By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Its leader is a former supermarket manager who created his political party on YouTube in the depths of the coronavirus pandemic and campaigned on the Trumpian message “Japanese First.” Now Japan’s burgeoning right-wing populist party Sanseito has emerged an unlikely winner in parliamentary elections this weekend. Inspired by other
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By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — Alaska Airlines said its operations have resumed after a temporary ground stop was issued on all its flights and those of a regional subsidiary Horizon Air due to an IT outage, the company said Sunday evening. Alaska Airlines said that around 11 p.m. ET it experienced an “IT outage
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CNN, RMG NEWS, KCBS, KCAL, KABC, @MAYOROFLA, KCBS/KCAL By Hanna Park, Rebekah Riess, John Miller, CNN (CNN) — A lively night outside a bustling East Hollywood nightclub took a dangerous turn early Saturday when a car barreled through a crowded sidewalk, injuring at least 36 people, authorities say. The crash occurred outside The Vermont Hollywood,
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CNN By Ibrahim Dahman, Tim Lister, Abeer Salman, Eyad Kourdi and Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN (CNN) — Four-year old Razan Abu Zaher gave up her fight for life on Sunday. She died at a hospital in central Gaza from complications brought on by hunger and malnutrition, according to a medical source. Her skeletal body was
Continue Reading By Susannah Cullinane, CNN (CNN) — A man accused of deliberately driving a vehicle into a Northern California post office is reportedly the brother of late NFL player and US Army ranger Pat Tillman, the US Postal Inspection Service said. The investigation began when police and firefighters in San Jose responded to reports of a
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By Cindy Von Quednow, Amanda Jackson, CNN (CNN) — A pilot flying a Delta Air Lines regional jet on Friday apologized to his passengers after making a hard turn to avoid colliding with a US Air Force B-52 bomber, audio from the incident shows. The incident occurred on SkyWest Flight 3788, which was operating as
Continue Reading By Ana María Cañizares and Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Ecuador’s most notorious drug kingpin has been extradited to the United States, a month after he was recaptured following a prison escape that sparked a wave of violence across the country. Jose Adolfo Macias, better known as “Fito,” was transferred Sunday from a maximum-security prison
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CNN By Fred He and Kristie Lu Stout, CNN (CNN) — “I want to eat” popped up in Chinese characters on a computer at a public hospital in central Beijing. The words were formed from the thoughts of a 67-year-old woman with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, who is unable
Continue Reading By Fred He and Kristie Lu Stout, CNN (CNN) — “I want to eat” popped up in Chinese characters on a computer at a public hospital in central Beijing. The words were formed from the thoughts of a 67-year-old woman with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, who is unable to
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KABB, WOAI, CNN By Dalia Faheid, Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — Texas officials have revised the number of people missing in the catastrophic floods in Kerr County, Texas, from 97 people down to three on Saturday. “Through extensive follow-up work among state and local agencies, many individuals who were initially reported as missing have been
Continue Reading By Ibrahim Dahman, Tim Lister, Abeer Salman, Eyad Kourdi and Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN (CNN) — Four-year old Razan Abu Zaher gave up her fight for life on Sunday. She died at a hospital in central Gaza from complications brought on by hunger and malnutrition, according to a medical source. Her skeletal body was laid
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By Lauren Kent and Elinda Labropoulou, CNN (CNN) — On the morning of July 4, an American marketing professor was walking towards his ex-wife’s house in Athens to pick up their two young children. It should have been an unremarkable, if strained visit – the couple had apparently been disputing the terms of custody arrangements.
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By Ibrahim Dahman and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — At least 73 people were killed and around 150 people injured by Israeli gunfire in Gaza while seeking aid on Sunday, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Some 67 people were killed in northern Gaza, the ministry said, while six others were killed in Khan Younis
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan, Daniel Wine, CNN It’s been said that Britain and America are two nations divided by a common language. While that may be true, there is one thing both countries can agree on: Our shared love of a particular snack food. Care to guess which one it is? Here’s what else you need
Continue Reading By Hanna Park, Rebekah Riess, John Miller, CNN (CNN) — A lively night outside a bustling East Hollywood nightclub took a dangerous turn early Saturday when a car barreled through a crowded sidewalk, injuring at least 36 people, authorities say. The crash occurred outside The Vermont Hollywood, where 29-year-old Fernando Ramirez had reportedly been kicked
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By Melissa Gray, CNN (CNN) — Former Colorado dentist James Craig was convicted of murder Wednesday after a trial that lasted nearly two weeks, found guilty of killing his wife and the mother of their six children by poisoning her protein shakes. Angela Craig was 43 when she died in 2023, by which point she’d
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By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — A boy survived the sinking of a tourist boat in Vietnam which killed dozens of people by sheltering in an air pocket of the overturned vessel, it has emerged. The 10-year-old had been traveling with his family in Vietnam’s famed Ha Long Bay when the vessel they were sailing
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By Eyad Kourdi, Tim Lister and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — The Syrian government says clashes in the southern city of Suwayda have stopped after a week of violence left hundreds of people dead, drawing Israeli intervention and US condemnation. A ceasefire agreement reached by the government, Druze groups and Bedouin tribes on Saturday appeared
Continue Reading By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Stranded deep in the woods, miles from the nearest road, Tami Laird and her 9-year-old son Stirling faced a terrifying reality: no cell service, no help in sight and a car completely stuck on a rough road. The Sacramento duo had set off for what was supposed to be
Continue Reading By Alysha Bibi, Rhea Mogul and Masoud Popalzai, CNN (CNN) — As the sun rises over Kabul’s parched mountains, a family’s daily struggle to find water – and to make it last – is about to begin. The sound of water tankers rumbling through Raheela’s neighborhood in the Afghan capital prompts the 42-year-old mother of
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