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By Stella Chan, CNN San Francisco declared a water shortage emergency and is calling for a 10% reduction across its regional system, Mayor London Breed announced Tuesday. “With California still experiencing devastating drought and the uncertainty around this rainy season, we need to make tough decisions that will ensure that our water source continues to

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Migrants from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador spend $2.2 billion every year trying to reach the United States, and most of that money goes to smugglers, according to a new report. The estimate of annual costs over the past five years, derived from surveys of thousands of households in those

By Lauren Lee, CNN For nearly two years, economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic put increased demand on food banks across the US. As the need declines, they face new problems. “Rising cost of food and ongoing challenges with the supply chain is making it more expensive for food banks to purchase food and even

By Devon M. Sayers, Alta Spells and Travis Caldwell, CNN After more than two weeks of court proceedings and testimony from more than 20 witnesses, jurors in the Ahmaud Arbery killing trial reached a verdict Wednesday on their second day of deliberations. Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael, and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan Jr. —

By Lauren M. Johnson and Amanda Jackson, CNN Photo Editing by Heather Fulbright and Will Lanzoni, CNN The holiday season is upon us, many of us have prepared our menus for the holiday dinners and parties. Some of you may be pulling grandma’s braciole recipe steeped in tomato sauce or that creamy garlic mash your

By Kay Jones, Jason Kravarik and Travis Caldwell, CNN Shortly before an SUV barreled into a crowd of parade marchers and pedestrians on Sunday in Waukesha, Wisconsin, at least one officer described the driver as having “no emotion” on his face during attempts to slow him down. Six people were killed and another 62 were

By Laura Ly and Brynn Gingras, CNN Jeffrey Epstein denied having any suicidal thoughts before he died by suicide, despite some prison staffers noting signs of troubling behavior, according to newly released documents from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). In addition, BOP staff made a litany of procedural errors prior to the convicted pedophile

By Faith Karimi, CNN A wave of “smash-and-grab” crimes is plaguing upscale stores in major US cities, with mobs of thieves making off with expensive goods in brazen, nighttime raids. At least 18 people broke into a Nordstrom department store in Los Angeles Monday night and stole thousands of dollars in merchandise, the city’s police