By Andrew Carey, Oren Liebermann, Jessie Yeung, Tamar Michaelis and Sugam Pokharel, CNN (CNN) — Tensions are boiling over in Israel as frustrated families of hostages demand answers from the government about the fate of their loved ones and a deal for their release. “I demand their commitment that everyone is returning home. All the
Continue Reading By Melissa Alonso, Artemis Moshtaghian and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN (CNN) — The man who shot four people at an Ohio Walmart before taking his own life this week may have been at least partially inspired by racially motivated violent extremist ideology, the FBI said Wednesday, citing what it says were the shooter’s journal writings and
Continue Reading By Jillian Sykes and Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — The suspect in the disappearance of a Washington couple who went missing from their home last week and may be dead was a tenant who was about to be evicted, the sister of the missing woman said Monday. Karen Koep and her husband, Davido, have been
Continue Reading KING, PAULINE DUTTON, JUSTICE DUTTON, CNN By Jillian Sykes and Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — The suspect in the disappearance of a Washington couple who went missing from their home last week and may be dead was a tenant who was about to be evicted, the sister of the missing woman said Monday. Karen Koep
Continue Reading By Josh Campbell and Sarah Moon, CNN (CNN) — The California Department of Justice is investigating after a state officer opened fire and killed a pedestrian in the middle of a Southern California freeway, the department announced Monday. A video posted online Sunday appears to show a California Highway Patrol officer shooting a person multiple times
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Australia’s prime minister has accused the Chinese navy of “dangerous, unsafe and unprofessional” conduct after an incident in international waters near Japan, marking a potential friction point with Beijing weeks after he visited the Chinese capital to stabilize relations. Australian divers aboard the long-range frigate HMAS Toowoomba
Continue Reading By Caroll Alvarado and Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — The Michigan vacation home of US Ambassador to Japan and former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was defaced with the word “NAZIS” spray-painted on the fence, according to local officials. Emanuel, a prominent Jewish politician, said his family was “very proud of how our friends, neighbors and
Continue Reading By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — An Italian court has sentenced more than 200 crime gang members to a total of 2,200 years in prison, following the country’s largest mafia trial in three decades. During the trial, which began in January 2021 and took place in a purpose-built bunker in the southern Italian
Continue Reading By Lou Robinson, Alex Leeds Matthews, Rosa de Acosta, Renée Rigdon, Amy O’Kruk, Christopher Hickey, Rachel Wilson, Will Mullery, Matt Stiles and Henrik Pettersson, CNN (CNN) — As fighting has resumed across Gaza and Israel, CNN is continuing to visualize the war through maps, charts and more. A seven-day pause in fighting allowed for the
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — From New Hampshire to Oregon, researchers are trying to figure out what’s causing an infectious respiratory disease among dogs that has turned deadly in rare cases. The mysterious illness is described as an “atypical canine infectious respiratory disease,” the Oregon Department of Agriculture said in a
Continue Reading Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — A woman who previously accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault has filed a lawsuit against him under a New York law that’s set to expire this week. In 2014, journalist and publicist Joan Tarshis told CNN the actor had sexually assaulted her decades prior, when she was a teenager. Those alleged incidents are repeated in the lawsuit
Continue Reading By Sophie Tanno, Hamdi Alkhshali and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, has become a flashpoint in Israel’s war against Hamas, which began when gunmen from the militant group crossed the border into Israel on October 7, killing around 1,200 people. Palestinians and humanitarian agencies say the current fighting in and around Al-Shifa
Continue Reading By Joan Biskupic, CNN (CNN) — The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from former Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of murder in the 2020 killing of George Floyd. Chauvin was found guilty in April 2021 of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd’s death. He was sentenced
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — Sometimes we all just need a bit more time with a good book. One Minnesota resident, it seems, took that time – and then some. Now, over a century later, her child has returned it to the Saint Paul Public Library through another library system in the state, the
Continue Reading By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — An Italian court has sentenced more than 200 crime gang members to a total of 2,200 years in prison, following the country’s largest mafia trial in three decades. During the trial, which began in January 2021 and took place in a purpose-built bunker in the southern Italian
Continue Reading CNN By Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder, Jessie Yeung, Jonny Hallam, Asmaa Khalil and Niamh Kennedy, CNN (CNN) — Twenty-eight premature babies arrived in Egypt in a convoy of ambulances from Gaza on Monday, according to an Egyptian government official, after the infants were evacuated from Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza. Four mothers and six nurses
Continue Reading By Eleni Giokos, CNN (CNN) — When Rami Mahmoud left his family’s home to buy food, his wife, Elham Maged, stayed behind to pray. When he made his way back through the narrow, tightly packed nearby streets of northern Gaza’s Jabalya Refugee Camp, he returned to a scene of complete chaos. An Israeli airstrike had smashed into the center of
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — Authorities are investigating after a human torso was discovered lying on a New York City beach. The torso was found Friday at Breezy Point Beach in Queens, the New York City Police Department said in a statement. Police responded to a 911 call about the remains being spotted at about 12:21
Continue Reading By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Death in the wild is often brutal and violent. But for one small, birdlike dinosaur in the late Cretaceous Period, the end of its life was relatively peaceful — it
Continue Reading By Angela Dewan and Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The Earth’s temperature briefly rose above a crucial threshold that scientists have been warning for decades could have catastrophic and irreversible impacts on the planet and its ecosystems, data shared by a prominent climate scientist shows. For the first time, the global average temperature on Friday
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