Today, Our Lady of Salvation Church is adorned with the engraved names of those who were murdered on that day -- 51 congregants and two priests. Pope Francis is set to deliver a speech here when he arrives in Iraq on Friday. The vast majority of Iraq's Chri...
(CNN) While tens of thousands of Americans are infected with the coronavirus each day and more research suggests variants threaten another surge , some state leaders are loosening Covid-19 restrictions against the recommendations of health experts. The deci...
(CNN) More than 30 crew members were rescued via helicopters and naval vessels after a fire erupted on their ship roughly 130 miles from the Canadian coastline, according to a statement from the US Coast Guard. Crews from the US Coast Guard, Canadian Coast...
(CNN) A former Maryland police chief is facing multiple arson and attempted murder charges in connection with 11 fires spanning from 2011 to 2020, according to a news release from the Prince George's County Fire/EMS Department. Authorities determined the ho...
(CNN) The United States is holding firm to the strategy to administer two doses of the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines a few weeks apart. Still, the idea of expanding the supply by dispensing only one dose hasn't faded away. The Trump administ...
(CNN) Last week, Georgia's Senate passed a bill 46-7 that would end the state's observance of daylight saving time. If enacted. it would mean that Peach State residents would not longer need to prepare for "springing forward" or "falling back" each year. Bu...
Jackson didn't mention t est results indicating heart disease and downplayed sleep habits that would make anyone chronically exhausted. Trump "has a very unique ability to just get up in the morning and reset," said Jackson . With his performance in the Whi...
(CNN) Following widespread power outages during a series of winter storms that left many Texas residents in the dark for days, the head of the organization overseeing the state's power grid has been fired. Bill Magness, president and CEO of Electric Reliabi...
Washington (CNN) The Transportation Department's inspector general asked the Justice Department in December to consider a criminal probe into then-Secretary Elaine Chao over her alleged misuse of office, documents made public Wednesday said, including her a...
Seoul, South Korea South Korea's first transgender soldier, who was discharged from the military last year for having gender reassignment surgery, was found dead in her home on Wednesday, authorities said. Byun Hui-su, 23, who was a staff sergeant before be...
Written by Oscar Holland, CNNA long-forgotten painting by Amrita Sher-Gil, one of India's most important modern artists, is going under the hammer for the first time. The rediscovered portrait is expected to fetch up to $2.8 million at a rare auction appear...
Attorneys for Pfleger said he "definitively" denies the allegations. In the affidavit, a 59-year-old man, whose name has been redacted, alleges Pfleger touched his genitals over his clothes when he was 18. "I did not consent for Mike [Pfleger] to touch me i...
(CNN) US Olympians Sue Bird, Alex Morgan, Simone Manuel and Chloe Kim have teamed up to launch a new company aimed at focusing attention on women in sports and the media. They announced Tuesday the formation of TOGETHXR , which they described as a media and...
(CNN) The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved legislation aimed at preventing police misconduct that Democrats named in honor of George Floyd, whose death in police custody sparked nationwide calls to overhaul policing and address racial injustic...
(CNN) A total of 150 missing children ranging in age from 3 to 17 were recovered in January and February during a joint law enforcement operation, authorities in Tennessee said Wednesday. The task force recovered the children -- some of whom are potential v...
Miami (CNN) Those who showed up to a Miami vaccination site on Wednesday found themselves in the rare position where they got to choose which Covid-19 vaccine they would like to get: the newly FDA-approved Johnson & Johnson vaccine, or the Pfizer vaccin...
(CNN) A New York appeals court reversed a ruling that ordered a Manhattan high-rise construction project to dismantle multiple floors. A February 2020 New York Supreme Court judge's ruling found that the permit for the luxury residential tower should not ha...
As I read about the deadly Texas power loss, it became clear to me the crisis was not like a hurricane or an earthquake. Being a one-party state, Texas politicians lacked the checks and balances they needed to guard against ideological overkill. This came t...
This was excerpted from the March 3 edition of CNN's Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. Click here to read past editions and subscribe. (CNN) Battles that will define elections in 2022, 2024 and beyond are already he...
To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here(CNN) "Neanderthal thinking" was President Joe Biden's unusually direct description of the decision by governors in Texas and Mississippi to prematurely end mask restrictions. "The last thing -- the last thing w...