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By Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — Smoke in the passenger cabin of a JetBlue plane that made an emergency landing Wednesday night at Newark Liberty International Airport led to passengers evacuating onto the tarmac and temporarily shut down the airport. JetBlue flight 543 took off shortly after 5:30 p.m. Wednesday heading to West Palm Beach,

By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — The widow of “Playboy” founder Hugh Hefner has called for an investigation into her late husband’s foundation, which she alleges possesses his personal scrapbooks and diary containing troves of highly sensitive information and explicit photographs of women and, “possibly,” underage girls. The announcement was made Tuesday at a news

CNN By Martin Goillandeau and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Eight skiers buried by snow and debris near California’s Lake Tahoe amid dangerous conditions were killed in what is now the deadliest avalanche in the state’s recorded history, authorities said Wednesday. One skier is still missing and presumed dead, Nevada County Sheriff Shannan Moon said

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — Last week, Jeremy Carl, who was nominated by the Trump administration for a top State Department post, was asked in his Senate confirmation hearing to define white identity. Carl, who published a book called “The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart,” struggled for 20 seconds to

By Alexandra Skores, Pete Muntean, Aaron Cooper, CNN Washington (CNN) — A Delta Air Lines flight from Houston to Atlanta made an emergency landing early Wednesday after a passenger tried to access the cockpit, the pilot told air traffic controllers. Delta flight 2557, a Boeing 717 aircraft, had just taken off from Houston’s Hobby Airport

CNN, FBI, KOLD, SAVANNAH GUTHRIE, INSTAGRAM By Danya Gainor, Chelsea Bailey, Karina Tsui, CNN Tucson, Arizona (CNN) — The search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, has stretched into a third, anguished week, with mounting pressure on investigators and a family grappling with uncertainty. Nancy Guthrie was last seen on

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN Air Force One will be repainted in President Donald Trump’s preferred red, white, gold and dark blue color scheme — a design proposed during his first term in office but later reversed by the Biden administration. The change will replace the baby blue and white livery that has defined the

By Martin Goillandeau and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Eight skiers buried by snow and debris near California’s Lake Tahoe amid dangerous conditions were killed in what is now the deadliest avalanche in the state’s recorded history, authorities said Wednesday. One skier is still missing and presumed dead, Nevada County Sheriff Shannan Moon said at

By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s preferred paint colors will be applied to the new planes which will serve as Air Force One, an Air Force official tells CNN. The new heavily modified Boeing 747s, which the military designates VC-25B, will be painted red, white, gold and dark blue, a color

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — What was supposed to be a quiet studentless staff planning day for teachers at a Georgia public school turned into a day of mourning when a man fleeing immigration agents crashed a car into a cherished educator’s vehicle. Linda Davis, a special education teacher in her first year at

By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington (CNN) — Multiple failures across different parts of the government caused an Army Black Hawk helicopter to collide with an American Airlines regional jet, operated by PSA Airlines, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded in a nearly 400-page report released Tuesday. The January 29, 2025, midair collision near Ronald Reagan

By Eric Levenson, Isabel Rosales, CNN Winder, Georgia (CNN) — Melany Delira-Castaneda was 15 and in her ninth-grade math class at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, when her ear began ringing and she smelled smoke. She stood up and turned toward the door and saw Colt Gray, then 14, pointing a firearm into the

By Yahya Salem, CNN (CNN) — There’s a sense of urgency in Basim Sabri’s voice as he stands in the middle of a banquet hall at his mall in the heart of Minneapolis, directing the flow of busy volunteers and jovially asking his cooks to be patient as he finishes his call with CNN. Sabri’s

CNN, GETTY IMAGES, POOL, RAINBOW PUSH, STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES, WARNER BROTHERS, WJLA By John Blake, Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, the towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America, has died, his son said. He was 84. Jackson, a protégé of the

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — After losing four decades of his life serving time for a murder he maintains he did not commit, a gray-haired Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam prepared to step out of a Pennsylvania prison last October as a free man. Instead, a day after his charges were dropped, Vedam was