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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…

By Amanda Musa, CNN A 51-year-old woman from France is in critical condition after being bitten by a shark Saturday on the island of Maui, according…

By Amir Vera, CNN A Denver woman fell 900 feet to her death Saturday while climbing one of Colorado’s most treacherous mountains, according to…

By Michelle Watson and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help identifying a possible suspect in the death of…

By Ralph Ellis, Hannah Sarisohn and Holly Yan, CNN Water pressure has been restored in Jackson, Mississippi, Gov. Tate Reeves and the city government…

By Yenny Sanchez, CNN A community revitalization group has uncovered forgotten Black barbershop and murals in an alleyway in Sparta, Georgia. Dream…

By Andrew Torgan, CNN Air travel this summer has been challenging to say the least. About 55,000 flights have been canceled in the US since the…

By Isabel Rosales, CNN Scientists at the Florida Aquarium have made a breakthrough in the race to save Caribbean coral: For the first time, marine…

By Tina Burnside, CNN A man has been charged in connection with the disappearance of a Memphis teacher investigators believe was abducted while she…

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN From patient waiting rooms to the halls of Congress, the language being used to talk about reproduction is shifting. Across the…

By Tina Burnside and Holly Yan, CNN Seven people were struck by gunfire overnight in Norfolk, Virginia, including several university students,…

By Emma Tucker, CNN Just one week after the school year began in Mississippi’s capital city, university students were faced with a crisis…

By Tina Burnside, CNN Five people were injured in a shooting in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, early Sunday, police said. Two people have been…

By Nouran Salahieh, CNN As a prolonged record-setting heat wave tightens its grip on the West, millions in California are for a fifth day being asked…

By Emma Tucker, CNN Wearing the signature black and gold colors of the Latin Kings street gang he once led, Antonio Fernandez recently walked through…

By Faith Karimi, CNN Irene Gakwa’s last WhatsApp video call with her parents was filled with gentle ribbing. But beneath the banter were hints…

By Stephanie Elam and Jason Kravarik, CNN Bob’s Market in Angeleno Heights may look like a regular Los Angeles convenience store, but…

By Rebekah Riess and Jay Croft, CNN As the West continues to roast in dangerous heat, two Northern California wildfires are growing and some…

By Wayne Sterling, CNN The South Carolina Gamecocks women’s basketball team has canceled its home-and-home series with the Brigham Young…

By Taylor Romine and Jason Hanna, CNN An algae bloom has killed thousands of fish in the San Francisco Bay Area in recent weeks, officials say,…

By Pete Muntean, Theresa Waldrop and Sharif Paget, CNN A worker at an airport who stole a twin-engine plane Saturday morning and threatened to crash…

By Andi Babineau, Jennifer Feldman and Kelly Murray, CNN An Ohio father faces charges in the death of his 1-year-old son after he intentionally left…

By Amanda Musa, CNN Twenty-three years later, Frank DeAngelis vividly recalls the day his life changed forever. On April 20, 1999, he was the…

By Nicquel Terry Ellis and Brandon Tensley, CNN Photos by Austin Steele, CNN James Taylor lugged two 24-count cases of bottled water to his pickup…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN A city in New Mexico has about 20 days of fresh water left, and officials there are scrambling to find another source to prevent…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A Virginia man’s quip about winning the lottery turned out to be a lot more than just a joke. Charles Smith, a resident of…

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN The situation remains dire for many Jackson, Mississippi, residents as the city enters the sixth day since a major water plant…

By Andy Rose, CNN The autopsy report for Elijah McClain, an unarmed Black man who died after a struggle with police in Colorado, was changed in…

By Paul P. Murphy, CNN During a March 2022 site visit, US Environmental Protection Agency staff found that the City of Jackson, Mississippi, did not…

By Nicki Brown, Sharif Paget and Kelly Murray, CNN A student at Mergenthaler Vocational Technical High School in Baltimore, Maryland, has died after…

By Cheri Mossburg and Alaa Elassar, CNN A federal judge in Los Angeles dismissed an indictment on Thursday that charged a dive boat captain with…

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN Memphis police are searching for a schoolteacher they say was abducted while she was out on a jog Friday morning. Eliza…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of activist and award-winning actress Jane Fonda. Personal Birth date: December 21, 1937 Birth…

By Nicole Chavez and Meron Moges-Gerbi Protests and calls for justice are increasing in Ohio’s capital after the police killing of an unarmed…

By Theresa Waldrop, CNN Mississippi’s capital has been without reliable tap water service since Monday, when rainwater flooding helped push an…

By Ray Sanchez, CNN Jessica Flores stepped out of the Port Authority Bus Terminal with her husband and their 6-year-old daughter into the unfamiliar…

By Amanda Musa and Andi Babineau, CNN The 22-year-old man accused of shooting three Dutch soldiers outside an Indianapolis hotel on Saturday has been…

By Andy Rose, CNN A court filing from 16 current and former employees of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, along with the Texas…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A California family says they’re thrilled after their deaf dog was rescued by emergency responders after falling 100 feet…

By Rebekah Riess and Alaa Elassar, CNN A Kansas teacher who argued she had a religious belief that prevented her from calling transgender or…

By Rebekah Riess, Adrienne Broaddus and Zoe Sottile, CNN Cooper Roberts, the 8-year old boy severely injured in the Fourth of July parade mass…

By Melissa Alonso, CNN The North Carolina town of Kenly voted 3-2 to terminate the contract of its Black town manager who was at the center of an…

By Kiely Westhoff, Rob Frehse and Alaa Elassar, CNN A Detroit teen who is suspected of shooting four people, killing three, in a “shooting…

By Alaa Elassar, CNN One student is dead and two others were injured after an apparent stabbing attack Thursday at a high school in Jacksonville,…

By Andy Rose and Ray Sanchez, CNN Prosecutors in St. Louis County, Missouri, have filed a request to vacate the murder conviction of Lamar Johnson,…

By Carma Hassan, Deidre McPhillips and Eric Levenson, CNN Math and reading scores for 9-year-olds in the US fell between 2020 and 2022 by a level not…

By Amanda Jackson, CNN A 4-year-old took a loaded handgun Wednesday to his South Texas elementary school, and his father has been arrested after the…

By Travis Caldwell, Andy Rose and Omar Jimenez, CNN The state of Texas, which for several months has bussed thousands of newly arrived migrants at…

By Amanda Musa, Dakin Andone and Michelle Watson, CNN Police in Columbus, Ohio, have released body camera video that shows a police officer serving a…

By Nouran Salahieh, Jason Hanna and Amir Vera, CNN As Mississippi’s capital city entered a fourth day on Thursday with little or no water…

By Nicki Brown, CNN A Louisville, Kentucky, corrections officer has been terminated after “disparaging” the Louisville Metro Police…

By Andy Rose, CNN The University of North Dakota is working to repatriate human remains and sacred artifacts taken from Indigenous communities, UND…

By Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN A Black South Dakota teen feels he has no choice but to switch schools after refusing to cut his hair, his mother said.…

By Gabe Cohen, CNN When the bell rings at Casa Grande Union High School, more than seventy sophomores pile into Stacy Brady’s biology class.…

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN A California school district is vowing to reform its discipline practices after a federal investigation revealed it was…