By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Most polls have closed in an Australian referendum that will set the tone of relations with the country’s First Nations people for decades to come. Counting was underway Saturday in several eastern states and territories, with very early results pointing to a possible defeat for the proposal,
Continue Reading By Sabrina Souza, CNN (CNN) — A survivor of the 2018 Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting that left 11 worshippers dead said the attack on Israel “feels familiar,” and brought back the trauma. Jeffrey Myers, the rabbi of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood, posted Thursday on the congregation’s website in support of
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft. Personal Birth date: October 28, 1955 Birth place: Seattle, Washington Birth name: William Henry Gates III Father: William Henry Gates II, attorney Mother: Mary (Maxwell) Gates, schoolteacher Marriage: Melinda (French) Gates (January 1, 1994-August 2, 2021, divorced)
Continue Reading CNN By Lianne Kolirin and Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — When he heard that Hamas militants were attacking a music festival his family was attending, Ben said Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, for his mother. “I didn’t know what to do. I said please kill her because it would be better than being
Continue Reading CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA has launched its first mission to a mysterious world made largely of metal, on a journey to find out whether the asteroid is the exposed core of an early planetary building block from the beginning of the solar system. The Psyche mission lifted off at 10:19 a.m.
Continue Reading By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Egypt is facing mounting pressure to act as neighboring Gaza gets pummeled by Israeli strikes after October 7’s brutal assault in Israel by Hamas. In the wake of the Hamas attacks, Israel closed its two border crossings with Gaza and imposed a “complete siege” on the territory, blocking supplies
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine, Kelly McCleary and Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — An instructor at Stanford University has been removed from teaching duties as the school investigates reports that during a discussion on the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the instructor downplayed the Holocaust and singled out students “based on their backgrounds and identities.” “Without prejudging
Continue Reading By Jennifer Henderson, CNN (CNN) — Police have arrested a 17-year-old in connection with the mass shooting at Morgan State University in Baltimore on October 3 that injured five people, the Baltimore Police Department said in a news release Friday. He was taken into custody without incident Thursday, and faces charges of multiple counts of
Continue Reading By Rob Frehse and Jay Croft, CNN (CNN) — Security is being increased in some US cities Friday after a former Hamas leader called for protests amid the escalating war between Israel and Hamas militants, though officials in several cities said they have found no credible threats. Rallies are expected across the country, some in
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA has launched its first mission to a mysterious world made largely of metal, on a journey to find out whether the asteroid is the exposed core of an early planetary building block from the beginning of the solar system. The Psyche mission lifted off at 10:19 a.m. ET
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Michal Muszkat-Barkan is a natural leader. The kind of person who can rally the troops and knows exactly how to get help where it’s needed. A professor at the Hebrew Union College, Muszkat-Barkan had spent the past 10 months organizing protests against the Israeli government’s plans to weaken
Continue Reading By Vasco Cotovio, Svetlana Vlasova and Yulia Kesaieva, CNN (CNN) — Russian forces have launched a “fierce,” large-scale attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, intensifying the fighting there, but they have so far been unable to make significant progress, according to Ukrainian officials, analysts and geolocated footage shared on social media. “The fighting
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — On Saturday, a celestial spectacle will occur over North, Central and South America as an annular solar eclipse creates a “ring of fire” in the sky. Annular solar eclipses are like total solar eclipses, except the moon is at the farthest point in its orbit from Earth, so it
Continue Reading By Isabelle Chapman, Audrey Ash, Daniel A. Medina and Allison Gordon, CNN. Visuals by Tal Yellin, Ian Berry and Vanessa Leroy. (CNN) — Homemade rockets. Modified AK-47s. Decades-old Soviet machine guns. Cheap, second-hand, and purloined weapons comprised Hamas’ deadly makeshift arsenal that fueled a devastating, multi-pronged attack on Israel over the weekend. CNN analyzed dozens
Continue Reading By Joseph Ataman and Xiaofei Xu, CNN Paris (CNN) — A teacher was killed Friday and several people injured in a knife attack at a public school in Arras, northern France, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV. A worker at the school is in critical condition after receiving several stab wounds and a second teacher was
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — “It takes a village.” The adage comes up often when Shadrach Hall-Turner’s family discusses the 15-year-old’s life. Shadrach was born in October 2007 in Washington state. When his parents started struggling with addiction, a loving and close-knit network of extended family members stepped in to help care for Shadrach.
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez and Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Jon Rettinger has not let his children wear their yarmulkes in public this week, afraid they could be targeted for being Jewish. The father of three in Orange County, California, said he has tried to keep his children, ages 10, seven and four, from watching
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, Caitlin Hu, Mohammed Tawfeeq, Akanksha Sharma, Nadeen Ebrahim and Sophie Tanno, CNN Gaza and Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel’s military is telling 1.1 million people in northern Gaza to evacuate their homes immediately, as it appears to prepare to ramp up retaliation for Hamas’ October 7 terror attacks. Israeli warplanes continued on Friday
Continue Reading By Heather Chen and Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok (CNN) — Like his father Chumporn and dozens of other able-bodied men from their village in northeast Thailand, Manee Jirachart moved to Israel in search of work, dreaming of a better life. Jobs were hard to come by within his rural community so when Manee found a
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN Lublin and Kostrogaj, Poland (CNN) — A few days ago, eastern Poland was basking in unseasonably warm weather. But the winters here are long and harsh, and they can arrive with little warning. It’s Friday night in Lublin, and the weather has changed. The city’s youth are out, en masse, huddled
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