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By Miguel Marquez, Bonney Kapp and Frank Bivona, CNN Casey Maccarone’s mother was always a kind of superwoman, but even so, when Monique Alexander decided to go out on Christmas Eve, Maccarone worried. It would have been a simple decision any other day, but a blizzard was setting in — one that would leave some

By Zenebou Sylla, CNN The Princeton University student who was initially considered missing and was later found dead on the university’s campus, died by suicide, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said in a news release Wednesday. An official autopsy conducted on Misrach Ewunetie by the Middlesex Regional Medical Examiner’s office ruled her death a suicide

By Sara Smart, CNN ‘Twas two days before Christmas when within the house, a soon-to-be mother began having contractions. Erica and Davon Thomas were expecting their first child on Christmas Day, but around 11 p.m. on December 23, Erica’s contractions began. On Christmas Eve morning, the contractions worsened — but the Thomas’ couldn’t leave their

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN A federal appeals court has ruled that three Sikh men should be allowed to go through US Marine Corps recruit training with their turbans and beards intact. Milaap Singh Chahal, Jaskirat Singh and Aekash Singh each tried to enlist in the Marine Corps between March and November 2021, according to a

By Rosa Flores and Karol Suarez, CNN In response to the increased number of migrants crossing the border in El Paso, US Customs and Border Protection is erecting a soft-sided tent facility to increase migrant processing capacity by about 1,000, according to Landon Hutchens, US Customs and Border Protection spokesperson. “The facility will be used

By Taylor Romine and Nouran Salahieh, CNN An additional five charges were filed Tuesday against a Stockton man already charged with murder in a series of killings in Northern California, San Joaquin County prosecutors said Tuesday. Wesley Brownlee, 43, was already facing three counts of first-degree murder for the shooting deaths of Jonathan Rodriguez Hernandez,

By Leah Asmelash, CNN In 2022, we’re more plugged in than ever. Cars are fitted with 7-inch infotainment systems, so we can talk, navigate and DJ all at once. Refrigerators have WiFi capability — because why not? Virtual reality is somehow a thing. Even our watches are more than just timekeepers; the latest smartwatches can

By Sharif Paget, CNN A 22-year-old woman was found dead over the holiday weekend in Buffalo, New York, after being trapped in her car by the blizzard that paralyzed western New York, her family told CNN on Tuesday. Anndel Taylor, who had moved to Buffalo from Charlotte, North Carolina, was driving home from work at

By Faith Karimi, CNN In certain corners of the internet, some women are expressing nostalgia for an era they’ve never known. These millennials and zoomers are glamorizing the aesthetics of 1950s Americana — donning retro fit-and-flare dresses and posting vintage illustrations of aproned housewives who submit to their husbands. Here’s what else you need to know

By Leyla Santiago, Rosa Flores and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN The future for migrants waiting in El Paso, Texas, after crossing the US-Mexico border remains uncertain following the Supreme Court’s Wednesday decision that allows federal officials to continue expelling migrants before they have received an asylum hearing. “We were hoping for something else,” said Rosanni Rodríguez,

By Josh Campbell, CNN It was every parent’s worst nightmare. Two days after Christmas 2020, Chris Didier went into his son Zach’s bedroom in their home near Sacramento. The accomplished student, school theater actor and athlete was unresponsive at his desk — his head lying on his arm. “I could feel before I even touched

By Celina Tebor, CNN As a powerful storm battered western New York with blinding blizzard conditions in the early hours of Christmas Eve, a Buffalo woman jumped into action when she saw a man who was caught in the storm. Sha’Kyra Aughtry said she was home when she heard someone screaming on her street. When

By Brandon Miller and Cheri Mossburg, CNN The climate crisis is among the key factors in a new assessment that shows more than 85% of California’s rural and unincorporated land is now in “high” or “very high” severity zones for wildfire danger, the state’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) recently announced. California’s