UN report on China’s Uyghurs: What you need to know
CNN By Jessie Yeung, CNN Just minutes before the end of her term on Wednesday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights dropped a…
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A North Texas school district says a book chapter by its namesake about a lynching is not appropriate for some students
By Nicole Chavez and Justin Gamble, CNN Officials at a North Texas school named after a Black man who learned to read and write when he was 98 years…
Continue ReadingResearchers find a food crisis solution — and it’s in your martini glass
CNN, HLN By Hafsa Khalil, CNN Many people in the northern hemisphere have spent the summer reaching for a boozy drink at the end of the day to take…
Continue ReadingResearchers find a food crisis solution — and it’s in your martini glass
By Hafsa Khalil, CNN Many people in the northern hemisphere have spent the summer reaching for a boozy drink at the end of the day to take the edge…
Continue ReadingGhislaine Maxwell is being sued by her attorneys’ firm for more than $878,000 in unpaid legal fees
By Lauren del Valle, CNN Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s former confidante now serving a 20-year prison sentence for child sex…
Continue ReadingRecord-breaking heat wave in Europe will be the norm by 2035, analysis shows
By Amarachi Orie and Angela Dewan, CNN The record-breaking heat wave that swept across Europe this year will become the “average” summer…
Continue ReadingA train is derailed and roads washed away after torrential rain clobbers parts of Mississippi
By Nouran Salahieh, CNN Wading through thigh-high waters, dozens of nursing home residents held onto a rope stretched across a flooded parking lot…
Continue ReadingOklahoma executes James Coddington for 1997 murder, the first of 25 executions set through 2024
By Dakin Andone, CNN Oklahoma has executed 50-year-old James Coddington, the first of 25 death row inmates the state intends to put to death through…
Continue ReadingRussian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant disconnected from power grid for second day after nearby fires
By Tim Lister, Yulia Kesaieva and Tara John, CNN Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is held by Russian forces, is still…
Continue ReadingTeachers: Tell us what classroom conditions look like at your local schools
Teachers briefly went on strike in Columbus, Ohio, partly over classroom conditions and wanting functional heating and cooling systems. In Atlanta,…
Continue ReadingArtemis I will deliver the first biology experiment to deep space
By Ashley Strickland, CNN When NASA’s Artemis I launches next week on a journey to the moon, no animals or people will be onboard, but it will…
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Teacher strike in Seattle suburb delays start of school year
By Paradise Afshar, Chris Boyette and Andi Babineau, CNN A teacher strike has delayed the start of the school year for students in King County,…
Continue ReadingAugust 25, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news
CNN By Kathleen Magramo, Jack Guy, Ed Upright, Aditi Sangal, Meg Wagner, Adrienne Vogt, Elise Hammond and Maureen Chowdhury, CNN The-CNN-Wire™…
Continue ReadingFamilies are living a ‘nightmare’ as they plead for help finding missing loved ones
By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN When David Robinson’s 24-year-old son went missing in June of 2021, he uprooted his life in South Carolina and…
Continue ReadingMyanmar junta charges former UK ambassador with immigration offenses
By Angus Watson, Xiaofei Xu and Niamh Kennedy, CNN The United Kingdom’s former ambassador to Myanmar has been charged with immigration offenses…
Continue ReadingChinese city ‘stretched to the limit’ as millions wait in line for Covid tests in extreme heat
CNN By Nectar Gan, CNN The Chinese metropolis of Chongqing has rolled out mass Covid testing in its central area amid a record heat wave, leaving…
Continue ReadingThe Columbus teachers’ union and school board reached a ‘conceptual agreement,’ ending a strike
WBNS By Eric Bradner and Chris Boyette, CNN The Columbus, Ohio, teachers’ union and the Columbus Board of Education have reached a…
Continue ReadingImran Khan appears in Pakistan anti-terror court as police investigate comments
By Sophia Saifi, Rhea Mogul and Azaz Syed, CNN Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was granted an extension of his pre-arrest bail on…
Continue ReadingBorder Patrol agents were captured on video in an altercation with migrants in California. The FBI is now investigating
By Geneva Sands and Cheri Mossburg, CNN An altercation involving United States Border Patrol agents and two migrants on a Southern California beach…
Continue Reading‘It steals our dignity’: Houston residents have turned to the federal government to clean up trash dumped in their neighborhood
CNN By Nicole Chavez, CNN Huey German-Wilson has spent six years trying to get rid of piles of tires, mattresses, and other debris that have marred…
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