By Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — US authorities have arrested a 30-year-old from Washington state in connection with the February school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. James Cody Bryant was arrested in Bellingham, Washington, on Tuesday morning on a charge of conspiracy to murder persons in a foreign country, according to the US Justice
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — United Airlines and Delta Air Lines are recovering after experiencing a technology issue Monday that caused problems for travelers around the world. Some passengers on social media reported delays as they tried to board aircraft and airlines’ websites and apps appeared to, at times, not function properly.
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By Max Saltman, Yong Xiong, CNN New York (CNN) — For the past 29 years, one of the few ways to get in touch with the North Korean government has been a phone number printed in the United Nations member directory. It’s the line to North Korea’s permanent mission to the UN — their only
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By Zahra Ullah, Arina Porkhovnik, Anna Chernova, CNN Moscow (CNN) — Russian authorities have sought to allay global worries over the death of a young woman who worked at a Siberian anti-plague laboratory. But moves to isolate her contacts and introduce new disease-control measures at local hospitals have raised concerns among people who fear they’re
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CNN By Melissa Bell, CNN (CNN) — France is struggling to contain its biggest student protests in decades. What started as a demonstration in support of striking teachers at a suburban high school to the north of Paris has snowballed into a national crisis. Hundreds of schools have been forced to close and more than
Continue ReadingStory by AP BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office said a former foreign intelligence chief was arrested Tuesday on espionage allegations. August Hanning, 80, served as president of the Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, from December 1998 to November 2005. He is “strongly suspected of treasonous espionage, spying out state secrets, attempted treason, and
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CNN, WSTM, MEGAN ZEREZ , ITHACA VOICE, NY OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR, Megan Zerez / Ithaca Voice By Gloria Pazmino, Maria Sole Campinoti, Holly Yan, Hanna Park, CNN Ithaca, New York (CNN) — A former Justice Department official will delve into Cornell University’s response to a student’s allegations of gang rape as outrage over the
Continue Reading CNN By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Tarana Burke thinks those asking if anything has changed since MeToo are posing the wrong question. The political organizer, who in 2006 started the hashtag that would take off in 2017 amid a mass reckoning with sexual violence, has seen it before. A high-profile episode sparks a new
Continue Reading By Gloria Pazmino, Maria Sole Campinoti, Holly Yan, Hanna Park, CNN Ithaca, New York (CNN) — A former Justice Department official will delve into Cornell University’s response to a student’s allegations of gang rape as outrage over the case echoes across the country – from sexual abuse survivors to students on campus and now to
Continue Reading CNN By Gloria Pazmino, Maria Sole Campinoti, Holly Yan, Hanna Park, CNN Ithaca, New York (CNN) — A former Justice Department official will delve into Cornell University’s response to a student’s allegations of gang rape as outrage over the case echoes across the country – from sexual abuse survivors to students on campus and now
Continue Reading By Melissa Bell, CNN (CNN) — France is struggling to contain its biggest student protests in decades. What started as a demonstration in support of striking teachers at a suburban high school to the north of Paris has snowballed into a national crisis. Hundreds of schools have been forced to close and more than 6,000
Continue ReadingBy Ronnie Glassberg, CNN (CNN) — Televangelist Jim Bakker, who rose to national prominence in the 1970s and ‘80s before stepping down from his ministry amid scandal, has died. He was 86. “It is with a broken heart that I share that my beloved husband, Jim Bakker, went home to be with the Lord this
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CNN By Tim Lister, Svitlana Vlasova, Lex Harvey, and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of people were reported to be in isolation after a Russian laboratory worker at an institute dedicated to studying the plague and other infectious diseases died of an undisclosed illness. The researcher, a 28-year-old female laboratory technician at the Irkutsk
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CNN By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — Minutes before he was sentenced Monday to life in prison for the murder of his wife, Caleb Flynn sobbed as his in-laws read letters written by his two daughters, asking him heartbreaking questions about their mother’s death. “Mommy was the perfect person, the absolute perfect person. What did
Continue Reading By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — Minutes before he was sentenced Monday to life in prison for the murder of his wife, Caleb Flynn sobbed as his in-laws read letters written by his two daughters, asking him heartbreaking questions about their mother’s death. “Mommy was the perfect person, the absolute perfect person. What did she
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By Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — The alleged hijacker of the Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv likely wanted to target Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport, the country’s main international gateway, according to an Israeli official and an Israeli source familiar with the matter. Hamam al-Hammami, the suspect in the hijacking attempt and co-pilot on
Continue Reading CNN By Tim Lister, Svitlana Vlasova, Lex Harvey, and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of people were reported to be in isolation after a Russian laboratory worker at an institute dedicated to studying the plague and other infectious diseases died of an undisclosed illness. The researcher, a 28-year-old female laboratory technician at the Irkutsk
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By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — King Charles’ younger brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has launched legal action against police in England over the search warrants issued prior to his arrest earlier this year on suspicion of misconduct in public office following revelations from the Epstein files in the United States. Mountbatten-Windsor, 66, has asked for a
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By Gloria Pazmino, Holly Yan, Jessie Yeung, Isa Mudannayake, CNN Ithaca, New York (CNN) — Newly obtained documents reviewed by CNN show Cornell University police drafted letters to wireless carriers about a week after a student now known as Jane Doe told police she had been sexually assaulted by members of the Chi Phi fraternity
Continue Reading CNN By Gloria Pazmino, Holly Yan, Jessie Yeung, Isa Mudannayake, CNN Ithaca, New York (CNN) — Newly obtained documents reviewed by CNN show Cornell University police drafted letters to wireless carriers about a week after a student now known as Jane Doe told police she had been sexually assaulted by members of the Chi Phi
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