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By Alexandra Meeks, CNN It’s almost time for clocks to “spring forward” one hour for Daylight Saving Time. Yes, it’s Daylight Saving Time, with the singular use of “saving,” not “savings.” Although embraced by some, the twice-yearly switcheroo is disliked by lawmakers and scientists alike, as studies have shown the change disrupts body rhythms.. Here’s

By Eric Levenson, CNN Alex Murdaugh will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of murdering his wife and son, but his days in court are far from over. Murdaugh, the 54-year-old disbarred attorney, is still charged with 99 counts of embezzlement, computer crime, money laundering, conspiracy and more for what

By Rebekah Riess A suspect is in custody after a child and two adults were killed and a fourth person was wounded in a possible home invasion shooting in Bolingbrook, Illinois, on Sunday, police said. Officers responded to a report of a possible home invasion around 8:15 p.m. in the 100 block of Lee Lane

By Nouran Salahieh, Holly Yan, Laura Ly and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN As federal investigators visit the site of another Norfolk Southern train derailment in Ohio, the company vowed new safety measures in response to its toxic train wreck that ravaged the town of East Palestine. Norfolk Southern will revamp its hot bearing detector network as

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Authorities in New York’s Long Island were stunned to find a massive 14-foot reticulated python lying on the side of the road. Environmental conservation police officers got a call about the out-of-place reptile on February 14, according to a news release Wednesday from the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation. The python

By Artemis Moshtaghian, Isa Kaufman-Geballe and Samantha Beech, CNN At least seven people have been injured in a five-alarm fire in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City thought to have been caused by a lithium-ion battery, according to fire officials. A civilian and an emergency services worker were seriously injured, and five firefighters received

By Jennifer Henderson and Tina Burnside, CNN Two people were killed and six others were injured after a shooting at a house party in Douglas County, Georgia, on Saturday that had more than 100 teenagers in attendance, police said. Officials said the shooting stemmed from a confrontation at the house party in Douglasville, a city

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Maurice Hastings, a man wrongfully convicted of a 1983 robbery-homicide and sexual assault, has been declared innocent by a California judge. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge William C. Ryan formally declared Hastings factually innocent and cleared the arrest and prosecution from his criminal record during a Wednesday hearing, according to

By Andrew Torgan, CNN Do you ever wish you could ditch your humdrum life and sail away on a trip around the world? Sounds super fun, but also super expensive … at least until now. For the somewhat modest price of $30,000 a year — about what you’d pay for a used car — you

By Rebekah Riess and Michelle Watson, CNN Five people were injured in a shooting at a Los Angeles beach Saturday — a few miles from where city officials had hosted a gun buyback event earlier in the day, according to the Los Angeles Police Department and City Councilmember Tim McOsker. The LAPD’s Harbor Division responded

By Ella Nilsen, CNN When Elise Joshi posted a TikTok video about the Alaska oil drilling project known as Willow in early February, she didn’t have high hopes it would go viral. Joshi, 20, posts often about climate issues on TikTok for the account Gen-Z for Change, as well as her personal account. She’s well

By Ray Sanchez, CNN Convicted former attorney Alex Murdaugh‘s decision to take the stand at his double murder trial was not entirely surprising given his family’s legal legacy stretching back to the early 1900s in coastal South Carolina. But legal experts say it was ultimately a costly maneuver for the scion of the well-connected Murdaugh

By Alaa Elassar, CNN Five digital activists have created a website to help provide shelter to survivors of the earthquake in Syria and Turkey that left millions homeless amid freezing winter temperatures. Just 48 hours after the earthquake reduced cities to rubble, Avi Schiffmann built TakeShelter, a site that connects displaced people with hosts around

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Mexican wolf population in the United States surpassed 200 individuals in 2022, federal officials announced — a stunning recovery for a species that nearly went extinct, with just seven known wolves in existence in the late 1970s. A total of 241 Mexican wolves were documented in Arizona and New Mexico

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Two men in Nebraska have been cited after hunting and killing a bald eagle, according to the Stanton County Sheriff’s Office. The men, who are citizens of Honduras, have been charged with unlawful possession of a bald eagle, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office. The men indicated they

By Artemis Moshtaghian, Samantha Beech and Rebekah Riess, CNN Crews found no signs of a spill after a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in west central Ohio Saturday afternoon, prompting a temporary shelter-in-place order for nearby residents — just one month after the company’s toxic train wreck on the other side of the state in

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Ralphie, the seemingly unadoptable French bulldog from upstate New York, is making progress in his intensive training program, according to his shelter. The tiny bundle of terror captured the internet’s heart last month after the Niagara SPCA in Niagara Falls posted a brutally honest adoption ad. The shelter described him as

By Emma Tucker, Jennifer Henderson and Melissa Alonso, CNN One person died after an overturned gas tanker carrying flammable liquids exploded on a highway in Frederick, Maryland on Saturday, causing damage to nearby homes and vehicles as city officials advised residents to avoid the area. Flames and smoke billowed into the air after the truck

By Artemis Moshtaghian and Isa Kaufman-Geballe, CNN A Pennsylvania woman who disappeared more than 30 years ago and was believed to be dead by her family was recently found living in a nursing home in Puerto Rico, her family and police said at a news conference Thursday. Patricia Kopta, 83, was last seen in Pittsburgh

By Christina Maxouris, CNN For a year and a half, Alex Murdaugh denied he was anywhere near where his wife, Maggie, and 22-year-old son, Paul, were brutally killed. But it was one of his victims — his son — who would provide key proof after his death that legal experts say exposed his father’s web

By Rebekah Riess, CNN Three children were found dead in a Texas home and two others were taken to hospitals Friday afternoon, the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office said. All five were siblings, Child Protective Services confirmed to CNN affiliate WFAA. They were in “temporary CPS care,” according to Tiffani Butler with the Texas Department of

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Cate Casad started noticing the for-sale signs pop up over the last year on farms around Central Oregon, which has been mired in water shortages amid a yearslong megadrought. Casad and her husband, Chris, are first-generation farmers and ranchers who started off with just a few acres of land east of

By Taylor Romine, CNN A man accused of shooting two Jewish men in Los Angeles in February pleaded not guilty Thursday to four federal charges against him in the case, a US attorney’s office said. Jaime Tran, 28, was indicted by a federal grand jury last week on the charges — two hate crime counts

By Samantha Beech, Gili Remen, Danny Freeman and Emma Tucker, CNN All flights were grounded at University Park Airport in Pennsylvania Friday as authorities investigated a suspicious device in a checked bag, forcing about 100 passengers to be bused out of the area and the airport to close until Saturday, officials said. The airport in

By Pamela Kirkland, CNN Memphis Fire EMT Robert Long testified in front of the Tennessee Emergency Medical Services Board on Friday that Memphis Police officers were “impeding patient care” after he and Advanced Emergency Medical Technician JaMichael Sandridge arrived to find Tyre Nichols sitting on the ground, propped up against a police car on January

By Sara Smart and Jennifer Henderson, CNN Two Michigan State students wounded in the mass shooting on campus in February have been discharged from hospital, according to the university’s police department. The tweet did not identify the students who were released but said they were previously listed in serious condition. One student remains hospitalized in

By Treasure Welle, CNN The families of Orlando, Florida, shooting spree victims, journalist Dylan Lyons and nine-year-old T’yonna Major, shared their emotional story and demanded “sane and responsible gun legislation in America” following the death of their loved ones, Friday on CNN This Morning. “She made me a girl dad, and a gymnastics dad. I

By Alaa Elassar and Adrienne Vogt, CNN In a remarkable courtroom moment, the judge in Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial spoke in stark terms before sentencing the disgraced lawyer to life in prison Friday for the murders of his wife and son. Judge Clifton Newman was personal and cutting in his lengthy remarks, saying Murdaugh’s slain

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Despite some misconceptions, most tap water is safe to drink because stomach acid typically kills low levels of microorganisms. However, the FDA said it’s not safe to use unfiltered tap water for sinus rinsing — which typically involves a neti pot — because bacteria and protozoa can travel up the nose

By Nicki Brown, Artemis Moshtaghian and Travis Caldwell, CNN A day after angry residents repeatedly interrupted a railroad company official at a town hall, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine’s office released the results of health assessment surveys conducted in East Palestine, revealing the most common symptoms reported by residents since the toxic train derailment include headaches,

By Christina Maxouris and Ray Sanchez, CNN Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Friday for the murders of his wife and son — another chapter in the downfall of the disgraced attorney whose dynastic family had significant legal reach for decades in parts of South Carolina’s Lowcountry. Judge

By Chris Boyette, CNN Attorneys for Jussie Smollett filed arguments Wednesday explaining why they’re appealing the former “Empire” actor’s 2021 hate crime hoax conviction and want a new trial. The court document, filed Wednesday in the Illinois First Judicial District appellate court, raises multiple arguments, including that Smollett’s prosecution violated his due process rights, in

By Michelle Watson and Andrea Cambron, CNN Patrick Wojahn, the mayor of College Park, Maryland, resigned after authorities arrested him on 56 counts of child pornography-related charges, Prince George’s County Police Chief Malik Aziz said during a Thursday news conference with Jessica Garth, a representative from the State’s Attorney’s Office. Wojahn is in custody at

By Cheri Mossburg, CNN A Southern California couple is suing a fertility clinic for fraudulent concealment claiming they mistakenly transferred an embryo carrying a rare stomach cancer gene and then falsified patient records to cover up the error. Jason and Melissa Diaz claim their young son now faces the potential of stomach cancer or possible

By Amy Simonson, CNN New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara was in a Nevada District courtroom Thursday for his initial arraignment and he pleaded not guilty to charges in connection to an alleged assault that occurred in February 2022. Kamara pleaded not guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit battery gross misdemeanor and

By Dakin Andone, CNN Some California residents remain trapped inside their homes after a winter storm dumped feet of snow across the Golden State, prompting Gov. Gavin Newsom to issue a state of emergency in 13 counties, including hard-hit San Bernardino County. Authorities there had conducted almost 100 rescues by Wednesday evening, San Bernardino County

By Jean Casarez and Lauren del Valle, CNN Court documents related to the investigation and arrest of the suspect in the fatal stabbings last year of four University of Idaho students show a cache of items was seized from Bryan Kohberger‘s parents’ Pennsylvania home where he was arrested. Investigators took items that included knives, a

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The South and Southern Plains are bracing for a severe thunderstorm outbreak today that could possibly bring baseball-size hail and tornadoes packing winds of at least 111 mph. Officials in the region have issued strong safety warnings for the severe threat area, which encompasses 45 million people from Texas to Alabama. Here’s

By Pete Muntean, Holly Yan and Christina Maxouris, CNN A federal agency has issued a new advisory urging major freight rail companies “to take immediate safety measures to look at the performance of the protective coverings over the pressure relief valves,” a spokesperson for the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration said Thursday. The advisory,

By Raja Razek, CNN A man paralyzed after being shot by a Hollywood, Florida, police officer who mistook his own gun for a Taser has filed a federal lawsuit, court records show. On July 3, 2021, police shot Michael Ortiz in the back while he was on the ground naked and in handcuffs, according to

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN With Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial nearing its end, legal experts who have participated in some of America’s most high-profile cases joined CNN Wednesday night to examine key questions that have loomed over the proceeding, including whether Murdaugh’s admission of lying to investigators could help or hurt his case. Murdaugh, a once-prominent

By Cheri Mossburg, CNN The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals is investigating a misconduct allegation against a federal judge who called a 13-year-old girl out of the spectator’s gallery at her father’s supervised release revocation hearing and had her handcuffed and placed in the jury box, according to court documents. US District Court Judge

By Eric Levenson and Alta Spells, CNN After deliberating for less than three hours Thursday, the jury in the double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh found him guilty of murdering his wife and son, the grisliest and most severe of the allegations faced by the disgraced former South Carolina attorney. Murdaugh, the 54-year-old scion of

By Edward-Isaac Dovere and Phil Mattingly, CNN In the latest move to address the aftermath of the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Amit Bose, the administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, met on Wednesday with leaders from 12 unions in Washington, DC. The discussion focused on potential

By Taylor Romine and Steve Almasy, CNN Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, was again denied parole Wednesday — more than a year after California’s governor shut down an earlier recommendation that he be released. California’s Board of Parole Hearings decided Wednesday to deny Sirhan parole for three

By Eric Levenson and Alta Spells, CNN Alex Murdaugh’s defense attorneys will deliver their closing arguments in his murder trial on Wednesday as they seek to raise reasonable doubt about whether he killed his wife and son in 2021. The prosecution delivered their closing arguments Tuesday, saying Murdaugh was the only person who had the

By Greg Wallace, Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Federal agents arrested a Pennsylvania man this week after he allegedly tried to bring explosives in his suitcase on a flight from Lehigh Valley International Airport to Florida. According to court documents, an alarm alerted that the baggage belonging to Marc Muffley contained explosives. Transportation Security

By Michelle Watson and Steve Almasy, CNN A man accused of killing two police officers and a deputy in Kentucky last June has died in jail, the Pikeville Police Department said Wednesday in a news release. Lance Storz, 50, was found unresponsive shortly after 6:30 a.m. ET Tuesday at the Pike County Detention Center, police

By Chris Boyette and Paul P. Murphy, CNN A man has been charged with murder in connection with a killing in St. Louis Monday that a witness captured on video, which appears to show a man being shot at close range while sitting on a sidewalk downtown at about 10 a.m. The St. Louis Circuit

By Eric Levenson and Alta Spells, CNN State prosecutors said in closing arguments of Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial Wednesday that he was the only person who had the motive, means and opportunity to kill his wife and son in June 2021 — and that his lies afterward betrayed him. “People lie because they know they

By Kristina Sgueglia and Laura Ly, CNN New York has agreed to pay at least $21,500 to each of the hundreds of demonstrators at a 2020 George Floyd protest in the Bronx who were “arrested, detained, and/or subjected to force by police officers,” according to a proposed settlement filed in federal court. The settlement, if

By Isabel Rosales, Holly Yan, Nick Valencia and David Close, CNN University of Georgia star defensive lineman Jalen Carter — projected as a top pick in the NFL draft next month — faces charges of reckless driving and racing in connection with a crash that killed teammate Devin Willock and team employee Chandler LeCroy, Athens-Clarke

By Athena Jones and Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN — Photographs by Laura Oliverio and Xueying Chang, CNN Tracie Yorke grew concerned about the quality of education her son was receiving after his school moved to remote learning during the pandemic in 2020. Yorke, of Hyattsville, Maryland, described her fourth grader’s Zoom classes as chaotic —

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN At least two commercial flights this week made unscheduled loops in the sky to give passengers a view of the northern lights. Some pilots were praised for shifting course to showcase the natural phenomenon as passengers welcomed the diversion to take pictures out the window. Here’s what else you need to

By Sara Smart, CNN More than a decade after 31-year-old Todd Lampley was fatally shot in a Massachusetts home, authorities have arrested and charged a suspect who was identified with the help of DNA found on a sweet potato found at the scene, court records show. Devarus Hampton, 40, pleaded not guilty Monday to charges

By Christina Maxouris, Nouran Salahieh and Celina Tebor, CNN Norfolk Southern is expected to attend a public meeting with East Palestine, Ohio, residents Thursday at the request and order of the US Environmental Protection Agency, EPA regional administrator Debra Shore said in a Wednesday news conference. The meeting comes nearly a month since the February

By Tina Burnside and Andy Rose, CNN Authorities say an hourslong standoff at a Missouri home that followed the shooting of three officers is over and a woman found in the house was taken into custody. A deceased man was also found in the home, according to state authorities. The three Kansas City, Missouri, police

By Lauren del Valle, CNN Attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell have asked a federal appellate court to vacate her 2021 sex trafficking conviction and dismiss the indictment, arguing prosecutors treated Maxwell as a proxy for her longtime associate Jeffrey Epstein to satisfy public outrage, according to a new court filing. Maxwell’s attorneys first filed notice of

By Christina Maxouris, CNN The group of jurors who on Thursday convicted Alex Murdaugh of killing his wife and son had a day earlier visited the sprawling Islandton, South Carolina, property where the 2021 murders took place. The massive estate, known as Moselle, was at the heart of the trial — and played a big

By Nick Watt, CNN Every room has its own bathroom and a little kitchen area. Downstairs there’s a common room with a TV, a pool table and a baby grand piano. And every resident is a previously homeless veteran. This once crumbling building on a vast Department of Veterans Affairs campus in a lovely, leafy

By Wayne Sterling and Nadia Kounang, CNN Irv Cross, a former NFL star and broadcasting pioneer who died two years ago at the age of 81, had stage 4 chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the Boston University CTE Center said Tuesday. “Mr. Cross was diagnosed during life with mild cognitive impairment and was found at autopsy to

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN It’s one of the most well-known public service announcements in American history. A Native American man in buckskin and braids canoes through a polluted river, past smoke-emitting factories and onto a littered shore. Trash hurled from the window of a passing car lands at the man’s feet. As the camera closes

By Greg Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN The nation’s railroads are facing federal pressure to take a closer look at how they use the detectors that investigators say may have been able to prevent the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this month. The Federal Railroad Administration is issuing a safety advisory Tuesday

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN On this hellscape that we call the internet, you’ve probably witnessed a particularly blatant instance of rage farming. Maybe you’ve rolled your eyes at the pinkwashing that abounds during Pride Month. Perhaps you’ve felt violated when a Zoom call fell prey to cyberflashing. In a sign of our Extremely Online times,

By Holly Yan, Jen Christensen and Celina Tebor, CNN The aftermath of the toxic train wreck in Ohio keeps spreading to more states as scientists say tests in East Palestine show unusually high levels of some chemicals. Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb is the latest out-of-state official to say he was stunned to learn hazardous waste

By Sabrina Clay and Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN The New College of Florida’s reshaped board of trustees voted Tuesday to abolish diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the school after a heated public comment session — events that follow Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to move the college in a conservative direction. The vote will

By Eric Levenson, Alta Spells, Dianne Gallagher and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN State prosecutors rested their rebuttal case Tuesday after calling six witnesses to contradict parts of Alex Murdaugh’s defense as the disgraced attorney’s double murder trial neared its end. Kenneth Kinsey, a crime scene forensics expert, was the final rebuttal witness and criticized the methodology

By Sara Smart and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Ohio investigators were trying to identify human remains found decades ago when a tip led them to identify the remains of another person found dead almost 200 miles away, officials said Monday. Investigators now believe they’ve identified both sets of remains, officials said. “Old-fashioned detective work, modern DNA

By Eric Levenson, Alta Spells and Dianne Gallagher, CNN Alex Murdaugh’s defense in his double murder trial rested its case Monday after calling up 14 witnesses over about two weeks of testimony. Monday’s testimony was headlined by an expert in crime scene reconstruction and blood spatter analysis who testified that the evidence suggests two shooters

By Casey Tolan, CNN In the parking lot of New Jerusalem Church in Jackson, Mississippi, volunteers handed out free cases of bottled water to a line of arriving cars last week — a new normal in a state capital that has struggled with the fallout of a failing water system. But inside the church, a