The world’s first known plague victim was a 5,000-year-old hunter-gatherer in Europe
By Amy Sood, CNN Humanity has been ravaged by the plague — one of the deadliest bacterial infections in history — for thousands of years.…
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4 husbands, 4 deaths for ‘Black Widow’ (2014)
Police in Japan are questioning a wealthy widow about the mysterious deaths of her past…
Continue ReadingJapan’s ‘Black Widow’ serial killer loses death sentence appeal
By Jessie Yeung and Junko Ogura, CNN Japan’s Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence given to a 74-year-old serial killer, known as the…
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Police in Japan are questioning a wealthy widow about the mysterious deaths of her past…
Continue ReadingNew space telescope could spot potentially hazardous asteroids heading for Earth
By Ashley Strickland, CNN A new space telescope that could spot potentially hazardous asteroids and comets heading for Earth is one step closer to…
Continue ReadingNew space telescope could spot potentially hazardous asteroids heading for Earth
By Ashley Strickland, CNN A new space telescope that could spot potentially hazardous asteroids and comets heading for Earth is one step closer to…
Continue ReadingMore than 80 teens and staffers at an Illinois summer camp got Covid-19
By Madeline Holcombe and Adrienne Broaddus, CNN More than 80 teens and adult staffers from a Central Illinois summer camp tested positive for…
Continue ReadingJapan’s ‘Black Widow’ serial killer loses death sentence appeal
By Jessie Yeung and Junko Ogura, CNN Japan’s Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence given to a 74-year-old serial killer, known as the…
Continue ReadingThe Chinese Communist Party is about to turn 100 but Xi will be the real star
By Ben Westcott, CNN Editor’s note: CNN has launched the Meanwhile in China newsletter, a three-times-a-week update exploring what you need to…
Continue ReadingHear first responder describe harrowing moments after collapse
In dispatch audio obtained by CNN from Broadcastify, a first responder describes the scene after a condo building collapsed in Surfside,…
Continue ReadingRescue workers at Surfside building collapse find bodies of two children
By Madeline Holcombe and Holly Yan, CNN [Breaking news update, published at 6:52 p.m. ET] Rescue and search crews found the bodies of a 10-year-old…
Continue ReadingUN says food aid in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region will run out Friday as 400,000 people face famine
CNN By Rob Picheta, James Briggs and Larry Madowo, CNN The UN World Food Programme said it expected to run out of food in the war-torn Ethiopian…
Continue ReadingRebels in Tigray reject calls for ceasefire after Ethiopian government forces withdraw from regional capital
By Eliza Mackintosh, Bethlehem Feleke and Vasco Cotovio, CNN Rebel forces in the war-torn Ethiopian region of Tigray have rejected a ceasefire offer…
Continue ReadingLori Vallow charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in former husband’s death, prosecutor says
By Amir Vera, Dave Alsup and Raja Razek, CNN An Idaho woman who is accused of killing her two children has been charged in the death of her former…
Continue ReadingFour arrested in connection to fatal fire at assisted-living center in New York, district attorney says
By Rob Frehse and Sahar Akbarzai, CNN Four people have been arrested and charged in connection with a fatal fire at a residential assisted living…
Continue ReadingThe Chinese Communist Party is about to turn 100 but Xi will be the real star
By Ben Westcott, CNN One hundred years ago this July, in a small brick house in Shanghai’s former French Concession, Mao Zedong and around a…
Continue ReadingKim Jong Un warns of ‘grave consequences’ and fires top officials after Covid-19 incident
By Yoonjung Seo, Jake Kwon and Joshua Berlinger, CNN Kim Jong Un fired several senior officials who failed to enforce North Korea’s stringent…
Continue ReadingLos Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer is accused of assault
By Jill Martin and Alexandra Meeks, CNN The Pasadena Police Department is looking into an allegation of assault involving Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher…
Continue ReadingOne year after Hong Kong’s national security law, residents feel Beijing’s tightening grip
By Jessie Yeung, CNN It was approaching midnight on June 30, 2020, when news broke that Beijing had promulgated a national security law in Hong Kong,…
Continue ReadingHear daughter’s heartbreaking answer when asked if she wants to meet with Biden
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer talks with Magaly “Maggie” Ramsey, whose mother is missing in the condominium collapse in Surfside,…
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