By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Once considered among the most promising economies in Southeast Asia with a growing middle class, Myanmar is now suffering from soaring levels of poverty as a devastating civil war drives tens of millions further into destitution, according to a new United Nations report. Almost half of Myanmar’s population of
Continue Reading By David Shortell, CNN (CNN) — Jesús Corona Damián, a candidate for mayor in Cuautla, Mexico, was in a car near his home one evening last month when two men on a motorcycle sped past and opened fire. The day before, a local gang had sent him a threat, so that night he drove behind
Continue Reading By Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s memoir will be published posthumously this fall, his widow revealed Thursday. The book, titled “Patriot,” will be released on October 22 in multiple languages, including Russian, Yulia Navalnaya said in a post on social platform X. According to Navalnaya, her husband started writing his
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden plans to expand two national monuments in California – one, a mountainous wilderness area east of Los Angeles, and another with tree-covered rolling hillsides north of Napa – in the coming weeks, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Biden will expand the perimeters of
Continue Reading CNN By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — A US Navy and Coast Guard operation on Tuesday rescued three mariners stranded on a tiny Pacific Ocean islet for more than a week after the trio spelled out “HELP” using palm fronds laid on a white-sand beach. The mission also unexpectedly turned into a family reunion. The
Continue Reading By Lauren Mascarenhas and Christina Zdanowicz, CNN (CNN) — Arizona officials are scrambling to address a near total abortion ban revived by the state’s Supreme Court this week, before the Civil War-era law almost completely halts access to Arizona’s already limited abortion services. The court ruled Tuesday the state must adhere to a law made before
Continue Reading By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Prehistoric humans in Brazil carved drawings in the rock next to dinosaur footprints, suggesting that they may have found them meaningful or interesting, a new study has found. The rock carvings, which archaeologists call petroglyphs, are at a site called Serrote do Letreiro in Paraíba, an agricultural state on
Continue Reading By Saira Mueller, CNN (CNN) — When Guido and Benjamin Teuber were young, their father would sit them down at a table in their small family home in Hessia, Germany on Sundays — the only day he wasn’t working 12 hours as a master dental technician — to play board games. It was more than
Continue Reading By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — In an ancient grave in what’s now northwestern Argentina, a person was buried with a canine companion — but this animal friend wasn’t a dog, according to new research. The burial held the skeleton of a type of canid that may have once competed with dogs for human affection:
Continue Reading KABC, KLAS, KTLA, WIVB, WJW, WSVN, CNN Opinion By Gene Seymour, CNN (CNN) — So now that he is dead, what is there to do with the perpetually troubling, infuriating American conundrum that was Orenthal James Simpson? My guess is that we’ll do the same thing we’ve been doing for all his public life, right
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone and Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — O.J. Simpson, the former NFL star and broadcaster whose athletic achievements and fame were eclipsed by his 1995 trial in the brutal killings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, has died of cancer, his family announced Thursday on X. He was
Continue Reading By Melissa Mahtani, CNN (CNN) — Finding a therapist can be hard, especially with demand so high these days and many not taking on new patients. A survey by the American Psychological Association showed more than half of practitioners (56%) have no openings for new patients. That’s despite nine out of 10 adults saying they
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of former NFL star O.J. Simpson. Personal Birth date: July 9, 1947 Death date: April 10, 2024 Birth place: San Francisco, California Birth name: Orenthal James Simpson Father: Jimmie Lee Simpson, custodian and cook Mother: Eunice Simpson, nurse’s aide Marriages: Nicole (Brown) Simpson
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji and Alexandra Ross, CNN (CNN) — Iowa is taking a page out of Texas’ book as its governor signed a bill into law this week allowing law enforcement officers to arrest some undocumented migrants. Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Wednesday that makes it a crime to be in the
Continue Reading By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Parrots are smart, with some species found to have the problem-solving skills of a young child. So if small kids can use technology in some capacity, why can’t parrots? Researchers aiming to answer why parrots should use technology for cognitive enrichment set out to answer just how tablets could be improved
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, Isabel Rosales and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Derrick Dearman says he wants to live. The 35-year-old inmate on Alabama’s death row has spent almost six years fighting his sentence after being convicted of killing five people, including a woman who was pregnant. But now, he says he’s asked the state to
Continue Reading By Svitlana Vlasova, Christian Edwards and Caitlin Danaher, CNN (CNN) — Russia destroyed the largest power-generating plant in Ukraine’s Kyiv region in a missile attack on Thursday, as President Volodomyr Zelensky accused the West of “turning a blind eye” to his country’s need for more air defenses. Ukraine’s Air Force said it shot down 18
Continue Reading By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Bogotà, Colombia (CNN) — There’s a new meme being shared widely this week across social media accounts in Colombia’s capital Bogotá, as the city grapples with a water crisis. It’s an image of C. Montgomery Burns, the supervillain from the animated series “The Simpsons,” showing up at the door with a
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards, Olga Voitovych and Victoria Butenko, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s parliament has scrapped plans to give soldiers who have spent prolonged periods fighting on the frontlines the chance to return home on rotation, after passing a draft law seeking to boost the number of soldiers in its military. Ukrainian lawmakers have for months
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, Teele Rebane, Kocha Olarn and Sandi Sidhu, CNN (CNN) — Myanmar rebels fighting the junta say they have seized the last remaining military base in a key border town, dealing the latest significant blow to the country’s military rulers as they struggle to cling to power. About 200 soldiers abandoned their base
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