By Forrest Brown, CNN Need more proof it’s been a crazy summer for weather and travel? Look no further than Death Valley National Park. The poster child of US parks for excessive heat and extreme aridity has had to close many of its roads yet again — not because of high temperatures or dust storms.
Continue Reading CNN, WBZ, WHDH, WCVB, WEAR By Jasmine Wright, Priscilla Alvarez and Kate Sullivan, CNN Biden administration officials are set to meet Friday to discuss a multitude of critical immigration issues as the administration responds to Republican governors sending migrants north in protest of President Joe Biden‘s border policies. A White House official said the meeting
Continue Reading By Angela Dewan, CNN An analysis of Pakistan’s devastating floods has found “fingerprints” of the human-made climate crisis on the disaster, which killed more than 1,500 people and destroyed so much land and infrastructure it has plunged the South Asian nation into crisis. The analysis, published Thursday by the World Weather Attribution initiative, was unable
Continue Reading By Scott Glover and Daniel A. Medina, CNN Federal authorities in Kansas on Thursday arrested a retired homicide detective from the Kansas City police department on charges that he kidnapped and sexually assaulted two women decades ago. The charges against Roger Golubski stem from a years-long grand jury probe first disclosed by CNN in October.
Continue Reading By Kaitlan Collins and Kylie Atwood, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday will personally meet with the families of Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan at the White House, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. This will be the first time he has met with them in person. Biden will meet with them separately,
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová, CNN It is a moment for which Britain has been in solemn preparation for years. Multiple official agencies were brought together. Meticulous plans were secretly drawn up. Intricate logistical technicalities were ironed out. A route was carefully mapped out. And no country’s population could have been better prepared for it. We are
Continue Reading By Jason Hanna, Priscilla Alvarez, Lauren Koenig and Gabe Cohen, CNN Texas’ governor says his state intentionally sent two buses of migrants to Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence in the nation’s capital — resulting in a Thursday morning arrival that surprised volunteers who said they weren’t prepared to receive them at that site. The drop-off
Continue Reading By Lucy Kafanov and Chuck Johnston, CNN A girl who was 15 when she killed a man she said raped her multiple times must pay his family $150,000 in restitution, an Iowa judge ruled Tuesday. Pieper Lewis, who killed her alleged rapist in 2020, received a deferred judgment from Polk County District Judge David Porter
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Business The US economy can keep running without freight trains — but not for long. That is why the risk of the first national railroad strike in 30 years is so worrying to economists and businesses. A brief work stoppage — some previous rail strikes have lasted only
Continue Reading By Mark Morales and Ray Sanchez, CNN The 30-year-old mother of three children found unresponsive on the Coney Island shoreline in Brooklyn has been arrested and charged in their deaths, a law enforcement official told CNN Wednesday. Erin Merdy has been charged with three counts of second-degree murder, three counts of depraved indifference to human
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, Denise Royal and Carlos Suarez, CNN The defense team in the trial of Parkland, Florida, school shooter Nikolas Cruz abruptly rested its case Wednesday, leading the judge to admonish his attorneys for what she described as a “level of unprofessionalism” she had never before experienced. The defense team planned to call 80
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Hundreds of people from across the country joined President Joe Biden as he celebrated the Inflation Reduction Act at the White House Tuesday. The expansive new law covers several major priorities for the President, including lowered prescription drug costs, reducing the federal deficit, addressing global warming and raising taxes for corporations. Biden
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LONDON, U.K. — Today, the Queen’s coffin will travel in procession from Buckingham palace to Westminster hall for lying-in-state. ABC will have complete coverage beginning at 7:15 am local time. A service lasting about 20 minutes will then be led by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Queen Elizabeth II coffin arrived at Buckingham palace on Tuesday after being
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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Former Gov. Bill Richardson and his team were in Moscow this week and held meetings with Russian leadership, CNN has learned. The details around those meetings were not immediately clear. Richardson, the former New Mexico governor and diplomat, and his namesake center privately work on behalf of families of hostages and
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(CNN) — Kenneth Winston Starr, a former US solicitor general who gained worldwide fame in the 1990s as the independent counsel who doggedly investigated then-President Bill Clinton during a series of political scandals, has died. He was 76. Starr died of complications from surgery, according to a statement from his family. “We are deeply saddened
Continue Reading By Alex Rogers and Manu Raju, CNN Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced on Tuesday a bill that would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, the most significant proposal by Republicans in Congress to curtail the procedure since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade three months ago. Senate Democratic candidates immediately tried to link their
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EDINBURGH, UK — ABC News will air a special report on the Queen’s Coffin Procession in Scotland at 7:30 am local time. Britain’s King Charles III and his wife Camilla, Queen Consort, traveled today from London to Edinburgh, where they will walk behind his mother’s coffin as it is transported in a procession through the Scottish
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NEW YORK– British pop star Harry Styles paid his respects to Queen Elizabeth II following the announcement of her death in Scotland on Thursday. During his latest show at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Styles paused for a bit during the gig and informed the crowd, “From my homeland, there was some very sad news
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UVALDE, Texas– In Texas, two people are hospitalized after being shot at Uvalde Memorial Park Thursday evening. Police said the shooting stemmed from a physical fight and involved rival gangs. Uvalde police department officials say two victims were air-lifted to San Antonio Memorial hospital following the shooting. The shooting happened around 5:30 p.m. not far from Robb
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Kim Kardashian is entering the world of private equity. She’s partnering with Jay Sammons, a former executive with Carlyle Group, to launch SKKY Partners. The new firm will invest in fast-growing businesses across several sectors, including hospitality, media, and consumer products. The fund has not started raising money just yet. The duo says it will make
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CHICAGO — For the third time in the past week, a group of migrants from Texas has arrived in Chicago. This comes as Texas Governor Greg Abbott also sent bus loads of migrants to both New York City and Washington D.C. as he continues his protest of federal immigration policies. So far, each city has received
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Liz Truss officially became the U.K.’s new prime minister today after meeting Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. The new Prime Minister will inherit several national crises including the economic fallouts from Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic. Truss will also inherit an energy ‘catastrophe’ as average U.K. household energy bills increase by 80%,
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California has created a new state government body to assist workers in the fast food industry. Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law creating the “Fast Food Council” on Monday. The group will be made up of ten industry members. They will help decide minimum standards for pay, hours, and working conditions. Under the legislation, the
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More Americans are reporting they are unemployed, but more are also looking for work. Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the U.S. unemployment rate rose in August to 3.7% that’s an increase from July of nearly 1.2%. In a normal labor market, rising unemployment is a red flag. But even though today’s labor market is far
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Former President Barack Obama just added another accolade to his resume, he is now an Emmy winner. At the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, Obama won for outstanding narrator. He lent his voice to the Netflix documentary “Our Great National Parks”. His production company, Higher Ground, actually created the five-part series that focuses on
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN The uncrewed Artemis I mission is ready for another launch attempt this weekend. The Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft are scheduled to lift off between 2:17 and 4:17 p.m. ET Saturday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Although there is no crew aboard, the mission is the first
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed US District Judge Aileen Cannon on Friday released a detailed inventory from the Mar-a-Lago search that the Justice Department previously filed under seal in court. The search inventory released showed that classified documents had been mixed in with personal items and other materials in the boxes in which they were stored. One
Continue Reading By Jay Croft, CNN The first hurricane of the Atlantic season, which debuted earlier this week, got its full billing Friday. Danielle is now the season’s first hurricane, with sustained winds of 75 mph and even higher gusts, the National Hurricane Center said in its 11 a.m. ET update. Still, it’s not promising much drama,
Continue Reading By Phil Mattingly and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday is set to address an August jobs report that slightly exceeded analyst forecasts and marked another month of slowing job gains — something White House officials have actually been hoping for in recent months. White House officials have been anxiously eying the release
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NASA will once again try to make history attempting to launch Artemis I on Saturday. The first Artemis I mission is an unmanned test flight. Some pretty high-tech test-dummies are taking the first ride on NASA’s new ‘Space Launch System’ rocket. Meet commander Moonikin Campos, he’ll helm the Orion Space Craft around the moon. Campos will wear
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