US & World

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Let’s hear it for the trailblazers. This week, the winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, medicine, chemistry and…

By Alta Spells, CNN A man suspected of a string of crimes, including taking someone hostage and firing a gun at three family members, was fatally…

By Laura Studley, CNN A dispute over wearing a face mask led to the stabbing of an Apple Store security guard Friday, a spokesperson with the New…

By Rebekah Riess, CNN A teacher at a North Carolina charter school has resigned after parents brought to light a number of alleged racist incidents,…

By Travis Caldwell and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN As the search for Brian Laundrie continues in a Florida nature reserve, police said Friday that they…

By Alaa Elassar, CNN Najla Bassim Abdulelah grew up in a war. The regular sight of dead bodies and the memory of her friend being shot next to her as…

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN This was a pretty good week for the world’s wannabe jetsetters. The UK and Israel both cleared out their travel…

By Amir Vera, CNN Jaz Kaner has never experienced an oil spill that closed beaches and waterways in Southern California. The lifelong surfer and…

By Alaa Elassar, CNN The US Marshals Service led a multiagency effort dubbed “Operation Dunder Mifflin” to verify the addresses of…

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Linh Tran, CNN Nearly two weeks after a racist petition to bring back slavery circulated at her daughter’s school,…

By Rob Picheta, CNN At five o’clock in the morning, the esteemed 86-year-old astrophysicist Jim Peebles was woken suddenly by the telephone…

By Rebekah Riess, CNN A single-engine plane crashed and caught fire on Friday during takeoff at an airport just northeast of Atlanta, according to…

By Mallika Kallingal and Jamie Crawford, CNN The Justice Department announced Friday it will not pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against…

By Sarah Moon, CNN The mother of a 15-year-old girl shot and killed Wednesday in a road rage shooting in Oakland, is pleading for the…

By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN The KNP Complex Fire has destroyed many of California’s iconic sequoia trees and is only 11% contained, according to…

By Elizabeth Joseph, CNN A federal jury on Friday found two wealthy parents charged in a national conspiracy that facilitated cheating on college…

By Dakin Andone, Jennifer Henderson and Amanda Watts, CNN A Black father, his son, and their Black real estate agent have filed a federal lawsuit…

By Angela Dewan, Niamh Kennedy and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) acknowledged Friday that access to a…

By Noah Sheidlower and Justin Lear, CNN Swimming deep in the Pacific Ocean, a group of little-known killer whales that eat large sea mammals…