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Police tape blocks off the Islamic Center of San Diego on May 19.

Teen charged with murder in San Diego mosque shooting for allegedly agreeing to publish shooters’ writings

By Dianne Gallagher, Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — A North Carolina teenager has been indicted on murder charges in connection with the deadly mass shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego earlier this year, after authorities alleged she recorded the livestream of the attack and published the shooters’ writings. A grand jury indicted a

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Ukraine racing to develop new interceptors as Russian drones and missiles ravage the country

By Tim Lister, Victoria Butenko and Svitlana Vlasova CNN (CNN) — Ukraine is urgently trying to develop interceptors capable of countering a new generation of Russian jet-powered drones that have wreaked havoc across the country in recent months. Along with the Kremlin’s ballistic weapons and a new type of cruise missile, the jet-drones have caused

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A person wears a face mask as a massive warehouse fire at a cold storage facility continues to burn and spread smoke around the city on June 20 in Los Angeles

An L.A. neighborhood was terrorized by a warehouse inferno. The big cleanup is done, but the suffocating stench remains

By Celina Tebor, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — For eight brutal days, residents of Boyle Heights watched smoke billow from a burning warehouse and prayed the flames would spare their homes. There was no escaping the black pollution that choked the neighborhood then, and no reprieve now, even five weeks after the fire was extinguished.

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Prosecutor Jennifer Sprague makes her closing arguments during Lindsay Clancy's murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth

Judge urges jury in Lindsay Clancy murder trial to ‘stay the course’ as it enters Day 4 of deliberations

By Eric Levenson, Nicki Brown and Jean Casarez, CNN Plymouth, Massachusetts (CNN) — The Massachusetts jury in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial resumed deliberations for a fourth day Tuesday, as they work to decide if prosecutors have proven the 36-year-old murdered her three children beyond a reasonable doubt. Jurors returned to the courthouse here in Plymouth

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A diagram showing the inside of the Chilime Hydropower Project in Nepal

Hopes fading for Nepal’s missing hydropower workers feared trapped alive in tunnels. Here’s what we know

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Hopes are fading for a quick rescue operation as Nepali crews and foreign specialists race to find scores of workers feared trapped alive inside hydropower tunnels in Nepal, after thick mud buried the facilities during last week’s devastating flash floods. Around 900 workers are missing at various hydropower projects

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Hikers are believed to be missing after a flash flood in the Grand Canyon on Saturday

2 people dead, about 15 possibly missing after deadly flash flooding rips through Grand Canyon. And more rain could come

By Maria Aguilar Prieto, Tyler Ory, Mounira Elsamra, Sarah Dewberry, Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — One of the nation’s most famously arid landmarks succumbed to deadly flash flooding over the weekend, leaving at least two people dead and roughly a dozen unaccounted for as more rain could lash Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona on

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Tim Miller

His daughter’s body was found in the ‘Texas Killing Fields’ decades ago. Now he’ll face a man charged in her death

By Holly Yan, CNN The lush grass blanketing this scenic Texas field belies the grisly horrors discovered underneath and the agonizing mystery that has tormented families for decades – until now. Between 1984 and 1991, the bodies of four young women were found in a rural, isolated 25-acre patch of terrain near Calder Road in

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At least 8 dead and more missing after ferry carrying hundreds capsizes off Cyprus’ northern coast

By Tim Lister, Oliver Sherwood, Gul Tuysuz, CNN (CNN) — A search and rescue operation was continuing uninterrupted in the Mediterranean after a passenger ferry carrying nearly 270 people capsized while traveling from northern Cyprus to Turkey, killing at least eight people. Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhürman said 241 people had been rescued alive, but

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Gina Jones

Ben Crump built a career demanding justice. Nolan Wells’ death has put his mission — and methods — back under a microscope

By Chelsea Bailey, Ryan Young, CNN (CNN) — Ben Crump’s voice cut through the noise of a crowded convention hall like a thunderclap. “Justice for Nolan Wells,” the attorney shouted late last month as he marched into the room with his fist thrust defiantly into the air. The crowd echoed his call: “Justice for Nolan

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Brazil’s black market for weight-loss drugs is booming. Smugglers are cashing in

By Alessandra Freitas, CNN (CNN) — The Friendship Bridge, connecting Brazil and Paraguay near the iconic Iguazu Falls, has long been a route for smugglers moving cheap, illicit goods, like cigarettes and electronics. But in recent years, Brazilian authorities say smugglers have found a far more lucrative product: weight-loss drugs. As demand for GLP-1 based

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Baby goats with rabies at North Carolina mobile petting zoo prompt calls across multiple counties to contact health officials

By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Multiple baby goats at a mobile petting zoo in North Carolina were infected with rabies, and authorities are asking anyone who had contact with the animals to reach out to health officials about potential exposure to the rare but deadly virus. Residents in western North Carolina may have been

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