By RANDALL CHASE, CLAUDIA LAUER, MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jurors will resume deliberations Tuesday in the criminal case against Hunter Biden over a gun President Joe Biden’s son bought in 2018 when prosecutors say he was in the throes of a crack cocaine addiction. Jurors deliberated for
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By Josh Campbell and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Violent crime dropped by more than 15% in the United States during the first three months of 2024, according to statistics released Monday by the FBI. The new numbers show violent crime from January to March dropped 15.2% compared to the same period in 2023, while murders fell 26.4% and
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — For most of its early history, the word “queer” meant unusual or out of the ordinary. Then it was co-opted as a homophobic insult for much of the 20th century before people from LGBT communities reclaimed the term. Then, LGBTQ activists who identified as queer showed that they were proud to be different. LGBTQ activist groups like
Continue Reading By Niamh Kennedy and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima has been killed in a plane crash along with nine other passengers, the country’s President Lazarus Chakwera announced Tuesday. The aircraft went missing after it failed to land at the Mzuzu International Airport, about 380 km (240 miles) to the north
Continue Reading CNN, UN TV, IDF, GPO By Mariya Knight, Mia Alberti, Richard Roth, Abeer Salman and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN (CNN) — Israel has vowed to persist with its military operation in Gaza, saying it won’t engage in “meaningless” negotiations with Hamas, shortly after the United Nations Security Council overwhelmingly approved a US-backed ceasefire plan intended to
Continue Reading By Carlos Suarez and Denise Royal, CNN (CNN) — Four Miami-Dade police officers have been indicted by a grand jury in connection with a 2019 shootout with suspects in a hijacked UPS truck that resulted in the deaths of a hostage delivery driver and a bystander, the Miami-Dade Police Department said Tuesday. The chaotic December
Continue Reading By Yoonjung Seo and Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korean forces fired warning shots on Sunday after North Korean troops accidentally crossed their shared border, Seoul’s military said, as tensions simmer on the Korean Peninsula following a series of tit-for-tat exchanges between the two sides. In a news briefing Tuesday, the South Korean
Continue Reading CNN By Nectar Gan, Yong Xiong, Simone McCarthy, and Sarah Dewberry, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A suspect has been arrested in the stabbing of four US college instructors in a public park in the city of Jilin in northeastern China, police said Tuesday. Authorities identified the suspect only by his last name, Cui, who
Continue Reading By Carlos Suarez, Denise Royal and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Federal investigators accuse a south Florida man of traversing two continents, stealing license plates and obscuring a security camera to kidnap his estranged wife at her apartment in Spain earlier this year. But the man and his former attorney say he has never stepped
Continue Reading By Mariya Knight, Mia Alberti, Richard Roth, Abeer Salman and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN (CNN) — Israel has vowed to persist with its military operation in Gaza, saying it won’t engage in “meaningless” negotiations with Hamas, shortly after the United Nations Security Council overwhelmingly approved a US-backed ceasefire plan intended to bring an end to the
Continue Reading By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — The groups were showing worrying signs of trouble, according to the Italian Interior Ministry’s half-yearly report released in January 2024. Around the same time Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced that the G7 leaders’ meeting would be held in the southern Italian region of Puglia as part
Continue Reading By Lauren Mascarenhas, Christina Maxouris, Joe Sutton and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — The Port of Baltimore’s shipping channel is fully operational again, response officials announced Monday, more than two months after a massive cargo ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, killing six construction workers and cutting off access to the crucial shipping
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, Yong Xiong, Simone McCarthy, and Sarah Dewberry, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A suspect has been arrested in the stabbing of four US college instructors in a public park in the city of Jilin in northeastern China, police said Tuesday. Authorities identified the suspect only by his last name, Cui, who was
Continue Reading By Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — The Rev. James Lawson Jr., a civil rights icon who trained activists in nonviolent protest, died Sunday, according to the pastor at Holman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles, where Lawson was reverend emeritus. Lawson died in Los Angeles, Rev. Christian Washington told CNN Monday. He was 95.
Continue Reading By Benjamin Brown, Allegra Goodwin and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN (CNN) — Three days after an Israeli military operation rescued four hostages being held by Hamas in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza, killing more than 270 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials, new details are still emerging about what was one of the most dramatic and
Continue Reading CNN By Benjamin Brown, Allegra Goodwin and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN (CNN) — Two days after an Israeli military operation rescued four hostages being held by Hamas in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza, killing more than 270 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials, new details are emerging about what was one of the most dramatic and
Continue Reading By Maria Sole Campinoti and Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — Two men have pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection to the overdose death of a 1-year-old boy and the hospitalization of three other children at a day care in the Bronx, New York, last year. On the morning his trial was set to begin in Manhattan
Continue Reading By Catherine Nicholls, CNN London (CNN) — Two 12-year-old boys have been found guilty of killing a man in a machete attack in the United Kingdom last November, police said Monday. The boys, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, murdered 19-year-old Shawn Seesahai in a park in Wolverhampton, central England, West Midlands Police said
Continue Reading By Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — Sudanese paramilitary forces stormed the main hospital in North Darfur, opening fire and looting vital medical supplies, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have reported. Fighters from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) plundered the facility on Saturday stealing an ambulance among other supplies, the aid agency said. “On Saturday, MSF and the
Continue Reading By Larry Madowo, CNN (CNN) — A plane carrying Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine other people has gone missing after it failed to make a scheduled landing on Monday, according to the presidential office. The Malawi Defense Force Aircraft carrying Chilima and others left the capital of Lilongwe at 9:17 a.m. local time
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