A man suspected of shooting three people in New York's Times Square, including a 4-year-old girl, was arrested Wednesday in Florida, police said. Farrakhan Muhammad was taken into custody in a McDonald's parking lot near Jacksonville. (May 12)
President Joe Biden says that “Israel has a right to defend itself” amid a barrage of rockets fired by Hamas and other Palestinian groups. Biden says he spoke with Israeli Prime Minister amid an outbreak of violence that has killed dozens. (May 12)
Former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller and former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen testified during a House hearing about their actions during the Capitol insurrection. CNN's Jessica Schneider reports the hearing devolved into "partisan finger pointing.
An Israeli airstrike destroyed Al-Shorouk Tower in Gaza, according to CNN photojournalist Ibrahim Dahman who witnessed the event. This is the third high-rise building to be destroyed by the IDF since the escalation of violence began on May 10, 2021. It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties.
Michigan health officials are urging primary care physicians to enroll to administer COVID-19 vaccines, as the state prepares to quickly begin vaccinating 12- to 15-year-olds (May 12)
State and federal officials are scrambling to find alternate routes to deliver gasoline in the Southeast U.S. after a hack of the nation's largest fuel pipeline led to panic-buying. (May 12)
Israel has killed a string of senior Hamas military figures and pounded three multistory towers as it hammers the Gaza Strip with airstrikes. Meanwhile, militants in the territory fired barrages of rockets Wednesday. (May 12)
A growing number of gas stations in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia are running out of gas as the Colonial Pipeline shutdown stretches into a sixth day. CNN's Pete Muntean reports.
tajikistan (Tajikistan) (AFP) – Tajikistan's government says that eight people have died and many properties were devastated in landslides in various parts of the country following heavy rainfall. Fatal landslides affect mountainous Central Asian Tajikistan every year around springtime, blocking off important roads in a country lacking transport infrastructure and forcing families to rebuild homes from scratch.
In Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, thousands are flocking to markets ahead of Eid, as the government tightens travel restrictions due to coronavirus but loosens lockdown rules for markets ahead of the festival and during the holy month of Ramadan.
Retail online giant Amazon has won an appeal in a European court over tax rebates it was awarded in Luxembourg. The European Union said the deal amounted to illegal state support and ordered it to pay €250m in back taxes. But Europe's General Court ruled there was no proof Amazon had benefited from an undue reduction in taxes.
Afghanistan has suffered its deadliest attack in a year outside a girls' school in Kabul. At least 50 people died in a bombing, mostly students, and about 100 were injured.
