Giant planet found orbiting a dead star shows what may happen when our sun dies
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The discovery of a distant Jupiter-like planet orbiting a dead star reveals what may happen in our solar system when the…
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Robert Durst, eccentric figure made infamous in ‘The Jinx,’ sentenced to life without parole for first-degree murder of best friend
By Steve Almasy, Cheri Mossburg and Stephanie Becker, CNN Robert Durst, the notorious subject of the HBO docuseries “The Jinx” who was…
Continue ReadingThe drought in California this summer was the worst on record
KCRA By Rachel Ramirez The West’s historic, multi-year drought is threatening water supply, food production and electricity generation. It has…
Continue ReadingThe drought in California this summer was the worst on record
By Rachel Ramirez The West’s historic, multi-year drought is threatening water supply, food production and electricity generation. It has…
Continue ReadingPakistani airline suspends Afghanistan flights due to Taliban ‘heavy-handedness’
By Sophia Saifi, CNN Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) announced Thursday that it was suspending flights to Afghanistan due to what it described…
Continue ReadingAt least 46 people killed after fire tears through 13-story residential building in Taiwan
CNN By Eric Cheung, CNN At least 46 people died and dozens were injured after a major fire broke out in a building in southern Taiwan on Thursday,…
Continue ReadingBeirut’s worst street violence in more than a decade kills at least 6
By Tamara Qiblawi and Mostafa Salem, CNN A fierce political dispute over a probe into Beirut’s August 2020 port blast prompted the worst…
Continue ReadingSuspect in Norway attack named as police say they’re treating it as terrorism
By James Frater and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN Norwegian police have named the suspect in Wednesday’s bow-and-arrow attack in the southern town of…
Continue ReadingAt least 46 people killed after fire tears through 13-story residential building in Taiwan
By Eric Cheung, CNN At least 46 people died and dozens were injured after a major fire broke out in a building in southern Taiwan on Thursday,…
Continue ReadingChild suicides in Japan are at a record high
By Emiko Jozuka, CNN Suicides among Japanese schoolchildren hit a record high during the last school year, according to an education ministry report…
Continue ReadingJapan’s Prime Minister dissolves Parliament ahead of October 31 general election
By Emiko Jozuka, CNN Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida dissolved Parliament’s lower house on Thursday, setting the stage for a general…
Continue ReadingDespite soothing words, the Taliban are much as they were
By Nic Robertson and Tim Lister, CNN The Taliban are the most unlikely of populists: brutal, myopic, the epitome of intolerance. During five years in…
Continue ReadingTexas state website that included LGBTQ resources disabled after governor’s Republican primary challenger criticized its content
By Raja Razek and Carma Hassan, CNN The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) disabled a website with resources for LGBTQ youth…
Continue ReadingParents say Walgreens mistakenly injected them and their two kids with the Covid-19 vaccine instead of flu shot
By Amy Simonson and Madeline Holcombe, CNN Joshua and Alexandra Price say they and their two children were mistakenly given the Covid-19 vaccine…
Continue ReadingDallas man sentenced in plot targeting gay men for violent crimes using a dating app
By Madeline Holcombe, CNN A Dallas man has been sentenced in a scheme to target gay men for violent crimes using the dating app Grindr, according to…
Continue ReadingA statue of civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune is getting a place in the US Capitol. She’s replacing a Confederate general
By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN A larger-than-life marble statue of civil rights pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune is replacing one of a Confederate general in…
Continue ReadingMan arrested and charged in death of woman fatally shot by toddler while on Zoom work call, authorities say
By Rebekah Riess, CNN A Florida man has been arrested and charged after a woman was fatally shot by her toddler while she was on a Zoom conference…
Continue ReadingColorado postal worker is third to be shot and killed in US in the past two days
By Steve Almasy, CNN A US Postal Service worker in Longmont, Colorado, was shot and killed Wednesday, according to a statement from police. The…
Continue ReadingA ‘living fossil’ alligator gar is found for the first time in a Kansas river
By Sherry Liang, CNN A creature known as a “living fossil” — the alligator gar — has found its way to Kansas for the first…
Continue ReadingBenjamin Netanyahu Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Personal Birth date: October 21, 1949 Birth…
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