By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima near the end of World War II, the planet is closer to seeing them used again than it has been in decades, experts and survivors are warning. At
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By Sol Amaya, CNN (CNN) — When Paola Clouatre arrived home, her young son Noah glanced at her sideways. He covered his face, turned around, looked back again. “It was as if he couldn’t believe that the person there was me, his mom,” Clouatre says, as she recalls the moment she was reunited with her
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By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Air quality has taken a serious hit across the US thanks to a one-two punch of wildfire smoke from the West and Canada. Alerts were in effect Tuesday for millions of people in 11 states. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy
Continue Reading KSAT, CNN By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Air quality has taken a serious hit across the US thanks to a one-two punch of wildfire smoke from the West and Canada. Alerts were in effect Tuesday for millions of people in 11 states. Here’s what else you might have missed during
Continue Reading By José Álvarez, Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, Michael Rios, Mauricio Torres, Avery Schmitz, CNN (CNN) — A federal prosecutor in Mexico has been killed in a drive-by shooting that has shocked the nation after video footage of the attack circulated online. The footage shows the prosecutor sitting on a road in the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Larry Ellison, co-founder, chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle. Personal Birth date: August 17, 1944 Birth place: New York, New York Full name: Lawrence Joseph Ellison Father: Adoptive – Louis Ellison, accountant; Birth – Italian-American air force pilot Mother: Adoptive –
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Massoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Iraq. Personal Birth date: August 16, 1946 Birth place: Mahabad, Kurdistan, Iran Birth name: Massoud Barzani Father: General Mustafa Barzani, was chief of the military of the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad Mother: Hamayil
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By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Search and rescue volunteers are battling bad weather and heavy rainfall in a search for an American journalist who went missing while hiking in a Norwegian national park. Alec Luhn, a climate journalist from Wisconsin, is an experienced hiker who has completed a number of solo trips in challenging
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By Nimi Princewill, Larry Madowo, CNN (CNN) — Rwanda has reached a deal with the Trump administration to take in migrants deported from the United States, becoming the third African nation to do so, amid complaints that governments on the continent are being pressured by the White House to receive them. Foreign US deportees, originally
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By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — A former NFL player has been convicted for running an operation that bred and trafficked “grand champion” dogs and their offspring for dogfighting, the Department of Justice said. LeShon Johnson, 54, a former running back for the Green Bay Packers, Arizona Cardinals and New York Giants, was convicted by
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By Holly Yan, Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — Stymied by treacherous terrain and untamed wilderness, authorities are struggling to find an Army veteran suspected of killing four people at a Montana bar last week. Investigators say Michael Paul Brown, 45, vanished Friday after gunning down a bartender and three patrons at The Owl Bar in
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By John Miller, Chris Boyette, Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — The suspect in the killings of four relatives of a baby found abandoned last week has been arrested after a weeklong manhunt across rural Tennessee, according to police in Jackson. Austin Robert Drummond, 28, was caught in a wooded area Tuesday morning after being
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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration recently presented a vision for the country’s future in song and video. “The Promise of America is worth Protecting. The Future of our Homeland is worth Defending,” the Department of Homeland Security wrote on X. In the accompanying vintage-filtered montage, families gaze out wondrously at our
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By Christian Edwards and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — A court in Moldova has sentenced a Kremlin-friendly regional politician to seven years in prison for funneling money from Russia to finance a political party. Evgenia Gutul, the leader of Gagauzia, a historically pro-Russian ethnic region in southern Moldova, was detained in March on suspicion of
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By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — The US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation tasked with examining the June 2023 implosion of the Titan submersible released its report on Tuesday, with the board chair stating that the deaths of the five people on board were “preventable.” The report lays responsibility for the tragedy largely at
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By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — A zoo in northern Denmark is asking pet owners to donate their unwanted guinea pigs, rabbits, chickens and even small horses – not to put them on display but to feed them to the zoo’s predators. The Aalborg Zoo wrote in a Facebook post that it is trying to
Continue Reading Story by Reuters Singapore (Reuters) — Property tycoon Ong Beng Seng pleaded guilty to one charge of abetting the obstruction of justice on Monday in part of a landmark case that led to the jailing of former transport minister S. Iswaran for obtaining valuable items as a public servant last year. However, both the prosecution
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By Julia Vargas Jones, Michael Rios, Duarte Mendonca, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department has condemned a Brazilian Supreme Court order for the house arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is on trial over an alleged plot to overturn the results of the 2022 presidential election. Justice Alexandre de Moraes issued the order
Continue Reading By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Worried about money? A lot of people are. Experts offer tips on how you can prepare for hard times — and reduce stress in the process. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day. 5 things 1️⃣ Gen Z appeal Rome just
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of actor and filmmaker Ben Affleck. Personal Birth date: August 15, 1972 Birth place: Berkeley, California Birth name: Benjamin Geza Affleck Father: Tim Affleck, a social worker Mother: Chris Affleck, a teacher Marriage: Jennifer Lopez (July 16, 2022 – January 2025, divorced); Jennifer Garner
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