By Rachel Ramirez and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — When torrential rainfall in August 2022 pushed the Pearl River in Mississippi to surge well beyond its banks, floodwaters spilled into the suburbs of Jackson and led an already-hobbled water treatment plant to fail. It was the final stroke in what experts described as a yearslong
Continue Reading By Kocha Olarn, CNN (CNN) — Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn has endorsed a cabinet proposed by the country’s new prime minister, Srettha Thavisin. The announcement was published on a Thai government website, Royal Gazette on Saturday. Srettha has also been confirmed as the country’s Finance Minister. Thailand’s parliament on Tuesday voted for Thavisin to be
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — India launched its first spacecraft dedicated to studying the sun, building on a month of historic successes for the country’s civil space efforts. The spacecraft, called Aditya-L1, launched from Sriharikota, an island off the Bay of Bengal, at 11:50 a.m. Saturday local time (2:20 am ET). And it’s headed
Continue Reading By Melissa Alonso, Caroll Alvarado and Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — A 19-year-old passenger on a cruise ship went overboard in the Caribbean on Tuesday and a search for him is ongoing, according to cruise line Royal Caribbean and the passenger’s family. But one relative of missing Texas resident Sigmund Ropich says the family is
Continue Reading By Merlin Delcid, CNN (CNN) — Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arévalo alleged Friday that powerful groups within the country’s justice system who are opposed to his victory in the August 20 presidential runoffs are involved in an “ongoing coup.” Arévalo said during a press conference that the groups – which he said were headed by the
Continue Reading By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — An electric scooter manufacturer is recalling some of its products due to the risk of a loosening bolt that could cause injuries. Delaware-based Apollo Imports issued a voluntary recall of its Phantom Electric Scooters made in China, according to a news release from the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Continue Reading By Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — A Maryland woman won $25,000 in a lottery game, collected her winnings from lottery headquarters, then walked across the street and won $50,000 more. Victoria Sadler had picked up a second-chance prize from lottery officials when she decided to try her luck again at a nearby gas station. The
Continue Reading By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — The cold-blooded killing of a mother bear known as Amarena has angered animal rights groups and local politicians in Italy. The brown bear was shot by a local resident of San Benedetto dei Marsi just outside the national park of Abruzzo in central Italy, the park confirmed
Continue Reading By Mariya Knight and Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s Security Service says it has identified a Russian commander who is accused of giving orders to shoot civilians. The SBU announced in a statement on Thursday that it is investigating Vadym Ovchinnikov, the commander of a Russian intelligence group, who it alleges ordered the shooting
Continue Reading By Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — In the early hours of August 29, swarms of Ukrainian drones flew across seven Russian regions. Many were intercepted; some were not. Several reached a Russian airbase in Pskov, some 600 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, destroying two Russian military transport aircraft and damaging two more. It was the
Continue Reading By Mitchell McCluskey and Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — A new draft law that would enshrine harsh punishments for women and girls who fail to wear a hijab in Iran could amount to “gender apartheid,” UN experts said in a statement on Friday. “The draft law could be described as a form of gender apartheid,
Continue Reading CNN By Jennifer Hauser and Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — New audio has been released of Princess Diana talking about how Britain’s Prince Charles – now King Charles III – was disappointed that they were having a boy, not a girl, when Prince Harry was born. The late princess recorded a series of audio tapes
Continue Reading By Morayo Ogunbayo, CNN (CNN) — A woman incarcerated in Middle Tennessee gave birth alone in her cell earlier this week – less than an hour after she was assessed by a nurse at the facility, authorities said. The pregnant inmate being housed in a medical pod at the Montgomery County Jail told a deputy
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hauser and Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — New audio has been released of Princess Diana talking about how Britain’s Prince Charles – now King Charles III – was disappointed that they were having a boy, not a girl, when Prince Harry was born. The late princess recorded a series of audio tapes in
Continue Reading CNN, KAKE By Lauren del Valle and Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — A law enforcement team in northeast Oklahoma believes the prolific serial killer known as “BTK” may be responsible for several additional unsolved missing person and homicide cases. Now they’re hoping the public can help them identify barns and silos in Oklahoma, Kansas and
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — A state of emergency was declared in a small city in Washington state this week after a warning system for a dam protecting the city from being flooded by a reservoir falsely went off a fourth time since 2020, city officials said. The alarm system in
Continue Reading By Mitchell McCluskey and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A large wildfire burning across 500 acres in Huntsville, Texas, forced some parts of the city to evacuate Friday, as forecasters are predicting extremely hot weather to persist over Labor Day weekend. According to the Texas A&M Forest Service, the fire, named the “Game Preserve Fire,”
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — As South Korea struggles to get young people interested in marriage and kids, authorities are trying a new tack: importing foreign workers to carry some of the household burden. The government on Friday announced a pilot program allowing 100 foreign domestic helpers to
Continue Reading By Dianne Gallagher and Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — Buster Murdaugh is speaking out for the first time claiming he does not believe his father, Alex Murdaugh, killed his mother and brother, but thinks it is fair to call his father a “psychopath.” The only living member of the Murdaugh family not behind bars,
Continue Reading CNN By Tara Subramaniam, Taylor Ward, Nectar Gan, Jessie Yeung and Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The strongest typhoon Hong Kong has seen in five years ripped through the city and other parts of southern China, knocking down trees and scaffolding and causing hundreds of flights to be canceled. Saola had been a
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