The Afghan women’s soccer team hasn’t been able to play since the Taliban returned to power in 2021. Now, FIFA has announced the Afghan women’s refugee squad in an unprecedented step. CNN’s Amanda Davies met with several of the exiled players in the UK and learned about their yearslong fight for recognition, and why football remains such a lifeline for them.
The Afghan women’s soccer team hasn’t been able to play since the Taliban returned to power in 2021. Now, FIFA has announced the Afghan women’s refugee squad in an unprecedented step. CNN’s Amanda Davies met with several of the exiled players in the UK and learned about their yearslong fight for recognition, and why football remains such a lifeline for them.
Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought announced on Friday that the government has started firing federal workers during the government shutdown.
Several people are dead and other people are missing after an explosion at a military explosives company in Tennessee, local officials say.
Thousands of displaced Palestinians are returning to the north of Gaza as the ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel takes effect. CNN's Clarissa Ward reports from Tel Aviv, Israel, on what this new chapter could mean for both people in Gaza and Israel.
A Tampa bus driver is being praised for rescuing a young child wandering alone in traffic — stopping her route to bring him to safety until police arrived.
During a Trump administration Cabinet meeting, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed there was a link between autism and Tylenol use after babies are circumcised. Experts say there are multiple causes of autism, and the science showing a connection between autism and Tylenol is not settled.
CNN’s Salma Abdelaziz breaks down some of what we know after the Israeli government approves a Gaza ceasefire resolution.
CNN’s Ivan Watson reports from Macao, where there’s a great deal of enthusiasm at the return of the NBA, with two pre-season games between the Phoenix Suns and the Brooklyn Nets this weekend.
Longtime team chaplain for Loyola University Chicago, Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, has died aged 106. Sister Jean shot to fame in 2018 after TV cameras caught her pre-game prayer for the Ramblers basketball team and her cheering from the sidelines during the NCAA tournament.
The leader of the democracy movement in Venezuela, María Corina Machado, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. In a phone call, the secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee informed Machado that she won. Machado is currently in hiding and wanted for crimes by the authoritarian Maduro regime.
DOJ indicts NY Attorney General and Trump foe Letitia James, Nobel Peace Prize goes to Venezuelan activist María Corina Machada, Baller on the runway.
