CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of 12 women at a prison in Rome on Thursday during an annual ritual meant to emphasize humility. It was the first time he washed the feet of women only, and many were in tears as the 87-year-old pontiff led the
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of 12 women at a prison in Rome on Thursday during an annual ritual meant to emphasize humility. It was the first time he washed the feet of women only, and many were in tears as the 87-year-old pontiff led the ceremony
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Shohei Ohtani received a warm welcome on his home debut for the Los Angeles Dodgers as his new team cruised to a 7-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Opening Day on Thursday. Ohtani has been swept up in a betting scandal involving his former longtime interpreter Ippei
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN New York (CNN) — Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. Emma Tucker is hopeful that by next year Evan Gershkovich will be free. The Wall Street Journal boss, who spoke with me by phone
Continue ReadingBy Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN Sasabe, Arizona (CNN) — Paul Nixon’s brain wrestled with his heart as he saw a pregnant migrant woman huddled with her husband on a dirt road near a gap in the border wall surrounded by the desolate desert hills of southeast Arizona. It was a chilly midafternoon as the
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CATALINI, MITCH WEISS, AARON MORRISON and REESE DUNKLIN Associated Press PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — Black people accounted for a disproportionate number of people who died after being restrained, beaten or shocked with stun guns by police officers in the United States, according to an investigation by The Associated Press. The investigation, led by
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Newcastle United midfielder Sandro Tonali has been charged by the English Football Association (FA) for allegedly breaching betting rules 50 times last year. The FA, English football’s governing body, announced on Thursday that the charges relate to bets Tonali is said to have made between August 12 and October
Continue ReadingBy AARON MORRISON, MITCH WEISS, MIKE CATALINI and REESE DUNKLIN Associated Press PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — Jameek Lowery entered the dimly lit lobby of the city’s police headquarters in a panic. He was having a mental breakdown — and needed help. Barefoot and wearing only pajama pants and a sweatshirt in the pre-dawn hours of
Continue ReadingBy MITCH WEISS and KRISTIN M. HALL Associated Press BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.m., the moment that a doctor had pronounced him dead. As
Continue ReadingBy Stephy Chung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Picture Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel and George W. Bush as 7-year-olds. Now set them on a playground. What would they talk about? Would they take turns to slide? Would the world be in a better place? It’s a thought-provoking exercise — one generated by Beijing-born artist Lí
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN New York (CNN) — It can be awkward to take a phone call while you’re driving and your family is in the car with you. If you’re listening to music it turns off and everyone has to stop and listen to whatever someone on the phone wants to tell you. Infiniti,
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn and Anna Bahney, CNN New York (CNN) — The home insurance market is crumbling in New Orleans, leaving Alfredo Herrera with few options for coverage — and skyrocketing insurance premiums. Herrera, 35, works in finance for a local bank. He bought his 900-square-foot home in New Orleans’ Mid-City neighborhood in 2020 for
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Republican lawmakers and activists in several presidential battlegrounds are pushing ballot measures to change how elections are run in their states. Critics say those efforts, if successful, could make it harder to administer voting in places that could decide key political contests. Next week, Wisconsin voters will decide whether
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer N.C. State’s Jannah Eissa and UC Irvine’s Diaba Konate are bringing visibility and inspiration to some Muslim women by wearing hjiabs while they play basketball. They aren’t the first women to do it in NCAA Tournament play, but with record viewership and attendance they are certainly getting noticed. “Representation
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s armed forces say Moscow has launched a large-scale attack on energy infrastructure, with a mass barrage of 99 drones and missiles hitting regions across the country. Ukraine’s interior minister, Ihor Klymenko, says air-raid warnings across the country continued through the night as the strike targeted 10 separate regions. Russia has
Continue ReadingBy Matthew Chance and Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — The Kremlin’s security services were aware of an ISIS threat days before a deadly attack on a concert hall near Moscow, Russian intelligence documents obtained by a UK-based investigative organization suggest. According to the London-based Dossier Center, the documents showed ethnic Tajiks radicalized by ISIS-K – the Central Asian offshoot of
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Lee, CNN (CNN) — When Ghanaian Afro-dancehall and reggae star Stonebwoy visited Jamaica earlier this year for the Island Music Conference, he made headlines with an impromptu freestyle alongside Shaggy, Sean Paul and Wyclef Jean. But for the 36-year-old, the trip was about more than just performing — it was a pilgrimage. Arriving
Continue ReadingCNN By Lauren Lee, CNN (CNN) — When Ghanaian Afro-dancehall and reggae star Stonebwoy visited Jamaica earlier this year for the Island Music Conference, he made headlines with an impromptu freestyle alongside Shaggy, Sean Paul and Wyclef Jean. But for the 36-year-old, the trip was about more than just performing — it was a pilgrimage.
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer For Muslim soccer players in deeply secular France, observing Ramadan is a tall order. The country’s soccer federation wields the principle of religious neutrality enshrined in the French constitution, and doesn’t make things easy for players who want to refrain from drinking or eating from dawn to sunset during
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — References from conservative justices to a long-dormant chastity law during the Supreme Court’s arguments in a major abortion pill case this week are bringing new attention to the 19th century statute, which prohibits the mailing of drugs used for abortions among other “obscene, lewd, lascivious” or “indecent” materials. The
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