US & World Archives

Tired of Leap Day? Wish Christmas was always on a Monday? Get on board with the permanent calendar

February 29, 2020 4:52 AM CNN

Imagine if you knew what your schedule would look like for the rest of your life, every day for forever. If every year began on a Monday, and all but…

Officer pleads guilty to killing a female colleague while they played Russian roulette

February 29, 2020 4:37 AM CNN

A St. Louis police officer pleaded guilty to accidentally killing a female colleague at his home last year while they played a form of Russian…

Authorities tracked down the suspect who killed a woman in 1973, but he’s been dead for more than two decades

February 29, 2020 4:34 AM CNN

For more than four decades, one California police department employed every method available in its search for the killer of a 57-year-old apartment…

Woman dies after drinking single sip of wine laced with MDMA

February 29, 2020 4:23 AM CNN

A woman has died after taking a single sip of wine laced with the drug MDMA, prosecutors in the Belgian city of Antwerp have said. The unnamed…

Man charged after he allegedly killed a woman, moved into her house and impersonated her on social media

February 29, 2020 3:41 AM CNN

Federal prosecutors charged a Pennsylvania resident with kidnapping after he allegedly lured a woman he led to believe was his girlfriend to the…

Meet your Girl Scout Cookie match

February 29, 2020 2:06 AM CNN

Girl Scout Cookie Weekend is here, which means the country’s youngest entrepreneurs will come out in droves to peddle their cookies, and…

UCLA gymnast Nia Dennis has crowd falling crazy in love with her Beyoncé-inspired routine

February 28, 2020 10:49 PM CNN

The crowd lost their breath to Nia Dennis’ gymnastics routine last weekend. The University of California, Los Angeles, junior’s amazing…

Congratulations…from space!

February 28, 2020 9:33 PM CNN

Buckle up and let me tell you about a recent moment of completely unexpected, unwarranted kindness: Last weekend, I ran a few races at Walt Disney…

Millions of children across the world aren’t going to school. It’s not just their education that could suffer

February 28, 2020 8:21 PM CNN

For 18-year-old Huang Yiyang, school starts when she opens up her laptop. Over the past two weeks, there have been no school bells, bustling…

13 rescued, 3 missing after boat ‘dump-and-run’ off San Diego coast

February 28, 2020 7:31 PM CNN

At least three people were missing and 13 others sent to hospitals Friday after apparently being dumped from a boat off the coast of San Diego,…

Dow plunges nearly 4,000 points this week amid Coronavirus fears

February 28, 2020 7:32 AM Associated Press, ABC News

NEW YORK — Stocks fell again Friday in another wild day, leaving Wall Street with its worst week since October 2008 as coronavirus fears spread.…

Sheriff’s department investigating whether deputies shared Kobe Bryant crash scene photos

February 28, 2020 6:18 PM CNN

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Friday it was “deeply disturbed” over a report that deputies shared photographs…

Amid lawsuits, Buffalo diocese files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

February 28, 2020 6:01 PM CNN

The Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, amid a sexual abuse scandal, has filed for Chapter 11 federal bankruptcy protection, it said in a statement Friday.…

A Seattle-area school was closed for cleaning after a staff member’s relative was tested for coronavirus

February 28, 2020 4:55 PM CNN

Bothell High School outside Seattle was closed for cleaning on Thursday and Friday after a staff member’s relative was quarantined and tested…

Family of Molson Coors shooting suspect expresses ‘sadness and heartache’

February 28, 2020 3:49 PM CNN

The family of the employee who killed five co-workers at the Molson Coors complex in Milwaukee before taking his own life on Friday expressed…

Much of Houston remains under boil-water notice as crews repair broken water main that supplies about half of the city

February 28, 2020 2:57 PM CNN

Hundreds of schools and businesses in Houston remained closed Friday as crews attempt to repair a water main that provides up to half of the…

An entire Swiss village must evacuate due to a World War II ammo dump. The cleanup could take 10 years

February 28, 2020 2:11 PM CNN

Residents of the Swiss village of Mitholz are going to have to find new homes, so authorities can clean up a crumbling ammunition depot filled with…

Why do we even have a leap year? (Get ready to do some math)

February 28, 2020 2:10 PM CNN

2020 is a leap year, which means we get to enjoy a whole extra day of February, and people born on February 29 finally get some presents. But why do…

Colorado police officer accused of distributing marijuana seized on the job

February 28, 2020 12:46 PM CNN

A policeman has been charged with distributing about a pound of marijuana he confiscated while on duty in December, the Colorado Bureau of…

Tulane University removes its Victory Bell after learning it was originally used on a plantation

February 28, 2020 12:18 PM CNN

Tulane University has removed its Victory Bell after learning that it originally came from a plantation where Africans were enslaved. University…

This astronomy student found 17 new exoplanets — and one is potentially habitable

February 28, 2020 12:15 PM CNN

Michelle Kunimoto has a knack for finding exoplanets, or planets that orbit stars outside of our solar system. The University of British Columbia…

A growing list of US colleges are canceling or rerouting study abroad programs because of the coronavirus

February 28, 2020 11:10 AM CNN

A growing list of American universities have canceled study abroad programs as the novel coronavirus continues to spread. At least seven universities…

Plans are on hold for a Philadelphia safe-injection site to combat overdoses

February 28, 2020 10:08 AM CNN

Plans to open a Philadelphia facility that would allow and supervise the injection of illegal drugs have been put on hold. On Thursday, the nonprofit…

4 kids, from 3 to 4 years old, were taken to a hospital after a car crashed into a Pennsylvania day care center

February 28, 2020 9:16 AM CNN

Four children ages 3 and 4 were injured when a woman crashed her car through the window of a day care center, Pennsylvania authorities say. The black…

Tensions escalate between Kremlin and Ankara after dozens of Turkish troops killed in Syria

February 28, 2020 9:11 AM CNN

Fatigue with Syria’s endless conflict can’t hide the enormity of this moment. It is highly unlikely that the Syrian regime had the will…

Earth has a new mini-moon — but it’s only temporary

February 28, 2020 8:57 AM CNN

It’s not the moon, but you can call it mini-moon. Earth has captured a tiny object and pulled it into orbit. The asteroid, known as 2020 CD3,…

Biggest explosion in the universe spotted by astronomers

February 28, 2020 8:42 AM CNN

A record-breaking explosion created by a black hole 390 million light-years away has been discovered by astronomers. “In some ways, this blast…

Nigeria says it is ready and more than capable of dealing with coronavirus

February 28, 2020 8:34 AM CNN

The head of Nigeria’s National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says the country is more than capable of dealing with coronavirus as…

Did Iran give Trump a foreign policy victory, after all?

February 28, 2020 8:04 AM CNN

All hell didn’t break loose, after all. Before the new coronavirus epidemic gripped the globe — about a million supercharged news cycles…

Houston water main break causes major flooding, submerging cars and filling streets

February 28, 2020 6:09 AM CNN

A water main break Thursday sent water flowing nearly two miles away, submerging some freeways, streets and even cars in east Houston, Harris County…