By Clarissa Ward, Brent Swails, Kareem Khadder and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN Istanbul (CNN) — Sara Khreis replays the last day she spent with her mother over and over in her mind. Their family had spent weeks agonizing over whether to flee as Israeli troops moved into Gaza City’s al-Rimal neighborhood, tanks rolling past their front
Continue Reading CNN By Clarissa Ward, Brent Swails, Kareem Khadder and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN Istanbul (CNN) — Sara Khreis replays the last day she spent with her mother over and over in her mind. Their family had spent weeks agonizing over whether to flee as Israeli troops moved into Gaza City’s al-Rimal neighborhood, tanks rolling past their
Continue Reading By Thomas Lake, CNN (CNN) — On January 7, a group of Kansas City Chiefs fans got together to watch the last game of the regular season. Three of those friends never came home. The night passed, and the next day, and the night after that, and the next day. Their families grew increasingly anxious. Finally,
Continue Reading KCTV, KMBC, CNN By Thomas Lake, CNN (CNN) — On January 7, a group of Kansas City Chiefs fans got together to watch the last game of the regular season. Three of those friends never came home. The night passed, and the next day, and the night after that, and the next day. Their families grew
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — The UN’s top court ordered Israel to prevent genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, but stopped short of calling for Israel to suspend its military campaign in the war-torn enclave, as South Africa had requested. In a hearing in The Hague, the Netherlands, on Friday, the International Court of Justice
Continue Reading By Larry Madowo and Nimi Princewill, CNN Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) — A judge in Kenya has barred the East African nation from deploying 1,000 police officers to Haiti to lead a UN-backed multinational force to restore security in the Caribbean nation. High Court judge Chacha Mwita ruled on Friday that President William Ruto and his National Security
Continue Reading By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Nate Battle said he had avoided doctor’s visits for most of his life until 2014, when his insurance company began incentivizing preventive health screenings. Battle, who is Black and was 49 at the time, said he made an appointment, thinking it would be routine and harmless. But the
Continue Reading By Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — More than 40 senior former Israeli national security officials, celebrated scientists and prominent business leaders have sent a letter to Israel’s president and speaker of parliament demanding that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be removed from office for posing what they say is an “existential” threat to the country. The signatories on the letter include four former directors
Continue Reading By Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Max Foster, CNN London (CNN) — Britain’s King Charles III is “doing well” after undergoing a corrective procedure for an enlarged prostate, CNN understands. The 75-year-old monarch was admitted to a London hospital on Friday morning for a “scheduled treatment,” Buckingham Palace said earlier in a statement. “His Majesty would like
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — One of two inmates who were discovered missing from an Arkansas detention center earlier this week was captured Thursday while the other escapee remains on the run and is considered dangerous, officials said. Authorities learned Noah Roush and Jatonia Bryant were missing Monday around 10:30 a.m.
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe, Dakin Andone, Holly Yan and Caitlin Danaher, CNN (CNN) — Alabama inmate Kenneth Smith was put to death Thursday night by nitrogen hypoxia, marking the nation’s first known execution using that method. Now Alabama’s attorney general wants to help other states interested in using the new form of capital punishment. Smith, 58,
Continue Reading WBRC, CNN By Elizabeth Wolfe, Dakin Andone, Holly Yan and Caitlin Danaher, CNN (CNN) — Alabama inmate Kenneth Smith was put to death Thursday night by nitrogen hypoxia, marking the nation’s first known execution using that method. Now Alabama’s attorney general wants to help other states interested in using the new form of capital punishment.
Continue Reading By Lianne Kolirin, CNN Ashkelon, Israel (CNN) — It was supposed to be a safe haven – a new life for those seeking refuge from the turbulence of war. But when tens of thousands of Ukrainians fled to Israel in the wake of Russia’s invasion, they had no idea of what the future would hold. With men aged 18 to
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — China accused the United States military of “abusing international law” and continuing a pattern of “dangerous provocations” in East Asia Thursday, after a US Navy destroyer made the service’s first transit of the Taiwan Strait of 2024. The movement on Wednesday of the USS John Finn
Continue Reading By Sophia Saifi, Sania Farooqui, Michael Rios and Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — A top Pakistan official on Thursday accused India of killing two Pakistani nationals on its soil, citing what he called “a pattern” of alleged Indian assassination plots overseas and raising tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals. In a news conference, Pakistani Foreign Secretary Muhammad Syrus
Continue Reading By Angus Watson, CNN Sydney (CNN) — “Australia Day is Dead!” Indigenous activist Gwenda Stanley chants into the loudspeaker, as a crowd of thousands breaks into applause. It’s Australia’s national day, but the crowd in central Sydney seethes in anger and cheers in solidarity with Indigenous Australians, many of whom view January 26 as nothing
Continue Reading KCAL, KCBS, POOL, LEOS FAMILY, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL, CNN By Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — A man was found guilty of second-degree murder on Thursday in the 2021 road rage shooting on a Southern California highway that left a 6-year-old boy dead, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. A jury also found
Continue Reading By Michael Rios, Tara John, Taylor Ward, Veronica Calderon, Ana Melgar Zuniga and Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — Colombia declared a disaster situation on Thursday due to wildfires raging across several parts of the country, as the president warned the conditions could get worse. Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro declared a “situation of disaster and calamity,”
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — Nearly a third, or 28%, of Gen Z adults in the United States identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, a larger share than older generations, according to a new report by PRRI, a nonprofit that conducts research on religion, values and public policy. The report, titled “A political and cultural glimpse into America’s future,” sought to highlight
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — After completing 72 historic flights on Mars over three years, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter mission has ended. Originally designed as an experiment, Ingenuity became the first aircraft to operate and fly on another world, lifting off on April 19, 2021. Imagery and data returned to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
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