Massive X-class solar flare erupted from sun
By Megan Marples and Ashley Strickland, CNN The first large flare of the current solar cycle has erupted from the sun. The solar flare happened at…
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CNN correspondent describes moment of Dubai explosion
An explosion was heard and felt in Dubai as a large fire ripped through its Jebel Ali port which authorities said broke out in a ship’s container…
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By Caroline Faraj, Eleni Giokos and Tamara Qiblawi, CNN An explosion on a container ship docked at Dubai’s Jebel Ali port late Wednesday caused…
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CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Personal Birth date: June 19,…
Continue ReadingUS zoos giving special animal coronavirus vaccine to tigers, bears and gorillas
By Neelam Bohra and Christina Zdanowicz, CNN The Oakland and Denver zoos will be among the first to start vaccinating tigers, bears and other mammals…
Continue ReadingOne of the largest teachers’ unions will defend educators who teach ‘honest history’
By Nicole Chavez, CNN As some states move toward banning critical race theory from public schools, the president of the second-largest…
Continue ReadingDarnella Frazier’s uncle died in crash involving Minneapolis police, she says
By Omar Jimenez and Carma Hassan, CNN Darnella Frazier, the teen who recorded George Floyd’s murder, said Tuesday that her uncle died in a car…
Continue ReadingMars Ingenuity helicopter completes its toughest flight yet
By Katie Hunt, CNN Ingenuity, the helicopter that accompanied the Perseverance rover on its Mars mission, has undertaken its ninth and “most…
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The unsung heroes of commercial space flight testing … are real dummies. Jeremy Roth…
Continue ReadingOfficials provide update on the ATF agent shooting in Chicago
Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown provides an update on after two ATF agents were shot in…
Continue ReadingNikole Hannah-Jones: The burden to change systems can’t always be on the people excluded from those systems
By Holly Yan and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN After an arduous battle for tenure at the University of North Carolina, Nikole Hannah-Jones explained why she…
Continue ReadingNikole Hannah-Jones explains decision to reject UNC tenure offer
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones explains her decision to decline the University of North Carolina’s offer of tenure and a…
Continue Reading2 ATF agents and a police officer shot in Chicago
By Carma Hassan, CNN Two Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents and one Chicago police officer were shot while they were in a car…
Continue Reading9 people are missing and 13 rescued after a boat from Cuba capsized off Key West, Coast Guard says
By Gregory Lemos and Jason Hanna, CNN A boat from Cuba capsized in the storm-hit Straits of Florida this week, spurring a search in which nine people…
Continue ReadingZambia’s first president, Kenneth Kaunda, buried amid controversy over site
By Nimi Princewill, CNN, and Reuters Authorities in Zambia held a state funeral Wednesday for the country’s first president and independence…
Continue ReadingDutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries fighting for his life after shooting
By Emmet Lyons and Rosanne Roobeek, CNN; with reporting by Reuters Celebrity Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries, known for his investigative work…
Continue ReadingSpanish police arrest three over suspected homophobic killing
By Al Goodman, CNN Spanish police have arrested three people over the killing of a male nursing assistant in a suspected homophobic attack that…
Continue ReadingOne variant, many approaches to masks
By Tara John, CNN WHAT’S NEW THIS WEEK The Delta variant, a more transmissible and possibly more dangerous strain, now makes up more than half…
Continue ReadingRescue teams withstand wind, lightning and heat on 12-hour shifts to search for the victims of the Florida building collapse
By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Through long hours, severe weather, looming danger and even loss within their own community, first responders have…
Continue Reading‘Horrific’ graffiti on Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Southern California is being investigated as a hate crime, police say
By Brisa Colon, CNN A statue of Martin Luther King Jr. in Southern California was vandalized with a swastika and other “horrific”…
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