Dozens of Iranian-Americans, energized by the opposition movement in Iran, protested in solidarity Tuesday in Atlanta.
(CNN Student News) -- December 17, 2008
When he was growing up in the 1970s, Ron Sexsmith's dream was to play piano. Elton John and Little Richard, those frenzied masters of the keyboard, those were his heroes.
Thomas Frank says he's fascinated by contradiction and irony. So it seems cosmically appropriate that he arrives at CNN Center the day headlines are screaming about the market meltdown, prompting the free-market Bush administration to call for a massive bailout package. (The package was passed by Congress and signed by the president last week.)
The reports aired on CNN World Report are not prepared by CNN journalists.
Atlanta was scrambling back to normalcy Monday, but city officials warned it could take time to clear the devastation left by a tornado that swept through the city's downtown Friday evening.
Waves of severe thunderstorms streaked through downtown Atlanta on Saturday, hours after a tornado left a trail of destruction through the heart of the city.
At least 20 homes in Atlanta's historic Cabbagetown neighborhood were flattened by a tornado that ripped through downtown Atlanta on Friday night, a spokeswoman for the mayor said.
A possible tornado swept through downtown Atlanta on Friday night, disrupting a college basketball game and damaging the building that houses CNN.
Hillary Clinton had a question when Tom Brokaw told her he was working on a book on the 1960s.
Dozens of Iranian-Americans, energized by the opposition movement in Iran, protested in solidarity Tuesday in Atlanta.
(CNN Student News) -- December 17, 2008
When he was growing up in the 1970s, Ron Sexsmith's dream was to play piano. Elton John and Little Richard, those frenzied masters of the keyboard, those were his heroes.
Thomas Frank says he's fascinated by contradiction and irony. So it seems cosmically appropriate that he arrives at CNN Center the day headlines are screaming about the market meltdown, prompting the free-market Bush administration to call for a massive bailout package. (The package was passed by Congress and signed by the president last week.)
The reports aired on CNN World Report are not prepared by CNN journalists.
Atlanta was scrambling back to normalcy Monday, but city officials warned it could take time to clear the devastation left by a tornado that swept through the city's downtown Friday evening.
Waves of severe thunderstorms streaked through downtown Atlanta on Saturday, hours after a tornado left a trail of destruction through the heart of the city.
At least 20 homes in Atlanta's historic Cabbagetown neighborhood were flattened by a tornado that ripped through downtown Atlanta on Friday night, a spokeswoman for the mayor said.
A possible tornado swept through downtown Atlanta on Friday night, disrupting a college basketball game and damaging the building that houses CNN.
Hillary Clinton had a question when Tom Brokaw told her he was working on a book on the 1960s.
In making "Into the Wild," Emile Hirsch forded rivers in Alaska, coped with blazing desert heat and rode raging rapids in the American Southwest.
An armed man was shot Thursday at around 4 p.m. in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park, a spokesperson for the Georgia World Congress Center said.
With tears in their eyes, and arms and voices raised in praise, more than 200 people sent Clara Riddles, the 22-year-old hotel worker shot last week at CNN Center, home to God on Wednesday.
Deadly shootings recently at Atlanta's CNN Center and the University of Washington's Seattle campus underscore how attackers may target victims who work in public places.
Clara Riddles' life ended with three bullets -- one each to her shoulder, torso and head -- the Fulton County Medical Examiner told CNN on Wednesday.
A man shot and killed a woman inside the CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia, Tuesday afternoon before being shot by a security guard.
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