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By Zoe Sottile, CNN Rusty, the red panda who made headlines in 2013 following his successful escape from the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington,…

By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman, Rachel Clarke and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN Sgt. Juan Maldonado, a Texas state trooper who was among the first…

By Amanda Musa and Tina Burnside, CNN Authorities in western Michigan are searching for a family of four that “unexpectedly left their…

By Hira Humayun, CNN A Houston-area couple was arrested in Louisiana on Tuesday after two abused children turned up at a home early that morning near…

By Claudia Dominguez and Raja Razek, CNN A Virginia mother is facing felony murder and child neglect charges in the accidental death of her…

By Kevin Dotson, CNN A college community is grieving the loss of 18-year-old football player Camdan McWright. The San José State University freshman…

By Josh Campbell, Jason Kravarik and Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Sadie Acevedo is living an endless cycle of grief. Her sister, Anthonette Cayedito,…

By Carolyn Sung, CNN Ethan Crumbley, the teenager accused of fatally shooting four students and injuring seven others at a Michigan high school last…

By Kiely Westhoff and Jason Hanna, CNN A ruling on the cause and manner of death of a Princeton University student may take weeks, a county…

By Andy Rose, CNN The family of a victim who was among the 10 people killed in a crowd surge last year at a concert in Houston settled a lawsuit…

By Taylor Romine and Amanda Jackson, CNN Authorities investigating the mystery surrounding a vehicle buried on a residential property near San…

By Taylor Romine and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A former UCLA obstetrician-gynecologist who worked for the university for decades has been found guilty of…

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A man in Washington state has been charged with a federal hate crime in connection with a 2018 attack on a Jehovah’s…

By Sara Turnbull and Andi Babineau, CNN Four former employees of a Mississippi daycare are facing child abuse charges after a viral video surfaced…

By Andi Babineau, Jamiel Lynch and Melissa Alonso, CNN An officer with the US Customs and Border Protection was unintentionally shot and killed by a…

By Raja Razek, CNN Former Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, who has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of Las Vegas…

By Andi Babineau and Ella Nilsen, CNN The Environmental Protection Agency has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the state of…

By Nicquel Terry Ellis and Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN A former Planned Parenthood executive is suing the nonprofit under claims that the organization…

By Matt Foster, CNN The cheating scandal that has consumed the chess world has taken its latest twist as American grandmaster Hans Niemann filed a…

By Steve Almasy, Jason Hanna, John Murgatroyd and Devon M. Sayers, CNN Investigators believe a 15-year-old boy killed his older brother before…

By Amanda Musa and Holly Yan, CNN A man partially paralyzed after sliding head-first into the back wall of a Connecticut police van has had all…

By Eric Levenson and Kiely Westhoff, CNN A 44-year-old man was convicted of murder-for-hire and conspiracy for ordering hits on his Mafia-associated…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Diwali, the Hindu celebration known as the “Festival of Lights,” will be a public school holiday in New York City…

By Brynn Gingras, Nicki Brown, John Miller and Amir Vera, CNN The body of missing Princeton University student Misrach Ewunetie was found on campus…

By Gabe Cohen and Aaron Cooper, CNN More than three weeks after Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida, Johnnie Glisson is still sleeping in his…

By Dakin Andone, CNN Oklahoma has executed by lethal injection Benjamin Cole, who was sentenced to death for the 2002 murder of his 9-month-old…

By Taylor Romine and Aya Elamroussi, CNN The Uvalde school board unanimously accepted the retirement of superintendent Hal Harrell on Wednesday,…

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A boy has died after being infected by a rare brain-eating amoeba, which officials believe he may have been exposed to at…

By Raja Razek, CNN A pilot has been safely recovered after an F-35 combat aircraft crashed at the Hill Air Force Base south of Ogden, Utah,…

By Amir Vera and Rob Frehse, CNN A woman is facing multiple assault charges after Massachusetts authorities say she unleashed bees on deputies who…

By Stephanie Gallman and Andi Babineau, CNN A group of college wrestlers from Wyoming faced their toughest opponent yet over the weekend. Kendell…

By Steve Almasy and Melissa Alonso, CNN Sanibel Island residents on Wednesday were crossing the causeway for the first time since Hurricane Ian…

By Amir Vera and Kiely Westhoff, CNN It’s been five days since 20-year-old Misrach Ewunetie, a junior at Princeton University, went missing,…

By Mark Morales, Gloria Pazmino and Laura Ly, CNN New York City opened a sprawling tent camp Wednesday on an isolated East River island to…

By Amir Vera and Claudia Dominguez, CNN The man convicted of killing 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel was sentenced to life in prison without the…

By Josh Campbell, CNN A Florida man and his teenage son have been arrested for attempted murder after allegedly opening fire on a woman sitting in…

By Rosa Flores, CNN The bodies of migrants who died trying to cross the US-Mexico border are being kept in a refrigerated container near the Rio…

By Jamiel Lynch and Tina Burnside, CNN The parents of a 15-year-old accused of killing five people in North Carolina last week say they’re…

By Aya Elamroussi and Taylor Romine, CNN A federal grand jury indicted a former California boat captain Tuesday on a misconduct charge related to a…

By Aya Elamroussi and Paul Vercammen, CNN The family of Kristin Smart, who was murdered in California in 1996, is hoping the guilty verdict a jury…

By Nouran Salahieh, CNN The man identified as a “person of interest” in the gruesome killings of four men in Oklahoma last week made his…

By Taylor Romine and Nouran Salahieh, CNN In a unanimous decision, the Los Angeles City Council voted for Paul Krekorian to take over as its…

By Justin Gamble and Jalen Brown, CNN Weeks after residents of a Kansas City, Missouri neighborhood said they complained to police that Black women…

By Adrienne Broaddus, Bill Kirkos and Andy Rose, CNN An elementary school outside St. Louis found to have “unacceptable” levels of…

By David Williams and Caroll Alvarado, CNN A woman looking for rocks along the banks of the drought-stricken Mississippi River over the weekend…

By Ray Sanchez, CNN Noting that New York City has become an “all-night, all-you-can-eat rat buffet,” city officials are moving to limit…

By Melissa Alonso and Christina Maxouris, CNN Dozens of law enforcement personnel are searching a large landfill in Chatham County, Georgia, where…

By Paul Vercammen, Taylor Romine and Amir Vera, CNN A California jury has found Paul Flores, the man accused of the 1996 murder of Kristin Smart,…

By Jason Hanna, Nouran Salahieh and Cheri Mossburg, CNN Formal charges have been filed against Wesley Brownlee in a series of recent killings in…

By Michelle Watson and Chris Boyette, CNN The Rev. Michael Pfleger, the senior pastor of the St. Sabina Parish in Chicago, has once again been asked…

By Michelle Watson and Jason Hanna, CNN Two people were killed when a twin-engine plane crashed Tuesday morning into a car dealership lot just…

By Amanda Watts and Holly Yan, CNN The man who gunned down the Houston area’s beloved first Sikh sheriff’s deputy could face the death…

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN James McDivitt, a former NASA astronaut who commanded the Gemini IV and Apollo 9 missions, died in his sleep last week in…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The US Army Corps of Engineers has launched construction on a 1,500-foot-wide underwater levee in the Mississippi River to…

By Michelle Watson and Dakin Andone, CNN The investigation into four men who vanished after leaving an Okmulgee, Oklahoma, home on bicycles last week…

By Michelle Watson and Tina Burnside, CNN An elementary school outside St. Louis was found to have “unacceptable” levels of radioactive…

By Holly Yan and Kiely Westhoff, CNN A man who authorities say lured officers to a deadly attack fired over 80 rounds at police before he was killed…

By Stephanie Elam, CNN Take a summertime drive on Interstate 5 through the heart of the Golden State and it is nearly impossible to miss the…

By Eric Levenson and Josh Campbell, CNN Over a 24-hour period last Wednesday, several police officers from departments across the country were shot…

By Alaa Elassar, CNN The University of California, Berkeley is working on repatriating thousands of ancestral remains and sacred belongings to the…

By Nouran Salahieh, CNN Fueled by powerful winds and unseasonably hot temperatures, a wildfire burning in Washington state exploded to 2,000 acres…

By Michelle Watson and Chris Boyette, CNN California Gov. Gavin Newsom blocked the parole of Patricia Krenwinkel, a former Charles Manson follower…

By Susannah Cullinane, CNN A Baton Rouge, Louisiana, resident hunting for artifacts in the Mississippi River was amazed to find the wreck of a…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Emmanuel, the emu who won viral fame on TikTok for his attention-grabbing behavior, is in dire condition after contracting the…