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By Nicole Chavez, CNN An abortion fund that helps hundreds of women in the southernmost region of Texas each year has stopped answering its hotline…

By Aya Elamroussi and Andy Rose, CNN A former nurse pleaded guilty Thursday to sexually assaulting an intellectually disabled woman in an Arizona…

By Mallika Kallingal, CNN Ida blasted ashore as a powerful Category 4 hurricane Sunday, slamming the Gulf Coast with devastating force. The storm…

By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN Lake Tahoe ski resorts near the Caldor Fire in Northern California are helping firefighter crews hold off the flames.…

By Rebekah Riess, CNN The Louisiana Department of Health on Thursday reported the deaths of four nursing home residents who had been evacuated to a…

Gabriel Kinder, CNN While the scope of the damage from Hurricane Ida is just coming into focus, Liz McCartney and her team at SBP are already…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at controversial police encounters that have prompted protests over the past three decades. This select…

By Dakin Andone, CNN A day after Colorado’s attorney general announced indictments against three police officers and two paramedics involved in…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a list of incidents of elementary, middle and high school violence with at least one fatality, from 1927 to the…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Michael Skakel, the nephew of Ethel Kennedy. Skakel was convicted in 2002 of the 1975…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at notable terror attacks with fatalities on US soil since 1980. 1978-1995 – Three people die and 23…

By Eric Levenson, CNN Camilla Akbari boarded a 7:43 p.m. New Jersey Transit train on Wednesday night from New York Penn Station hoping to get to her…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the rebuilding of Ground Zero in lower Manhattan and the memorial to the victims of the September 11…

By Faith Karimi, CNN A suspect is in custody after a shooting left one student dead in North Carolina. It was the second shooting in three days at a…

By Nicole Chavez, CNN A Texas high school principal who found himself in the middle of a controversy over critical race theory was placed on paid…

By Melissa Mahtani, Melissa Macaya, Meg Wagner, Joshua Berlinger, Amy Woodyatt, Aditi Sangal, Adam Renton and Ed Upright, CNN The-CNN-Wire™…

By Sonia Moghe, CNN For the first time since R. Kelly and Aaliyah’s 1994 wedding, the minister who officiated spoke publicly about it as he…

By Emma Tucker, CNN A new pro-gun law in Texas that went into effect Wednesday allows most Texans who legally own a firearm to carry it openly in…

By David Williams, CNN A Texas school district is closing all of its schools until after the Labor Day holiday after two junior high teachers died of…

By Elizabeth Stuart, CNN An Oregon schools superintendent was fired during a Monday night school board meeting, after he enforced the state’s…

By Lauren M. Johnson and Ariane de Vogue, CNN A Texas high school valedictorian, who went viral after she changed her speech to speak out against the…

By Claudia Dominguez and Jason Hanna, CNN One student was fatally wounded Wednesday in a shooting at a high school in the North Carolina city of…

By Nicole Chavez, CNN A new Texas law aimed at restricting discussions of race and history in schools has some educators second guessing themselves…

By Eric Levenson and Stella Chan, CNN A Colorado grand jury indicted three police officers and two paramedics involved in the August 2019 death of…

By Eric Levenson and Gary Tuchman, CNN Grand Isle, Louisiana’s last remaining inhabited barrier island at the southern tip of the state, bore…

By Jean Casarez, CNN USA Gymnastics is proposing a $425 million settlement with sexual abuse victims as part of a reorganization plan submitted…

By Daniel Wolfe and Priya Krishnakumar, CNN As students and staff return to school, the highly transmissible Delta variant of Covid-19 has caused…

By Catherine E. Shoichet, Madeleine Stix and Ana Maria Luengo-Romero, CNN Casandra shouts to her sister as she races to her bedroom. “She…

By Holly Yan, CNN Storm victims returning to damaged homes after Ida face a torrent of challenges — if they’re lucky enough to have a…

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN A controversial Texas law that bans abortions at six weeks is now in effect after the Supreme Court and a federal appeals court…

By Cheri Mossburg, CNN Federal forest officials closed trails and campgrounds in a remote area near Yosemite National Park because of “unknown…

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Search and rescue efforts are underway after a US Navy helicopter crashed off the San Diego coast Tuesday, officials said.…

By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN A group of young Black men executed after being convicted by all-White juries of allegedly raping a White woman have been…

By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN An artist from Lake Tahoe played music while on the road to put the anxiety of evacuating from the Caldor Fire behind him,…

By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN Fifteen people are facing charges connected to a fake Covid-19 vaccination card conspiracy involving the sale of forged…

By Leyla Santiago and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN Broward and Alachua counties in Florida are moving forward with mask mandates for their public school…

By Ryan Young, Hannah Sarisohn and Steve Almasy, CNN Two Chicago-area freshmen, Lilly and McKenna, were on the Tulane campus for just a week when…

By Melissa Gray, CNN Organizers of the annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee have canceled this year’s event, citing flooding…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Hurricanes, wildfires, floods, heat waves, and drought wreaking havoc on much of the United States paint a picture of a nation…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the warning signs that preceded the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Timeline 1988 –…

By Scottie Andrew, CNN The “Harlem Hellfighters” helped the US win World War I. The Black infantry unit was one of the most decorated…

By Rosa Flores, CNN Michelle Woodard’s voice broke and her body shook with emotion as she described the moment she learned her 8-year-old…

By Joe Sutton, CNN Authorities in Louisiana are investigating an apparent fatal alligator attack on a 71-year-old man as he walked in floodwaters…

By AJ Willingham, CNN As many as 750,000 households are so far behind on rent they could be evicted this year, according to an estimate from Goldman…

By Joe Sutton, CNN Two people were killed and 10 others injured after part of a highway washed away Monday night near the town of Lucedale,…

By Sonia Moghe, CNN A man identified only as “Louis” testified Monday at R. Kelly’s trial, saying the singer lured him to his home…

By Amir Vera, Rebekah Riess and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN Already overwhelmed by a surge in Covid-19 cases, Louisiana hospitals are now struggling with…

By Amir Vera and Ed Lavandera, CNN Residents of LaPlace endured hours of harsh winds and rising water as Hurricane Ida’s fierce winds blew…

By Eric Levenson, Madeline Holcombe and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN A farm worker has been sentenced to life in prison with no eligibility for parole for…

By Christina Carrega and Priya Krishnakumar, CNN More than 10,000 people reported to law enforcement last year that they were the victim of a hate…

By Sarah Moon and Eric Levenson, CNN Griddy Energy customers won’t be financially responsible for the sky-high electricity bills charged during…

By Ralph Ellis, CNN Rylee McCollum’s family in Wyoming wasn’t surprised in the least when he enlisted in the Marines after high school.…

By Eric Levenson, CNN Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana on Sunday, exactly 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the state…

By Faith Karimi, CNN A piece of New Orleans’ jazz history is now a pile of rubble. When Hurricane Ida hit the city Sunday, the storm knocked…

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Middle Tennessee remains deep in recovery mode after last week’s deadly and destructive flooding — and it…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of former activist and seven-time Emmy Award winning actor Ed Asner. Personal Birth date: November…

By AJ Willingham, CNN Pandemic unemployment benefits expire this coming weekend in the 26 states still offering them. But that probably won’t…

By Madeleine Fitzgerald, Paul P. Murphy and Susannah Cullinane, CNN “There was an explosion. And just like that, she’s gone.”…

By Lauren Lee, CNN Hurricane Ida made landfall on August 29 near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, as an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane with winds…

By Christina Maxouris, CNN Four young siblings who had been hiding alone in an apartment in Afghanistan’s capital reunited with their mother on…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the 9/11 Commission, whose report was released on July 22, 2004. Facts The Commission was created to…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) and the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of…