By Pete Muntean, Dugald McConnell, CNN (CNN) — An airplane has, for the first time, automatically landed itself after an in-flight emergency, according to the system’s manufacturer. Two people emerged unscathed from the Beechcraft Super King Air 200 after it stopped on the runway at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport near Denver, according to video posted
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By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration will begin garnishing wages of student loan borrowers in default starting in January, the Education Department told CNN on Tuesday. “We expect the first notices to be sent to approximately 1,000 defaulted borrowers the week of January 7, and the notices will increase in scale
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By Josh Campbell, Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — The multi-state hunt for Melodee Buzzard, a missing 9-year-old California girl, came to a close when her remains were discovered in a rural area of southern Utah, authorities announced Tuesday. Members of the sheriff’s office and the FBI arrested Ashlee Buzzard, Melodee’s mother, Tuesday morning on a
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By Danny Freeman, Taylor Romine, Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — Two people are dead after a fire and explosion tore through a nursing home on the outskirts of Philadelphia on Tuesday, prompting local responders, bystanders and staff to rush the elderly residents to safety, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said. One of those killed was an
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By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump’s request to allow him to deploy the National Guard to Chicago to protect ICE agents, a significant and rare loss for the administration on the conservative court’s emergency docket. “At this preliminary stage, the government has failed to identify a
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of the Princess of Wales, the former Catherine (Kate) Middleton. Personal Birth date: January 9, 1982 Birth place: Reading, Berkshire, England Birth name: Catherine Elizabeth Middleton Father: Michael Middleton, former airline pilot, now mail-order business owner Mother: Carole (Goldsmith) Middleton, former flight attendant
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By Kara Fox, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — A person identified as “A” emailed the disgraced former British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell from the British royal family’s Scottish residence in 2001, asking whether she had “found me some new inappropriate friends,” according to newly released documents. The email is part of a series of messages exchanged
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Associated Press (CNN) — Wyoming’s lone U.S. representative is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Cynthia Lummis, who isn’t seeking re-election. Rep. Harriet Hageman, a Republican, on Tuesday became first to announce for Senate in Wyoming after Lummis, also a Republican, said Friday she isn’t seeking a second term. “I will always
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COACHELLA, Calif. (KESQ) The Coachella Valley Water District approved a new labor agreement during a special board meeting Tuesday, while also formally noting continued regional discussions over the future of the Colorado River. According to the meeting agenda, the board approved a successor memorandum of understanding with the CVWD Employee Association, which represents certain district employees. The
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By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels and the Saudi-backed Yemeni government have reached a new agreement to carry out a large-scale prisoner exchange, marking a significant humanitarian step amid ongoing efforts to de-escalate the conflict. Abdulqader Hasan Yahya al-Murtadha, head of the Houthi National Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs, said on Tuesday that
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By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — With questions swirling about Brown University’s security after this month’s fatal shooting on the Providence, Rhode Island, campus, the Department of Education on Monday announced it would probe whether the school violated federal law. The department said in a news release it would investigate potential violations of the Clery
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PALM DESERT, Calif. (KESQ) – Olive Crest, a nonprofit focused on preventing child abuse in the Coachella Valley, received a $249,865 grant from the Desert Healthcare District and Foundation to support its crisis response team staff. The nonprofit hopes to stabilize families in crisis and prevent children from entering the child welfare system. “If youth
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By Katelyn Polantz, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Former CIA director John Brennan is accusing the Justice Department of “irregular activity,” including possible judge shopping and improper leaks to the media, in a letter from his defense attorney that also disclosed Brennan is the target of a grand jury investigation launched out of Florida. The
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From CNN’s Kara Fox and Tierney Sneed, CNN Warning: This post contains language readers may find disturbing. The Justice Department now says a handwritten letter it released Tuesday that was signed by “J. Epstein” and addressed to convicted sex offender Larry Nassar is “fake,” asserting that the handwriting did not appear to match that of
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By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — Former Republican Sen. Ben Sasse announced Tuesday that he’s been diagnosed with “metastasized, stage 4 pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.” “Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do,” Sasse, 53, wrote on
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By Brian Todd, CNN (CNN) — Some staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs are finding little to be merry about after the agency said it would eliminate tens of thousands of open, unfilled positions across the country as it looks to streamline its staffing. Three sources familiar with the decisions told CNN that leadership
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By Svitlana Vlasova and Billy Stockwell, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — Russia launched one of its largest aerial attacks this month on Ukraine overnight, killing at least three people and injuring at least 17 others, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, as Ukraine’s leader received his first face-to-face briefing with his negotiating team on their arrival back
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CNN By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A sixth person has been found dead after a Mexican Navy plane carrying medical patients crashed into the waters of Galveston Bay in Texas on Monday afternoon, leaving only two survivors and killing a 2-year-old child, the Mexican Navy said. The body of a final unaccounted-for victim was
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First Alert Weather Alert goes into effect tomorrow as rain develops overnight. A massive “atmospheric river” storm approaching will bring up to 2.00″ of rain to the Valley and as much as 5.00″ to 6.00″ of rain to mountain communities. The storm will be most intense tomorrow midday, but we’re like to see rain develop
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By Karla Walsh, CNN (CNN) — Salt, fat, acid and heat are the essential elements of cooking to Samin Nosrat, who transformed them into her best-selling cookbook and popular Netflix series, “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat.” For her latest book, she has added to that list. Before she mentions even a single recipe in “Good Things:
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