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By Hannah Sorisohn, CNN A series of text conversations between Pro Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre and former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant appear to show Favre repeatedly pressing the then-governor about funding the construction of a volleyball facility at the University of Southern Mississippi, even after Favre was told misuse of state funds was

By Melissa Alonso, CNN A second middle school student has died after a lightning strike may have caused the boat of a student rowing club to capsize earlier this month, rowing officials said Saturday. “It is with broken hearts that we share the passing of a second rower involved in last Thursday’s weather-related tragedy,” North

By Amir Vera, Holly Yan, Jennifer Gray and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Hurricane Ian keeps getting stronger as it barrels toward Florida, prompting urgent evacuations and threatening dangerous storm surges in places not used to getting hit directly by a hurricane. Ian is now a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale, according to a

By Rebekah Riess, Michelle Watson and Zoe Sottile, CNN The City of Fort Worth, Texas, has reached a settlement with Jacqueline Craig, a Black woman whose 2016 arrest after she called the police for help was documented in a Facebook video. Craig was arrested in December 2016 after calling police to complain that an adult

By Rob Kuznia. Photographs by Andrea Ellen Reed for CNN Marnette Gordon was doing laundry at home in Minneapolis one summer morning last year when a call came from her 36-year-old son. She figured her son, Telly Blair, was checking in to see if she wanted a soda from a gas station down the street,

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Wildfire activity in California has been notably low this year, experts tell CNN, particularly compared to 2020 and 2021 when devastating wildfires erupted across the state and burned millions of acres by the time summer ended. California has had several severe fires this year, including the Mosquito Fire, which continues to

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN When her firstborn exhibited extreme sensitivity to smell, sound and touch, along with some obsessive-compulsive tendencies, Sarah Howard wondered if it was her fault, if she’d done something to harm her baby boy during her pregnancy. She just didn’t know. She and her husband, Andrew, had only recently moved to

By Virginia Langmaid and Brandon Tensley, CNN Dante Lee thought he was opening an investment book. But what he found inside shocked and appalled him. In a TikTok video posted this month, Lee says he was looking forward to reading “From the Block to the Bank: How to Make the Most of Your Circumstance to