By Evelio Contreras, CNN Hettinger, North Dakota (CNN) — “Do you like McDonald’s?” That was the first question Marichu Castillo Villamiel was asked when she applied for a job at a hospital in Hettinger, North Dakota, a tiny town of about 1,100 people and only one grocery store. It was the interviewer’s way of checking
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — The videos come in a barrage: Men — they are almost always men — filmed in closeup, their expressions angry, or confused, or scared. “Who are you here to meet?” says the voice behind the camera. It’s the moment of exposure, a juncture of dramatic irony: We know —
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Two Iranian men charged with terror offenses over an alleged bomb plot to attack the Jewish community in Manchester, England, appeared in a British court on Saturday. The suspects – named as Salam Ahmadyan, 36, and Rahman Salehi, 34 – were arrested on September 20, on the eve of
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By Svitlana Vlasova, Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — A Russian strike hit Kyiv’s Northern Bridge on Saturday, marking the latest in a series of attacks on the city’s infrastructure as Moscow escalates its campaign on the Ukrainian capital. Two people were injured in Saturday’s attack, Kyiv’s mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said, adding that the strike damaged
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By Hanna Park, Danya Gainor, Holly Yan, Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — A lawsuit filed last month by a former Cornell University student alleging a gang rape at a fraternity house in 2024 has prompted the reopening of an investigation and reignited a firestorm around the scourge of sexual assaults at universities in the US
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By Isa Mudannayake, CNN (CNN) — As outrage builds around the case involving a Cornell University student allegedly gang-raped in a fraternity house in October 2024, the university’s president has broken his silence with a statement Saturday. Here’s the latest: University president speaks out: “This is a defining moment in Cornell’s history,” Cornell’s president, Michael
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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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By Arina Porkhovnik, CNN (CNN) — When Sofa, 28, was sent a video of a bear in the yard of her former home in central Siberia, it made her sit up. The threat they posed had once seemed distant. “We were never afraid to go outside, even at night,” she told CNN. A bear entering
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By Abbas Al Lawati, Tal Shalev, Kylie Atwood, Isaac Yee, Avery Schmitz, Thomas Bordeaux, Teele Rebane, CNN (CNN) — The pilot suspected of having attacked another pilot aboard a Tel Aviv-bound Flydubai flight on Wednesday was removed from a previous job at Oman’s national airline last year following concerns about his extremist views, two sources
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By Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — Two Iranian men have been charged with terror offenses over an alleged plot to attack the Jewish community in Manchester on the eve of Yom Kippur, the latest in a wave of antisemitic attacks in the UK this year. London’s Metropolitan police named the suspects as 36-year-old Salam Ahmadyan
Continue Reading By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — The man accused of murdering former UK lawmaker Ann Widdecombe has been charged with preparing acts of terror, including against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, British police said Friday. Joshua Kerry, 28, was charged with one count of preparation of terrorist acts, relating to activity which is alleged to
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By Ivana Kottasová, Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — A daredevil Ukrainian operation using robots dropped behind enemy lines and “Trojan” armored personnel carriers laden with explosives has led to the capture of more than 250 Russian troops, Kyiv says. Ukraine’s army has been chipping away at Russian-controlled territories in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas
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By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — After five shootings in less than a week left at least 46 people dead, South Africa is wrestling with how to tackle a spike in gun crime that threatens to undo recent progress in reducing its notoriously high murder rate. Even in a country with one of the highest
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By Anna Cooban, Hanna Ziady, Kit Maher, CNN London (CNN) — US President Donald Trump announced that Europe has agreed to release “a massive amount of their heavily stocked diesel oil,” following days of pressure to take action to cool surging fuel prices. “The process will begin immediately,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Friday.
Continue Reading By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Ken Urker, the partner of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who became the subject of intense media attention for her role in killing her abusive mother, has died. Urker was found dead at a residence in Raceland, Louisiana, on Thursday evening — his 34th birthday — after police responded to a
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By Kara Scannell, Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — CNN has obtained newly unsealed police body camera footage showing the arrest of Luigi Mangione inside a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, days after he fatally shot United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The hours of footage capture officers questioning Mangione at the fast-food restaurant on the morning of
Continue Reading CNN By Kara Scannell, Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — CNN has obtained newly unsealed police body camera footage showing the arrest of Luigi Mangione inside a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, days after he fatally shot United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The hours of footage capture officers questioning Mangione at the fast-food restaurant on the morning
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By Joseph Ataman, CNN Paris (CNN) — Students fought running battles with police and several schools were ablaze Friday as violence gripped France with no end in sight to protests that have rocked the country. More than 400 schools remained closed on Friday as authorities scrambled to calm tensions after days of demonstrations that have
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By Holly Yan, Jessie Yeung, Gloria Pazmino, Jason Carroll, CNN (CNN) — New York’s governor chastised what she deemed a botched investigation into the alleged gang rape of a Cornell University student and vowed to take action – including changing a state law that prevents some victims from seeking justice. Gov. Kathy Hochul criticized how
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By Alessandra Freitas, CNN (CNN) — Standing atop a truck equipped with loudspeakers on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach, Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro officially launched his campaign, addressing the inevitable comparison with the man whose footsteps he is trying to follow. “I know you are looking at me right now and thinking of someone,” he
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