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By Leah Asmelash, CNN Ada Limón, author of six books of poetry, will become the next US poet laureate. Limón assumes the role from Joy Harjo, who…

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN A spot in the Southern California desert could hold the key to powering all of America’s electric cars. It’s…

By Shimon Prokupecz and Matthew J. Friedman, CNN Every day, 9-year-old AJ Martinez tells his mom he wishes he could have saved his friends from a…

By Stella Chan and Susannah Cullinane, CNN A Team USA Olympic medal winner says a man attacked her outside a Los Angeles restaurant, hurling a metal…

By Sonia Moghe, CNN A growing chorus of voices is urging Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to drop a murder charge against a bodega clerk who…

By Claudia Dominguez and Steve Almasy, CNN The Tops Friendly Markets store in Buffalo, New York, where 10 people were shot and killed in May will…

By Susannah Cullinane, CNN A World War II landing craft is emerging from Lake Mead as water levels at the United States’ largest man-made water…

By Eric Levenson, CNN Brandy Bottone was driving in the HOV lane meant for at least two people per vehicle in Dallas, Texas, two weeks ago when she…

By Eric Levenson, CNN Photographs by Taylor Glascock and Kristan Lieb for CNN A stroll through Central Avenue’s tree-lined, cobblestone…

By Andrew Torgan, CNN A wildfire in California’s Yosemite National Park is threatening the famed Mariposa Grove of giant sequoia trees, but so…

By Dakin Andone, CNN A Texas death row inmate who’d asked for his execution to be delayed so he can donate a kidney was granted a stay of…

By Sonnet Swire, CNN Three churches located on the same road in Maryland, just outside Washington, DC, were vandalized over the weekend, and…

By Rosa Flores and Rosalina Nieves, CNN The Texas House committee investigating the Uvalde school shooting is planning to release hallway…

By Emma Tucker A dog visiting the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan was rescued by park rangers after jumping over a railing and falling…