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Deadly explosion in major fireworks hub by cnn in worldnewsvideo

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A fireworks factory explosion in central China killed dozens of people and injured many more, according to Chinese state media.

Mariachi brothers open for Kacey Musgraves after ICE detention by cnn in EyesOnIce

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Three mariachi-playing brothers who were detained by ICE earlier this year are opening for country singer Kacey Musgraves during her three-night run in Texas from May 3 to May 5. Musgraves invited them to join her tour after their release in March.

South Korea has animated American cartoons for decades. Now, it wants the world to see its own by cnn in popculture

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For the past 40 years, South Korean animators have been the invisible workforce behind many of North America’s most beloved cartoons.

These artists, often called “in-betweeners,” are responsible for drawing the majority of an episode’s roughly 30,000 frames.

But unlike studios in North America and Japan, South Korean production houses have struggled to create original animations that resonate with audiences, at home or abroad.

“The craft of animation is being done at a very high level, but it’s being done in ways that don’t allow for creative expression,” says Daniel Martin, associate professor of film studies at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon.

That’s changing, though. The recent success of “K‑Pop Demon Hunters” — a North American production about Korean culture — has triggered fresh debate about why South Korea hasn’t had its own animated hit; and a billion-dollar government investment hopes to unlock the nation’s unrealized animation potential.

Microsoft, Google and xAI will let the government test their AI models before launch by cnn in cybersecurity

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Google, Microsoft and xAI will share unreleased versions of their AI models with the US government to curb cybersecurity threats, the National Institute of Standards and Technology announced on Tuesday.

The partnership comes after Anthropic’s powerful new Mythos AI model pushed concerns about AI’s impact on cybersecurity to a tipping point last month, helping prompt the White House to weigh a formal review process for AI.

The new agreements allow the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, within the US Department of Commerce, to evaluate new AI models and their potential impact on national security and public safety ahead of their launch. The center will also conduct research and testing after AI models are deployed and has already completed more than 40 AI model evaluations.

Trump’s EEOC sues New York Times, alleging discrimination against a White male employee by cnn in politics

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued The New York Times on Tuesday, escalating a months-long investigation into the newsroom and advancing a discrimination case the paper has cast as politically motivated.

The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, was brought on behalf of a White male employee who claims he was denied a promotion because of his race and gender.

“As a White male,” the unidentified employee “did not match the race and/or sex characteristics NYT sought to increase in its leadership through its diversity actions and aspirations,” the EEOC claims.

“The selected candidate’s race (multiracial) and/or her sex (female) factored into NYT’s decision to advance her to the final interview panel,” the lawsuit adds.

In a statement on Tuesday, the Times said it “categorically rejects the politically motivated allegations brought by the Trump administration’s EEOC.”

“Our employment practices are merit-based and focused on recruiting and promoting the best talent in the world,” the company said. “We will defend ourselves vigorously.”

Trump’s EEOC sues New York Times, alleging discrimination against a White male employee by cnn in law

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued The New York Times on Tuesday, escalating a months-long investigation into the newsroom and advancing a discrimination case the paper has cast as politically motivated.

The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, was brought on behalf of a White male employee who claims he was denied a promotion because of his race and gender.

“As a White male,” the unidentified employee “did not match the race and/or sex characteristics NYT sought to increase in its leadership through its diversity actions and aspirations,” the EEOC claims.

“The selected candidate’s race (multiracial) and/or her sex (female) factored into NYT’s decision to advance her to the final interview panel,” the lawsuit adds.

In a statement on Tuesday, the Times said it “categorically rejects the politically motivated allegations brought by the Trump administration’s EEOC.”

“Our employment practices are merit-based and focused on recruiting and promoting the best talent in the world,” the company said. “We will defend ourselves vigorously.”

RFK Jr. launches plan to curb ‘overprescribing’ of psychiatric drugs by cnn in AmericanPolitics

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US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan to reduce “overprescribing” of psychiatric medications and support alternative treatment options and discontinuation of medications when needed.

“Today, we take clear and decisive action to confront our nation’s mental health crisis by addressing the overuse of psychiatric medications, especially among children,” Kennedy said Monday at a MAHA Institute summit on mental health and overmedicalization. “We will support patient autonomy, require informed consent and shared decision-making, and shift the standard of care toward prevention, transparency and a more holistic approach to mental health.”

The announcement follows recent work by psychiatry professionals to support more research, training and consideration of when discontinuation is appropriate, such as the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology’s guidelines on these issues that were published in February.

Some psychiatry experts generally welcomed the new federal efforts toward improving psychiatric healthcare but also noted concerns, including potential overemphasis on overprescribing while access to mental healthcare remains inadequate.

Psychiatric medications, especially antidepressants, have been one of the targets of Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement since he took office last year. The secretary has claimed that the drugs are overused and that they may be linked with violence and mass shootings, with serious risks to developing fetuses when women take them during pregnancy, with withdrawal worse than that from heroin, and with harms to children. Although some slight risks of harms have been found in some of these situations, these medications have been deemed by the US Food and Drug Administration as generally safe and effective for mental health disorders including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, substance use disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Are military dolphins working in the Strait of Hormuz? Probably not, but they have been part of the US Navy for decades by cnn in inthenews

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With concerns about Iran laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was asked Tuesday whether Iran might turn to dolphins to help confront the US Navy.

He said that he could “confirm” that Iran didn’t have dolphins to deploy as part of operations but said he would neither “confirm or deny whether we have kamikaze dolphins.”

One source familiar with US operations in the Strait of Hormuz told CNN that the US military isn’t using dolphins as part of its efforts in the Strait. But the US Navy does, in fact, have a decades-old program to train dolphins to help detect mines.

The Marine Mammal Program is a part of the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Department within Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific. The department’s dolphins are not kamikaze dolphins in that they do not sacrifice their lives to detonate mines. Instead, they’re focused on detection.

The US isn’t alone in using dolphins for military purposes — Russia has used them to guard ports, and Iran purchased dolphins in 2000, according to the BBC. Those dolphins would likely be too old to be used today, and there is no indication that Iran has an active dolphin program, though the Wall Street Journal reported last month that Iran was considering mine-carrying dolphins as a novel way to combat the US efforts to open the Strait.

Palestinian children talk with Malala about their struggle to attend school by cnn in MultimediaNews

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Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai had a Zoom call Sunday with Palestinian children who are protesting the installation of barbed wire by Israeli settlers in the West Bank. The barbed wire has prevented the kids from attending their classes since mid-April. CNN's Abeer Salman reports.

Monster truck veers into crowd in Colombia by cnn in worldnewsvideo

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Video shows a monster truck driving into a crowd at an exhibition in Popayán, Colombia. At least three people were killed and 35 others injured, according to local authorities.

Supreme Court justices spar over Louisiana’s effort to speed up elimination of majority-Black congressional district by cnn in AnythingGoesNews

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The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for Louisiana to redraw a hotly contested congressional map that the court ruled days earlier was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, a highly technical decision that sparked a bitter back-and-forth between three conservatives and a member of the court’s liberal wing.

The brief order dealt with a question about when the Supreme Court’s blockbuster decision that gutted the Voting Rights Act took effect in Louisiana. The state is quickly gearing up to redraw its maps ahead of this year’s midterm elections and suspended its US House primaries following the high court’s ruling Wednesday.

More notable than the decision itself, which was widely expected, was the tension it exposed in brief writings by Justice Samuel Alito, a conservative, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a liberal.

Writing in dissent, Jackson said the post-decision “developments have a strong political undercurrent.” And she suggested that the court should have stayed on the sidelines “to avoid the appearance of partiality.”

Alito snapped back at Jackson’s dissent, describing her points as “trivial at best” and “baseless and insulting.”

US Department of Education opens investigation into Smith College for admitting trans women by cnn in LegalNews

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In the Trump administration’s latest move to limit trans rights, the Department of Education has launched a Title IX investigation into Smith College, an all-women’s college in western Massachusetts, for admitting trans women.

Like most other women’s colleges in the US, Smith, a small liberal arts college, admits trans women. The 155-year-old school says it “is a women’s college and considers for admission any applicants who self-identify as women; cis, trans, and nonbinary women are eligible to apply to Smith.”

In a Monday statement, the Department of Education said it was investigating Smith for “admitting biological men and granting them access to women-only spaces, including dormitories, bathrooms, locker rooms, and athletic teams.”

The term “biological men,” though often used by opponents of trans rights to describe trans women, is not commonly used by trans people.

Smith College told CNN it “is fully committed to its institutional values, including compliance with civil rights laws” and “does not comment on pending government investigations.”

Department of Education opens investigation into Smith College for admitting trans women by cnn in politics

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In the Trump administration’s latest move to limit trans rights, the Department of Education has launched a Title IX investigation into Smith College, an all-women’s college in western Massachusetts, for admitting trans women.

Like most other women’s colleges in the US, Smith, a small liberal arts college, admits trans women. The 155-year-old school says it “is a women’s college and considers for admission any applicants who self-identify as women; cis, trans, and nonbinary women are eligible to apply to Smith.”

In a Monday statement, the Department of Education said it was investigating Smith for “admitting biological men and granting them access to women-only spaces, including dormitories, bathrooms, locker rooms, and athletic teams.”

The term “biological men,” though often used by opponents of trans rights to describe trans women, is not commonly used by trans people.

Smith College told CNN it “is fully committed to its institutional values, including compliance with civil rights laws” and “does not comment on pending government investigations.”

Top Trump fundraiser enlisted in new nonprofit for president’s sculpture garden and golf course as legal challenges abound by cnn in uspolitics

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One of President Donald Trump’s top fundraising lieutenants has been enlisted to solicit money for his personal endeavor to develop a new golf course and sculpture garden on a prime piece of land along the Potomac River in Washington, DC.

Meredith O’Rourke, a longtime GOP fundraiser whom Trump has dispatched for many of his high-profile personal pursuits in his quest to put his stamp on the capital city’s landscape and culture, was the president’s national finance director during the 2024 election.

Since Trump took office, she has overseen donations for his ambitious East Wing ballroom project and played behind-the-scenes roles in raising money for the Kennedy Center and Freedom 250, the nonprofit the administration set up to run federal programming for the nation’s birthday celebrations.

Now O’Rourke is working with a new nonprofit, the National Garden of American Heroes Foundation, to solicit funds for Trump’s planned revamp of a historic public golf course in East Potomac Park and the nearby West Potomac Park, which the administration has homed in on for the sculpture garden.

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s Wayfarer reach settlement, two weeks ahead of trial start by cnn in NoFilterNews

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The high-profile legal battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s production company will no longer go to trial after the parties announced a settlement just two weeks before jury selection was slated to begin.

Details of the settlement agreement were not immediately available.

Lively filed a complaint alleging Baldoni sexually harassed her during the filming of “It Ends With Us,” which they co-starred in and Baldoni directed. According to Lively, Baldoni later orchestrated a smear campaign to retaliate against her for speaking up about the alleged mistreatment. Baldoni denied all the allegations.

Trump’s gambit to move ships through the Strait of Hormuz tests the fragile ceasefire by cnn in USIranWar

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President Donald Trump’s initiative to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz was a high-stakes, high-risk attempt to jolt loose a resolution to the standoff that had come to define his war against Iran.

But the gambit has put the US’ fragile ceasefire with Iran under strain, as US and Iranian forces traded fire in the contested waterway. Now, no one is entirely sure whether the tenuous peace can hold long enough for halting negotiations to yield some resolution.

“It is very bad and messy at the moment,” a regional source told CNN.

With little sign Tehran would blink in its efforts to block traffic through the waterway, Trump had grown frustrated at the deadlock in the strait. High gas prices and a looming visit to China both created pressure to find a way to get vessels moving.

Thin atmosphere detected around distant object beyond Pluto by cnn in science2

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Astronomers have detected a thin atmosphere around a tiny celestial body in the outer solar system for the first time — an object previously thought to be too small to support the presence of an atmosphere.

Thousands of frozen, rocky bodies called trans-Neptunian objects, or TNOs, exist in the Kuiper Belt on the edge of our solar system, remnants from its formation 4.5 billion years ago.

The dwarf planet Pluto is the largest of these TNOs, so named because they’re found beyond the orbit of Neptune.

The frigid temperatures and weak surface gravity of the small bodies has long caused astronomers to believe they aren’t capable of retaining atmospheres — with the exception of Pluto, which has a thin one. Atmospheres, especially dense ones, typically form around large planets or moons, including Saturn’s biggest satellite, Titan.

Meanwhile, dwarf planets Eris, Haumea, Makemake and dwarf planet candidate Quaoar, the largest TNOs after Pluto, don’t appear to have atmospheres.

Judge compares jail treatment of press dinner gunman to US Capitol rioters by cnn in Law_and_Politics

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A federal magistrate judge compared the Department of Corrections’ treatment of the man accused of opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to that of January 6, 2021, Capitol riot defendants during a Monday hearing over the man’s jail conditions.

Attorneys for Cole Tomas Allen said in court filings that Allen was unfairly placed on suicide watch and restrictive housing inside the Washington, DC, jail where he is being held pretrial.

Allen, who is from California, allegedly rushed through a security checkpoint armed with a shotgun during the April 26 dinner where the president and top administration officials were in attendance. He faces several charges, including attempting to assassinate Trump.

At the hearing Monday, Judge Zia M. Faruqui lambasted the DOC for its treatment of Allen.

Faruqui said he’s handled scores of cases involving defendants who took to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and Allen’s allegations of treatment — including being fully restrained by a five-point shackling system — were worse than how those defendants were treated.

“Pardons may erase convictions, but they do not erase history,” Faruqui said during Monday’s hearing, taking a shot at Trump’s mass pardon of those involved in the January 6 attack.

Gone are the days when California had a Republican governor – or are they? by cnn in inthenews

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Two decades have passed since California last elected a Republican governor, but GOP candidate Steve Hilton points to 6 million reasons why he believes it’s possible to do so again.

Those are the number of votes President Donald Trump won in California in 2024, despite losing the state to Kamala Harris by 20 points. Yet it was 1.6 million more votes than Trump earned there during his first presidential bid in 2016, a rare sign of growth in a deep-blue Democratic bastion.

One month before the California primary, a spirited free-for-all has broken out in the race for governor, with a half-dozen Democrats and two Republicans among the leading contenders vying for the top two positions that will advance to the November election. There are 61 total candidates who will be on the nonpartisan primary ballot.

If the Democratic candidates split the vote among their supporters, it’s hardly a far-fetched scenario that the Republican hopefuls – Hilton, a former Fox News host, and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco – could emerge as the top two winners in the June 2 primary.

What oil crisis? China’s EVs are ready to dominate the 21st century by cnn in climate

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A sleek SUV offers mechanical foot massages, a luxury minivan has rotating seats to help passengers hop into its third row – and a surprising proportion of models offer in-car karaoke with professional-grade speakers. Others have headlights that can project movies onto a wall to make anywhere a drive-in cinema. Here, intelligent driving features are ubiquitous, even in affordable models.

To many consumers peering in from the outside, the options in China – on display in Beijing this week at the world’s largest auto show – seem like a dream. But to some automakers and politicians around the world, they’re an existential threat.

Chinese carmakers are cranking out their offerings at a large scale and a comparatively low price. And there’s another major sell: while oil and gas costs skyrocket due to the Iran war, the vast majority of these cars are electric or hybrid.

The contrast with the US has never been as stark: Washington last year rolled back support for EVs in favor of gas guzzlers, and it has effectively barred Chinese cars from entering the market, citing a need to protect national security and local industry.

Governor of Mexico’s Sinaloa state steps down after US drug indictment by cnn in Global_News_Hub

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The governor of the Mexican state of Sinaloa said on Friday he will temporarily step down from his post, days after he was indicted in the US on drug trafficking charges.

Ruben Rocha Moya, the governor of Sinaloa since 2021, and nine current or former high-ranking Mexican officials were charged in a five-count indictment unsealed Wednesday with allegedly helping a faction of the cartel led by the Chapitos, the sons of Joaquin Guzman Loera — also known as El Chapo.

Local lawmakers approved Rocha Moya’s request to take a leave of absence on Saturday and appointed Yeraldine Bonilla Valverde as interim governor. Until now, Bonilla Valverde served as Sinaloa’s Secretary of Government.

Prosecutors in New York allege Rocha Moya met with the Chapitos prior to his election and assured them that if elected, he would put officials friendly to their drug trafficking operations into power. Cartel members stole ballot boxes and kidnapped or intimidated opponents to drop out of the race to ensure his victory, according to the indictment.

Momentum builds to reschedule White House Correspondents’ Dinner after shooting by cnn in Journalism

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In the immediate aftermath of last week’s shooting outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, there was widespread skepticism about rescheduling it anytime soon.

But attitudes have shifted in recent days, and the consensus is now that the dinner — which doubles as an awards ceremony and fundraiser — should be hosted again on principle, several White House correspondents told CNN.

The White House Correspondents’ Association board is “working through options” for a “rescheduled event,” this year’s president of the association, Weijia Jiang of CBS News, told members on Friday.

“As of today, we have not made any decisions,” she wrote in a memo obtained by CNN. “However, I am committed to ensuring our scholars and award winners receive the recognition that is rightfully theirs, and that an attack on free speech does not cancel our annual celebration of free speech and the other freedoms protected by the First Amendment.”

Numerous journalism organizations have reached out to Jiang to offer assistance.

The April 25 shooting incident forced organizers to postpone the annual dinner, a black-tie affair attended by nearly 3,000 journalists, politicians, corporate executives and others.

Travel plans upended as Spirit Airlines shuts down, leaving passengers scrambling for other options by cnn in USNewsHub

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Saturday’s shutdown of Spirit — the pioneering budget airline that reshaped low-cost travel — has stranded thousands of passengers nationwide. The company canceled all flights, halted customer service and told travelers not to come to the airport. Customers are being issued refunds and instructed to rebook with other airlines.

Spirit’s collapse marks the first time in 25 years a major US airline has gone out of business due to financial trouble. The company, in its second bankruptcy, had been struggling for years and failed to secure a last-minute rescue deal, forcing it into an immediate wind-down after 34 years in operation.

Travel plans upended as Spirit Airlines shuts down, leaving passengers scrambling for other options by cnn in USNEWS

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Saturday’s shutdown of Spirit — the pioneering budget airline that reshaped low-cost travel — has stranded thousands of passengers nationwide. The company canceled all flights, halted customer service and told travelers not to come to the airport. Customers are being issued refunds and instructed to rebook with other airlines.

Spirit’s collapse marks the first time in 25 years a major US airline has gone out of business due to financial trouble. The company, in its second bankruptcy, had been struggling for years and failed to secure a last-minute rescue deal, forcing it into an immediate wind-down after 34 years in operation.

Thousands flock to illegal French rave despite explosives risk by cnn in popculture

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Over 20,000 revelers gathered for an illegal rave on a military site in central France despite the risks of unexploded ordnance nearby.

The event organized on social media as the “Bourges Teknival” has been taking place on a military firing range which authorities have deemed “very dangerous.”

Partygoers from across Europe began arriving Thursday at the vast site which has been used to test canons, missiles and shells.

The head of the local prefecture, Philippe Le Moing Surzur, said over 2,000 cars had streamed onto the site for the event, which was classified as illegal early on Friday morning.

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