By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Global military spending surged by almost 3% in 2025, fueled largely by ballooning defense expenditures in Europe and Asia, according to a report released Monday by a respected arms watchdog group. European defense spending jumped 14% from 2024, to $864 billion, and in Asia-Oceania the increase was 8.1%, to
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By Lex Harvey, Isaac Yee, CNN (CNN) — In the year leading up to its dramatic seizure by US forces in the Indian Ocean, the oil tanker known as the MT Tifani made several trips between Iran and a stretch of water off the coast of Malaysia, around 60 miles from the glitzy skyscrapers of
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By Max Foster, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Betsy Klein, Christian Edwards, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — “The word ‘special’ does not begin to do it justice,” said Donald Trump of the relationship between the United States and Britain. “We’re like two notes in one chord, or two verses of the same poem – each beautiful on its
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By Leigh Waldman, CNN (CNN) — A decision whether to mandate air conditioning inside Texas prisons is in the hands of a federal judge, as advocacy organizations try to force the state to address what they allege are dangerous, deadly temperatures inmates endure. For years leading up to the two-week trial in Austin, the Texas
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By Ray Sanchez, Isabel Rosales, Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Zamil Limon was last seen on the morning of April 16 at his home about three blocks from the University of South Florida campus in Tampa. Nahida Bristy was last seen later that same morning at the Natural and Environmental Sciences building on campus. They
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By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — The hashtag ‘alpine divorce’ has exploded on social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram in recent months, with many women sharing traumatic, sometimes life-threatening experiences. The term is used to describe an event during a hike or other outdoor adventure, when one partner, usually male, abandons the other, who
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By Kristen Holmes, Casey Tolan, Alayna Treene, John Miller, Holmes Lybrand, Kyung Lah, CNN (CNN) — The day after a man opened fire at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, authorities are combing through a message sent by the shooting suspect, seeking to understand what allegedly led him from his life as a respected California
Continue Reading CNN By Kristen Holmes, Casey Tolan, Alayna Treene, John Miller, Holmes Lybrand, Kyung Lah, CNN (CNN) — The day after a man opened fire at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, authorities are combing through a message sent by the shooting suspect, seeking to understand what allegedly led him from his life as a respected
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By Annabella González, CNN (CNN) — At least 14 people were killed and at least 38 wounded, including five children, after a bomb tore apart a busy road in southwestern Colombia, according to local authorities. The incident was part of a “wave” of terror attacks this weekend, Colombian officials also said, as deadly violence resurges
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By Leah Asmelash, Zoe Sottile, Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — A Chicago man faces 20 felony charges after authorities say he shot and killed a police officer and critically wounded another while being escorted through a local hospital over the weekend. Alphanso Tally, 26, was initially arrested in connection with an armed robbery on Saturday,
Continue Reading By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — The flash mob descended on Brisbane’s city square, wearing double denim and blond wigs in the style of a legendary Australian singer as they danced with wild abandon to one of his 1980s hits. In an unlikely pairing, pro-Palestinian protesters have adopted John Farnham’s song “Two Strong
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By Mohammad Al-Sawalhi, Abeer Salman, Oren Liebermann, CNN Deir al-Balah, Gaza/Jerusalem (CNN) — Gaza held its first elections in more than 20 years on Saturday – but only in one city for a small fraction of the shattered territory’s population – amid a stalled process to advance the US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Last week, the “looksmaxxing” livestreamer Clavicular collapsed as thousands watched. The 20-year-old self-styled master of looking good was live on camera in a Miami mall when he slumped and started to slur his words. Taking shelter from fans he’d been taking selfies with, he stumbled into a booth at
Continue Reading By Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — In the hyper-masculine world of Latin-American drug cartels, it is sometimes the women you need to watch. That’s how the Mexican military hunted down one of the world’s most-wanted traffickers – Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes – in a daring operation earlier this year that included special forces storming his hideout in Jalisco state. Among the
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — To speak, or not to speak? That is the question criminal defendants face at trial. In three recent high-profile criminal trials, the defendant answered that question with a firm yes and took the stand to give their side of the story. It’s a rare, risky move – and the
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, Sara Smart, Sarah Hutter, CNN (CNN) — It took just 30 minutes for Brytney Quinn to lose everything. On Tuesday, the mother was going through the motions of a normal day in southeast Georgia’s Brantley County: getting her children ready for school as her husband prepared for work. But around noon, multiple
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová, Svitlana Vlasova, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Victoria Butenko, CNN (CNN) — It is common knowledge among Ukrainian soldiers that anyone joining the military will, sooner or later, become a cat person. Felines are found in the most unlikely places on the front lines. In trenches, at checkpoints, in destroyed homes and at medical stabilization
Continue Reading By Uriel Blanco, CNN (CNN) — With just under two months to go before the 2026 World Cup, one of the tournament’s host cities in Mexico is experiencing a worrying trend. In Guadalajara, a city in Jalisco state plagued by drug violence and thousands of cases of disappeared people, residents are feeling increasingly unsafe. Nine
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By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court reversed a terrorism-related conviction for the 2017 New York City subway bomber in a decision that could have wide-reaching effects for the prosecutions of accused terrorists. Akayed Ullah detonated a pipe bomb inside a busy Manhattan transit station in 2017, causing panic among commuters and
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By Paula Newton, CNN Ottawa (CNN) — Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, has formally apologized to the community of Tumbler Ridge, BC, after a mass shooting in February. He admitted his company did not alert authorities to the shooter’s disturbing online conversations with its AI chatbot even after staff flagged the account internally. “I
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