CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Japan’s former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. Personal Birth date: December 6, 1948 Birth place: Yuzawa, Akita Prefecture, Japan Father: Wasaburo Suga, strawberry farmer Mother: Tatsu Suga, schoolteacher Marriage: Mariko Suga Children: 3 sons Education: Hosei University, B.A. in Law, 1973 Other Facts Suga
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Robotic explorers investigating Mars are currently out of touch with space agencies on Earth after hitting a giant communications roadblock. Mission controllers at NASA won’t send any commands to its fleet of orbiters and rovers, including Perseverance and Curiosity, for the next 10 days due to the Mars solar
Continue Reading By Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — The NBA has been asked to suspend Gary Gilbert, a part-owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, over threatening social media messages he sent to an organization promoting a rally for a ceasefire in Gaza. The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) requested a meeting with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to discuss
Continue Reading By Chris Liakos, Claudia Colliva and Dalal Mawad, CNN Paris (CNN) — France has issued an arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over the alleged use of banned chemical weapons against civilians in Syria, a judicial source told CNN on Wednesday. According to the source, two investigative judges on Tuesday issued four warrants against Assad,
Continue Reading CNN, KTNV, KSNV By Melissa Alonso, Sarah Dewberry, Andy Rose and Kevin Flower, CNN (CNN) — Eight juveniles are facing murder charges in the “senseless” beating death of a 17-year-old Las Vegas high school student that was caught on video, police say. Jonathan Lewis died after being beaten when a fight broke out over a
Continue Reading By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — Anthony Farrer’s lifestyle was as flashy as the luxury wristwatches he sold in Beverly Hills. His watch consignment business, The Timepiece Gentleman, had a storefront on the city’s fabled Rodeo Drive. His red Lamborghini and his Ducati motorcycles sat outside his lavish rental in Santa Monica. He made frequent
Continue Reading By Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — An expert panel assembled to address a series of near collisions of commercial airliners at US airports has recommended several changes it said are necessary to keep air travel safe. Inconsistent funding, outdated technology, short-staffed air traffic control towers and onerous training requirements are among the
Continue Reading By Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — A 92-year-old man is recovering after falling down an embankment and spending the night stranded outside in below-freezing temperatures before he was rescued, officials said, an outcome his wife called a miracle. The perilous incident began last week as Larry Hendrickson and his wife Shirley were driving from Yuma,
Continue Reading By Mick Krever, Abeer Salman and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN (CNN) — “I’m an American citizen. And they shot me.” From a dark room in Gaza’s Al Quds hospital, Farah Abuolba speaks matter of factly into the camera. For more than a week, the teenager has been languishing without hope that she, her mother, and her
Continue Reading By Melissa Alonso, Sarah Dewberry, Andy Rose and Kevin Flower, CNN (CNN) — Eight juveniles are facing murder charges in the “senseless” beating death of a 17-year-old Las Vegas high school student that was caught on video, police say. Jonathan Lewis died after being beaten when a fight broke out over a pair of stolen
Continue Reading By Nadeen Ebrahim, Jessie Yeung and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Israeli forces launched a raid Wednesday on Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, after accusing Hamas of operating from tunnels beneath the vast complex – a claim denied by the militant group and hospital officials. Thousands of Palestinians are believed to be sheltering in and around the hospital,
Continue Reading By Kaitlyn Schwanemann, CNN (CNN) — The Osage Ballet overlooks a creek in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, on the Osage Indian reservation. Before class, students can be found warming up with plies and battements, battering pointe shoes or learning about America’s first prima ballerina, who inspired the school’s founding: Elizabeth Marie Tallchief. Tallchief, an Osage woman who
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch and Jillian Sykes, CNN (CNN) — Police in Charlotte, North Carolina, have initiated an internal affairs investigation after an incident captured on video that shows an officer repeatedly striking a woman, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said in a statement posted on X. In the video posted on social media, the woman is seen on the
Continue Reading WSOC, INSTAGRAM, @OUTSTANDINGANDREW, CMPD, CNN, Instagram/@outstandingandrew By Jamiel Lynch and Jillian Sykes, CNN (CNN) — Police in Charlotte, North Carolina, have initiated an internal affairs investigation after an incident captured on video that shows an officer repeatedly striking a woman, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said in a statement posted on X. In the video posted on social media,
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN London (CNN) — The UK’s controversial plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda was ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court Wednesday, dealing a potentially fatal blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s flagship migration policy and sparking a furious revolt from the right wing of British politics. The UK’s highest court ruled
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The United States and China have agreed to resume a working group on climate cooperation and pledged a major ramp-up of renewable energy, the two sides announced Wednesday ahead of a leaders’ summit in San Francisco, as the world’s two largest polluters seek to overcome their
Continue Reading By Denise Royal, CNN (CNN) — A Florida woman was arrested and charged with murder and other offenses in the 2014 fatal shooting of her former son-in-law – a week after her son was convicted of the same charges in the case. Donna Adelson, 73, was arrested Monday night at Miami International Airport, FBI spokesperson
Continue Reading By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Subrata Roy, the founder of Sahara, once one of India’s largest conglomerates, died on Tuesday, his company said in a statement. He was 75. Roy died in a Mumbai hospital following “an extended battle with complications arising from metastatic malignancy, hypertension, and diabetes,” the statement said. Roy was admitted
Continue Reading By Athena Jones, CNN (CNN) — Shareeda Jones thought her daughter, Cristyonna, was doing well in third grade, getting mostly As and Bs at her elementary school in northeast Washington, DC. “I thought the child was on Honor Roll,” Jones told CNN. “No Ds, no Fs. Never.” Her lowest grade – a C – was
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, Elizabeth Wolfe and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — As an Ohio high school mourns three students, two parent chaperones and a teacher killed in a crash this week, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board on Wednesday called the 43,000 annual deaths on America’s roadways “a public health crisis.” More than 50
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