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By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — The Grand Canyon’s vast, mile-deep landscape may appear timeless, but two devastating disasters have recently struck the iconic natural wonder as the climate crisis intensifies extreme weather. Muddy brown floodwaters roared through Phantom Ranch on August 29, swamping the 1920s lodge that has welcomed adventurers seeking a rare chance

By David Mack, CNN (CNN) — Adaeze Onejeme, a 28-year-old ad sales worker in Los Angeles, was visiting a night market in Hollywood with her sister in late August when she noticed something curious. Stall after stall, hawking loaded French fries or taquitos or smoothies, featured menus with pictures that at first seemed real —

CNN By Amanda Musa, Eric Levenson, and Nicki Brown The jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial was sent home for the day at about 4 p.m. Wednesday and will return Thursday morning at 9 a.m. to continue deliberations. “I know it’s been a long day,” Judge William F. Sullivan said. The 12-person jury has deliberated

By Cindy Von Quednow, Dalia Faheid, Julianna Bragg, Taylor Galgano, Rob Kuznia, CNN (CNN) — Officers confronted a barrage of gunfire, their vision clouded by a haze, as they responded to a shooting at a Minneapolis apartment building Wednesday that left at least two people dead and injured multiple others, officials said. Police opened fire

By Aaron Cooper, Pete Muntean, CNN Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (CNN) — An engine failed on a US Coast Guard plane with the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security onboard, forcing it to make an emergency landing Wednesday afternoon. “We just lost our right engine and would like to declare an emergency,” the

By Eric Levenson, Nicki Brown, Jean Casarez, CNN Plymouth, Massachusetts (CNN) — One by one, the 12 deliberating jurors and six alternate jurors in Lindsay Clancy’s trial approached the judge’s bench Wednesday morning. The clerk swore in each juror, and one at a time they listened to the judge speak, while the prosecution and defense

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By Amanda Musa, Eric Levenson, and Nicki Brown The jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial was sent home for the day at about 4 p.m. Wednesday and will return Thursday morning at 9 a.m. to continue deliberations. “I know it’s been a long day,” Judge William F. Sullivan said. The 12-person jury has deliberated for

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — Pierre Damas Bel was an avid soccer player at his high school in Springfield, Ohio. He loved being part of JROTC, the US military-sponsored program that provides training to students. And friends and family say he headed to college planning to study neuroscience and excited about the future.

By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — Far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has told TV interviewer Piers Morgan that he was “really, really terrified” after being detained by US immigration officials. Speaking to Morgan during an interview released on YouTube on Tuesday, British national Yiannopoulos, 41, recounted how his hands and feet were chained together with

By Ray Sanchez, Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — A foreboding sky rises high over a selfie taken by a smiling John Giusti before the jagged, staircase-like ridges of the Grand Canyon on the first day of a dream hiking trip with two buddies. Standing before the canyon’s sheer cliffs, plunging up to a mile down,

By Andi Babineau, Emma Tucker, CNN Provo, Utah (CNN) — Seated only two rows apart, the widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and the mother of his accused killer, Tyler Robinson, were both visibly emotional as a judge ruled the case can move to trial. Family members of both Kirk and Robinson shifted between leaning

By Andi Babineau, Kristen Holmes and Elise Hammond (CNN) – The case against Tyler Robinson, the man accused of fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah, can move to trial, a judge ruled Tuesday, citing sufficient probable cause. The ruling follows a multiday preliminary hearing that began in July. Judge Tony Graf ruled that

By Nicki Brown, Jean Casarez, Sarah Boxer, CNN Plymouth, Massachusetts (CNN) — Over the last six weeks, Lindsay Clancy’s triple-murder trial has transformed this courthouse – a lofty building flanked by fields and farmland – into a chaotic scene bustling with swarms of journalists, true crime fanatics and outspoken spectators. Now there’s nothing left for