‘Harlem Shake’ song behind viral dance trend turns 10 years old
By Zoe Sottile, CNN The song that swept the nation during 2013 has just reached its 10th birthday. “Harlem Shake” was released by Harry…
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New York City mayor declares state of emergency over nationwide infant formula shortage
By Samantha Beech, CNN New York City Mayor Eric Adams has declared a state of emergency over the nationwide shortage of infant formula. The mayor…
Continue ReadingSuspect in fatal shooting of 48-year-old man on NYC subway in custody, police say
By Kiely Westhoff, Mark Morales, Laura Ly, Eric Levenson and Amir Vera, CNN The suspect in the fatal shooting on a New York City subway over the…
Continue ReadingSpain experiences record-breaking heatwave for May
By Alex Hardie, CNN and Reuters Parts of Spain have experienced a record heatwave for the month of May as temperatures reached 40.3 degrees Celsius…
Continue ReadingAfghanistan’s new poor line up for aid to survive as food crisis bites
CNN By Jo Shelley, Christiane Amanpour and Ahmet Mengli, CNN Two long lines — one of men, another of women — wind around a World Food…
Continue ReadingStart your week smart: Ukraine, Australia, Half marathon death, Tornado, Jif recall
By Alexandra Meeks, CNN There are Sundays, and then there are SUN-days. Record heat hit several drought-stricken regions across the US this weekend.…
Continue ReadingWhy tribal lands are unlikely to become abortion sanctuaries
By Harmeet Kaur, CNN As Roe v. Wade looks likely to be overturned, tribal lands have come up in conversations on social media and elsewhere as…
Continue Reading‘Traumatizing’ Buffalo massacre strikes a chord with families who have lost loved ones to racist mass shootings
By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN For Tito Anchondo, the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, reopens wounds that never completely healed. Anchondo…
Continue ReadingThe woman whose voice was heard in rubble of Surfside condo collapse has been identified. This is how it happened
By Ray Sanchez and Kevin Conlon, CNN The faint and calm voice of a woman trapped in the hulking pile of concrete and twisted steel could be heard for…
Continue ReadingRussian officer reveals why he risked it all to quit Putin’s war
EXCLUSIVE by Uliana Pavlova, CNN It took a few weeks of sleeping on crates of grenades for a bed and hiding his face from Ukrainians amid a growing…
Continue ReadingMeet the guy who wants to help save the planet with thousands of buoys, seaweed and giant antacids
By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Marty Odlin just wanted to go fishing. As a kid growing up on the Gulf of Maine, he’d jump from…
Continue ReadingCourt to decide whether Happy the elephant deserves basic human rights
By Zoe Sottile, CNN New York’s highest court is set to determine whether Happy, a 47-year-old Asian elephant living at the Bronx Zoo, is being…
Continue ReadingGood news: Greater one-horned rhino population is on the way up
By Zoe Sottile, CNN Things are looking up for the greater one-horned rhino. The massive mammal, also called the Indian rhinoceros, saw its global…
Continue ReadingNorth Korea claims ‘positive trend’ in Covid outbreak, but no reply to Biden’s offer of help
By Yoonjung Seo, Sophie Jeong and Teele Rebane, CNN North Korea claims its Covid outbreak is slowing, with its state-run media reporting on Sunday a…
Continue ReadingUkraine’s natural environment is another casualty of war. The damage could be felt for decades
By Ivana Kottasová, CNN The pine forests around Irpin are Oleh Bondarenko’s happy place. He discovered them as a child, when his mom sent him…
Continue ReadingTwo people were killed and three severely injured in a ‘targeted’ Indiana shooting, police say
By Andy Rose, CNN Two men were killed and three women severely injured in a shooting in Goshen, Indiana, on Saturday afternoon, authorities said.…
Continue ReadingEarly Voting wins Preakness Stakes
By Alaa Elassar, CNN Early Voting won the 147th Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. The horse, with odds of 5-1, put on…
Continue ReadingOne dead after finishing Brooklyn Half Marathon and 15 others injured
By Liam Reilly, CNN A 32-year-old runner died Saturday after finishing a half marathon in Brooklyn where 15 others were injured, police and fire…
Continue ReadingRare 1939 Detective Comics issue that introduced Batman approaches $1.5M record as auction winds down
By Emmy Abbassi, CNN A rare copy of Detective Comics #27 — the issue that introduced the world to Batman in 1939 — is set to fetch more…
Continue ReadingA father says he put 1,000 miles on his car to find specialty formula for premature infant daughter
By Ray Sanchez, CNN Mac Jaehnert said he put 1,000 miles on his car in the last week looking for a specialty nutritional formula for daughter…
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