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By Jay Croft and Amanda Watts, CNN A woman was struck and killed by lightning Thursday while picking up her child from school in central Florida,…

By Jason Hanna, Jason Carroll and Carolyn Sung, CNN After just this week fracturing his skull in a fall from a bunk bed, Easton “Tank”…

Essay by Dana Bash, CNN In the weeks leading up to Chanukah last year, my then-10-year-old son told me that he thought he wanted a Jewish star…

By Andy Rose and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A ban on teachers displaying Pride materials in classrooms or writing their pronouns in email signatures will…

By Hannah Sarisohn and Omar Jimenez, CNN A Chicago police sergeant was charged Thursday with felony official misconduct and aggravated battery six…

By Stephanie Elam and Mike Valerio, CNN More than 4 million people facing Southern California’s prolonged drought have been asked to suspend…

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN The remains of a 23-year-old from Utah who was killed during a bombing mission in World War II have been identified, a federal…

By Sonia Moghe, CNN Twenty years after she denied to a grand jury that R. Kelly had sex with her as a girl and recorded some of their encounters, the…

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Amy Simonson and Rob Frehse, CNN Three men have been indicted in the beating death of imprisoned Boston gangster and convicted…

By Nouran Salahieh, Natasha Chen and Jason Kravarik, CNN Christopher Chester, who lost his wife and daughter in the helicopter crash that also killed…

By Amir Vera and Zenebou Sylla, CNN A third Black woman has been arrested and charged for making “anti-White” statements in connection…

By Kiely Westhoff and Emma Tucker, CNN Two men and a teenage girl wanted in connection with an attempted robbery and fatal assault of a New York taxi…

By Laura Studley and Tina Burnside, CNN Three people were killed after two planes crashed mid-air over the Watsonville Municipal Airport in…

By Amir Vera, Jason Carroll, Carolyn Sung and Matt Foster, CNN Easton “Tank” Oliverson is expected to make a full recovery after falling…

By AJ Willingham, CNN Life would be much more simple with a few directions. A status bar, for instance, to remind you to take care of yourself.…

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Shila rushes into the living room when she hears her nephew scream. He’s just stepped on a staple that was…

By Rebekah Riess and Holly Yan, CNN A brain-eating amoeba typically found in freshwater lakes and rivers may have killed a child in what would be…

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Amber Escudero-Kontostathis is the only survivor of a deadly lightning strike outside the White House earlier this month,…

By Nicki Brown, Jason Hanna and Holly Yan, CNN The man accused of stabbing award-winning author Salman Rushdie and injuring another speaker on stage…

By Scottie Andrew, CNN The Hawaii most tourists see is one of azure waters and towering resorts, of “aloha” and “ohana” and…

By Paradise Afshar and Kacey Cherry, CNN A man accused of killing at least two Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico, will remain in custody as he…

By Amir Vera and Taylor Romine, CNN Frederick Woods was 24 years old in 1976 when he and two other men kidnapped a bus full of children in northern…

By Nouran Salahieh and Jason Kravarik, CNN In court Wednesday, a Los Angeles County fire captain denied using photos from the helicopter crash that…

By Taylor Romine and Amir Vera, CNN The cause of death of actress Anne Heche was ruled an accident Wednesday by the Los Angeles County Department of…

By Sonia Moghe, CNN The girl allegedly seen in multiple child pornography tapes from the late 1990s having sex with R. Kelly is expected to testify…

By Amanda Watts, CNN An “irate parent” was arrested after she boarded a Georgia school bus and discharged a can of pepper spray —…

By Brad Parks, CNN Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane, who was sentenced last month to two and a half years in prison for violating George…

By Chris Boyette, CNN A tour plane carrying six French tourists and a pilot crashed into Lake Powell in Utah Saturday, killing two people and…

By Rebekah Riess, CNN A Wisconsin man was arrested and charged in the 1992 killings of two people after his DNA was obtained during a traffic stop…

By Jason Hanna and Aya Elamroussi, CNN With temperatures in parts of California expected to exceed 100 degrees Wednesday, Golden State residents are…

By Kevin Dotson, Amir Vera and Matt Foster, CNN The 12-year-old player in the Little League World Series who fell from a bunk bed is no longer under…

By Amir Vera and Jamiel Lynch, CNN The co-pilot who fell to his death after getting off an aircraft mid-flight in North Carolina may have been sick…

By Jason Kravarik and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Deputies responding to the helicopter crash that killed basketball star Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna…

By David Williams, Caroll Alvarado and Jamiel Lynch, CNN A group of high school football players in northern Georgia jumped out of their cars while…

By Mark Morales, CNN A 40-year-old man was indicted Tuesday for allegedly stabbing two homeless men while they slept in separate incidents, killing…

By Justin Gamble, CNN A Black firefighter in upstate New York alleges a commanding officer pressured him to attend a private party in July that…

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN More human skeletal remains were discovered at Lake Mead’s Swim Beach area Monday night, officials said, marking the…

By Jason Hanna, CNN Oklahoma’s governor on Tuesday ordered that the scheduled September execution of death row inmate Richard Glossip be…

By Raja Razek, CNN The brother of a US service member killed in a terrorist attack outside Afghanistan’s Kabul airport in August of last year…

By Amir Vera, CNN The fate of the Uvalde school district’s police chief could be decided next week now that the school board has rescheduled a…

By Sonia Moghe, CNN A jury has been selected and sworn in for the Chicago federal child pornography and obstruction trial for R. Kelly and two of…

By Virginia Langmaid, CNN A civil and human rights advocacy organization has filed suit against officials in Lexington, Mississippi following alleged…

By Amanda Watts and Jason Hanna, CNN A 10-year-old boy had part of his leg amputated after a shark bit him while he was snorkeling off the Florida…

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…

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…

By Amy Simonson, Jennifer Feldman, Alisha Ebrahimji and Jennifer Henderson, CNN Maine Capitol Police screener Craig Donahue was returning from his…

By Aya Elamroussi and Mark Morales, CNN Award-winning author Salman Rushdie is awake and “articulate” in his conversations with…

By Mark Morales, CNN The Manhattan neurologist recently convicted of sexually assaulting, abusing and raping six of his patients died by suicide at…

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…

By Jason Kravarik, CNN A former Los Angeles County fire captain walked off the witness stand three times during testimony Monday while being…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Virginia Zoo welcomed the birth of an adorable, endangered ape — and they’re offering the public the chance to…

By Nouran Salahieh, Nicki Brown, Liam Reilly and Samantha Beech, CNN The renowned author Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and continues…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

By Jacquelyne Germain, CNN Behind glass-fronted cabinets in a University of Pennsylvania classroom, the skulls of Black Philadelphians whose remains…

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…