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By Ben Burnstein, CNN The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan is particularly disheartening to Americans who fought there. Across 20 years of…

By Scottie Andrew, CNN It’s day two of philanthropy round. Will you be wearing the Pants Store skort with the Kendra Scott earrings, or the…

By Raja Razek and Ray Sanchez, CNN Five mortuary trailers have been requested by the health services department in Texas, which is seeing a surge in…

By Jill Martin, Kay Jones and Eric Levenson, CNN The NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders announced Monday that the franchise will require fans to provide…

By AJ Willingham, CNN Grace has strengthened into a tropical storm again, threatening the Caribbean with mudslides and flooding. That includes…

By Mallory Simon and Steve Almasy, CNN About a week after classes started, one Tampa-area school system has called an emergency meeting to discuss…

By Rebekah Riess and Amir Vera, CNN A state investigation into a dog muzzle that was sent to Tennessee’s former vaccine manager closed Monday…

By Liam Reilly, Mirna Alsharif and Taylor Romine, CNN Republicans in New York’s Nassau County are “discussing next steps” in…

By Jennifer Henderson and Polo Sandoval, CNN Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke has been hospitalized with Covid-19 and placed on a ventilator, according to…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The federal government on Monday declared a water shortage on the Colorado River for the first time, triggering mandatory…

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN The New York State Department of Health issued an order Monday requiring all health care workers be vaccinated against…

By Keely Aouga and Taylor Romine, CNN Fifty-five years ago this month, a group of transgender women in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco…

By Gregory Lemos and Alta Spells, CNN As students return for the first day of school in Lancaster County, South Carolina, the district’s…

By Dakin Andone, CNN As the United States withdraws from Afghanistan, the world has watched as the Taliban has swiftly taken back control of the…

By Rosa Flores, Keith Allen and Alaa Elassar, CNN The Texas Supreme Court sided with Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday in a ruling that temporarily blocks…

By Kay Jones and Alaa Elassar, CNN A Texas man is dead and another person was injured after a double-decker party boat capsized in bad weather…

By Deanna Hackney and Susannah Cullinane, CNN An unknown suspect shot two young girls, killing one and leaving the other “fighting for her…

By Faith Karimi, CNN Taliyah Rice returns next week for her final year of high school in suburban Chicago. She’s anxious about going back to…

By Alta Spells and Alaa Elassar, CNN Parents and students in a Colorado school district will see more law enforcement officers as tensions flare amid…

By Sahar Akbarzai and Alaa Elassar, CNN Police are investigating after human remains were found in a large plastic container last week in a New…

By Kelly Murray, CNN An argument between two people at a bar in San Antonio, Texas, ended in a mass shooting early Sunday, with three people killed…

By Kelly Murray, CNN Michigan State Police are investigating after a police chase in Galesburg on Saturday night that ended with a suspect dead and a…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of George Mitchell, former US senator (D-Maine). Personal Birth date: August 20, 1933 Birth place:…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Personal: Birth date: August 21, 1973 Birth place: Moscow,…

By Nicole Chavez, CNN Bárbara Abadía-Rexach spent months appearing in webinars and radio shows talking to Puerto Ricans about why they should…

By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN Teachers are already struggling to do their job during a pandemic. But it’s worse for those working in states where…

By Kevin Dotson, CNN Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer, last year’s National League Cy Young Award winner, is denying allegations made…

By Ashley Vaughan, CNN “She’s like a sister for me,” Laila Alsheikh tells CNN, reflecting on colleague and friend Robi Damelin.…

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN A tour bus headed to Niagara Falls crashed Saturday, sending all 57 occupants, including the driver, to local hospitals…

By Elizabeth Joseph and Liam Reilly, CNN Comedian and former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Horatio Sanz is accused of grooming and…

By Alaa Elassar, CNN US Customs and Border Protection officers in Memphis, Tennessee, have seized thousands of fake Covid-19 vaccination cards so far…

By Ray Sanchez, CNN Mizgon Darby was an 18-year-old college freshman when she started a journal 20 years ago giving voice to the growing numbers of…

By Rebekah Riess and Steve Almasy, CNN A Georgia grand jury has indicted one man for murder and another on related charges in the shooting death of…

By Alaa Elassar, CNN A coyote attacked a small child on a Massachusetts beach, prompting fears of a rabies infection, according to the National Park…

By Christina Maxouris, CNN Michael Kagan, a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, says the cancerous lymph nodes in his neck are like a…

By Laura Studley, CNN Three former Philadelphia Police Department detectives have been charged with perjury and false swearing stemming from a 1991…

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The California Department of Justice will not pursue criminal charges against utility company Southern California Edison for…

By Christina Maxouris, CNN Just days after fall classes started for Florida’s Brevard Public Schools and after the school board voted against a…

By Lauren M. Johnson and Cheri Mossburg, CNN An elementary school teacher in Northern California was hospitalized after being attacked by a parent…

By Carma Hassan and Christina Maxouris, CNN Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations are surging and in Dallas County, Texas, there are “zero ICU…

By Kay Jones, CNN A Florida woman died after being shot by her toddler while she was on a Zoom conference call, police say. Shamaya Lynn, 21, was on…

By Dakin Andone, CNN An Arkansas father of a 1-year-old hospitalized with Covid-19 is telling people to get vaccinated so another parent…

By David Williams, CNN Entomologists in Washington state are setting up traps and urging people to be on the lookout after a “murder…

By Dakin Andone and Leyla Santiago, CNN The week before classes begin, three educators in Broward County, Florida, have died within about 24 hours of…

By AJ Willingham, CNN The first child tax credit from the IRS seems to have had a big impact on American families. If you got one, you may want to…

By Aya Elamroussi and Rebekah Riess, CNN People in New Orleans will be required to show either proof of vaccination or a recent negative Covid-19…

By Alta Spells, CNN A doctor in Middle Tennessee began his message with a stark and simple warning. “No beds. There are no beds.” Dr.…

By Emma Tucker and Omar Jimenez, CNN “It is an outrage,” wrote Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown. His statement was in reaction…

By Lauren M. Johnson and Rebekah Riess, CNN Two Atlanta-area high-school basketball coaches have been charged with second-degree murder after the…

By Rebekah Riess and Christina Maxouris, CNN As Covid-19 numbers surge across the country, officials in parts of Florida and Tennessee are warning…

By Amir Vera and Laura Ly, CNN A Los Angeles County judge has dismissed one of the 11 charges in an indictment of Harvey Weinstein, according to Greg…

By Chris Boyette, CNN More than 80 students were potentially exposed to Covid-19 on the first day of class in Reno, Nevada, on Monday after a parent…

By Amir Vera and Amara Walker, CNN Tense confrontations, yelling and accusations of spitting were seen Thursday as parents gathered for a protest…

By Amir Vera and Cheri Mossburg, CNN San Francisco became the the first major US city to mandate proof of full vaccinations for certain indoor…

By Eric Levenson, CNN The bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the US Senate this week would require new motor vehicles to have an alert system…

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN The United States is deeply divided in how Americans view the nation’s progress toward racial equality and much of…

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN A Virginia school board whose heated meeting in June gained national attention has voted to expand the rights of its…

By Meg Dunn, CNN In 2005, Michele Neff Hernandez and her husband, Phillip, were enjoying the active life they built as a couple. “We hiked. We…

By Leah Asmelash, CNN Since rising to fame with her inauguration poem, Amanda Gorman has stayed busy — appearing on the cover of magazines and…

By Dakin Andone, CNN There is no indication two weeks after Lollapalooza that the music festival contributed to a spike in Covid-19 infections, a…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Dolly Parton, the Grammy Award-winning singer, song writer, producer and actress. Personal…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Olympic and world champion figure skater Scott Hamilton. Personal Birth date: August 28,…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of US Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. Personal Birth date: August 29, 1967 Birth place: Denver,…

By Travis Caldwell, Keith Allen and Carma Hassan, CNN With the spread of the more transmissible Delta variant and lagging vaccination rates, states…