New York recreational cannabis sales begin
By Emma Tucker and Laura Ly, CNN The first public sales of regulated cannabis in New York began at a dispensary in Manhattan’s East Village on…
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FBI offers $10,000 reward for information on vandalism at historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta
By Amir Vera, Michelle Watson and Devon M. Sayers, CNN The FBI Atlanta field office is offering a $10,000 reward for information regarding a…
Continue ReadingThe mastermind behind the college admissions cheating scandal is ‘feeling shame’ ahead of sentencing
By Lauren del Valle, CNN The mastermind of a historic pay-to-play scheme for wealthy parents to get their teens into top universities is set to be…
Continue Reading‘He was an angel in our community.’ These are the stories of the victims of the Buffalo blizzard
By Sharif Paget, Caroll Alvarado and Jeanne Bonner, CNN Abdul Sharifu, 26, left his home in Buffalo Saturday afternoon in blizzard conditions to get…
Continue ReadingKabul professor who tore up diplomas on live TV to protest Taliban ban on women’s education has been arrested
By Sahar Akbarzai, Ehsan Popalzai and Jen Deaton, CNN A Kabul professor who tore up his diplomas live on television in Afghanistan in protest over…
Continue ReadingRussia launches one of its biggest missile barrages ahead of New Year’s Eve. But Ukrainians say celebrations will go on
By Olga Voitovych, Eliza Mackintosh, Daria Markina-Tarasova and Dima Olenchenko, CNN Explosions rattled villages and cities across Ukraine on…
Continue ReadingMassive hunt for missing 11-year-old faces challenges, police say
By Michelle Watson, CNN The massive hunt for missing 11-year-old Madalina Cojocari has been hampered by how late police in North Carolina were…
Continue ReadingY2K aesthetics are so hot right now — and so is the era’s existential dread
By AJ Willingham, CNN Twenty-two years ago, humanity was teetering on the fulcrum of a new era. Our love affair with technology still felt glamorous…
Continue ReadingHomes on Lake Erie were encased in ice as blizzard whipped frigid waves onshore
By Angela Fritz, CNN Lakefront homes in Ontario were encased in a thick, spiky coat of ice after last weekend’s blizzard whipped frigid waves…
Continue ReadingFormer Minneapolis police officer charged with assaulting a man during 2020 protests after death of George Floyd
By Elizabeth Wolfe and Andy Rose, CNN A former Minneapolis police officer is charged with assaulting a man during nighttime civil unrest following…
Continue ReadingBenjamin Netanyahu sworn in as leader of Israel’s likely most right-wing government ever
By Rob Picheta, Hadas Gold and Amir Tal, CNN Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday completed a dramatic return as Israel’s prime minister, after being…
Continue ReadingAn Alaska man says he was finally going to get a heart transplant. A winter storm meant the heart had to go to someone else
CNN By Paradise Afshar and Dakin Andone, CNN Patrick Holland had only been on the heart transplant list for a few weeks when he said he got a call…
Continue ReadingFormer Pope Benedict is ‘lucid and vigilant’ but his condition remains serious, Vatican says
By Delia Gallagher, CNN Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is “lucid and vigilant” but his condition remains serious, the Vatican said Thursday…
Continue ReadingUN halts some aid programs in Afghanistan after Taliban’s ban on female NGO workers
By Sophie Tanno, CNN The United Nations announced Wednesday it has suspended some of its “time-critical” programs in Afghanistan in the…
Continue ReadingAn Alaska man says he was finally going to get a heart transplant. A winter storm meant the heart had to go to someone else
By Paradise Afshar and Dakin Andone, CNN Patrick Holland had only been on the heart transplant list for a few weeks when he said he got a call last…
Continue ReadingAn Alaska man says he was finally going to get a heart transplant. A winter storm meant the heart had to go to someone else
KING, PATRICK HOLLAND, HALEY HOLLAND, SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS, CNN, Haley Holland/Social Media Posts By Paradise Afshar, CNN An Alaska man with congestive…
Continue ReadingPakistan court frees convicted rapist after ‘agreement’ to marry his victim
By Sophia Saifi and Rhea Mogul, CNN A court in Pakistan on Monday freed a convicted rapist after it was “agreed” he would marry his…
Continue ReadingDeath toll rises to 24 after deadly Cambodia casino fire
By Yin Soeum, Kocha Olarn and Heather Chen, CNN The death toll has risen to 24 following a huge fire that engulfed a casino complex in Cambodia as…
Continue ReadingMore than 200 cars involved in massive pileup in China’s Zhengzhou
By Jessie Yeung and Jennie Chen, CNN One person was killed during a massive pileup involving more than 200 vehicles in the central Chinese city…
Continue ReadingA Buffalo woman went out on Christmas Eve, telling her daughter she’d be right back. They found her body a few hundred feet from home
By Miguel Marquez, Bonney Kapp and Frank Bivona, CNN Casey Maccarone’s mother was always a kind of superwoman, but even so, when Monique…
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