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A super blue moon — a rare cosmic combination of a supermoon and a blue moon — was seen in the sky on Monday. The last time this lunar event occurred was August 2023. A supermoon occurs when the moon is near or at its closest point to Earth (or, in scientific terms, its perigee) while also appearing full. Approximately one-quarter of all full moons are supermoons. Blue moons, however, are much rarer — a mere 3% of full moons. It doesn’t mean the moon actually appears blue, though. It is just the term commonly used when two full moons appear within the same calendar month. Read more at the link in our bio. 📸: Thomas Traasdahl/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP/Getty Images; Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images; Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images; Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images

She says the Israeli military killed her husband and daughter. An Israeli soldier may also have saved her life. This is not your increasingly typical story of tragedy and loss in Gaza. That much is clear from the place where CNN met Sham and her mother, Sanaa: a Palestinian hospital in Jerusalem. Sanaa worked at a foundation that provides support for orphans. Like many women in Gaza, she dressed conservatively and often covered her face, which is marked by deep burn scars from a childhood accident. She and her husband Akram lived with their daughters Sham and Yasmeen in the northernmost end of Gaza. In the days after Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel, and Israel's ensuing military campaign, the family were forced from their home – fleeing Israel's unprecedented bombardment of the Gaza Strip. When a brief ceasefire was announced in late November, they saw an opportunity to return. They departed the UN-run health clinic where they had been living, in the Jabalya refugee camp, and began the roughly three-mile journey on foot. They were almost home, she said, when shots rang out. "It was like there was a sniper and he was shooting at us. We didn't see him," she said. "Suddenly we were all injured." I told Sham, 'Come on darling, let's crawl.'" They left behind the bodies of their two family members that had been killed - Akram and Yasmeen - and made it inside a partially bombed two-story house. They huddled in a bathroom as night fell. The next morning, soldiers were inside the house. After some tense moments of shouting, she said, the soldiers were convinced that Sanaa and Sham were not harboring militants and tended to their wounds. Sanaa says the Israeli soldiers concluded they could not treat her in the field. Her condition was critical, she says, and she needed to be treated in a hospital. After making several calls, she recalled, the Arabic-speaking soldier said they would take them to a hospital in Israel. The Israeli military denies its soldiers shot Sanaa and her family. Sanaa called that claim a lie. The IDF claimed that the militants fired grenades on their position – Sanaa said she did not hear any explosions. Link in bio for more.

At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the crowd chanted “lock him up” during former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speech when she mentioned Trump’s 34 felony convictions.

In his speech at the Democratic National Convention, President Joe Biden addressed the protests happening outside of the convention regarding the Israel-Hamas war. Read more at the link in bio.

Democrats opened their convention in Chicago on Monday by sending off Joe Biden. And then the president closed the night with a hand-off to Vice President Kamala Harris. Biden said choosing Harris as his running mate in 2020 was “the best decision I made my whole career.” “She’ll be a president our children can look up to. She’d be a president respected by world leaders, because she already is. She’d be a president we can all be proud of. And she’d be a historic president who puts her stamp on America’s future,” Biden said. Read takeaways from the first night of the DNC at the link in bio. 📸: Bernadette Tuazon/CNN | Austin Steele/CNN | Austin Steele/CNN | Rebecca Wright/CNN | Rebecca Wright/CNN | Austin Steele/CNN | Bernadette Tuazon/CNN | Austin Steele/CNN | Rebecca Wright/CNN | Rebecca Wright/CNN

Texas couple Amanda and Josh Zurawski shared their story about being denied an abortion as they advocated for reproductive rights at the Democratic National Convention on Monday. Read more at the link in bio.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett didn't hold back with words for GOP nominee and former President Donald Trump in her speech on Monday at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Read more at the link in bio.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) blasted former President Donald Trump and voiced support for Vice President Kamala Harris in her speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Read more at the link in bio.

Four people were arrested after breaching the outer perimeter security fencing near the United Center outside of the Democratic National Convention, according to the Chicago Police Superintendent. Read more at the link in our bio.

NBA coach Steve Kerr gave coaching advice to Gov. Tim Walz, who was a former football coach, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. More at the link in bio.

Vice President Kamala Harris made an unexpected appearance on stage at the first night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Read more at the link in bio.

The Democratic National Committee used a high-powered projector to troll the Trump-Vance campaign on the eve of the Democratic National Convention. CNN’s John Berman explains. Follow live updates on the convention at the link in our bio.

Former President Donald Trump criticized Vice President Kamala Harris’ newly unveiled economic agenda at a Pennsylvania rally and continued to go off-message with personal attacks.

After heavy weekend rainfall, rescue workers rushed to save people from flash flooding in parts of Connecticut. At least two people have died. Tap the link in our bio to read more.

Former Republican Rep. George Santos pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges relating to fraudulent activity in his 2022 House campaign, just weeks before his federal trial was set to begin. The plea to charges of committing wire fraud and aggravated identity theft marks an end to the nearly two-year saga that saw Santos lie about his resume as he sought election to New York's 3rd Congressional District. He won the seat but was ultimately charged with 23 federal counts and was dramatically expelled from Congress last year. Prosecutors, in two batches of charges last year, alleged Santos committed fraud related to Covid-19 unemployment benefits, misused campaign funds and lied about his personal finances on House disclosure reports. Tap the link in our bio to read more. 📸: Adam Gray/Reuters

Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of the Russian Republic of Chechnya, posted a video of himself driving a Tesla Cybertruck with what appears to be a machine gun mounted onto it on Telegram, Reuters reports. In the video, the leader praised Elon Musk for donating the vehicle to him and said it would be dispatched to Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine. Musk later denied the donation. Read more at the link in bio.

Some Democratic National Convention delegates tell CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan they are “uncommitted” to a vote for Kamala Harris until she meets their concerns over Gaza. Follow live updates on the DNC at the link in our bio.

A former Soviet aircraft carrier burned in a waterway near Shanghai over the weekend, the latest setback for the decommissioned warship since its conversion into a Chinese tourist attraction. The carrier Minsk, which has been anchored for the past eight years in a lagoon near the Yangtze River in Nantong, Jiangsu province, caught fire during renovations for it to become part of a military theme park, state-run China National Radio reported.

More than 20 people were injured when a Ferris wheel caught fire Saturday evening at a music festival in Germany, near Leipzig. According to a statement from police, the ride caught fire shortly after 9 p.m. local time, for reasons that are still unclear. Read more at the link in our bio.

An Alabama officer jumped into action and helped deliver a baby who had an umbilical cord wrapped around its neck.