First on CNN: US Navy warship near Yemen intercepts multiple missiles, US officials say (www.cnn.com)
Congo boat tragedy death toll climbs to 52, dozens still missing (www.cnn.com)
Israeli airstrike kills Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah in southern Lebanon, wounds 6 others. (www.cnn.com)
Israel festival revelers shot at point-blank range, video shows (www.cnn.com)
Gaza militants who attacked an all-night music festival in southern Israel shot and killed revelers at point-blank range, then looted their belongings, new car dashcam video verified by CNN reveals....
Airlines cancel flights to Israel amid attacks (www.cnn.com)
Airlines scrambled to cancel flights into Israel early Saturday after Palestinian militants launched a surprise attack, firing thousands of rockets from Gaza into nearby Israeli towns during a Jewish holiday....
We actually need more people unemployed and suffering (www.cnn.com)
Satellite imagery indicates Russia moving navy ships to other ports after Sevastopol attacks (www.cnn.com)
Satellite imagery indicates that Russia has been relocating some naval ships from the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in Crimea after a series of Ukrainian attacks, as Moscow meanwhile announced plans for a new base in a breakaway region of Georgia....
US syphilis cases are rising, and STD clinics warn they’re struggling to find crucial antibiotic (www.cnn.com)
The preferred antibiotic treatment for syphilis is in short supply across the United States as infections soar, and more than three dozen leading public health groups are urging the White House to intervene....
Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire was ‘built on lies,’ US prosecutor says (www.cnn.com)
In their opening statements to a newly sworn-in jury in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday, lawyers laid out previews of their cases, offering two divergent narratives for the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire....
75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers are on strike (www.cnn.com)
More than 75,000 unionized employees of Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit health providers, are walking off the job Wednesday, marking the largest health care worker strike in US history....
Bus crash near Venice kills 21 people (www.cnn.com)
At least 21 people were killed, including two children, when a passenger bus plunged from a bridge in Mestre, Italy, near Venice on Tuesday, in what has been described as an “apocalyptic scene.”
Hong Kong stocks have worst day in three months on worries about rates and real estate (www.cnn.com)
Stocks in Hong Kong suffered their worst day in three months on Tuesday on growing concern about China’s weak housing market and persistently high US interest rates....
Multiple fatalities after two shootings in Dutch city, police say (www.cnn.com)
Massive warehouse explosion rocks Uzbekistan capital (www.cnn.com)
Exclusive: Satellite images show increased activity at nuclear test sites in Russia, China and US | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Taiwan’s defense ministry urges Beijing to stop ‘military harassment’ after 103 Chinese warplanes fly near island (www.cnn.com)
Taiwan’s defense ministry has urged Beijing to stop its “persistent military harassment,” after it detected more than 100 Chinese warplanes close to the island in a 24-hour span between Sunday and Monday....
7,000 people arrive on Italian island of 6,000 as migrant crisis overwhelms Lampedusa (www.cnn.com)
Lampedusa has seen an influx of migrants with 7,000 people arriving in two days, prompting its mayor and the United Nations refugee agency to warn the Italian island is becoming overwhelmed....
The first Bob Ross work from ‘The Joy of Painting’ is on sale (www.cnn.com)
It’s hard to quantify the value of painter and all-around cultural icon Bob Ross, but $9.85 million is a good start....
Pennsylvania escaped inmate Danelo Cavalcante is in custody, source says | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Long-lost Greenland ice core suggests potential for disastrous sea level rise (www.cnn.com)
4 astronauts splash down off coast of Florida, ending 6-month mission (www.cnn.com)
Four astronauts have returned home from a six-month stay on the International Space Station, making a splashdown landing aboard their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule off the coast of Florida on Monday....
Crimean Tatar set to become Ukrainian defense minister at critical moment in conflict (www.cnn.com)
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has tapped Rustem Umerov, a Crimean Tatar, to become his next defense minister, replacing Oleksii Reznikov at a critical time for Ukraine’s counteroffensive....
India launches first sun-focused space mission, adding to lunar landing win (www.cnn.com)
India launched its first spacecraft dedicated to studying the sun, building on a month of historic successes for the country’s civil space efforts....
Russia sees biggest drone assault on its own territory since invading Ukraine, as Kyiv strikes back through the skies | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Russia has seen the biggest drone assault on its territory since it launched its war on Ukraine while Moscow killed two men in a near-simultaneous bombardment on Kyiv, as the aerial intensity of the conflict ratcheted up....
Tropical Storm Idalia is expected to intensify into a hurricane as it churns toward Florida’s Gulf Coast (www.cnn.com)
Tropical Storm Idalia is strengthening quickly as it churns toward Florida, threatening to hit as a major hurricane and bring heavy rains, floods and dangerous storm surge, according to the National Hurricane Center....
