Iran's Natanz nuclear site lost power on Sunday just hours after starting up advanced new facilities to speed up the enrichment of uranium. Announcing an "incident" on state TV, a spokesman for the country's nuclear programme said no injuries or contamination had occurred.
US Army officer 2nd Lt. Caron Nazario, who is Black and Latino, is suing two Virginia police officers after they pointed guns at him, pepper sprayed him and pushed him to the ground during a traffic stop in December 2020 for what the officers believed was a missing license plate on his new SUV.
A U.S. infectious disease specialist confirmed that the "double mutant" COVID-19 variant first discovered in India is more infectious and deadly, and will bring more uncertainty to the U.S. anti-epidemic work.
About 16,000 people were evacuated from their homes on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent on Friday after the La Soufriere volcano erupted.
Drew Charter School, which made history in 2019 as the first all-black high school team and first public school to win the Georgia State Championship, look to do it again in 2021.
The Supreme Court by a 5-4 vote blocked another state Covid-19 restriction on religious services, with another late-night order, over protests from California officials that the limits affecting some Bible study sessions did not impinge on religious rights and were to be lifted within days.
A zoo in the United States has welcomed four recent hatchings of Humboldt penguin chicks. The new chicks hatched in Brookfield Zoo in Illinois on March 13, 16, 24 and April 3. (April 10)
Hundreds of Republican donors will gather for an invitation-only event at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. CNN's Michael Warren reads excerpts from a speech the former President is expected to give during the retreat.
The massive tornado funnel cloud was spotted tumbling over the Gulf of Mexico.
Voting advocates leaked video from a presentation given by a Harris County GOP official, who talks about recruiting an "army" of poll watchers in mostly minority areas of Houston.
A zoo in the United States has welcomed four recent hatchings of Humboldt penguin chicks. The new chicks hatched in Brookfield Zoo in Illinois on March 13, 16, 24 and April 3. (April 10)
An Italian prosecutor has told a court in Sicily there is no reason to put the right-wing leader, Matteo Salvini, on trial for alleged kidnapping when he refused to allow more than a hundred migrants ashore in 2019. At the hearing in Catania, Prosecutor Andrea Bonomo said Salvini's decision did not violate international treaties and was not to be considered kidnapping.
