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By Jennifer Gray, CNN Meteorologist One week ago hurricane hunter Nick Underwood was sitting in the back of a Gulfstream 4 aircraft named Gonzo flying around Tropical Storm Elsa as it churned through the Caribbean. “Three, two, one, release sonde,” he heard the flight director say. “Sonde away,” responded Underwood, as he released a dropsonde

By Stella Chan, CNN The National Interagency Fire Center says 67 large fires have burned more than 917,000 acres across 12 states. The acreage — about 1,434 square miles — is comparable to 4.75 times the area of New York City. From January 1 to July 13 this year, more than 2 million acres have

By Hannah Gard and Haley Brink, CNN The Northeast is bracing for more heavy rain Monday after severe storms last week inundated New York City subways and submerged streets. The region then took a hit from Tropical Storm Elsa, enduring even more rainfall. A weak storm system will slowly bend southward Monday and Tuesday, carrying

By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Buying a home of her own became a priority for Kelly Robinson during the pandemic, as she began to feel cramped in her Indianapolis apartment. “Last fall having to stay home so much, that really made me decide that it is time to buy a house,” she said. Among the

By Madeline Holcombe and Joe Sutton, CNN Western states face another sweltering day in a record-breaking heat wave that has more than 18 million people under heat alerts. The heat will extend over southeast Oregon, northern California, the Mojave Desert, eastern California, and parts of Nevada and Utah, according to CNN meteorologist Michael Guy. The

By Reuters A Tokyo hotel has apologized and removed signs reading “Japanese only” and “foreigners only” from elevators after the anti-Covid-19 precaution sparked outrage on social media ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics. Tokyo entered a state of emergency on July 12 amid concerns that an influx of tens of thousands of athletes and officials

By Caitlin Hu, Mitchell McCluskey and Jessie Yeung, CNN Haitian authorities have arrested a man they say helped orchestrate the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, the country’s police chief announced on Sunday. Moise was killed Wednesday in his Port-au-Prince home, in an attack that has shaken a country already rattled by rampant violence and political

By Patrick Oppmann and Tatiana Arias, CNN Thousands of Cubans took to the streets on Sunday to protest a lack of food and medicine as the country undergoes a grave economic crisis aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic and US sanctions. Demonstrators complained about a lack of freedom and the worsening economic situation during the rare

By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist California’s Death Valley is known to be a hot place, but it hit 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4 degrees Celsius) Friday for only the fifth time in recorded history — that’s only five days out of more than 40,000 days on record. Interestingly, it could happen again Sunday, and perhaps even

By Caitlin Hu, Etant Dupain, Stefano Pozzebon, Matt Rivers and Natalie Gallón, CNN Agents from the United States and other nations are joining the criminal inquiry into the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise following days of dizzying intrigue. Moise was killed Wednesday in his home in a shocking incident for which authorities are still

By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Jenny Capador still cannot believe she will never see her brother again — and she certainly does not believe that he is an assassin, as officials in two countries have now alleged. Her brother Duberney Capador is one of at least three people killed in a police operation in the Haitian

Story and photographs by Kara Fox, CNN Niamh Burns is organizing a special 20-year reunion for her schoolmates this year. But while the accomplishments of the “Courageous Classes of 2001” are worth celebrating, the date they are commemorating is not. Over the course of 12 weeks in 2001, Burns and the other pupils at north

By David Williams, CNN The devastating heat wave that ravaged British Columbia last week is being blamed for a massive die-off of mussels, clams and other marine animals that live on the beaches of Western Canada. Christopher Harley, a professor in the zoology department at The University of British Columbia, found countless dead mussels popped

By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist Over 30 million people are under heat alerts across Western states as temperatures are forecast to soar well into the triple digits this weekend. Nearly the entire state of California will be impacted by this heat wave, in addition to major metro areas in the Southwest. Numerous daily temperature records

By Caitlin Hu and Etant Dupain, CNN The charred shells of three burned-out cars marked the road to the president’s house on Friday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Just up the hill, former leader Jovenel Moise had been murdered in his bedroom two days earlier, in an otherwise quiet neighborhood of big houses and high walls topped

By Forrest Brown, CNN Visitors and residents of the Northeastern United States puzzlin’ where to go with their children this summer have another travel option. On Friday, the Legoland New York Resort fully opened with all seven of its lands available for kids and adults to explore. Reservations are required, even for annual pass holders.