National-World

By Melissa Alonso, CNN The US Coast Guard is assisting Mexican navy crews in the search for three American sailors, last heard from on April 4 near Mazatlán, Mexico, according to a Coast Guard news release. Kerry O’Brien, Frank O’Brien and William Gross are all “experienced sailors,” according to a joint statement from their families.

By Jay Croft and Rebekah Riess, CNN Classes are set to resume Monday after Rutgers University and its faculty reached an agreement to end a weeklong strike, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced early Saturday morning. “This fair and amicable conclusion respects the interests of many different stakeholders, upholds New Jersey’s values, and puts an

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Erica and Aaron Parker first had their Loveland, Ohio, home appraised in 2020. It was a competitive selling market, they had made several renovations to the home, and houses in the neighborhood were generally selling above the asking price. The couple expected the house to be valued at the list

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Days after a blaze at an eastern Indiana plastics recycling plant forced evacuation orders for hundreds, officials are slated to meet Saturday to discuss when it will be safe for them to return to their homes as the fire fizzles out. The massive fire — which began Tuesday at a recycling

By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Torrents and torrents of rain have drowned thousands of acres of farmland in California’s Central Valley this winter and resuscitated a lake that vanished decades ago. As far as the eye can see, water stretches to the horizon — across roads, across crop fields, through homes and buildings.

By Raja Razek and Steve Almasy, CNN Former Seattle SuperSonics star Shawn Kemp is facing one count of first-degree assault in a shooting last month outside a mall in Tacoma, Washington, according to the Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. Kemp, 53, was first arrested hours after the March 8 incident in what online court records

By Taylor Romine, CNN A former sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot 18-year-old Andrés Guardado almost three years ago will not be charged, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said Friday. Guardado was killed in June 2020, after two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies pursued him after he allegedly displayed a handgun, looked at the

By Paradise Afshar and Sara Smart, CNN Three New Mexico officers opened fire on a man after mistakenly responding to the wrong address earlier this month — an incident that left the man dead, police said Friday as they released body camera footage from the shooting. The Farmington Police Department released videos from body cameras

By Paradise Afshar, CNN Three people were killed and one other was wounded Friday in shootings along Interstate 45 in two counties in Southeast Texas — incidents believed to have involved outlaw motorcycle gangs, authorities said. The incidents took place in Montgomery and Walker counties, north of Houston. At 12:18 p.m. local time, Texas Department

By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN A CSX train apparently caused sparks as it traveled through its Rockland County, New York, route, creating “dozens of brush fires,” according to the Rockland County Sheriff’s Office. In a Facebook post, the sheriff’s office said, “A CSX train traveling through the Town of Clarkstown, Stony Point, Haverstraw, Village of Haverstraw,

By Brian Todd and Caroll Alvarado, CNN The mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher in a Newport News, Virginia, elementary school appeared in court for the first time Friday after being charged in the incident. Deja Taylor did not enter a plea to charges of child neglect and recklessly leaving a loaded

By Dakin Andone, CNN Tony Montalto sat in a Florida courtroom and watched in disbelief as his 14-year-old daughter’s killer received a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole after a jury was unable to reach unanimous agreement that her murderer should be put to death. “It was the third worst thing

By Lauren Lee, CNN People of color in the US face heightened risks of harm from climate-induced disasters. Now, non-profits are pushing to remedy that disparity with more equitable approaches to disaster preparedness, response and recovery. “Until we really address the root issues of climate injustice, we’re going to continue to see a disproportionate impact

By Dianne Gallagher, CNN The father of a former NFL player who killed six people, including two children, in a South Carolina mass shooting before killing himself, is suing the university where his son played football. Alonzo Adams filed the wrongful death lawsuit in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, against South Carolina State University. His son,

By Sara Smart, Danny Freeman and Zoe Sottile, CNN Police are on the hunt for the people behind a “dime and dash” theft in northeast Philadelphia. At around 6 a.m. Thursday, thieves broke into an unmarked trailer left in a Walmart parking lot, the Philadelphia Police Department told CNN, and made off with about 2

By Taylor Romine, Ashley Killough and Ed Lavandera, CNN As the Texas pardons board considers a request from Gov. Greg Abbott to pardon a man convicted last week of fatally shooting a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally, newly unsealed documents show the Army sergeant talked about killing people and shared racist comments on

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN More than 100 temperature records could be broken across the Midwest and Northeast today as some cities brace for temperatures as much as 30 degrees above normal. View this map to see if you may be impacted by the possible record-setting heat. Here’s what else you need to know to Get

By Paradise Afshar, CNN The city of Minneapolis has reached settlements totaling more than $8.8 million in two civil lawsuits that accuse former police officer Derek Chauvin of using excessive force in two incidents that happened nearly three years before he killed George Floyd during an arrest. The plaintiffs, John Pope and Zoya Code —