By Sarah El Sirgany and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN Derna (CNN) — International rescue teams in Libya are calling for more help to retrieve the bodies of victims killed in devastating floods that swept through the eastern city of Derna, killing thousands. More than a week on, the teams said the majority of the victims’ bodies
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — September started with a typhoon that ripped through Hong Kong, uprooting trees and flooding the city. It was the first of a slew of extreme weather events that have hit ten countries and territories in just 12 days – the most catastrophic being the floods in Libya,
Continue Reading By Heather Chen, Sahar Akbarzai and Duarte Mendonca, CNN (CNN) — A plane carrying tourists has crashed in Barcelos, Brazil, leaving 14 people dead, according to CNN Brasil. The city’s mayor confirmed the accident to CNN Brasil on Saturday. The plane was carrying 12 tourists, plus a pilot and co-pilot, CNN Brasil reports. There are
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — On one cold November morning in 1864, more than 200 Cheyenne and Arapaho tribal members, mostly women and children, were murdered in one of the worst massacres in American history. For 128 years, the man historians say authorized the massacre had a mountain – which was located on Indigenous
Continue Reading By Caroll Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — A police officer in Colorado who placed a handcuffed suspect into a police SUV that was then hit by a train, was sentenced to supervised probation and public service, her attorney said. Fort Lupton officer Jordan Steinke will serve 30 months of supervised probation and 100 hours of public
Continue Reading By Caroll Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — The state of California is suing the oil companies BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and ConocoPhillips and their trade group, the American Petroleum Institute, over what the state says is a long-standing pattern of deceiving the public over the risks associated with fossil fuels and causing billions of dollars in
Continue Reading CNN, KTRK By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Today is Constitution Day and Citizenship Day — a time to commemorate the signing of the US Constitution in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. Take a little time today to familiarize yourself with the Constitution and reflect on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
Continue Reading By Cheri Mossburg, Conor Powell and David J. Lopez, CNN (CNN) — A New Mexico family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Farmington and three Farmington police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Robert Dotson while responding to a domestic violence call at the wrong house. Attorneys for both sides
Continue Reading CNN, WSB By Fabiana Chaparro and Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — Six people who identified themselves as members of a religious group called the ‘Soldiers of Christ’ have been arrested in connection to the death of a South Korean woman who was beaten and starved in Georgia, authorities said. The victim was a woman
Continue Reading By Niamh Kennedy, CNN (CNN) — Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia will defy the European Union and extend a temporary ban placed on Ukrainian grain imports, in a move likely to anger the bloc’s leadership. On Friday, the EU announced plans to suspend a temporary ban placed on the export of Ukrainian grain to a select
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issued an updated public health order Friday temporarily suspending firearms near playgrounds and parks in Albuquerque and the surrounding county after a federal judge temporarily blocked a broader order. The suspension follows a recent spate of gun violence, including two deadly mass shootings
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — I once felt the immense force unleashed by an earthquake in 1999 when I was living in Taipei, Taiwan. A magnitude 7.6 quake rocked the island not long after I moved there. I remember my newly purchased mirror falling off the wall (it didn’t smash into pieces) before I rushed out
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar and Virginia Langmaid, CNN (CNN) — The remains of two adults have been found in an archaeological dig at Oak Lawn Cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma, amid efforts to find unidentified victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. At the ongoing third excavation, which began earlier in September, archaeologists have exposed 22 grave
Continue Reading CNN By Sarah El Sirgany and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN Derna (CNN) — International rescue teams in Libya are calling for more help to retrieve the bodies of victims killed in devastating floods that swept through the eastern city of Derna, killing thousands. More than a week on, the teams said the majority of the victims’
Continue Reading By Martha Shade, CNN (CNN) — It all seems so daunting: plastics in the ocean, dying coral reefs, entire species being wiped out – but don’t click away in despair! There really are things everyone can do to help make the ocean cleaner and keep our environment healthier. Here are some easy (or mostly easy)
Continue Reading By Niamh Kennedy, Sophie Tanno, Nechirvan Mando and Heather Law, CNN (CNN) — Iranian authorities detained the father of Mahsa Amini on the one-year anniversary of her death Saturday, Iranian journalists and rights groups have said. Amini was killed in the custody of the morality police on September 16, 2022, after being arrested for allegedly
Continue Reading By Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — Colorado wildlife officers had to euthanize a sick bear after receiving multiple calls from concerned residents in Telluride. And during a necropsy, wildlife officers came across a disturbing discovery inside the bear. “There was all these paper towels, wipes, plastic bag type materials, and indigestible food content,” said John
Continue Reading By Sarah El Sirgany and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN Derna, Libya (CNN) — Tarek Fahim was taking videos of the water filling behind the dam in the Derna valley in Libya late Saturday night. Up until 1:30 am, Storm Daniel was just wind and rain. When he went home an hour later, it took very little
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Atlas Mountains, Morocco (CNN) — Khadija Ait Si Ali was just starting to rebuild her life when the earthquake struck. Her husband died in a road accident seven months ago. They had been married for less than a year and she was five months pregnant. “I was planning to start looking
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — The escape of convicted murderer Danilo Cavalcante and the nearly two-week manhunt leading to his capture thrust Pennsylvania authorities under a glaring spotlight. From the manner in which Cavalcante crab-walked up prison walls to freedom to the tower guard who did not see or report his escape to his
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