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By Rebekah Riess and Kelly McCleary, CNN Louisiana is launching a sheltering program for those “currently living in unsafe or unsanitary” conditions due to damage from Hurricane Ida, which slammed into the Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm more than five weeks ago, officials said Monday. The Hurricane Ida Sheltering Program will provide temporary

By Amir Vera, CNN The pristine beaches and beautiful wildlife in Southern California are now suffering after a weekend oil spill that responders and environmental officials say will take months, if not years, to clean up. More than 100,000 gallons of oil has spewed into the Pacific Ocean, coating local wildlife habitats, shutting down a

By Madeline Holcombe, Eric Levenson, Amir Vera and Cheri Mossburg, CNN An anchor hooking an oil pipeline may have caused the Southern California spill that spewed more than 100,000 gallons of oil into the Pacific Ocean, the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration said in a notice to operation owner Amplify Energy. “The pipeline

By Madeline Holcombe and Lauren del Valle, CNN A new lawsuit alleges faculty at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts perpetrated sexual abuse on minor students over the course of two decades, in the 1970s and 1980s. Former students who brought the lawsuit allege that during that time a culture of sexual

By Josh Campbell and Amir Vera, CNN The Texas State Board of Pardons and Paroles voted unanimously Monday to recommend a full posthumous pardon of George Floyd for a 2004 drug conviction, according to hearing minutes provided by the board to CNN. An application for the pardon was filed in April on behalf of Floyd

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Humans have been burning fossil fuels for energy since the Industrial Revolution. We use them to heat our homes, cook our food and fuel our cars. Over the course of more than a century, fossil fuels became entrenched in every aspect of the economy and people’s lives. Our reliance on oil,

By Christina Zdanowicz and Stella Chan, CNN As oil-covered animals come ashore, the broader effect of the California oil spill on wildlife is unknown, experts say. A brown pelican was the first casualty of the oil spill, wildlife officials said. The bird was euthanized Sunday after it was injured in the spill off the Orange

By Josh Campbell, Gregory Wallace and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN A US Drug Enforcement Administration special agent was killed in a shooting on an Amtrak train in Arizona on Monday morning and two other DEA officers were wounded, police said. One DEA special agent is in critical condition, and a Tucson police officer working on the

By Kiely Westhoff, Mallory Simon and Mirna Alsharif, CNN New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said 96% of all city public school teachers have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, as a vaccine mandate for educators went into full effect Monday morning. Speaking at a Monday news conference, he said 95%