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Editor’s Note: If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health, please call the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 to connect with a trained counselor or visit 988lifeline.org. CNN  —  Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center “to receive…

President Joe Biden walks to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday. (Evan Vucci/AP) President Joe Biden is speaking now from the White House on the United States’ response to the unidentified high-altitude objects over North American airspace in recent weeks, following the US…

Railcars are seen last week in East Palestine, Ohio. (Gene J. Puskar/AP) Five of the tankers on the train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, last week were carrying liquid vinyl chloride, which is extremely combustible. A controlled burn was conducted to mitigate the danger and it worked. Authorities assured…

CNN  —  A 17-year-old was dubbed the “miracle girl” when she was pulled alive from the rubble 248 hours after a fatal earthquake that ripped through southern Turkey, as rescue efforts shift to recovery operations ten days on from the disaster. More than 42,000 people have died across Turkey and…

CNN  —  President Joe Biden on Thursday said that the United States has no indication that the three objects shot down in North American air space are tied to China’s spy balloon program and are likely from private entities. “We don’t yet know exactly what these three objects were but…

CNN  —  Portions of a highly anticipated report by the Atlanta-area special grand jury on their investigation into former President Donald Trump’s actions in Georgia after the 2020 election was released Thursday after a judge ordered the limited release earlier this week. The report’s introduction and conclusion, as well as…

In this August 2022 photo, President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Portions of a highly anticipated report by the Atlanta-area special grand jury that investigated Donald Trump’s actions in Georgia after the 2020 election will be released Thursday,…

In this August 2022 photo, President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Portions of a highly anticipated report by the Atlanta-area special grand jury that investigated Donald Trump’s actions in Georgia after the 2020 election will be released Thursday,…

New York CNN  —  FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is set to appear in New York federal court Thursday for the second time this week as a judge weighs a proposal from prosecutors to tighten the conditions of his bail. Prosecutors on Wednesday asked Judge Lewis Kaplan to significantly restrict Bankman-Fried’s…

CNN  —  A US strike in Somalia killed five al-Shabaab fighters on Wednesday, US Africa Command said in a statement. The strike was carried out at the request of the Somali government and was a “collective self-defense strike,” according to AFRICOM. The strike was carried out approximately 300 miles north…

Friends and family are remembering the three Michigan State University students who were killed in a shooting Monday. They have been identified as Arielle Anderson, a junior from Grosse Point, Michigan, Brian Fraser, a sophomore also from Grosse Pointe, and Alexandria Verner, a junior from Clawson, Michigan, according to the…

CNN  —  Amnesty International has accused Peruvian authorities of acting with “a marked racist bias” in its crackdown on protests that have roiled the country since December, saying “populations that have historically been discriminated against” are being targeted, according to a report released on Thursday. Drawing on data from the…

CNN  —  When President Joe Biden sets out for his annual physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Thursday morning, he’ll be setting a new record – as he does every morning – as the oldest US president ever. Biden’s age is “omnipresent” in nearly every conversation, one…

Minsk, Belarus CNN  —  Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has claimed there is “no way” his country would send troops into Ukraine unless it is attacked, amid fears Russia’s close ally will help to facilitate a spring offensive by Moscow. “We are peaceful people. We know what war is and we…

CNN  —  Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin said that he didn’t mean to “hurt or disrespect anyone” with the jacket he wore to Super Bowl LVII after it was criticized for being “blasphemy.” Hamlin was in attendance for the NFL’s season finale, played between the Kansas City Chiefs and the…

CNN  —  Iman’s ex-fiancé first referenced social media influencer Andrew Tate in their relationship in October. Three months later, she says, it was all over. Her former partner, who is in his early 30s, became “very controlling,” she says, after he started listening to Tate’s podcast, promoting patriarchal gender roles.…

CNN  —  Special counsel Jack Smith is locked in at least eight secret court battles that aim to unearth some of the most closely held details about Donald Trump’s actions after the 2020 election and handling of classified material, according to sources and court records reviewed by CNN. The outcome…

Rare video footage showing the wreck of the Titanic ocean liner on the floor of the Atlantic has been released more than a century after the ship hit an iceberg and sunk. Shot by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) just months after explorers found the wreckage in 1985, the emotive…

Read Maria Lvova-Belova’s social media, and one might think Russia is selflessly delivering Ukrainian children from evil into the care of Russian families desperate to share their love. But according to American and European governments — and a new report by Yale investigators, backed by the US State Department — she is…

CNN  —  The father of the man accused of killing seven people and wounding dozens more at a Fourth of July parade mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, was indicted on multiple charges by a grand jury Wednesday, the Lake County State’s Attorney’s office said. Robert Crimo Jr. was charged…

Tensions are mounting at the border between Ukraine and Moscow-allied Belarus, as officials in Kyiv warn of a Russian spring offensive amid ramped-up military attacks from the Kremlin. In rare access since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, a CNN team visited Belarus’s southwest border near northwest Ukraine, accompanied by state…

Brisbane, Australia CNN  —  Two Australian miners working deep underground were fatally injured when they fell about 15 meters (50 feet) into a void that had opened beneath them, according to a statement Thursday from mining group Perenti. The miners – named as Trevor Davis and Dylan Langridge – were…

New Delhi CNN  —  Indian tax officials continued their search of the BBC’s offices in New Delhi and Mumbai for the third consecutive day, two sources with knowledge of the matter told CNN, weeks after the country banned a documentary from the British broadcaster that was critical of Prime Minister…

Tensions are mounting at the border between Ukraine and Moscow-allied Belarus, as officials in Kyiv warn of a Russian spring offensive amid ramped-up military attacks from the Kremlin. In rare access since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, a CNN team visited Belarus’s southwest border near northwest Ukraine, accompanied by state…

CNN  —  Ending the war in Ukraine on terms acceptable to its President Volodymyr Zelensky will require the West to convince Russian leader Vladimir Putin he’s losing. Good luck with that. Ahead of next week’s anniversary of the Russian invasion, US and Western leaders are gearing up for a show…

Written by Lianne Kolirin, CNN A Hebrew Bible more than 1,000 years old and described as “one of the most important and singular texts in human history” will go on show later this month, before going under the hammer. The Codex Sassoon, dating to the late 9th to early 10th,…