National-World

By Nouran Salahieh and Paradise Afshar, CNN With Mississippi’s Pearl River now expected to crest earlier than originally forecast, threatening to flood streets and creep into homes within the next 48 hours, some Jackson residents are being told to flee. Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba urged residents to “get out now,” during a news conference

By Zoe Sottile, CNN An adorable baby white rhino was born at the San Diego Zoo — and conservationists hope his birth might signal good news for his endangered cousins. The unnamed rhino calf was born on August 6th to first-time mother Livia and father J Gregory, according to a news release from the San

By Matt Foster, CNN Brigham Young University issued an apology on Saturday for racist comments made by a fan during a women’s volleyball match between BYU and Duke at the Utah university on Friday evening. The godmother of Duke volleyball player Rachel Richardson said in a tweet that Richardson, who is Black, was called racial

By Homero De la Fuente, Nouran Salahieh and Stella Chan, CNN NFL rookie punter Matt Araiza has been released from the Buffalo Bills days after he and two other football players were accused in a lawsuit of gang raping a then-17-year-old girl during an off-campus party at San Diego State University last year. “This afternoon,

By Claire Colbert and Paradise Afshar, CNN Increased fire activity has caused evacuation orders to be implemented in parts of Idaho impacted by the Four Corners Fire, which was reported on August 13th. The fire, which was caused by lightning, is about 18% contained and has burned more than 10,100 acres, according to InciWeb, a

By Zoe Sottile, CNN It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… an oral rabies vaccine, dropped from the sky. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has initiated its annual oral rabies vaccine distribution, a project that will continue through October. The project is focused on preventing the spread of raccoon rabies from the eastern United States

By Jay Croft, CNN Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the assault and robbery earlier this week of an off-duty officer in the Bronx, the New York Police Department said in a news release Friday. At this point, police are only charging the suspect in connection with the officer’s assault, but they say

By Samantha Beech and Zenebou Sylla, CNN Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has enacted a state of energy emergency following an electrical fire at a BP refinery in Indiana that threatens to disrupt fuel supply, the governor’s office said Saturday. The executive order issued by Whitmer lifts hours-of-service rules for the transport of gasoline and diesel

Zenebou Sylla, CNN Texas has bused nearly 9,000 asylum seekers to New York City and Washington, DC in recent months, as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s effort to highlight his criticism of the Biden administration’s immigration policies. In a statement Friday, Abbott’s office said Texas has bused more than 7,400 migrants to DC since April

By Jason Hanna and Rebekah Riess, CNN A southwestern Oregon wildfire burning since mid-August spread rapidly from Friday to Saturday thanks to strong winds, more then tripling its total burned acreage in one day and prompting evacuation orders, fire officials said. The Rum Creek Fire, about a 50-mile drive northwest of Medford, has burned 4,319

By Zoe Sottile, CNN In just around 46 hours, the Artemis I rocket is set to take off for an uncrewed flight around the moon — and NASA is counting down the minutes. The countdown officially started at 9:53 a.m. on Saturday, according to a tweet from NASA’s Artemis account. The countdown started once the

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A millennia-old Egyptian artifact was found in a shipment to the port at Memphis, Tennessee, officials say. US Customs and Border Protection officers discovered the artifact on August 17, according to a news release published Thursday. It had been shipped to Memphis, Tennessee from Europe, officials confirmed. Customs officers collaborated with