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By Andrew Torgan, CNN Today is September 11, and if you are old enough to remember the events of that day 21 years ago, you know the painful memories…

By Raja Razek and Dakin Andone, CNN Hundreds of people will need to find new homes after an explosion at their apartment building in Aurora,…

By David Culver and Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN Shanika Whiten has devoted over two decades to working for the Los Angeles Unified School District. But…

By Nicole Chavez and Virginia Langmaid, CNN Lawyers are pushing for a judge to reconsider the prison sentence of a South Carolina activist who was…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Columbus Zoo has welcomed a long-legged, endangered new addition: a baby Masai giraffe. The unnamed newborn was born to…

By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Attorneys for Michael Jennings, a Black pastor arrested while watering his neighbor’s flowers, filed a lawsuit in…

By Liam Reilly and Christina Maxouris, CNN New York City officials say the water at a Manhattan public housing complex has been cleared for drinking…

By Rebekah Riess, CNN Public defenders for the man accused of driving an SUV through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Friday requested…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Officials are baffled after hundreds of loggerhead sea turtles have become stranded on Texas beaches. A record-high total of 282…

By Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN A Michigan retiree is suing a Detroit bank after she says employees refused to cash a check she received from a casino…

By Topher Gauk-Roger, CNN The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is recommending residents avoid swimming and surfing at multiple ocean…

By Zoe Sottile and Chuck Johnston, CNN The considerable cost of attending one of the top American universities will now be covered for students whose…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Three years ago, Andy Finton planted a sugar maple tree — his favorite species — in his suburban Boston backyard.…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN It was probably only a matter of time before San Francisco made it easier to use magic mushrooms in the City by the Bay. On…

By Lauren del Valle, CNN A judge in Delaware federal bankruptcy court granted final approval Thursday for the confirmation of a reorganization plan…

By Caroll Alvarado, CNN A former principal in California was charged with a misdemeanor Wednesday for “cruelty to child by endangering…

By Amy Simonson, CNN Two men are facing charges after two Cobb County, Georgia, sheriff’s deputies were fatally shot Thursday while serving an…

By Paradise Afshar, CNN Two men were arrested and a “substantial cache of illegal material” to manufacture ghost guns was recovered in…

By Paradise Afshar, CNN Educators in a Washington state school district went on strike Friday because the teachers’ union and the Ridgefield…

By Hannah Sarisohn and Ray Sanchez, CNN First came the claim by a member of the Duke University women’s volleyball team that Brigham Young…

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Melissa Alonso, CNN Dewayne Tunstall had aspirations of running a food truck and planned to name it “EBE,”…

By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman and Rachel Clarke, CNN Texas’ top cop Col. Steven McCraw vowed Thursday to fire any member of his…

By Amir Vera and Andi Babineau, CNN Eliza “Liza” Fletcher routinely ran 8.2 miles in the predawn hours. But her final run ended…

By Eric Levenson, CNN As a longtime reporter in Las Vegas, Jeff German often wrote about the who’s who of the underbelly in Sin City. He…

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Chris Boyette and Shawn Nottingham, CNN Two suspects have been arrested after a pair of Cobb County, Georgia, sheriff’s…

By Andy Rose, Shimon Prokupecz and Ashley Killough, CNN As dozens of kids played and people picnicked Thursday afternoon at Memorial Park in Uvalde,…

By Rebekah Riess, CNN Yaqub Salik Talib, the brother of former NFL star Aqib Talib, was indicted for murder by a Dallas County grand jury Thursday in…

By Jamiel Lynch, Jason Hanna and Amir Vera, CNN The deadly Fairview Fire burning in Southern California has upended the lives of many Riverside…

By AJ Willingham, CNN Andrew Tate, the professional fighter-turned media personality who earned the ire and admiration of millions with his viral…

Emily Smith, CNN Before he was found dead outside his Las Vegas home last weekend, veteran investigative journalist Jeff German had written a series…

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN School is back in session across the US and many students are starting to notice some changes in their classrooms. New laws…

By Aya Elamroussi and Kiely Westhoff, CNN A 15-year-old student was shot and killed in a New York City park after leaving school Wednesday, police…

By Aya Elamroussi and Paradise Afshar, CNN A Washington state public school district will reopen Thursday after a teacher strike that demanded…

By Aya Elamroussi and Holly Yan, CNN The man accused of kidnapping and murdering a Tennessee teacher appeared in court Thursday in a city stunned by…

By Travis Caldwell, Dakin Andone and Chuck Johnston, CNN A veteran investigative journalist who was stabbed to death had the alleged killer’s…

By Nouran Salahieh and Dakin Andone, CNN As Californians endure what could be the worst heat wave in state history, a rare hurricane offshore is…

By Sara Sidner and Meridith Edwards, CNN Six-year-old Charles Wilson V is scared to drink out of the water fountain at his school. “I will…

By Jennifer Henderson and Nouran Salahieh, CNN A 19-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after livestreaming part of a shooting rampage that left four…

By Amir Vera, Taylor Romine and Stella Chan, CNN The Fairview Fire has now charred more nearly 20,000 acres in the two days it’s been burning…

By Nicole Chavez and Amanda Musa, CNN Classes at Brigham Young University have just begun, and queer students are already being reminded of the…

By Melissa Alonso and Devon M. Sayers, CNN Two sisters who survived the Holocaust, and fulfilled their fathers dream to make it to America, died days…

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN News anchor Julie Chin had the morning lined up for her audience in Tulsa, Oklahoma: weather forecasts for the long…

By Scottie Andrew, CNN Peter Straub, an author who helped usher in our decades-long fascination with horror fiction, had a way of weaving macabre and…

By Nicole Chavez, CNN It’s been only a few weeks since millions of children returned to America’s schools — but the debate…

By Aya Elamroussi, Paradise Afshar and Dakin Andone, CNN The first day for public schools students in Seattle is delayed after the teachers union…

By Jason Hanna, Melissa Alonso and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A man suspected of abducting and killing a Memphis teacher who was out jogging was temporarily…

By Amir Vera, Eric Levenson and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Myles Sanderson, the suspect in the mass stabbing in Canada, died Wednesday after going into…

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Paradise Afshar, CNN A woman who embarked on a multi-day backpacking trip through the Grand Canyon National Park died on a…

By Paradise Afshar, CNN A cruise ship passenger from Pennsylvania died Tuesday after being attacked by a shark while snorkeling with her family in…

By Nouran Salahieh, Rachel Ramirez and Dakin Andone, CNN A record-breaking heat wave has baked the West for days — setting record high…

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Jennifer Henderson, CNN Investigators have used genealogy technology to determine the killer of a Michigan woman who was…

By Andy Rose, CNN Two officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety who were at the scene of the Uvalde school massacre have been suspended…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN The city of Las Vegas, New Mexico, will be able to use a nearby lake as a backup water supply, effectively extending its water…

By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman and Rachel Clarke, CNN The last time AJ Martinez was in school was May 24, when he was shot through the…

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN From life before European contact to the Trail of Tears to the modern-day tribal government, the Cherokee National History…

By Melissa Alonso, CNN US Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 100 Cuban migrants after multiple vessels reached land in South Florida over…

By Dakin Andone, CNN More than 50 million people across the American West are under heat alerts Tuesday, as a prolonged heat wave continues to grip…

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN A hiker in Arizona died and five others were rescued Monday after getting lost on trails and suffering heat exhaustion as…

By Nouran Salahieh and Taylor Romine, CNN Two people were killed as a fast-moving wildfire swelled rapidly over parched vegetation in Southern…

By Nouran Salahieh and Paula Newton, CNN A manhunt is underway for one of two brothers suspected in a mass stabbing that left 10 dead and 18 injured…

By Amir Vera, CNN The Mississippi man accused of stealing a twin-engine plane Saturday morning and threatening to crash it into a Walmart was denied…

By Holly Yan, Ashley Killough and Ed Lavandera, CNN Zayon Martinez spent his final hour of second grade hiding under a desk while bullets flew…

By Nadia Romero and Kevin Conlon, CNN Shortly after the US Supreme Court ordered schools to desegregate in 1954, Robert E. Lee High School in…

By Holly Yan and Zoe Sottile, CNN Just months after the devastating mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, students are set to return to class on Tuesday.…

By Tina Burnside, Jamiel Lynch and Amir Vera, CNN Memphis police found an unidentified body Monday about 20 minutes from where teacher Eliza…

By Stephanie Elam, CNN For a city in the desert, water conservation must be a way of life. But amid a prolonged megadrought that has depleted water…

By Nick Watt, CNN A couple of dozen men, women and children are silently reading books in the shade of apple trees one sunny morning in beautiful…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN You probably associate Labor Day with sales, family barbecues and the unofficial end of summer. For most Americans, the long…

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Prolonged drought has exacerbated fire conditions throughout California, where six active wildfires have consumed tens of…

By Samantha Beech, Polo Sandoval and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN The family of Jayland Walker, an unarmed man who was shot and killed by Akron, Ohio,…

By Michelle Watson, CNN An executive at Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (GNF), is accused of “syphoning” more than $10…

By Amir Vera and Amanda Musa, CNN The US Coast Guard said Monday it has suspended the search for nine people who went missing after a float plane…