By Jennifer Hansler, Alex Marquardt and Michael Conte, CNN Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that Israel has accepted a proposal to bridge gaps in ceasefire negotiations and the next step is for Hamas to accept ahead of further negotiations expected to take place later this week. “The next important
Continue Reading Story by Katie Guenthner; video by John Lewis, CNN (CNN) — At the mouth of the Motagua, Guatemala’s longest river, 40 million pounds (18 million kilograms) of trash pours into the ocean each year. It is one of the most polluted rivers in Central America, winding 302 miles (486 kilometers) through Guatemala before flowing into
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe, Jillian Sykes and Jennifer Henderson, CNN (CNN) — A gathering in east Baltimore burst into chaos Sunday night as multiple shooters opened fire, leaving a man dead and seven other people wounded, police said. The shooting happened around 8 p.m. on the 1300 block of Spring Street, Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — A former Soviet aircraft carrier burned in a waterway near Shanghai over the weekend, the latest setback for the decommissioned warship since its conversion into a Chinese tourist attraction. The carrier Minsk, which has been anchored for the past eight years in a lagoon near the Yangtze River in
Continue Reading By Joyce Jiang, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — “What are your parents’ names?” Fang, then a third grader, hemmed and hawed at the simple question as her teacher waited impatiently, unaware the 9-year-old was caught in a dilemma. Since preschool, Fang had been officially registered as the daughter of her eldest uncle – an attempt
Continue Reading By Lauren Mascarenhas, Caroll Alvarado and Robert Shackelford, CNN (CNN) — The governor of Connecticut declared a state of emergency after historic flooding left two dead and prompted hundreds of evacuations over the weekend, he said in a Monday news conference. “This declaration can help expedite some of the resources needed for us to respond,
Continue Reading By Eugenia Yosef, CNN (CNN) — An explosion in Tel Aviv on Sunday evening has been declared a terror attack by Israeli police and Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security agency. Hamas’s armed wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, claimed responsibility for the explosion, in a statement on its Telegram account. Police said the person suspected of carrying the
Continue Reading CNN By Radina Gigova and Maria Kostenko, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s military incursion into Kursk aims to create a “buffer zone” to prevent cross-border attacks by Moscow’s forces, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Sunday, as his troops blew up a second bridge in the Russian border region. Ukrainian forces are inching forward in Kursk amid
Continue Reading By Gloria Pazmino and Sabrina Souza, CNN (CNN) — A group representing Indian American Muslims has withdrawn its float from New York City’s annual India Day Parade on Sunday following controversy over the inclusion of a float they say shows anti-Muslim bias. Imtiaz Siamwalla, the president of Indian Muslims of North America sent a letter to
Continue Reading By Radina Gigova and Maria Kostenko, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s military incursion into Kursk aims to create a “buffer zone” to prevent cross-border attacks by Moscow’s forces, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Sunday, as his troops blew up a second bridge in the Russian border region. Ukrainian forces are inching forward in Kursk amid fighting
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — They ignored signs of their teenage son’s failing mental health. They missed his issues in school. And they allowed him access to the family’s guns, which he used to carry out a devastating school shooting. Those are some of the key allegations made in a Galveston, Texas, courtroom in
Continue Reading By Nic F. Anderson, CNN (CNN) — Two transgender teenagers and their families filed a lawsuit Friday against New Hampshire education officials over a new state law prohibiting them from competing on girls’ sports teams at their public high schools. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court in Concord, requests Parker Tirrell, 15, be able
Continue Reading WMUR, SOCCER PRACTICE VIDEO, CNN By Nic F. Anderson, CNN (CNN) — Two transgender teenagers and their families filed a lawsuit Friday against New Hampshire education officials over a new state law prohibiting them from competing on girls’ sports teams at their public high schools. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court in Concord, requests
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Have you ever signed up for a free trial of a streaming service or downloaded an app on your phone? At some point in the process, you clicked on “agree” or some similar wording — and that simple click could have sweeping legal ramifications you’d never
Continue Reading By Mohammad Al Sawalhi, Jennifer Hansler, Dana Karni, Ibrahim Dahman, Sophie Tanno, Abeer Salman, Mitchell McCluskey and Eugenia Yosef, CNN (CNN) — Seven members of the same family were killed in an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza on Sunday, medical officials said, as Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Israel to push for a
Continue Reading By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — More than 20 people were injured after a Ferris wheel at a music festival in Germany caught fire on Saturday evening. Images show two carriages of the ride on fire as smoke billows into the air at the Highfield Festival near the city of Leipzig. According to a statement
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — A sheriff’s deputy in northwest Georgia was fatally shot while responding to a domestic dispute call Saturday evening – marking the first line-of-duty death for the county sheriff’s office, authorities said. Paulding County sheriff’s Deputy Brandon Cunningham, 30, was killed in the shooting at a home
Continue Reading By Ashley R. Williams and Denise Royal, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Debby left behind not only a trail of deadly destruction in the Southeast last week but also more than 100 pounds of narcotics, discovered along Florida’s shores, authorities said. On August 4, 25 packages of cocaine were found on a beach in Islamorada, a
Continue Reading By Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — Around 100 people were treated for heat-related illness at an air show in Colorado Springs and 10 were taken to hospitals Saturday, officials said, on a day when temperatures reached into the 90s in the east-central Colorado city. “The Colorado Springs Fire Department and the onsite operations team worked
Continue Reading By Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok (CNN) — Thailand’s king has officially endorsed Paetongtarn Shinawatra, a scion of the country’s most famed and divisive political dynasty, to become the country’s new prime minister. Her appointment follows a series of twists and turns in Thai politics over the past week, during which the Constitutional Court ousted Srettha Thavisin, her
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