the air Monday, five months after production came to a halt due to the writers’ strike. As usual, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel humored their audiences with witty zingers — but also expressed solidarity with workers beset by unemployment due to
Continue Reading By Shirin Faqiri and Sahar Akbarzai, CNN (CNN) — More than 60 elementary school students were hospitalized in Jamaica on Monday after unknowingly eating candy laced with cannabis, according to officials. Minister of Education and Youth Fayval Williams told CNN none of the children – who are ages 7 to 12 – appear to be
Continue Reading By Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — A critically endangered Sumatran rhinoceros calf has been born in a national park in Indonesia, the third successful pairing between a local female rhino named Ratu and Andalas, a former resident of Ohio’s Cincinnati Zoo. The unnamed female was born on Saturday at the Way Kambas National Park on
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — More than 1,000 people have died from dengue in Bangladesh’s worst outbreak on record, official data shows, with rising temperatures due to the climate crisis driving the ongoing spread as more cases are reported away from dense urban centers for the first time. Since January, 1,017 people have died
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