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By Amy Simonson, CNN The missing Florida toddler who was found dead in the mouth of an alligator last week was put in the lake by his father, who is also accused of killing the child’s mother, according to St. Petersburg police affidavits. Thomas Mosley, 21, is facing two counts of first-degree murder, according to

By Stephanie Elam and Rachel Ramirez, CNN After a remarkable series of winter storms, California water officials reported Monday in their April snow survey the Sierra snowpack is among the largest on record, dating back to the 1950s. The state’s Department of Water Resources surveys mountain snowpack once a month through the winter, and the

By Laura Paddison, CNN Oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico is belching out significantly higher levels of potent, planet-heating gas than previously thought, according to new research, which found the climate effects of the operations are twice that of official estimates. The report comes as the Biden administration last month put millions

By Dakin Andone, CNN The 28-year-old who killed three children and three adults at a Christian school in Nashville last week fired 152 rounds, Nashville police said Monday, adding that while they have yet to determine a motive, the shooter planned the attack “over a period of months” and studied other mass murderers. The shooter,

By Nouran Salahieh and Holly Yan, CNN Parts of the Midwest and South devastated by catastrophic tornadoes will have almost no time to recover before another round of dangerous storms takes aim at hard-hit areas. At least 32 people were killed after an onslaught of tornado-spawning storms Friday obliterated houses, ripped roofs off buildings, wiped

By Dianne Gallagher and Melissa Alonso, CNN The body of Stephen Smith, whose 2015 death was thrust back into the spotlight during the investigation of the 2021 killings of Margaret “Maggie” Murdaugh and her son Paul Murdaugh, was exhumed over the weekend for an independent autopsy, attorneys for Smith’s family said. Smith’s body was exhumed,

By Mitchell McCluskey, CNN A freight train derailed in Paradise, Montana, on Sunday, according to the Sanders County Sheriff’s Office. Approximately 25 cars were derailed around 9:20 a.m. near Highway 135, dispatcher Bill Brown told CNN. The train derailed on the banks of the Clark Fork River, approximately 200 miles northwest of Bozeman. Images from

By AJ Willingham, Leah Asmelash and Scottie Andrew, CNN While the future of TikTok in the US hangs in the balance of ongoing congressional hearings, even a complete erasure of the wildly popular video sharing app wouldn’t remove its deep and abiding mark on our culture. Like social media giants before it, TikTok hasn’t just

By Nouran Salahieh, Dakin Andone and Alaa Elassar, CNN The death toll rose to 32 Sunday after a batch of ferocious storms and tornadoes devastated communities across the American South and Midwest, while parts of the Southern Plains braced for their own round of severe weather. The storm outbreak Friday that walloped the country spawned

By Nicole Norman and Rachel Ramirez, CNN Sarah Bates, the captain of a fishing boat in San Francisco, had a feeling something was wrong with the chinook salmon population back in December. “The fish weren’t coming up the river, and to a certain extent, we were just waiting,” Bates, 46, told CNN. “We thought the

By Kia Fatahi and Liam Reilly, CNN A member of a neo-Nazi group was arrested Friday after attempting to burn down a church in Ohio that was planning to host a drag show event, according to court documents. Aimenn D. Penny, 20, of Alliance, Ohio, has been charged in the US District Court in Cleveland