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By Zoe Sottile, CNN A Florida county is under quarantine due to the discovery of a fast-growing population of invasive giant African land snails. The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) confirmed there were giant African land snails in the New Port Richey area of Pasco County on June 23, according to FDACS’

By Liam Reilly, CNN A large group of people carrying flags and shields marched along downtown Boston’s Freedom Trail Saturday, according to the Boston Police Department — and video footage of the group obtained by CNN shows the flags bearing the symbol of the White nationalist Patriot Front group. Police received a call at 12:30

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN Two people are dead after a vehicle crashed into a fireworks stand in Washington, DC on Saturday, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. The two victims, both adults, were killed when the vehicle struck multiple pedestrians and the fireworks stand, police said. Police believe the man driving the pickup truck had

By Jarrod Wardwell, CNN An Oklahoma appeals court has scheduled the execution date for death row inmate Richard Glossip while his defense rushes to mount a legal battle with newly uncovered evidence they say will prove his innocence in a 1997 murder case. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals scheduled Glossip’s execution for September 22

By Jamiel Lynch, Rebekah Riess and Alaa Elassar, CNN Four people died in a multi-vehicle crash involving a tractor trailer on Interstate 95 South at the Florida-Georgia border on Friday. The driver of a tractor trailer lost control of the vehicle, which started to overturn and struck a car, before traveling though the center median

By Shimon Prokupecz, Rosa Flores and Eric Levenson, CNN Uvalde school district police chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo has resigned his separate position on the Uvalde city council in the wake of the massacre at Robb Elementary School in May, according to a resignation letter he sent to the city. “After much consideration, it is in

By Alaa Elassar, CNN US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized over $1.1 million worth of narcotics hidden in the panels of a car driving into California from Mexico, the agency said. Federal officers stopped a 43-year-old man entering the US from Mexico at the Otay Mesa port-of-entry on June 16 after drugs were

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Scientists are hopeful that the key to reviving red wolves, which are on the brink of extinction, may lie in the genes of coyotes that have significant red wolf ancestry. Red wolves once lived throughout the southeastern United States but were declared extinct in the wild in 1980. Today, thanks to

By Ray Sanchez, CNN On the final morning of his short life, 22-month-old Cooper Harris was up early, at 5:15, an hour before sunrise in the Atlanta suburb where he lived with his parents. His father, Justin Ross Harris, a 33-year-old web developer, brought the still-groggy toddler into the bed he shared with Leanna Taylor,

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The small whorled pogonia, a federally threatened species of orchid, has been rediscovered in Vermont — 120 years after the plant was last spotted in the state. The plant was last documented in Vermont in 1902, Aaron Marcus, an assistant botanist at Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, told CNN. Naturalists had

By Yenny Sanchez, CNN Call it a hat trick. A Maryland woman has won her third lottery prize of at least $100,000 in five years, a feat she attributes to strategy and luck. The stay-at-home mom, 30, from Wicomico County won her latest prize playing a $100,000 Lucky scratch-off ticket, Maryland Lottery said Monday. “I

By Jason Hanna and Michelle Watson, CNN Four people are dead after the boat they were in capsized this week in an Idaho river, authorities said Friday. Authorities were told Tuesday evening that the performance-style boat had capsized in the Pend Oreille River near the community of Thama, the Bonner County Sheriff’s Office said. The

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Onondaga Nation is set to regain over 1,000 acres of ancestral land in central New York in what the Department of Interior calls “one of the largest returns of land to an Indigenous nation by a state.” “This historic agreement represents a unique opportunity to return traditional homelands back to

By Michelle Watson, Claudia Dominquez and Aya Elamroussi, CNN The bodies of a mother and two of her young children were found in a Minnesota lake Saturday, the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office said. The discovery was made one day after authorities recovered the body of another one of her children in Vadnais Lake, which sits

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN When Garrett Dickman drove through Yosemite National Park early this week, he passed through a diverse band of large trees — conifer, red fir, lodgepole pine — and noticed a grim pattern: many of the trees were either dead or dying. “It was really striking to see that every single tree

By Taylor Romine, CNN A controversial California bill repealing loitering related to possible prostitution was signed into law Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. A provision in state law previously allowed police to arrest those who “delay or linger without a lawful purpose” if it appeared they were trying to engage in sex work. Police can

By Zoe Sottile, CNN At least 10 million bees were released onto a highway after a semi-truck crashed in Utah. The truck, driven by a commercial beekeeper traveling from California to North Dakota, tipped over on Interstate 80 at around 10:40 a.m. local time Monday, Cameron Roden, public information officer for the Utah Highway Patrol,

By Raja Razek, CNN A workgroup developing a second-grade social studies curriculum for the Texas State Board of Education last month suggested using the term “involuntary relocation” to describe people who were sold into slavery, the board’s chair said, amid national debates on the role of critical race theory in classrooms. The proposed phrase was