Pete Arredondo resigns from Uvalde city council after botched response to school shooting
By Shimon Prokupecz, Rosa Flores and Eric Levenson, CNN Uvalde school district police chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo has resigned his…
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Pete Arredondo resigns from Uvalde city council after botched response to school shooting
Thursday’s Uvalde City Council meeting turned heated as families of the school shooting victims demand…
Continue Reading CBP officers seize more than $1.1 million in narcotics hidden in a car at California border crossing
By Alaa Elassar, CNN US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized over $1.1 million worth of narcotics hidden in the panels of a car…
Continue Reading ‘Ghost genes’ from coyotes could help save critically endangered red wolves, study says
By Zoe Sottile, CNN Scientists are hopeful that the key to reviving red wolves, which are on the brink of extinction, may lie in the genes of coyotes…
Continue Reading The hot-car death of 22-month-old Cooper Harris was heartbreakingly familiar. His father’s unusual murder conviction has now been thrown out
By Ray Sanchez, CNN On the final morning of his short life, 22-month-old Cooper Harris was up early, at 5:15, an hour before sunrise in the Atlanta…
Continue Reading A rare orchid thought to be extinct in Vermont was rediscovered after 120 years
By Zoe Sottile, CNN The small whorled pogonia, a federally threatened species of orchid, has been rediscovered in Vermont — 120 years after the…
Continue Reading Maryland woman wins lottery for a third time, cites her game-winning strategy
By Yenny Sanchez, CNN Call it a hat trick. A Maryland woman has won her third lottery prize of at least $100,000 in five years, a feat she attributes…
Continue Reading 4 dead after boat capsizes in an Idaho river
By Jason Hanna and Michelle Watson, CNN Four people are dead after the boat they were in capsized this week in an Idaho river, authorities said…
Continue Reading Onondaga Nation will regain 1,000 acres of New York forest in historic agreement
By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Onondaga Nation is set to regain over 1,000 acres of ancestral land in central New York in what the Department of Interior…
Continue Reading Bodies of three children and their mother recovered in Minnesota lake
By Michelle Watson, Claudia Dominquez and Aya Elamroussi, CNN The bodies of a mother and two of her young children were found in a Minnesota lake…
Continue Reading How the climate crisis is forever changing our national parks
By Rachel Ramirez, CNN When Garrett Dickman drove through Yosemite National Park early this week, he passed through a diverse band of large trees…
Continue Reading California repeals provision criminalizing loitering related to possible prostitution
By Taylor Romine, CNN A controversial California bill repealing loitering related to possible prostitution was signed into law Friday by Gov. Gavin…
Continue Reading More than 10 million bees released when semi-truck crashes on Utah highway
By Zoe Sottile, CNN At least 10 million bees were released onto a highway after a semi-truck crashed in Utah. The truck, driven by a commercial…
Continue Reading A group of Texas educators proposed using the term ‘involuntary relocation’ rather than slavery when teaching 2nd graders
By Raja Razek, CNN A workgroup developing a second-grade social studies curriculum for the Texas State Board of Education last month suggested using…
Continue Reading Killing of NYC mother pushing a baby stroller was ‘premeditated execution,’ prosecutors say
By Mark Morales, Kiely Westhoff and Samantha Beech, CNN The man accused of killing a young mother Wednesday as she pushed her 3-month-old baby in a…
Continue Reading Families sue Ohio school board over critical race theory ban
By Jarrod Wardwell, CNN Four families are suing an Ohio school board to challenge a ban on race-based education and staff training in the latest…
Continue Reading Family of 11-year-old killed in Iowa water ride accident files wrongful death lawsuit
By Melissa Alonso, Hannah Sarisohn and Steve Almasy, CNN The family of an 11-year-old boy who died last year after an Iowa amusement park ride…
Continue Reading Florida Highway Patrol arrests two men in two days in separate human smuggling cases
By Jamiel Lynch, CNN The Florida Highway Patrol arrested two people this week for smuggling others into the state, according to incident reports from…
Continue Reading Suspect in eastern Kentucky shootout that killed 3 officers was ‘a terrorist on a mission,’ sheriff says
By Melissa Alonso and Steve Almasy, CNN The suspect in an hourslong shooting that killed three law enforcement officers and injured several others in…
Continue Reading ‘I don’t know if we’re going to be able to handle the increase’: Minnesota clinics brace for influx of abortion patients
By Adrienne Broaddus and Jason Kravarik, CNN Steps from an interstate and minutes from an airport sits a nondescript building with a tenant never…
Continue Reading ‘I don’t know if we’re going to be able to handle the increase’: Minnesota clinics brace for influx of abortion patients
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, abortion clinics in Minnesota say they are bracing for an influx of out-of-state patients. CNN’s…
Continue Reading A teenage girl was bitten by a shark and seriously injured in Florida
By Jennifer Henderson and Alaa Elassar, CNN A teenage girl is in serious but stable condition after being bitten by a large shark while scalloping…
Continue Reading North Carolina toddler’s death is at least the 9th child hot-car fatality this year
By Rebekah Riess, Jamiel Lynch and Ray Sanchez, CNN A 1-year-old child died Friday after being left in a car outside the father’s workplace in…
Continue Reading A Chicago police officer was shot multiple times while responding to a domestic disturbance
By Alaa Elassar and Rebekah Riess, CNN A Chicago police officer was shot numerous times while responding to a domestic disturbance Friday and is…
Continue Reading R. Kelly placed on suicide watch after being sentenced to 30 years in prison, his lawyer says
By Sonia Moghe and Alaa Elassar, CNN R. Kelly has been placed on suicide watch at the federal detention facility in New York where he is being held…
Continue Reading ‘These kids were obliterated’: Outrage of families boils over lack of answers in Uvalde investigation
By Ray Sanchez and Chris Boyette, CNN The families of the 19 children and two teachers gunned down at a school in Uvalde, Texas, have had enough.…
Continue Reading Suspect in killing of elite cyclist used someone else’s passport in escape to Costa Rica, officials say. Here’s how authorities say she was caught
By Jay Croft and Randi Kaye, CNN The woman accused of killing an elite cyclist in Texas used someone else’s passport to flee to Costa Rica,…
Continue Reading Driver of semitruck where migrants died didn’t know AC had gone off, court document says
By Rosa Flores, Chris Boyette and Michelle Krupa, CNN The alleged driver of a tractor-trailer where sweltering conditions led to the death of 53…
Continue Reading Single-use plastic waste is getting phased out in California under a sweeping new law
By Rachel Ramirez and Taylor Romine, CNN In an attempt to slash the wide-ranging impacts of plastic pollution, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed…
Continue Reading Brothers excited to find work. A woman trying to reunite with family. These are the victims of the Texas truck tragedy
Families of the migrants who were found dead in a semitruck in San Antonio, Texas speak about their loved…
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