By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! How many people in their 70s and 80s do you know on TikTok? Joe Biden and Donald Trump both joined the social platform in recent months in hopes of wooing young voters — but a new survey shows that their strategy may not pan out. Here’s what
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of soccer player Lionel “Leo” Messi, who plays for Argentina’s national team and Major League Soccer (MLS) club Inter Miami. Personal Birth date: June 24, 1987 Birth place: Rosario, Argentina Birth name: Lionel Andrés Messi Father: Jorge Messi, factory worker Mother: Celia Cuccittini
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of comedian, actor, director, producer, playwright and screenwriter Mel Brooks, best known for comedic farces such as “The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Young Frankenstein” and “Spaceballs.” Personal Birth date: June 28, 1926 Birth place: Brooklyn, New York Birth name: Melvin James Kaminsky Father: Max Kaminsky,
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the Wimbledon tennis championships. July 1-14, 2024 – Wimbledon takes place in London. July 3-16, 2023 – Wimbledon takes place in London. 2024 Results Carlos Alcaraz defeats Novak Djokovic 6-2 6-2 7-6 (7-4) in the men’s final, becoming the first Spaniard to successfully defend his Wimbledon
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the Tour de France. June 29-July 21, 2024 – The 111th Tour de France takes place. Tadej Pogačar wins his third Tour de France title. July 1-23, 2023 – The 110th Tour de France takes place. Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard wins his second consecutive Tour de
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone and Nick Valencia, CNN (CNN) — An Arizona man was indicted by a federal grand jury this week on several firearms charges, having been accused by the US Justice Department of planning a mass shooting targeting Black people and other minorities at a May Atlanta concert in hopes of inciting a race
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Facts Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, contains the remains of more than 400,000 people from the United States and 13 other countries, buried there since the 1860s. More than three million people visit the cemetery annually. The Arlington estate was
Continue Reading By Amanda Musa and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — An armed man who “took it upon himself” to conduct surveillance outside a sporting goods store in suburban Seattle has been charged with murder after he fatally shot in the back a teenager who had an airsoft gun in his pocket, prosecutors said. Aaron Brown Myers,
Continue Reading By Devon M. Sayers, Tina Burnside and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — Authorities have identified the suspected gunman in Tuesday’s shooting at a downtown Atlanta food court as Jeremy Malone, according to a news release from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Malone, 34, is accused of wounding three people during a shooting at the Peachtree Center, a
Continue Reading By Andy Rose and Omar Jimenez, CNN (CNN) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit arguing the remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre should be compensated by the city for damages Wednesday, dealing a blow to their ongoing fight for reparations more than 100 years after the attack. Survivors Hughes Van Ellis,
Continue Reading By Xiaofei Xu, CNN (CNN) — A shipwreck in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has killed more than 80 people, the Congolese president’s office said Wednesday. “The President of the Republic is calling for an investigation into the true causes of this unfortunate incident, to prevent such a disaster from happening again in the
Continue Reading By Paula Hancocks, Madalena Araujo, Eugenia Yosef, Florence Davey-Attlee and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — The family of one of the hostages rescued in an Israeli operation over the weekend has said that he experienced psychological abuse over the hands of his Hamas captors during the eight months that he was held in Gaza. Andrey Kozlov, 27,
Continue Reading By Sydney Bishop, CNN (CNN) — A female skier who had been missing for a month was found dead at the base of a waterfall in Washington state’s Mount Rainier National Park, officials say. Rangers found her body Saturday. The search for the skier had been ongoing since May 19, with groups of rangers and
Continue Reading CNN By Patrick Oppmann, AnneClaire Stapleton, Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky, Sergey Gudkov and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — A group of Russian Navy ships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, arrived in Cuba on Wednesday morning in a sign of strengthening ties between the two Cold War allies. Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov – the first of a
Continue Reading By Mostafa Salem and Michael Mitsanas, CNN (CNN) — At least 49 people are dead after a fire ripped through a residential building housing foreign workers in Kuwait on Wednesday, according to Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior. Video circulating on social media and geolocated by CNN showed the moment the blaze engulfed the six-story building in
Continue Reading CNN By Natasha Chen, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — In late April, Albina Roman and her daughter landed at Los Angeles International Airport and saw the rest of their family for the first time in nearly three years. In the terminal, 8-year-old Muhsenat ran toward her father, shaky cell phone video captured by Ahmad Roman
Continue Reading By Radina Gigova, Olga Voitovych and Rashard Rose, CNN (CNN) — The United States has lifted a ban on sending weapons and training to the Ukrainian Azov brigade, which played a vital role in the defense of the port city of Mariupol, but had a controversial past. The ban, called the “Leahy Law,” prohibits any military
Continue Reading By Patrick Oppmann, AnneClaire Stapleton, Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky, Sergey Gudkov and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — A group of Russian Navy ships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, arrived in Cuba on Wednesday morning in a sign of strengthening ties between the two Cold War allies. Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov – the first of a four-ship
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By Caitlin Stephen Hu, David Culver, Norma Galeana and Evelio Contreras, CNN Sasabe, Arizona (CNN) — Norma regrets ever having called the police. A shop owner and local coordinator for a political party on the outskirts of Mexico City, Norma called authorities in November to file a complaint about noise coming from the building next door
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By Kaila Nichols, CNN (CNN) — When Troy Millhollin saw his friend Brandon Garrett’s dog Blue come into their camp alone with scratches on his nose, he had a feeling something was wrong. “When (Blue) showed up without his sister, Nova, I was like, ‘That’s not normal,’” Millhollin told CNN. Millhollin, 46, and Garrett, 60, had
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