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By Samantha Beech, Sheryl Lawrence and Christina Maxouris, CNN At least 38 people were injured in a Manhattan apartment building fire Saturday morning, which authorities believe was caused by a lithium-ion battery connected to a micromobility device. Of the injuries, two were critical, five were serious and the rest minor, Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh said

By Jason Hanna and Rob Frehse, CNN A Cincinnati man has been charged with a federal hate crime on suspicion of assaulting an Asian-American college student because of his race in 2021 — an attack in which the defendant allegedly blamed the student for Covid-19 and threatened to kill him, authorities said. Darrin Johnson, 26,

By Mallika Kallingal and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Two teens were arrested this week in connection with an attempted armed robbery in August where NFL player Brian Robinson Jr. sustained two gunshot wounds, the Metropolitan Police Department said in statement. A 17-year-old suspect was arrested on Wednesday and a 15-year-old suspect was arrested on Friday. Both

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Maine is on a mission to clean up its streets, one expletive-filled license plate at a time. The Maine Secretary of State’s office has begun to enforce new regulations on the content of state-issued license plates, sending out recall letters to owners of problematic plates. The story of Maine’s explicit license

By Rebekah Riess and Zoe Sottile, CNN Officials are searching a section of the Missouri River for a paraglider who has been missing for over a week. The paraglider, 35-year-old Kenny Loudermilk, disappeared on October 26th while paragliding around the Missouri River at sunset, according to Missouri State Highway Patrol. Missouri State Highway Patrol Cpl.

By Jason Hanna, Mallika Kallingal and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Five people were found dead in a southern Maryland home Friday in a murder-suicide incident, according to a Charles County Sheriff’s Office statement on Saturday. The bodies were found in a house in La Plata, roughly a 35-mile drive south of Washington, DC, by law enforcement

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN On its face, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ apology to Sacheen Littlefeather earlier this year appeared to be a long overdue righting of wrongs. The actress and activist famously declined the best actor Oscar on Marlon Brando’s behalf at the 1973 Academy Awards. In her 60-second speech, she

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Annie Korzen begins auditions with a statement most people wouldn’t expect from an 83-year-old: “Hi, I’m Annie Korzen. I live in Los Angeles. I’m 5’3″. And I have almost 400,000 followers on TikTok.” It still amazes Korzen, an actor who describes herself as a longtime bit player who’d struggled to

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A savvy photographer captured an unexpected, last-minute entry into a surf contest: a great white shark, terrifyingly close to a surfer. Jordan Anast, a California-based photographer, was taking pictures of the San Onofre Surf Club Contest when he captured the shocking image of the shark, seemingly just yards away from surfer

By Ella Nilsen, CNN; Photographs by Rebecca Noble for CNN Workers with the water district in Wenden, Arizona, saw something remarkable last year as they slowly lowered a camera into the drought-stricken town’s well: The water was moving. But the aquifer which sits below the small desert town in the southwestern part of the state

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The unique, spider-emblazoned “I Voted” stickers that took the internet by storm in July have finally made their way into the hands of voters. The bizarre, brightly-colored design was crafted by Hudson Rowan, a 14-year old living in Ulster County, New York. Rowan was the winner of the county’s second-ever annual