By Alisha Ebrahimji, Andy Rose and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — All liquor stores in Philadelphia were closed Wednesday after several locations were looted shortly after the conclusion of peaceful protests against a judge’s decision to dismiss all charges against a former Philadelphia police officer in a fatal traffic stop shooting. Police, who made dozens
Continue Reading By Jeremy Harlan, CNN (CNN) — After a California man spent nearly three decades in prison for kidnapping, sexual assault and robbery convictions, new DNA testing has revealed he was innocent of those crimes, a prosecutor announced. Gerardo Cabanillas was exonerated last week, 28 years after he was accused of robbing a man and woman
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — The winning numbers for Wednesday’s night’s $850 million Powerball jackpot – the fourth largest jackpot prize in the game’s history – have been drawn. The numbers are 1, 7, 46, 47, 63 and the Powerball is 7, the lottery said. A jackpot winner Wednesday night would have the option
Continue Reading By Angus Watson, CNN Sydney (CNN) — Activists in Australia have succeeded in pausing planned seismic blasting off Western Australia, which they say could deafen and ultimately kill endangered migratory whales. The Federal Court on Thursday invalidated approval given to oil and gas company Woodside Energy to start underwater blasting to locate large gas reserves
Continue Reading By Mark Morales, Eric Levenson and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — Gilgo Beach killings suspect Rex Heuermann appeared in a New York court on Wednesday for a short status hearing on his upcoming trial for the murders of three women whose bodies were found more than a decade ago. Heuermann, a 59-year-old architectural consultant from
Continue Reading KIMT By Macie Goldfarb, CNN (CNN) — Two children were killed and another two were injured when an SUV crashed into a two-wheeled horse-drawn Amish buggy in southern Minnesota on Monday morning, authorities said. The buggy and the SUV were going in the same direction when the crash happened shortly before 8:25 a.m. in Fillmore
Continue Reading By Laura Paddison and Vasco Cotovio, CNN (CNN) — The European Court of Human Rights will hear an “unprecedented” lawsuit on Wednesday, brought by six young people against 32 European countries accusing them of failing to tackle the human-caused climate crisis. The claimants, between ages 11 and 24 and all from Portugal, will argue that
Continue Reading By Caitlin Hu, Marlon Sorto and Shirin Zia Faqiri, CNN (CNN) — Costa Rica’s president has ordered a state of emergency, citing a surge of migrants crossing through the country toward the United States. “The people that arrive are passing across Costa Rica trying to get to the United States, basically,” President Rodrigo Chaves told
Continue Reading By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, Daniel Hodge and Kostyantyn Gak Eastern Ukraine (CNN) — Two Ukrainian soldiers huddle around a drone controller in darkness, their faces illuminated only by its screen. “Oh, something is burning,” one says. They’ve just dropped a bomb on a Russian target. The night-time assault is part of a coordinated Ukrainian
Continue Reading CNN By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, Daniel Hodge and Kostyantyn Gak Eastern Ukraine (CNN) — Two Ukrainian soldiers huddle around a drone controller in darkness, their faces illuminated only by its screen. “Oh, something is burning,” one says. They’ve just dropped a bomb on a Russian target. The night-time assault is part of a coordinated
Continue Reading CNN By David Culver, Karol Suarez and Rachel Clarke, CNN Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico (CNN) — There’s a bustling trade in people and goods across the Guatemala-Mexico river border this week. But almost the entire flow of people skirts the route across the road bridge and tries to avoid official eyes by floating across the water.
Continue Reading By Fabiana Chaparro and Morayo Ogunbayo, CNN (CNN) — A migrant worker from Mexico died at a North Carolina farm earlier this month on a day when temperatures approached 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and his death is now being investigated by the state’s labor department. Paramedics responded to Barnes Farming in Spring Hope after receiving a
Continue Reading By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman, Mark Morales, Evelio Contreras and Rachel Clarke, CNN New York (CNN) — Jean Carlos Marin-Espinoza has a smile as bright as the lights of New York City. Standing on a corner in midtown Manhattan, he talks about the generosity shown so far to him and his family – a
Continue Reading CNN By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman, Mark Morales, Evelio Contreras and Rachel Clarke, CNN New York (CNN) — Jean Carlos Marin-Espinoza has a smile as bright as the lights of New York City. Standing on a corner in midtown Manhattan, he talks about the generosity shown so far to him and his family –
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The inauguration of two new electricity-generating units in Zimbabwe’s Hwange power station last month was not an unfamiliar scene when it comes to major infrastructure projects in Africa. There, in a rural corner of the southern African nation, government officials and the Chinese ambassador gathered to ribbon-cut
Continue Reading By Nechirvan Mando, Hande Atay Alam, Aqeel Najim and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — A fire tore through a wedding hall in Qaraqosh in northern Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least 100 people and injuring 150 others, prompting anger at the lack of safety measures at the venue. Fireworks were set off at the
Continue Reading CNN By Jessica Xing, Brian Todd and Sabrina Souza, CNN (CNN) — Over the weekend, police say, Rui Jiang posted a photo on Instagram of a gun being pointed at a computer screen showing the spire of a white church building. The words “Beautiful Old Churches Across America” were superimposed over part of the image.
Continue Reading By Macie Goldfarb, CNN (CNN) — Two children were killed and another two were injured when an SUV crashed into a two-wheeled horse-drawn Amish buggy in southern Minnesota on Monday morning, authorities said. The buggy and the SUV were going in the same direction when the crash happened shortly before 8:25 a.m. in Fillmore County
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Originally Published: 26 SEP 23 14:41 ET Updated: 26 SEP 23 16:01 ET By Paula Newton, CNN Ottawa (CNN) — Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons Anthony Rota resigned his post Tuesday, days after he praised a Ukrainian veteran who fought for a Nazi military unit during World War II. On Friday, following a
Continue Reading By Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — The family of a 19-year-old woman found dead in the woods near her Orlando, Florida, apartment is suing the Orange County sheriff’s office and two deputies for negligence and civil rights violations over their handling of the 2021 case, according to a lawsuit filed Monday. Miya Marcano, a Valencia
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