National-World

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN As the US and Europe worked for decades to reduce air pollution for the sake of public health and the planet, scientists found an unintended and challenging consequence: an increase in tropical storms in some regions. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances found that over the past

By Eric Levenson, CNN The corrections official Vicky White and the prisoner Casey White fled a detention facility in Lauderdale County, Alabama, on April 29. They were finally captured by authorities on Monday, May 9, in Evansville, Indiana. In between those 11 days, the guard and the prisoner traveled more than 200 miles through at

By Nicole Chavez, CNN Native American children were renamed, told not to use Indigenous languages and had their hair cut at 408 boarding schools in the United States that forced assimilation in the 19th and 20th centuries, the Department of Interior says. The department released on Wednesday a long-awaited review of past efforts by the

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN After an 11-day manhunt, an inmate who escaped an Alabama jail has been captured and is back behind bars. The corrections officer he fled with — whom authorities believe he had a romantic relationship with — died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. And this isn’t the first jail love story

By Joe Sutton, Claudia Dominguez and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Delaware State University, a historically Black institution, said its women’s lacrosse team was racially profiled by sheriff’s deputies last month during a traffic stop in Georgia. The team’s bus was headed north on Interstate 95 in Liberty County on April 20 following a game in Florida

By Amy Simonson, Aya Elamroussi and Rebekah Riess, CNN A shootout that left one person dead and four others injured in Chicago was the result of retaliatory violence between two rival gangs, police Superintendent David Brown said Wednesday. First responders were interrupted by a crowd of people when they arrived Tuesday in the South Side