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The five-star Hotel Saratoga was heavily damaged after an explosion in Old Havana, Cuba, on Friday.

World News

At least 8 people have died in an explosion at a Havana hotel

2:47pm May 06, 2022

by The Associated Press

Dozens were injured in the blast that ripped away large sections of the outer wall at the Hotel Saratoga, a 19th century structure. A gas leak was the suspected cause of the explosion.

Katie Wright (center) stands beside activist Toshira Garraway and her son, Damik Bryant, during a news conference on Thursday outside a police station in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Katie Wright, the mother of Daunte Wright, said she was injured while she was

National

Daunte Wright's mother was detained after recording a traffic stop

2:06pm May 06, 2022

by The Associated Press

Daunte Wright was fatally shot last year by a suburban Minneapolis police officer. Katie Wright says she was injured while she was briefly detained this week by one of the same department's officers.

A line of anti-abortion demonstrators watch as abortion rights demonstrators chant in front of an unscalable fence that stands around the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.

7 persistent claims about abortion, fact-checked

1:34pm May 06, 2022

Several not-quite-right claims have continued to linger about abortion since the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

Smoke rises from the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern in Mariupol, Ukraine, Thursday, May 5, 2022.

World News

Inside the Azovstal factory: Ukrainians 'only hope for a miracle'

1:08pm May 06, 2022

by The Associated Press

The close-quarter battle inside the steel plant — the last Ukrainian stronghold of the strategic port city of Mariupol --appeared increasingly desperate.

Writer and political activist Gloria Steinem has fought for women's rights for decades.

National

Gloria Steinem's calls to protect bodily autonomy live on as Roe faces reversal

1:05pm May 06, 2022

Activist Gloria Steinem has fought for women's rights for decades. She has no plans to stop even as the Supreme Court is poised to reverse Roe v. Wade.

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CNN international anchor Zain Asher poses with her mother, Obiajulu Ejiofor. After losing her husband in a car crash, Ejiofor raised four children with strict and innovative practices — including, when Asher was a teenager, using scissors to cut the pow

CNN's Zain Asher is grateful for her mom's tough love — even if it meant no TV

12:41pm May 06, 2022

by Dave Davies

Asher's dad died in a car crash in Nigeria when she was 5. Her grief-stricken mother used strict and innovative methods to raise 4 kids. Asher honors her mom in the memoir Where the Children Take Us.

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The superyacht Amadea is docked at the Queens Wharf in Lautoka, Fiji, on April 15. The vessel, which U.S. authorities say is owned by a Russian oligarch previously sanctioned for alleged money laundering, has been seized by law enforcement in Fiji, the U.

World News

A Russian oligarch's $325M superyacht has been seized in Fiji

11:00am May 06, 2022

by The Associated Press

U.S. authorities say the 348-foot vessel is owned by Suleiman Kerimov, a Russian oligarch previously sanctioned for alleged money laundering.

Nate Darnell holds a cross while surrounded by chanting abortion-rights demonstrators outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday in Washington, D.C.

Roe established abortion rights. 20 years later, Casey paved the way for restrictions

10:19am May 06, 2022

by Deepa Shivaram

The 5-4 decision of Planned Parenthood v. Casey upheld Roe in 1992 but paved the way for more restrictions on abortion access.

Pedestrians walk past a Now Hiring sign in Arlington, Va., on March 16.

Economy

The U.S. jobs market continues its strong comeback from the pandemic

10:17am May 06, 2022

by Scott Horsley

U.S. employers added 428,000 jobs in April, as the unemployment rate held steady at 3.6%.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center early Friday morning. This time exposure image captured the 'space jellyfish" effect of the contrail viewed from Port Canaveral Marine. The white streak on the horizon was caused by

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A 'space jellyfish' soared over Florida, thanks to the SpaceX launch

10:10am May 06, 2022

by Bill Chappell

People who got up early to watch the Falcon 9 rocket's pre-dawn launch were treated to an ethereal spectacle, when a cloud of illuminated gases moved across the sky.