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National Guard troops patrol the Teotihuacan pyramids

Shooting of tourists at Mexican pyramids shakes country weeks ahead of World Cup

April 21, 2026 3:28 pm CNN Newsource

By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Footage of a gunman shooting at panicked tourists lying atop Mexico’s historic Pyramid of the Moon has renewed…

Paper flight strips are seen during a news briefing at the Department of Transportation on April 21.

$12.5 billion ‘down payment’ brings air traffic control out of 1990s. Now, more money is needed for new software and AI

April 21, 2026 3:23 pm CNN Newsource

By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Department of Transportation is eliminating antiquated paper strips, copper communications…

Hidden cost of war, concert tickets, tiger chaos: Catch up on the day’s stories

April 21, 2026 1:59 pm CNN Newsource

By Jordan D. Brown, Toni Odejimi 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Skywatchers have something to look forward to: the first meteor shower of spring.…

Pilots take evasive action as two planes landing at JFK get dangerously close

April 21, 2026 1:20 pm CNN Newsource

By Aaron Cooper, CNN New York (CNN) — A plane landing at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday strayed into the flight…

Mojtaba Khamenei walks along a street in Tehran on May 31

Iran’s new supreme leader is nowhere to be seen. That might be helping the regime to survive

April 21, 2026 9:27 am CNN Newsource

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — More than six weeks after he was announced as their new supreme leader following the assassination of his father,…

Israel jails two soldiers who damaged and photographed a Jesus statue in Lebanon

April 21, 2026 8:37 am CNN Newsource

By Dana Karni, Zeena Saifi, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli soldiers who damaged a figure of Jesus Christ in southern Lebanon and…

‘Blood only brings more blood’: Israelis and Palestinians share grief under veil of secrecy

April 21, 2026 8:30 am CNN Newsource

By Tal Shalev, CNN Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) — The location of the ceremony was kept secret until the last moment. Additional screening sites were…

Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland is pictured.

At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared in recent years, sparking federal investigation

April 21, 2026 8:27 am CNN Newsource

By Natasha Chen, Alex Stambaugh, Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — A nuclear physicist and MIT professor fatally shot outside his Massachusetts…

Burnt out ambulances are pictured on March 24 at the scene of an antisemitic arson attack in the Golders Green neighborhood of London. British police said a total of eight people have been charged with arson-related offences since that attack.

Seven arrested in London over foiled arson attack on Jewish community

April 21, 2026 6:16 am CNN Newsource

By Lauren Kent, CNN London (CNN) — British counterterrorism police arrested eight more people in connection with an investigation into…

5 things to know for April 21: Ceasefire deadline, summer travel, redistricting, Apple, Mexico’s pyramids

April 21, 2026 3:45 am CNN Newsource

By Alexandra Banner, CNN Fresh concerns about aviation safety are surfacing this week after another close call in the skies. Two Southwest Airlines…

Japan opens door to global arms market with biggest export rule change in decades

April 20, 2026 8:31 pm CNN Newsource

By Reuters Tokyo (Reuters) — Japan on Tuesday unveiled its biggest overhaul of defense export rules in decades, scrapping restrictions on…

A Louisiana man killed 8 children, 7 of his own. His family said warning signs preceded the tragedy

April 20, 2026 7:51 pm CNN

KTBS, FACEBOOK, SHAMAR ELKINS, CNN, Facebook/Shamar Elkins By Zoe Sottile, Lauren Mascarenhas, Isabel Rosales, Maria Sole Campinoti, Taylor Romine,…

A staff worker inspects a freight train at a loading station at the Zhundong open-pit coal mine in northwest China's Xinjiang region last year.

China’s energy fortress was built to withstand just this type of oil shock

April 20, 2026 5:16 pm CNN Newsource

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — For more than a decade, leader Xi Jinping has overseen a transformation within the Chinese economy with…

Celeste Rivas Hernandez poses in an undated photo provided by the attorney representing the teen's family.

Prosecutors say singer d4vd sexually abused a teen for months before killing her. What we know about the case against him

April 20, 2026 3:18 pm CNN

CNN By Alaa Elassar, Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Seven months after the decomposed body of a 14-year-old girl was found in the trunk of his car,…

King Charles III and Queen Camilla visited an exhibition of the late queen's fashion on Monday.

Britain’s royals remember Queen Elizabeth II on what would have been her 100th birthday

April 20, 2026 2:30 pm CNN Newsource

By Issy Ronald, Max Foster, CNN (CNN) — Britain’s royal family marked what would have been the late Queen Elizabeth II’s 100th birthday by…

Faulty drug tests, forgotten archives, longest freshwater migration: Catch up on the day’s stories

April 20, 2026 1:56 pm CNN Newsource

By Jordan D. Brown, Toni Odejimi, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! They tried everything in modern medicine, and nothing worked. Now, these women are…

A drone view of visitors at the archaeological site of Teotihuacan as they gather to welcome the spring equinox

Canadian killed, six Americans among injured as gunman shoots tourists at Mexico’s Teotihuacan pyramids

April 20, 2026 12:41 pm CNN Newsource

By Michael Rios, Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — A Canadian woman was killed and six Americans were among the more than a dozen wounded after a…

343 days on the front line: Ukrainian officer’s long deployment underscores Kyiv’s manpower issues

April 20, 2026 11:39 am CNN Newsource

By Daria Tarasova-Markina, Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — Infantry officer Oleksiy Mykhailov just spent 343 days without leaving the front line, in…

Flight tracking data from Flightradar24 shows the paths of the two Southwest Airlines Boeing 737s which had to take evasive action on Saturday after they came dangerously close together.

Alarms sound in the cockpit as two Southwest jets fly dangerously close near Nashville International Airport

April 20, 2026 11:16 am CNN Newsource

By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington (CNN) — Two Southwest Airlines Boeing 737s had to make evasive maneuvers on Saturday at Nashville…

Winston-Salem police said the suspects and victims involved in a park shooting Monday morning have been identified and located.

Planned fight near North Carolina middle school erupts into shooting, killing 2 teens and wounding 5, police say

April 20, 2026 9:33 am CNN Newsource

By Holly Yan, Dianne Gallagher, Meridith Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Two teenagers were killed and five others were shot after a planned fight erupted…