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Suspect awaiting extradition over US nurse murder escapes Kenya cell

Larry Madowo, CNN February 8, 2024

CNN -- A suspect accused of murdering his girlfriend in Boston, MA from murder escaped from a Nairobi police station Wednesday afternoon and is still on the run, Kenyan police...

US sees signs Iran is worried about escalating proxy attacks amid heightened tensions

Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis, CNN February 1, 2024

CNN -- US officials believe there are signs that Iranian leadership is nervous about some of the actions of its proxy groups in Iraq, Syria and Yemen, according to multiple people...

US secretly warned Iran before ISIS terror attack

Natasha Bertrand, CNN January 25, 2024

CNN -- The US secretly warned Iran that ISIS was planning a potential terror attack inside Iran’s borders before the group carried out a deadly attack near the burial site of...

US citizen detained in Russia on alleged drug charges, Moscow court says

Anna Chernova, Rob Picheta, CNN January 16, 2024

CNN -- A US citizen has been arrested in Moscow on drug-related charges, according to an official statement released Tuesday. The citizen, named as Robert Woodland, is accused of preparing and attempting...

Russian pilots tried to ‘dogfight’ US jets over Syria, US Central Command says

Oren Liebermann,, CNN April 29, 2023

CNN — Russian pilots tried to “dogfight” US jets over Syria, according to a spokesman for US Central Command, part of a recent pattern of more aggressive behavior. The attempts have happened...

The Pentagon is seen from a flight taking off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on November 29, 2022.
Alex Wong/Getty Images

DOJ opens investigation into leaks of apparent classified US military documents

CNN — The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the leaks of a trove of apparent US intelligence documents that were posted on social media in recent weeks. The investigation comes...

4 US citizens were kidnapped by gunmen in Mexico in case of mistaken identity, US official says

CNN– Four US citizens were assaulted and kidnapped by gunmen in northeastern Mexico on Friday in a case of mistaken identity, a US official with knowledge of the investigation told CNN. The Americans...

Biden says shoot down of ‘high-altitude object’ over Alaska was a ‘success’

Betsy Klein and Maegan Vazquez, CNN February 10, 2023

CNN— President Joe Biden told CNN that the shoot down a “high-altitude object” hovering over Alaska on Friday “was a success,” shortly after American national security officials disclosed...

Ukrainian service members collect unexploded shells after a fighting with Russian raiding group in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in the morning of February 26, 2022, according to Ukrainian service personnel at the scene. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

US officials fear the worst is yet to come for Kyiv

Katie Bo Lillis, Natasha Bertrand and Barbara Starr CNN February 28, 2022

(CNN) -- Ukrainian forces have so far managed to stave off Russian ground forces massed less than 20 miles north of the embattled capital Kyiv -- but though they've defied US intelligence predictions that...

Close up of hands typing on laptop. Night work concept.

US braces for Russian cyberattacks as Ukraine conflict escalates. Here’s how that might play out

Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business February 24, 2022

(CNN) -- The standoff between the United States and Russia over the conflict in Ukraine has so far mainly played out on diplomatic and economic fronts. But now, as Russia invades Ukraine and the...

CHENGDU, CHINA - DECEMBER 1: (CHINA OUT) A migrant worker wears a red ribbon during an event organized by the local government to promote HIV/AIDS knowledge among migrant workers on December 1, 2005 in Chengdu of Sichuan Province, southwest China. China has pledged to keep the number of people living with HIV/AIDS below 1.5 million by 2010, Health Minister Gao Qiang stated at a media conference. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)

Researchers report third case of HIV remission after stem cell transplant using umbilical cord blood

Tasnim Ahmed CNN February 15, 2022

(CNN) -- A US woman has become the third known person who's gone into HIV remission, and the first mixed-race woman, thanks to a transplant of stem cells from umbilical cord blood, according to research...

Pelosi

Bloomberg November 6, 2021

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, arrives to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. The House plans to vote today on the White House's $1.75 trillion...