Two US Navy sailors arrested for allegedly sharing sensitive military information with China (www.cnn.com)
Two US Navy sailors have been indicted and arrested for allegedly sending sensitive US military information to Chinese intelligence officers.
Mortgage rates climb toward 7% after America's credit rating was downgraded (www.cnn.com)
US mortgage rates jumped this week, climbing closer to 7%. The move follows last week’s rate hike from the Federal Reserve, and the downgrade this week by Fitch Ratings agency of US sovereign debt, and of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
A woman escaped a makeshift cinder block 'dungeon' in Oregon, police say. The FBI believes there are more victims in other states | CNN (www.cnn.com)
After a woman escaped from a makeshift “dungeon” made of cinder blocks in a man’s Oregon home, the FBI says it is looking for additional victims in other states....
Central Florida is a hot spot for leprosy, report says (www.cnn.com)
According a research letter published by Nathoo and his colleagues in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, Central Florida has reported among the highest rates of leprosy in the United States....
Pittsburgh synagogue shooter sentenced to death for killing 11 worshippers in 2018 massacre (www.cnn.com)
Robert Bowers, the gunman who killed 11 worshippers and wounded six others at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 in the deadliest-ever attack on Jewish people in the United States, was unanimously sentenced to death by a federal jury on Wednesday.
Drought-stricken Mexico is turning to a controversial technology to make it rain | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Estate of Henrietta Lacks reaches settlement with biotech company for nonconsensual use of her cells in medical research (www.cnn.com)
Estate of Henrietta Lacks reaches settlement with biotech company for nonconsensual use of her cells in medical research::The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells have been used for scientific research for decades, reached a settlement Tuesday with the biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific, the family’s...
Donald Trump has been indicted in special counsel’s 2020 election interference probe (www.cnn.com)
Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury on four criminal counts in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election leading up to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol....
NASA hears ‘heartbeat’ of Voyager 2 after losing communication | CNN (www.cnn.com)
The Voyager mission team at NASA has been able to detect a signal from Voyager 2 after losing contact with the spacecraft, which has been operating for nearly 46 years....
An armed man tried walking into a Jewish school in Memphis and opened fire outside when he couldn’t get in, police say (www.cnn.com)
Authorities shot a man after they say he fired shots at a Jewish school in Memphis, Tennessee, Monday afternoon.
Biden to keep US Space Command in Colorado, reversing Trump decision (www.cnn.com)
Heaviest rain in a decade kills 11 in Beijing as raging torrents wash away roads and cars (www.cnn.com)
Deadly downpours have triggered landslides and floods that swept away cars and destroyed roads in Beijing, as the remnants of Typhoon Doksuri unleashed the heaviest deluge in a decade over parts of northern China.
Chinese zoo denies its sun bears are people in costume (www.cnn.com)
Antarctica is missing an Argentina-sized amount of sea ice -- and scientists are scrambling to figure out why | CNN (www.cnn.com)
As the Northern Hemisphere swelters under a record-breaking summer heat wave, much further south, in the depths of winter, another terrifying climate record is being broken. Antarctic sea ice has fallen to unprecedented lows for this time of year.
At least 39 dead after blast rips through political gathering in Pakistan | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Moscow targeted again as Kyiv steps up drone attacks inside Russia (www.cnn.com)
Russia says Ukraine targeted Moscow with drones on Sunday, the latest in a series of attacks that have brought the Ukraine war to Russia’s capital.
Phoenix's record heat is killing off cactuses (www.cnn.com)
At a botanical garden in Phoenix some cactuses can’t take the heat.
American nurse and child kidnapped in Haiti (www.cnn.com)
Alix Dorsainvil, wife of El Roi Haiti Director Sandro Dorsainvil, and their child were reportedly abducted Thursday morning, according to a statement on El Roi Haiti’s website.
Melting ice reveals remains of climber lost on glacier 37 years ago (www.cnn.com)
The remains of a German mountain climber who went missing 37 years ago while hiking along a glacier near Switzerland’s iconic Matterhorn have been recovered, as melting glaciers lead to the re-emergence of bodies and objects thought to be long lost.
Israel's judicial overhaul sparks military crisis as number of refusing reservists grows | (www.cnn.com)
A new law in Israel has taken away the court’s power to veto government decisions based on them being “unreasonable.”...
Afghans awaiting US resettlement say they're being deported from Pakistan back to the Taliban | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Afghans who were promised a home in the United States after their country fell to the Taliban say they have waited so long for the US to process their applications that they are now being sent back to the enemy they fled....
US intel report details increasing importance of Chinese technology to Russia's war in Ukraine (www.cnn.com)
Thunderstorms cause damage in DC area (www.cnn.com)
Severe thunderstorms caused damage across the Washington, DC, region Saturday, with downed trees and power lines and suspended service on parts of the Metro train system.
Biden signs historic order moving prosecution of military sexual assault outside chain of command | (www.cnn.com)
President Joe Biden on Friday ordered a historic change to the Uniform Code of Military Justice by transferring key decision-making authorities outside the military chain of command in cases of sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, murder and other serious crimes.
Japanese city apologizes after advising pregnant women to cook, clean and give husbands massages (www.cnn.com)
There’s nothing a new mother likes more than being told how to please her husband – right?
