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By Sara Smart, CNN A missing 8-year-old boy who had survived for two days in a Michigan state park by eating snow was found sheltering under a log on Monday, state police announced. Nante Niemi went missing Saturday afternoon while gathering firewood for his family’s campsite in northwest Michigan’s Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, setting

By Rosa Flores, Gloria Pazmino, Norma Galeana, Andy Rose and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Hundreds of US troops are set to begin a new mission along the southern border Wednesday as officials and a surge of migrants brace “for the unknown” after a Trump-era border restriction expires late Thursday. “We are preparing for the unknown because

By Holly Yan, Tina Burnside, Caroll Alvarado, Chris Boyette, Justin Lear and LJ Spaet, CNN A breathless hunt for a killer amid famed American retail stores can be heard in emergency dispatches recorded during the outlet mall massacre in Allen, Texas. “We got shots fired at the outlet mall,” an officer tells a dispatcher Saturday

By Scottie Andrew, CNN Buddy Holly, the petit basset griffon Vendéen, has been named best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show — the first of his breed to win the prestigious contest’s top prize. The PBGV, who earlier Tuesday won the hound group, charmed judges with his confidence and calm demeanor. “He’s

By Taylor Romine, CNN The Catholic Diocese of Oakland filed for bankruptcy protection Monday after it received more than 330 legal claims of sexual abuse, Bishop Michael C. Barber announced in a letter to the parish community. The lawsuits were filed after California suspended the statute of limitations for sexual abuse between January 2020 and

By Faith Karimi, Andi Babineau and Sara Finch, CNN Kouri Richins’ husband was found dead at the foot of their bed last March. She’d just closed on a house for her business, she told investigators at the time. Around 9 p.m., she brought her husband, Eric Richins, a celebratory Moscow Mule cocktail in the bedroom

By Rebekah Riess and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN After spending 29 years in prison for the rape of his stepdaughter, a New Orleans man is free thanks to the help of the local district attorney’s office and testimony from the victim herself, who has insisted for 20 years that he is not the man who raped

By Christina Zdanowicz and Michelle Watson, CNN Police Officer Nickolas Wilt is off a ventilator one month after being shot in the head while responding to a mass shooting at a Louisville bank, the Louisville Metro Police Department said in a Facebook post Monday. “We are happy to announce that Officer Wilt is officially off

By Devon M. Sayers, CNN Officials in Southwest Louisiana have charged a 58-year-old man in connection with the shooting of a group of juveniles who were playing hide-and-seek, one of whom was injured. The incident happened early Sunday in the small town of Starks, Louisiana, near the Texas state line. Authorities say that a group

By Michelle Watson, CNN Bruce Callahan, one of two men who escaped from a Virginia jail earlier this month, was captured after he pulled a fire alarm at a university just miles from the facility he fled, officials said. Bruce Callahan was taken into custody “without incident” Monday morning on the campus of Longwood University,

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN In the case of canceled flights, most airlines will offer alternative travel recommendations and apologize for the inconvenience — but passengers are often left to figure out the rest. This can leave travelers footing the bill for unexpected expenses like meals and hotels. In response, the Biden administration announced a new

By Tina Burnside, Danny Freeman and Geoff Mills, CNN Philadelphia officials are offering a $20,000 reward for information about two men, including one charged in multiple homicides, who escaped a correctional facility and weren’t discovered missing until nearly a full day after they slipped through a hole in a fence. “We are adamant and working

By Ray Sanchez, CNN Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, named after a Confederate general and long plagued by a series of suicides, homicides and fatal accidents, was renamed on Tuesday after the Army’s first Hispanic four-star general. The base was redesignated Fort Cavazos in honor of Gen. Richard Edward Cavazos, a veteran of the Korean

By Eric Levenson, Lucy Kafanov and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Attorneys for a US Army sergeant who was convicted of murdering a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally asked a judge to sentence him to 10 years in prison in court Tuesday — even as Texas’ governor has expressed plans to pardon him. Daniel Perry,

By Jeremy Harlan, CNN A woman accused of killing her 11-year-old stepson after he was reported missing from his Colorado Springs home in 2020 has been found guilty of murder in the case. Letecia Stauch, 39, sat motionless in court Monday as a judge read the jury’s verdict finding her guilty of two counts of

By Nouran Salahieh, CNN Seven people remain hospitalized in Brownsville, Texas, as a candlelight vigil is planned Tuesday in another Texas border town for the eight others who were killed when a vehicle plowed into a group of people at a bus stop over the weekend. While the victims have not yet been publicly identified,

By Rosa Flores, Dakin Andone and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Federal agents moved through the quiet streets outside Sacred Heart Church in El Paso, Texas, early Tuesday morning, handing out flyers to more than 1,000 migrants who have been sleeping on the sidewalks, encouraging them to turn themselves in to immigration authorities ahead of the looming

By Holly Yan, Steve Almasy, Josh Campbell, Sara Smart and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN The weapons brought to the attack on random shoppers at the outlet mall in Allen, Texas, were all legally obtained, Texas Department of Public Safety Regional Director Hank Sibley told reporters at a Tuesday news conference. He said the gunman had eight

By Rob Frehse and Zoe Sottile, CNN A man accused of driving a rental truck into people in New York City this year — killing one and injuring others — was arraigned in court Monday on a 25-count indictment that includes a murder charge, the Brooklyn district attorney’s office said. Weng Sor, 62, is charged