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By Ella Nilsen, CNN A few years ago, retired Maine couple George and Cathy Hardy installed their first heat pump inside their 1930s Cape-style house.…

By Miguel Marquez and Christina Maxouris, CNN In the hours after roughly 50 migrants touched down on Martha’s Vineyard in two planes sent by…

By Josh Campbell and Aya Elamroussi, CNN The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has reversed its decision to grant George Floyd a posthumous pardon…

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN Search and rescue efforts are underway after lightning struck near a middle school rowing club practicing at an Orlando lake…

By Sonia Moghe, CNN A woman charged with calling in a false bomb threat to Boston Children’s Hospital, which has been hit with a barrage of…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Mark David Chapman, who was convicted of murdering musician John Lennon. Personal Birth…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s some background information about the census, a count of US residents that takes place every 10 years. The Census…

By Sonia Moghe, CNN A former University of Southern California coach who was convicted earlier this year of taking part in the college admissions…

By Rebekah Riess and Andy Rose, CNN A Dallas anesthesiologist was arrested Wednesday on federal criminal charges for allegedly injecting nerve…

By Amir Vera, Jamiel Lynch and Jason Hanna, CNN The boil-water advisory in Jackson, Mississippi, has been lifted for all those who rely on the water…

By Scott Glover and Daniel A. Medina, CNN Federal authorities in Kansas on Thursday arrested a retired homicide detective from the Kansas City police…

By Melissa Alonso, Alaa Elassar and Eric Levenson, CNN The man accused of kidnapping and killing Memphis teacher Eliza Fletcher was arraigned…

By Nicole Chavez, CNN As some public and school libraries pulled books from their shelves earlier this year, New York City’s Brooklyn Public…

By Melissa Alonso, CNN A driver died Thursday after crashing into a barrier at Naval Air Station Jacksonville in Florida, the base said via Twitter.…

By Jamiel Lynch and Melissa Alonso, CNN Vicky White and Casey White, the Alabama prison guard and the dangerous inmate who she helped escape, spoke…

By Jason Hanna, Priscilla Alvarez, Lauren Koenig and Gabe Cohen, CNN Texas’ governor says his state intentionally sent two buses of migrants to…

By Jamiel Lynch and Chenelle Woody, CNN The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is praising a Chick-fil-A employee in Florida who it said rushed…

By Christina Maxouris, CNN Last week, Janet Stickler was forced to evacuate the trailer she lived in as the Mosquito Fire — a raging blaze that…

By Rebekah Riess and Chris Boyette, CNN Prosecutors in Colorado are reviewing the June fatal police shooting of a 22-year-old man who was armed with…

By Sonia Moghe, CNN R. Kelly was convicted of multiple child pornography charges at a Chicago federal trial and acquitted on others. Kelly was…

By Lucy Kafanov and Chuck Johnston, CNN A girl who was 15 when she killed a man she said raped her multiple times must pay his family $150,000 in…

By Eric Levenson, Devon M. Sayers and Dianne Gallagher, CNN Text messages released as part of a civil lawsuit related to misspent welfare funds in…

By Amy Simonson and Ray Sanchez, CNN Baltimore prosecutors filed a motion Wednesday asking for a new trial for Adnan Syed, whose case was the subject…

By Bethany Hines, CNN “Being outside was where it felt sacred,” Kimberly Flores recalled. She was 10 years old and camping with her…

By Ryan Bergeron, CNN Marco Springmann is from Germany’s Ruhr region, a largely working-class area he likens to the American Rust Belt. His…

By Mark Morales and Ray Sanchez, CNN The 30-year-old mother of three children found unresponsive on the Coney Island shoreline in Brooklyn has been…

By Dakin Andone, Denise Royal and Carlos Suarez, CNN The defense team in the trial of Parkland, Florida, school shooter Nikolas Cruz abruptly rested…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Power outages in the US are climbing, researchers reported Wednesday, as extreme weather gets worse due to the climate crisis,…

By Nouran Salahieh, CNN The Mosquito Fire burning in Northern California flared up Tuesday afternoon, charging toward a mountain community and…

By John Miller, Brynn Gingras, Rob Frehse, Aya Elamroussi and Holly Yan, CNN Northeastern University in Boston reopened Wednesday after an employee…

By Amir Vera and Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN It’s happened again: America wakes up to news that a hip-hop star was fatally and senselessly shot.…

By Mark Morales, CNN A former coach of the 7-year-old who was found dead with two of his siblings on a Brooklyn beach Monday remembered him as a…

By Matthew Friedman and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN The Texas Department of Public Safety referred two more officers to the agency’s Office of…

By Rob Frehse, Sharif Paget and Zenebou Sylla, CNN A Northeastern University staff member was injured Tuesday when a package he was opening detonated…

By Laura Ly and Rob Frehse, CNN A 14-year-old boy has been charged with murder in connection with the shooting death of a woman at the Philadelphia…

By Alta Spells, Maria Cartaya, Martin Savidge and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Prominent Georgia attorney Page Pate, a frequent CNN guest, died Sunday…

By Eric Levenson, CNN A sexual assault victim filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging San Francisco Police violated her constitutional rights by…

By Scottie Andrew, CNN Mark David Chapman, the man who fatally shot John Lennon in 1980, has been denied parole for the 12th time, New York…

By Nouran Salahieh, CNN Burning intensely and choking the air with smoke, California’s raging Mosquito Fire has destroyed 46 structures and…

By Aya Elamroussi, Kristina Sgueglia and Dakin Andone, CNN Authorities are investigating the deaths of three children who were found unresponsive…

By Amir Vera, Chuck Johnston, Hannah Sarisohn and Nouran Salahieh, CNN The Seattle Education Association voted Tuesday afternoon to suspend its…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Google searches for “college rankings” spike each year in the months that follow the release of US News &…

By Amir Vera and Andy Rose, CNN Britt Reid, the former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach, pleaded guilty Monday to driving while intoxicated in…

By Nouran Salahieh and Josh Campbell, CNN A federal judge on Friday blocked enforcement of a new Arizona law that would have restricted citizens and…

By Hannah Sarisohn and Steve Almasy, CNN Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles was charged with murder with a deadly weapon in the stabbing…

By Theresa Waldrop, CNN The US Environmental Protection Agency is investigating the water crisis that has affected the roughly 150,000 residents of…

By Melissa Alonso and Eric Levenson, CNN The man accused of kidnapping and killing Memphis teacher Eliza Fletcher has been indicted on aggravated…

By Dakin Andone and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN Three children found unresponsive early Monday on the Coney Island shoreline in Brooklyn are dead, and a…

By Emma Tucker, CNN Calls for tougher prison sentences are growing in Memphis, Tennessee, as word spreads the suspects in two violent attacks there…

By Nouran Salahieh and Tina Burnside, CNN A mudslide trapped multiple drivers in Southern California as storms drenched the region and brought flash…

By Kiely Westhoff, CNN A former Major League Baseball pitcher who retired from the sport to become a New York City area police officer was killed in…

By Amir Vera and Nouran Salahieh, CNN A wall of smoke from the Mosquito Fire in the Sierra Nevada mountains is creating hazardous conditions in…

By Raja Razek, CNN One person died and four people were injured after a motorboat flipped on the Colorado River Saturday afternoon, according to the…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A prominent advocacy group has called on consumers to avoid lobster because of major threats to the critically endangered North…

By Michelle Watson and Rebekah Riess, CNN A man arrested in the killing Sunday of an Arvada, Colorado, police officer has been identified in a news…

By Yenny Sanchez, CNN US Customs and Border Protection officers at the Del Rio Port of Entry in Texas said they have have seized a shipment of…

By Michelle Watson, CNN Authorities have captured a man accused of killing an eight-year-old girl whose body was found at his central California home…

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN There “ain’t no way” agents with the highest domestic law enforcement office in the country were…

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…