By Rhea Mogul and Manveena Suri, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — India has called Canada a “safe haven for terrorists” following its suspension of visas for Canadian citizens, as the fallout grows over Ottawa’s accusation that New Delhi is potentially behind the assassination of a Sikh separatist activist on its soil. In a strongly worded
Continue Reading By Holly Yan, Caroll Alvarado, Omar Jimenez, Sarah Boxer and Christina Maxouris, CNN Middletown, New York (CNN) — Students and first responders alike are traumatized by the catastrophic bus crash that claimed the lives of two longtime teachers after the bus veered off an interstate and tumbled down a ravine. “The scene was horrendous,” said
Continue Reading By Isabel Rosales, Devon M. Sayers and Jaide Timm-Garcia, CNN (CNN) — Nine corrections deputies in Shelby County, Tennessee, have been indicted in connection to the in-custody death of Gershun Freeman last year, including two deputies who are facing murder charges. Those two deputies, Stevon Jones and Courtney Parham, have been indicted by a grand
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Two Chinese activists held without trial for the past two years are expected to appear before a judge in a closed doors hearing on Friday as the ruling Communist Party ramps up its effort to dismantle what remains of the country’s civil society. Independent journalist and #MeToo
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A top university in northwest China has scrapped English tests as a prerequisite for graduation, rekindling a heated debate about the role of the world’s lingua franca in the country’s education system after years of rising nationalist sentiment under leader Xi Jinping. In a notice Wednesday, the
Continue Reading By Amy Simonson and Jared Formanek, CNN (CNN) — Tommy Wayne Boyd, a convicted child sex offender serving a 30-year prison sentence, has been captured several hours after walking out of a hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, authorities said. After sparking a manhunt that involved federal, state and local authorities Boyd, 45, was “taken into
Continue Reading By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of millions of years ago, jawless fishes swam Earth’s seas, their brains protected on the outside by armored skin, and on the inside by plates made of cartilage. Scientists are still piecing together how modern vertebrates’ skulls evolved from these ancient fish ancestors, which were the first animals
Continue Reading By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — India’s parliament passed a landmark bill Thursday that will reserve a third of its seats in the lower house and state assemblies for women, in a major win for rights groups that have for decades campaigned for better gender representation in politics. The bill received cross-party support and was
Continue Reading By Andy Rose and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — The family of a Black man who died after being pinned to the ground in handcuffs and leg irons for 12 minutes at a Virginia mental health facility has agreed to a $8.5 million settlement in their lawsuit against the state, county and sheriff, according to
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Originally Published: 21 SEP 23 17:46 ET Updated: 21 SEP 23 18:03 ET By Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — Authorities discovered a trap floor containing drugs, including fentanyl, inside a Bronx day care center where a 1-year-old boy died of a suspected fentanyl overdose last week, the New York Police Department announced Thursday. The drugs
Continue Reading By Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — Authorities discovered a trap floor containing drugs, including fentanyl, inside a Bronx day care center where a 1-year-old boy died of a suspected fentanyl overdose last week, the New York Police Department announced Thursday. The drugs were found Wednesday in the floor under a play area in the center
Continue Reading CNN By Rhea Mogul and Manveena Suri, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — India has called Canada a “safe haven for terrorists” following its suspension of visas for Canadian citizens, as the fallout grows over Ottawa’s accusation that New Delhi is potentially behind the assassination of a Sikh separatist activist on its soil. In a strongly
Continue Reading By Melanie Hicken, Audrey Ash, Curt Devine, Blake Ellis and Pamela Brown (CNN) — A college president, who wants his campus to become the business school “of choice for women,” once exchanged hundreds of sexually suggestive messages with a student he taught at the prestigious Coast Guard Academy, prompting prosecutors to recommend charges against him
Continue Reading CNN By Melanie Hicken, Audrey Ash, Curt Devine, Blake Ellis and Pamela Brown (CNN) — A college president, who wants his campus to become the business school “of choice for women,” once exchanged hundreds of sexually suggestive messages with a student he taught at the prestigious Coast Guard Academy, prompting prosecutors to recommend charges against
Continue Reading CNN, WABC, WCBS By Rob Frehse, Artemis Moshtaghian and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — Two adults were killed and multiple students were injured after their bus “tumbled down a 50-foot ravine,” Thursday on Interstate 84 in Orange County, New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul said in an evening news conference. The commercial bus was carrying 40
Continue Reading By Rob Frehse, Artemis Moshtaghian and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — Two adults were killed and multiple students were injured after their bus “tumbled down a 50-foot ravine,” Thursday on Interstate 84 in Orange County, New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul said in an evening news conference. The commercial bus was carrying 40 students from Farmingdale
Continue Reading By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — Migrant crossings are rising again at the US-Mexico border. Why is this occurring, and what could happen next? To better understand the situation, CNN spoke with Ariel Ruiz Soto, a senior policy analyst at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute in Washington. Ruiz says there’s a key detail many
Continue Reading CNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — An asteroid sample is expected to land in the Utah desert on Sunday, NASA said, where recovery teams have been training for months for its arrival. If all goes according to plan, a capsule will return the largest sample collected since Apollo astronauts brought back lunar rocks decades
Continue Reading By Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — For the first time, Alex Murdaugh has pleaded guilty to crimes. The disgraced former South Carolina attorney, who was convicted in March of murdering his wife and son, pleaded guilty to nearly two dozen fraud and money laundering charges Thursday morning in a federal courtroom in Charleston. The plea
Continue Reading By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo has asked for an accelerated withdrawal of a United Nations peacekeeping mission, against a backdrop of successive anti-UN protests over its failure to rein in rebel groups more than 20 years after its deployment to the country. Parts of the
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