For the last several months, CNN has followed the path of a young man from his small town to his coming of age in the U.S. military. Today, in the sixth part of a soldier's story, we check in at a very pivotal point of his young military career, a we
AZUZ: The U.S. government says it will stop making new, nuclear weapons, and it's reconsidering what to do with the weapons that already exist. The announcement came yesterday, two days before President Obama is scheduled to sign a treaty with Russia
CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Hi, I'm Carl Azuz. You're tuned in to CNN Student News. Afghanistan, Iraq, D.C.: lot of ground to cover today. We start things off in West Virginia. First Up: Coal Mine Disaster AZUZ: Officials there are trying to
Hi, Kyra. Yes, and it's not only victims of the church actually wants to call its hotline, it also believes that some priests might call the hotline themselves. It is of course anonymous, to basically report themselves and say that they have things l
Nobody can remember anything worse than the flooding right now in Rhode Island. And that's because it's the worst there in 200 years. Here's more of what we know. The rain has stopped but rivers are only slowly receding. Homeland Security secretary,
PHILLIPS: Their child has brain damage and this is what they got. Sorry, no food, no service, no sympathy. Now get out. A Texas couple says that's pretty much how it went down at a restaurant and how they were treated. I guess sensitivity isn't on th
A video game so vile and disgusting that it makes your stomach turn. Players actually groping, stalking, even raping women and little girls because they think it's fun. The game is made in Japan, but women's groups around the world are outraged. (BEG
PHILLIPS: Now listen to this story. The high schooler succeeded. The grade schooler failed. Yes. Grade schooler. An eight-year-old boy in Houston said he couldn't stand the bullies anymore. So what did he do? He jumped out the second floor window of
PHILLIPS: She was only 15 years old. Why would she want to end her life? She said she was being bullied. And her teachers, even her parents, spoke up. But unfortunately that just wasn't enough. Now nine of her classmates stand charged for her suicide
PHILLIPS: Forget the questions regarding the law just for a second and just think about the moral issue here. It may make your blood boil. A small baby at risk, her parents worried about her broken heart, but also faced with no way to pay for her lif
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AZUZ: As part of that goal to maintain international security, NATO forces are currently fighting against the Taliban in Afghanistan. NATO commanders had been planning to launch an operation in the region around Kandahar -- Afghanistan's second-large
AZUZ: And China is where U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was yesterday. During a week-long trip to Asia that he is taking, Secretary Geithner stopped over in Beijing and meet with his Chinese counterpart. One issue they were expected to talk
AZUZ: How do you choose a college? Some of you might choose a school based on the courses that it offers. Some might choose one that's close to home, or really far away. But how about for a money-back guarantee? Lansing Community College in Michigan
PHILLIPS: A 28-year-old mother, she needed surgery to save her life, if red tape didn't kill her first. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I offered it back to them and they said it's too late at this point. So I - I don't know where else to tur
BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT, (voice over): Shaneika Lewis is counting the days until her high school graduation. It's a day that almost didn't happen. She fell in with the wrong crowd and considered dropping out. SHANEIKA LEWIS, HIGH SCHOOL SEN
In central Florida an eleven year old girl woke up in her own bed this morning and that's reason to celebrate, that's because she had actually vanished into an alligator infested swamp area on Friday only to be found yesterday alive and well, it's an
WHITFIELD: You can't help but use the words like divine intervention here because the -- MATTINGLY: Yes. Yes. WHITFIELD: The forces that brought these two together pretty extraordinary. Now tell me, this little girl which was out for a walk, that kin
15 years ago today; 168 people killed, 19 of them children. You saw there one of the troopers who stepped up. We're looking at some images here now. The trooper who stepped up is a guy who actually placed McVeigh under arrest back then, who came up t
A volcano in Iceland had been dormant for more than 180 years. But then a few weeks ago, this started. The volcano is erupting, and some scientists say it could last for more than a year. That's about how long it went the last time this happened,th