Dictionary.com’s word of the year is a common one. But it doesn’t mean what you think
By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — “Hallucinate” is Dictionary.com’s word of the year — and no, you’re not imagining things. The online…
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YSL RICO trial delayed until January 2024 after defendant was stabbed at Atlanta jail
By Alta Spells, CNN (CNN) — A Georgia judge on Tuesday recessed the racketeering trial against alleged members of Young Slime Life, or YSL –…
Continue ReadingFar-right Polish lawmaker uses fire extinguisher on Hanukkah candles in parliament
Story by Reuters Warsaw (Reuters) — A far-right Polish lawmaker used a fire extinguisher to put out Hanukkah candles in the country’s…
Continue ReadingNew climate summit draft calls for transition away from fossil fuels, but still has ‘loopholes’
By Angela Dewan and Ella Nilsen, CNN Dubai (CNN) — A new draft of the centerpiece agreement at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai makes an…
Continue ReadingScientists uncover a surprising phenomenon in the Himalayas that might be slowing the effects of climate change
By Allison Chinchar, CNN (CNN) — Glaciers in the Himalayas are melting rapidly, but a new report showed an astonishing phenomenon in the…
Continue ReadingAfter 20 years in prison, a wrongfully convicted man is freed. Here’s what he plans to do next
CNN, WCCO By Cheri Mossburg, Brad Parks, Rachel Webb and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Marvin Haynes has spent most of his life behind bars for a…
Continue ReadingBloody diarrhea, jaundice, hepatitis: Thousands fall ill in war-ravaged Gaza amid spike in infectious diseases
By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Bloody diarrhea, jaundice, acute hepatitis and respiratory infections. These are just some of the diseases…
Continue ReadingPakistani armed forces suffer deadliest attack this year
By Sophia Saifi and Saleem Mehsud, CNN Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — Twenty-three Pakistani soldiers were killed Tuesday when a six-man suicide…
Continue Reading80 years after his death at Pearl Harbor, a sailor’s remains are returned home
By Brammhi Balarajan, CNN (CNN) — Every December, Deb Conti’s grandmother would pull out the wrinkled letter and faded photograph she…
Continue Reading5 Things to know for Dec 12: Hostages, Ukraine, Supreme Court, Abortion, Climate
By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Every year, Google releases a list of users’ most-searched terms. The top trending term in the US and…
Continue ReadingAlexey Navalny fails to attend trial after his team loses contact with jailed Russian opposition leader
By Niamh Kennedy, Darya Tarasova and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — The trial of Alexey Navalny was postponed on Tuesday, one day after his team…
Continue ReadingProminent Gaza professor and writer killed in airstrike, weeks after telling CNN he and his family had ‘nowhere else to go’
CNN By Sana Noor Haq and Abeer Salman, CNN (CNN) — In October, Refaat Alareer was deliberating whether to stay at his home in the heart of…
Continue ReadingJapan court convicts former soldiers in landmark sexual assault case that gripped social media
By Helen Regan, Saki Toi and Alex Stambaugh, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — A Japanese court on Tuesday found three ex-soldiers guilty of sexual…
Continue ReadingA bronze top hat has disappeared from a larger-than-life sculpture of Abraham Lincoln in Kentucky
By Carma Hassan and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — For more than a decade, a large bronze top hat has rested next to a stately statue of Abraham…
Continue ReadingHere’s what we know about a Texas woman’s battle for an abortion
By Zoe Sottile, Ashley Killough and Ed Lavandera, CNN (CNN) — In one of the most high-profile abortion cases since the fall of Roe V. Wade, a…
Continue ReadingInside the unit deploying small explosive drones in Ukraine’s cash-strapped war
CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Kosta Gak and Christian Streib, CNN Kherson, Ukraine (CNN) — Zip-tying old grenades and mortars to tiny, online-bought…
Continue ReadingWhale seen in video with swimmers dies off Australian beach
By Angus Watson, CNN Sydney (CNN) — A sperm whale that became stranded on a sandbank at a popular beach near Perth, Western Australia on the…
Continue ReadingFBI chief in India following explosive US assassination plot indictment
By CNN Staff (CNN) — FBI director Christopher Wray is in India this week for a trip aimed at strengthening security cooperation and deepening a…
Continue ReadingInside the unit deploying small explosive drones in Ukraine’s cash-strapped war
By Nick Paton Walsh, Kosta Gak and Christian Streib, CNN Kherson, Ukraine (CNN) — Zip-tying old grenades and mortars to tiny, online-bought…
Continue ReadingLewiston mass shooter’s brain tissue being tested for CTE
By Carma Hassan, CNN (CNN) — Tissue samples from the brain of the shooter who killed 18 people during an October rampage at a bowling alley…
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