National-World

By Christina Maxouris, Nouran Salahieh and Celina Tebor, CNN Norfolk Southern is expected to attend a public meeting with East Palestine, Ohio, residents Thursday at the request and order of the US Environmental Protection Agency, EPA regional administrator Debra Shore said in a Wednesday news conference. The meeting comes nearly a month since the February

By Tina Burnside and Andy Rose, CNN Authorities say an hourslong standoff at a Missouri home that followed the shooting of three officers is over and a woman found in the house was taken into custody. A deceased man was also found in the home, according to state authorities. The three Kansas City, Missouri, police

By Lauren del Valle, CNN Attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell have asked a federal appellate court to vacate her 2021 sex trafficking conviction and dismiss the indictment, arguing prosecutors treated Maxwell as a proxy for her longtime associate Jeffrey Epstein to satisfy public outrage, according to a new court filing. Maxwell’s attorneys first filed notice of

By Christina Maxouris, CNN The group of jurors who on Thursday convicted Alex Murdaugh of killing his wife and son had a day earlier visited the sprawling Islandton, South Carolina, property where the 2021 murders took place. The massive estate, known as Moselle, was at the heart of the trial — and played a big

By Paradise Afshar and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Vanessa Bryant has reached a nearly $29 million agreement with Los Angeles County to settle a lawsuit over photos that were taken at the helicopter crash that killed her husband, Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant, her daughter Gianna Bryant and seven others. The settlement caps several years

By Nick Watt, CNN Every room has its own bathroom and a little kitchen area. Downstairs there’s a common room with a TV, a pool table and a baby grand piano. And every resident is a previously homeless veteran. This once crumbling building on a vast Department of Veterans Affairs campus in a lovely, leafy

By Wayne Sterling and Nadia Kounang, CNN Irv Cross, a former NFL star and broadcasting pioneer who died two years ago at the age of 81, had stage 4 chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the Boston University CTE Center said Tuesday. “Mr. Cross was diagnosed during life with mild cognitive impairment and was found at autopsy to

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN It’s one of the most well-known public service announcements in American history. A Native American man in buckskin and braids canoes through a polluted river, past smoke-emitting factories and onto a littered shore. Trash hurled from the window of a passing car lands at the man’s feet. As the camera closes

By Greg Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN The nation’s railroads are facing federal pressure to take a closer look at how they use the detectors that investigators say may have been able to prevent the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this month. The Federal Railroad Administration is issuing a safety advisory Tuesday