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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Standing atop the Hoover Dam today, the millions of tourists who visit each year can get a real sense of the climate crisis in the West: In addition to extreme heat, the sight of so-called “bathtub rings” that envelop Lake Mead has become an unsettling reminder of where the water level

By Ella Nilsen and Rachel Ramirez, CNN An extraordinary drought in the West is drying up the Colorado River and draining the nation’s largest reservoirs — Lake Mead and Lake Powell. And amid the overuse of the river and the aridification of the region, the federal government is implementing new mandatory water cuts and asking

By Amy Simonson, Jennifer Feldman, Alisha Ebrahimji and Jennifer Henderson, CNN Maine Capitol Police screener Craig Donahue was returning from his lunch break when he heard a “loud thud” and the sound of metal rolling. Lucky for Donahue, he narrowly missed being hit Friday afternoon by a large “sleeve-like object” that likely fell from a

By Aya Elamroussi and Mark Morales, CNN Award-winning author Salman Rushdie is awake and “articulate” in his conversations with investigators as he remains hospitalized for severe injuries following a stabbing attack in western New York Friday, a law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation told CNN Monday. Rushdie, 75, underwent emergency surgery after

By Mark Morales, CNN The Manhattan neurologist recently convicted of sexually assaulting, abusing and raping six of his patients died by suicide at Rikers Island on Monday, authorities said. Ricardo Cruciani, 68, died by hanging, the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner told CNN on Tuesday. No further information was immediately available.

By Amir Vera and Cheri Mossburg, CNN The son of a man suspected of killing at least two men in a recent spate of killings that terrorized Albuquerque, New Mexico, was ordered Monday to remain in federal custody on a charge tied to his father’s case. Shaheen Syed, son of Muhammad Syed, faces a federal

By Jason Kravarik, CNN A former Los Angeles County fire captain walked off the witness stand three times during testimony Monday while being questioned about whether he took photos of Kobe Bryant’s remains at the 2020 helicopter crash that killed Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others. Citing stress from working the crash, Brian

By Claire Colbert, Bill Kirkos and Brad Parks, CNN Ex-Minneapolis police officers J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao told a judge Monday they have rejected a plea deal offered by state prosecutors for their role in George Floyd’s killing, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s deputy chief of staff said. Their trial, set to begin October

By Claudia Dominguez, Ed Lavandera, Raja Razek and Caroll Alvarado, CNN The suspect in a shooting that killed a 43-year-old coach during a weekend youth football game outside Dallas turned himself in Monday, police said. Yaqub Salik Talib, 39, the brother of former NFL star and Super Bowl winner Aqib Talib, pulled out a gun

By Casey Tolan, CNN When Bob and Debbie Smith signed up for flood insurance years ago, they never expected the storm that transformed the little river next to their backyard into a raging, muddy torrent. They never imagined that they and their cat would need to be rescued from their front porch by a neighbor

By Artemis Moshtaghian and Kiely Westhoff, CNN A New York City taxi driver was killed while chasing after passengers who attempted to rob him in Queens on Saturday, according to the New York City Police Department. Separate organizations are offering a combined $18,500 in rewards for any information leading to the convictions of the suspects

By Nouran Salahieh, CNN Famed author Salman Rushdie is recovering at a hospital after he was repeatedly stabbed on stage Friday in front of a New York audience in an attack that left him with severe injuries, his family said. The family of the 75-year-old author — who has for decades lived under threat because

By Amanda Jackson and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Three people were injured in a shooting in the parking lot of the Six Flags Great America amusement park in Gurnee, Illinois, Sunday night, the park and police confirmed. At around 8 p.m., the Gurnee Police Department responded to multiple 911 calls reporting shots fired at the park,

By Amir Vera and Claudia Dominguez, CNN One man is dead and four other people were injured early Sunday after a mass shooting ended a late-night party in Phoenix, Arizona, according to a news release from city police. The Gun Violence Archive — as well as CNN — defines a mass shooting as any incident

By Andrew Torgan, CNN Did you go on a health kick during the pandemic? A lot of people did. And with millions suddenly working from home and gyms shut down from coast to coast, fitness equipment makers like Peloton saw their sales skyrocket. But my oh my … how times have changed. Here’s what else you

By Eric Levenson, CNN In the Supreme Court decision overturning a New York gun law, the three liberal justices opened their dissent by citing data from two of the leading researchers of gun violence in America. The first was the CDC. The second was the Gun Violence Archive. “Since the start of this year (2022),

By Tina Burnside, CNN A man was arrested on suspicion of driving his car into a crowd Saturday evening in Pennsylvania, killing one person and injuring 17 others, before killing his mother later that night in a neighboring county, authorities said. The car plowed into a crowd in Columbia County’s Berwick Borough for an all-day

By Paradise Afshar, CNN Two people died after a small plane crashed into a building in Illinois on Saturday afternoon, authorities said. The pilot of the single-engine Mooney M20 reported an engine issue before the aircraft crashed near Highway 116 in Hanna City, about 170 miles south of Chicago, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Virginia Zoo welcomed the birth of an adorable, endangered ape — and they’re offering the public the chance to name the rare primate. The baby siamang was born on June 26 to parents Malana and Bali, according to a news release from the zoo. Siamangs are black-furred, tree-dwelling primates found

By Nouran Salahieh, Nicki Brown, Liam Reilly and Samantha Beech, CNN The renowned author Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and continues to recover after being repeatedly stabbed during an on-stage attack in western New York on Friday that left him hospitalized. “He’s off the ventilator, so the road to recovery has begun,”

By Rebekah Riess and Sara Smart, CNN A high-altitude meteor which blew up when it hit the atmosphere “is likely the best theory” for a loud boom heard across portions of northern Utah and southern Idaho on Saturday, said Utah Gov. Spencer Cox. Cox, a Republican, said in a tweet he heard a loud boom

By Paul Vercammen, CNN “When Jackie Robinson stepped on the field as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, for us Black folk, it was our Neil Armstrong landing on the moon,” said Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City. Now, 75 years after Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier,

By Jason Kravarik, CNN Amid heavy fog and dense brush, eight members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department set off on foot up the remote terrain of the Santa Monica Mountains. It was about 10 a.m. on January 26, 2020, and a helicopter had just crashed. Smoke filled the air and first responders did

By Rebekah Riess, CNN The family of Army Spc. Vanessa Guillén, who disappeared from Fort Hood, Texas, in 2020 and was later found dead, filed a case Friday seeking $35 million in damages from the Department of the Army, according to a court filing and Natalie Khawam, attorney for Guillén’s family. The case claims that

By Claire Colbert, CNN About 133,000 people in the Greater Detroit area remain under a boil water advisory Sunday, a day after a leak was discovered in a 120-inch water transmission main that distributes water from the Lake Huron Water Treatment Facility to residents, the Great Lakes Water Authority said. That’s down from 935,000 people

By Zoe Sottile, CNN When teacher and recreational caver Rick Haley set out to help map a cave on August 6, he had no idea he would end up staging a rescue mission — let alone reuniting a lost dog with her owner. Haley, along with a team of around 30 spelunkers, was mapping a

By Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN An employment discrimination lawsuit filed by a former Delta Air Lines flight attendant says she was fired for posting an image of former President Donald Trump wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood on her personal Facebook page. The plaintiff, Leondra Taylor, who is Black, admitted she posted a cartoon image on

By Topher Gauk-Roger and Josh Campbell, CNN The captain of a San Diego vessel that sank in 2021 killing three of 32 smuggled migrants on board was sentenced to 18 years in prison Friday, the US Attorney’s Office said in a release. Antonio Hurtado, 40, was charged with attempting to bring people into the US

By Jacquelyne Germain, CNN Behind glass-fronted cabinets in a University of Pennsylvania classroom, the skulls of Black Philadelphians whose remains were either graverobbed or unethically obtained were on display until 2020. For nearly six years, students had been taking introductory and advanced anthropology classes surrounded by a couple hundred skulls that made up only a

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Buying diapers and feminine hygiene products is about to get just a little bit easier for Coloradans. HB22-1055, also known as the Sales Tax Exemption Essential Hygiene Products Act, went into effect on Wednesday. “From now on in Colorado, there will no longer be state sales tax on diapers and feminine

By Paul P. Murphy, Aya Elamroussi, Nicki Brown, Samantha Beech, Liam Reilly and Ray Sanchez, CNN The man suspected of stabbing renowned author Salman Rushdie in western New York pleaded not guilty Saturday to attempted murder in the second degree and other charges, his attorney says. Hadi Matar, 24, is accused of stabbing Rushdie —

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A Florida alligator was euthanized after bystanders spotted the reptile swimming with a knife stuck between its eyes, officials say. An alligator trapper captured the injured gator July 1 in a pond in Deltona, Florida, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission told CNN in a statement. Several passersby had shared

By Zoe Sottile, CNN For most people, winning the lottery is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. But one Delaware man was lucky enough to win the lottery twice — in just two months. Powerline technician Duane Ketterman regularly crosses the state line to work in Maryland and buys lottery tickets on his visits, according to a news

By Jennifer Henderson, CNN The Department of Justice has launched an investigation into the Southern Baptist Convention and its entities on the heels of an explosive report that detailed the mishandling of allegations of sexual abuse by church leaders, the SBC said in a statement Friday. The report in May by a third-party firm, Guidepost

By Andy Rose, CNN A Texas man died Thursday shortly after being convicted of child sexual abuse. The prosecutor said Edward Leclair was seen drinking a bottle of liquid before having a medical emergency. “As these verdicts were being read, he chugged a bottle of water he had at counsel table,” Denton County Assistant District

By Paradise Afshar and Chuck Johnston, CNN At least 15 people were injured Friday evening after a rideshare driver carrying a passenger crashed into an Arlington, Virginia, pub and caused a structure fire, police said. Nine patients were transported to area hospitals, according to the Arlington County Police Department. Six patients were treated for non-life-threatening

By Claudia Dominguez, CNN While authorities in Evansville, Indiana, work to determine what caused a deadly house explosion earlier this week, a utility company said preliminary information indicates there were no natural gas leaks at the time. “The information we have thus far, we are reporting that there are no indications of issues with CenterPoint

By Natasha Chen, CNN Photos taken at the scene of the fatal helicopter crash that killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others were shared by a Los Angeles County firefighter during the cocktail hour at an awards ceremony a month after the crash, according to witness testimony. On Wednesday, the trial was

By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN The man being investigated for possibly planning to harm an Iranian journalist and activist was indicted on a firearms charge, according to a document unsealed Thursday. Khalid Mehdiyev was charged by a federal grand jury with possessing a firearm with an “obliterated” serial number, according to the indictment. Mehdiyev was driving

By Ray Sanchez, Adam Thomas, Kristina Sgueglia, Samantha Beech, Paul P. Murphy, and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Salman Rushdie — a celebrated author and winner of the world’s top literary prizes whose writings generated death threats — was attacked and stabbed at least twice on stage Friday before a lecture he was scheduled to give at

Amy Simonson, CNN A woman was killed on Wednesday after being struck by a beach umbrella that was being blown in the wind in an unincorporated area of Horry County. Tammy Perreault, 63, was struck by the umbrella while at Beach Access 14, according to a Horry County Emergency Management incident report. According to the

By Rosa Flores and Peter Nickeas, CNN As details about failures of the police response to the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, have trickled out through leaks and incomplete official reviews, it’s still not clear more than two months later to what extent any of the agencies involved are investigating individual and systemic mistakes in

By Paradise Afshar and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A firefighter died while battling a wildfire in southwestern Oregon after he was struck by a tree, officials said Thursday. Collin Hagan, 27, died Wednesday while he was fighting the Big Swamp Fire near Oakridge, Oregon, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement posted on social

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Josh Campbell, Brynn Gingras and Paul P. Murphy, CNN An armed man suspected of trying to breach the FBI’s Cincinnati field office Thursday was killed in Ohio after a vehicle chase and hours-long standoff with law enforcement, authorities say. The suspect was believed to be armed with an AR-15 rifle and a

By Ashley Killough and Ed Lavandera, CNN Muhammad Syed, the suspect arrested this week in connection with killings of two Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico, had previous run-ins with authorities that included domestic violence arrests and had appeared volatile to others, according to police reports and CNN interviews with community members. Syed, 51, is

By Amir Vera and Maria Cartaya, CNN A South Carolina judge revoked bond Thursday for Curtis Edward Smith, the man accused of shooting disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh in the head last year in an alleged insurance fraud scheme. Smith, a former acquaintance and client of Murdaugh, faces a myriad of charges in relation to his

By Paul P. Murphy, Josh Campbell and Brynn Gingras, CNN An account bearing the name of Ricky Shiffer, the man authorities say they killed after he tried Thursday to breach an FBI field office in Cincinnati, made posts on the social media platform founded by Donald Trump referencing the attempt to storm the office and

By Chuck Johnston and Emma Tucker, CNN On the five-year anniversary of a violent White nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the city is pausing to reflect on the events of that weekend and hold several remembrance events in the coming days. The Unite the Right rally took place from August 11 to 12, 2017, and

By Chuck Johnston, CNN New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella says that investigators have concluded from biological evidence that Harmony Montgomery was murdered in Manchester, New Hampshire, in early December 2019. Formella says that the case is now officially a homicide investigation. “At this point, while Harmony’s remains have not yet been located, we do

By Josh Campbell, Brynn Gingras, Paul P. Murphy and Dakin Andone, CNN A law enforcement standoff with a man who attempted to breach the FBI’s field office in Cincinnati on Thursday has ended with the suspect dead, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Lt. Nathan Dennis said that after negotiations failed, law enforcement officers

By Michelle Watson, CNN A former Boston public high school dean and alleged Latin Kings recruiter pleaded guilty Tuesday to racketeering charges according to a news release from the US Attorney’s Office for the district of Massachusetts. Shaun Harrison entered a plea agreement last week, according to court documents. The plea agreement stated Harrison agreed

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN When Frances Garrett lost her mentally ill daughter to police violence in 2014, she channeled her grief by demanding change. Garrett said Phoenix police fatally shot Michelle Cusseaux at her apartment after she threatened officers with a hammer. Police, Garrett said, were not properly trained to respond to someone like

By Jade Gordon and Preston Fore, CNN A city council in Alabama has voted to dissolve its three-member police department after the assistant chief sent a racist text message to other officers, according to the mayor, James Latimer. At an emergency meeting of the Vincent City Council on August 4, members moved to suspend with

By Jason Kravarik, Natasha Chen, Amir Vera and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Vanessa Bryant walked out of court Thursday afternoon during testimony that described images taken at the scene of the fatal helicopter crash that killed her husband, NBA legend Kobe Bryant, her daughter and seven others. The scene took place during the second day of

By Nouran Salahieh and Paradise Afshar, CNN The man accused of fatally shooting two Muslim men in Albuquerque appeared in court for the first time Wednesday as investigators continued to search for a motive and probe whether he’s connected to two other killings. Muhammad Syed, 51, of Albuquerque, is the primary suspect in the killings

By Claudia Dominguez and Michelle Watson, CNN The cause of the Evansville, Indiana, house explosion that left three dead and damaged at least 39 homes is still undetermined, Evansville Fire Chief Michael Connelly said Thursday evening. Connelly retracted his earlier statement that said the house explosion was accidental. “I have to retract the accidental comment,

By Faith Karimi, CNN Sesame Place has announced new measures to expand its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts following a class action lawsuit alleging racial bias. Last month, a Black family accused Sesame Place Philadelphia character performers of racial discrimination and filed a lawsuit against parent company SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment in federal court in

By Eric Levenson, Natasha Chen and Jason Kravarik, CNN A jury of six women and four men was selected Wednesday in Vanessa Bryant’s lawsuit against Los Angeles County over gruesome photos taken of the fatal helicopter crash that killed her husband Kobe, daughter Gianna and seven others. Opening statements in the trial began Wednesday afternoon.

By Rebekah Riess, CNN Yaser Abdel Said was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after being found guilty of capital murder in the 2008 killings of his two daughters, 18-year-old Amina and 17-year-old Sarah, according to a news release from the office of Dallas County Criminal District Attorney John Creuzot. On

By Chris Boyette, CNN A man accused of shooting three people in a Dallas hair salon in May has been indicted on seven counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon as a hate crime, according to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office. “A Dallas County Grand Jury has returned multiple indictments on Jeremy Smith,

By Dakin Andone, CNN The pitcher for the Texas East Little League team hung his head, clearly upset after his last pitch hit the 12-year-old Oklahoma batter in the head, knocking off his helmet and leaving him lying in the dirt at home plate. But Isaiah Jarvis, who at first had gripped his head, soon

By Taylor Romine, CNN A 75-year-old man was arrested last week and charged in the 1982 rape and murder of a teenage girl in California after DNA connected him to the scene, officials announced Tuesday. Karen Stitt, 15, was last seen by her boyfriend when he left her near a Sunnyvale, California, bus stop the

By Nouran Salahieh and Christina Maxouris, CNN Hundreds of tips poured in after Albuquerque police sounded an alarm about the shooting deaths of four Muslim men in the city, leading to an arrest, authorities said Tuesday. Though authorities are still searching for a motive and working to confirm whether all four of the killings are

By Ashley Killough, Ed Lavandera and Christina Maxouris, CNN Authorities have arrested 51-year-old Muhammad Syed as a suspect in the killings of two Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico, they said Tuesday — slayings that along with two other killings of Muslim men in recent months have put the city’s Islamic community on edge. Hours

By Mark Morales, Amir Vera, Maria Santana, Priscilla Alvarez, Kristina Sgueglia and Zenebou Sylla, CNN More migrants continued arriving in New York City Wednesday, a day after city officials took aim at Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for busing migrants detained at the border to the city as part of his campaign to draw attention to

By Chuck Johnston, CNN A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the White woman who accused 14-year-old Emmett Till of making advances toward her nearly 70 years ago, allegations that led to the Black teen’s brutal death. A Leflore County grand jury last week heard seven hours of testimony from investigators and witnesses

By Nick Watt, CNN Across Tennessee, pitching a tent on public land outside of designated camp sites is now a felony offense. Tennessee is the first state in the nation to take such a draconian step, but it’s just one of a number of states essentially criminalizing homelessness in an effort to reduce the number

By Stella Chan, CNN Friends, family and authorities are scrambling to find 16-year-old Kiely Rodni after she disappeared following a campground party in Northern California. Kiely was at the Prosser Family Campground on Friday night and was last seen around 12:30 a.m. Saturday, the Placer County Sheriff’s Office said. “We are treating her disappearance as

By Omar Jimenez, CNN The Ramsey County Board of Commissioners in Minnesota on Tuesday approved a nearly $1.5 million settlement agreement for eight correctional officers of color who were barred from guarding former police officer Derek Chauvin in 2020. The correctional officers claimed in a lawsuit last year that the Ramsey County Adult Detention Center

By Dakin Andone and Chuck Johnston, CNN The family of Gabby Petito has submitted a $50 million claim against the Moab, Utah, Police Department, arguing the 22-year-old may not have been killed last year by her fiancé if officers had recognized he was the “true primary aggressor” in a domestic dispute about two weeks before