[ad_1] Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in today’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, CNN’s three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. Istanbul, London and New York CNN — The cries of the women outside a Tehran courthouse swell to a collective wail. The …
Read More »Monterey Park, California shooting: Police are investigating motive after massacre leaves 10 dead and a city reeling during Lunar New Year celebrations
[ad_1] CNN — Investigators in Monterey Park, California, are still searching for the motive of a gunman who killed 10 people and injured 10 others during a shooting inside a ballroom dance studio Saturday night, devastating the majority-Asian community on the eve of its Lunar New Year celebration. Terror continued …
Read More »Mother of activist fatally shot by law enforcement at Atlanta police training facility says she feels angry and powerless
[ad_1] CNN — The mother of an activist fatally shot by law enforcement in Atlanta earlier this week said she feels angry and powerless as protests over the shooting erupted Saturday. See video from the scene of ‘Cop City’ protest in Atlanta The activist – 26-year-old Manuel Esteban Paez Terán …
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[ad_1] CNN — Police are investigating the death of an endangered vulture at the Dallas Zoo as “suspicious,” authorities said. Staff found the bird dead in its enclosure Saturday – about a week after the same zoo made headlines for a clouded leopard that escaped after fencing around its enclosure …
Read More »6 arrested after Atlanta protests over controversial ‘Cop City’ and fatal police shooting of activist
[ad_1] CNN — Six people were arrested Saturday evening in downtown Atlanta, authorities said, during protests that came in response to a proposed police training facility and the fatal police shooting of an activist earlier in the week. The protesters marched in a “peaceful manner” Saturday evening down a central …
Read More »George Santos: Santos says he ‘was not a drag queen in Brazil’ but was having ‘fun at a festival’
[ad_1] CNN — Embattled Republican Rep. George Santos disputed claims that he was a “drag queen in Brazil,” telling reporters Saturday he was having “fun at a festival” as he refused to engage with questions from reporters on the debunked assertion that his mother was in the World Trade Center …
Read More »Turkey cancels visit by Swedish defense minister after protest permit
[ad_1] Reuters — Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Saturday that a planned visit by his Swedish counterpart to Ankara has been canceled after Swedish authorities granted permission for protests in Stockholm. The demonstrations planned in Stockholm for later on Saturday were aimed at Turkey and Sweden’s efforts to …
Read More »Anti-abortion activists to ‘march with fresh resolve’ in first March for Life in a post-Roe era
[ad_1] CNN — Anti-abortion advocates from across the country gathered in Washington, DC, on Friday for the annual March for Life – the first since the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ended the federal constitutional right to an abortion. This year’s march marks a turn in the fight against abortion rights, …
Read More »Peter Navarro: Judge rejects request to dismiss contempt of Congress case and clears the way for trial
[ad_1] CNN — A federal judge declined Thursday to dismiss the criminal contempt of Congress charges brought against former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro for his failure to comply with a subpoena from the House select committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. In …
Read More »988 mental health crisis line sees major rise in calls, texts, chats in first 6 months, data shows
[ad_1] CNN — Since the summer launch of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, the new three-digit number has seen a significant rise in call volume – routing more than 2 million calls, texts and chat messages to call centers, with the majority being answered in under a minute. “The …
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