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Must-watch videos of the week

By Jodi Upchurch, CNN A Boy Scout troop searches for shelter, Conan O’Brien smokes weed on air and Tom Brady raps “Hamilton.” Here are the must-watch videos of the week. An explosive examination An explosion detonated around 100 miles off Florida’s coast registered as a 3.9 magnitude earthquake by the US Geological Survey. The blast

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Matt Hancock, Britain’s beleaguered health secretary, apologizes after being caught in embrace with aide

By Eliza Mackintosh, CNN Britain’s beleaguered Health Secretary Matt Hancock has apologized for breaching Covid regulations after being pictured in an embrace with his adviser, with whom British tabloid The Sun alleges he is having an extramarital affair. Hancock is under fire after The Sun published a story with photographs that appear to show him

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TSA investigating new assaults on its workers; new self-defense training planned

By Pete Muntean, CNN With federal agencies trying to crack down on passengers who are violently acting out on commercial flights, officials now say travelers are attacking — and even biting — those staffing airport security checkpoints. In new details shared first with CNN, the Transportation Security Administration laid out two attacks on Transportation Security

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More than 25 percent of the West is in an exceptional drought

The West’s historic drought in 3 maps

By John Keefe and Rachel Ramirez, CNN An unprecedented heat wave worsened drought conditions in Northwest, according to the US Drought Monitor. Record-breaking temperatures in Oregon and Washington dried soil and vegetation further, leading to an expansion of moderate and severe drought in that region. Vast swaths of the West remain in a historic and

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Brazilian Environment Minister Ricardo Salles resigns amid Amazon illegal logging probe

By Rodrigo Pedroso and Jessie Yeung, CNN Brazil’s controversial environment minister, Ricardo Salles, announced Wednesday that he was stepping down from the position amid an investigation into allegations he obstructed a police probe into illegal logging. Salles’ term as minister since 2019 has been marked by high deforestation rates in the Amazon rainforest and a

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