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By Marnie Hunter and Forrest Brown, CNN There’s a new champion brown bear in Alaska’s Katmai National Park & Preserve. After an online cheating scandal disrupted the semifinals, a winner was announced Tuesday night, October 11, in the park’s annual Fat Bear Week contest. Bear 747 collected the most votes, triumphing over his worthy challenger

By Marnie Hunter, CNN A passenger who allegedly took psilocybin — the hallucinogenic chemical found in certain mushrooms — before boarding a United Airlines flight in Miami last week was arrested after allegedly assaulting two members of the flight crew. Cherruy Loghan Sevilla is charged with interfering with a flight crew and assaulting two flight

By Kristen Rogers, CNN The influence of celebrities on culture is undeniable, but would you trust a pop star to help give you advice on mental health? The latest celebrity venture in the mental health field comes from rapper Megan Thee Stallion with Bad B*tches Have Bad Days Too, a free resource hub of lifelines,

By Stefano Pozzebon, Marlon Sorto, Sahar Akbarzai and Michelle Velez, CNN A landslide in Venezuela on Sunday has killed at least 39 people and left over 50 missing in the north central state of Aragua, Venezuela’s leader Nicolas Maduro announced Tuesday. Maduro also hinted that hopes to safely rescue the missing are fading. “We are

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Every second counts in drive-thru lanes for fast food chains. A recent study showed Chick-fil-A had the slowest one — but only because it’s so popular and there are so many cars in line. Taco Bell led the pack in speed of service, with an average time of about 221 seconds,

By Angus Watson and Alex Stambaugh, CNN Two climate activists with Extinction Rebellion were arrested Sunday after gluing themselves to a Picasso painting at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. The activists glued themselves to the glass covering of “Picasso’s Massacre in Korea,” standing alongside a banner that read “Climate Chaos = War and

By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN The high-profile detention of several indigenous women leaders in Argentina this week has prompted Argentina’s Minister for Women, Gender and Diversity, Elizabeth Gomez, to resign in protest on Friday, according to state news agency Telam. The women, from the Mapuche nation, were detained Tuesday by Argentinian security forces amid clashes over

By Paradise Afshar, CNN Elevated seismic activity has caused Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park to close the Mauna Loa summit backcountry until further notice, the park announced this week. Covering half of the Island of Hawaiʻi, Mauna Loa is considered the largest active volcano on the planet, according to the US Geological Survey. The Hawaii Volcano

By Etant Dupain and Hande Atay Alam, CNN Haiti’s government has asked for international military assistance as it grapples with interlocked health, energy and security crises, according to a statement from Jean-Junior Joseph, advisor to Haiti’s Prime Minister. “After serious reflections, facing a dire humanitarian crisis in Haiti, where hospitals are not having enough energy

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Max Foster, CNN We’re weeks away from the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference — better known as COP27 — but there will be a distinct lack of royal presence at this year’s event. We now understand Britain’s new monarch will forgo the upcoming summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Earlier

By Mia Alberti and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Easter Island’s towering stone heads and other archaeological elements have been charred by a fire, according to local Indigenous and Chilean authorities. The fire — caused by the nearby Rano Raraku volcano — started Monday and razed more than 100 hectares of the island, damaging its famous stone-carved