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By Ella Nilsen, CNN When Elise Joshi posted a TikTok video about the Alaska oil drilling project known as Willow in early February, she didn’t have high hopes it would go viral. Joshi, 20, posts often about climate issues on TikTok for the account Gen-Z for Change, as well as her personal account. She’s well

By Ray Sanchez, CNN Convicted former attorney Alex Murdaugh‘s decision to take the stand at his double murder trial was not entirely surprising given his family’s legal legacy stretching back to the early 1900s in coastal South Carolina. But legal experts say it was ultimately a costly maneuver for the scion of the well-connected Murdaugh

By Alaa Elassar, CNN Five digital activists have created a website to help provide shelter to survivors of the earthquake in Syria and Turkey that left millions homeless amid freezing winter temperatures. Just 48 hours after the earthquake reduced cities to rubble, Avi Schiffmann built TakeShelter, a site that connects displaced people with hosts around

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Mexican wolf population in the United States surpassed 200 individuals in 2022, federal officials announced — a stunning recovery for a species that nearly went extinct, with just seven known wolves in existence in the late 1970s. A total of 241 Mexican wolves were documented in Arizona and New Mexico

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Two men in Nebraska have been cited after hunting and killing a bald eagle, according to the Stanton County Sheriff’s Office. The men, who are citizens of Honduras, have been charged with unlawful possession of a bald eagle, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office. The men indicated they

By Artemis Moshtaghian, Samantha Beech and Rebekah Riess, CNN Crews found no signs of a spill after a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in west central Ohio Saturday afternoon, prompting a temporary shelter-in-place order for nearby residents — just one month after the company’s toxic train wreck on the other side of the state in

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Ralphie, the seemingly unadoptable French bulldog from upstate New York, is making progress in his intensive training program, according to his shelter. The tiny bundle of terror captured the internet’s heart last month after the Niagara SPCA in Niagara Falls posted a brutally honest adoption ad. The shelter described him as

By Emma Tucker, Jennifer Henderson and Melissa Alonso, CNN One person died after an overturned gas tanker carrying flammable liquids exploded on a highway in Frederick, Maryland on Saturday, causing damage to nearby homes and vehicles as city officials advised residents to avoid the area. Flames and smoke billowed into the air after the truck

By Artemis Moshtaghian and Isa Kaufman-Geballe, CNN A Pennsylvania woman who disappeared more than 30 years ago and was believed to be dead by her family was recently found living in a nursing home in Puerto Rico, her family and police said at a news conference Thursday. Patricia Kopta, 83, was last seen in Pittsburgh

By Christina Maxouris, CNN For a year and a half, Alex Murdaugh denied he was anywhere near where his wife, Maggie, and 22-year-old son, Paul, were brutally killed. But it was one of his victims — his son — who would provide key proof after his death that legal experts say exposed his father’s web

By Rebekah Riess, CNN Three children were found dead in a Texas home and two others were taken to hospitals Friday afternoon, the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office said. All five were siblings, Child Protective Services confirmed to CNN affiliate WFAA. They were in “temporary CPS care,” according to Tiffani Butler with the Texas Department of

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Cate Casad started noticing the for-sale signs pop up over the last year on farms around Central Oregon, which has been mired in water shortages amid a yearslong megadrought. Casad and her husband, Chris, are first-generation farmers and ranchers who started off with just a few acres of land east of

By Taylor Romine, CNN A man accused of shooting two Jewish men in Los Angeles in February pleaded not guilty Thursday to four federal charges against him in the case, a US attorney’s office said. Jaime Tran, 28, was indicted by a federal grand jury last week on the charges — two hate crime counts

By Samantha Beech, Gili Remen, Danny Freeman and Emma Tucker, CNN All flights were grounded at University Park Airport in Pennsylvania Friday as authorities investigated a suspicious device in a checked bag, forcing about 100 passengers to be bused out of the area and the airport to close until Saturday, officials said. The airport in

By Pamela Kirkland, CNN Memphis Fire EMT Robert Long testified in front of the Tennessee Emergency Medical Services Board on Friday that Memphis Police officers were “impeding patient care” after he and Advanced Emergency Medical Technician JaMichael Sandridge arrived to find Tyre Nichols sitting on the ground, propped up against a police car on January

By Sara Smart and Jennifer Henderson, CNN Two Michigan State students wounded in the mass shooting on campus in February have been discharged from hospital, according to the university’s police department. The tweet did not identify the students who were released but said they were previously listed in serious condition. One student remains hospitalized in

By Treasure Welle, CNN The families of Orlando, Florida, shooting spree victims, journalist Dylan Lyons and nine-year-old T’yonna Major, shared their emotional story and demanded “sane and responsible gun legislation in America” following the death of their loved ones, Friday on CNN This Morning. “She made me a girl dad, and a gymnastics dad. I