National-World

By Ray Sanchez, CNN Dominic Taddeo was in his early 20s when a US Justice Department lawyer appeared before a Senate subcommittee with a dire warning about the future mafia hit man’s hometown. “Rochester, the home of Kodak, Xerox, and other thriving corporations … is a wealthy city, a ripe plum ready to be plucked

By Jason Hanna, CNN Gunshots from two groups of people fighting outside a Houston-area sports bar early Saturday left one man dead and four other people injured, sheriff’s officials said. Investigators have identified “everybody that was shooting” in the parking lot of Al’s Sports Bar just outside western Houston, Harris County sheriff’s Sgt. Dennis Wolfford

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A missing nonverbal California teenager was discovered after a rescuer heard him clinking rocks. The teen, who is developmentally disabled, was spending the day at Crescenta Valley Park in Glendale with his mother and sister when he went missing at about 10 a.m. on April 3, according to the Los Angeles

By Abby Bustin and Claudia Dominguez, CNN Zoos across the country are moving their birds indoors to protect them from the spread of a contagious and potentially lethal strain of the avian flu. Cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) have been rising in backyard flocks and wild birds across dozens of states in recent

By Pooja Salhotra, CNN College campuses have for years been at the center of climate change activism. But now, frustrated and anxious by what they see as slow action alongside growing climate damages, students are engaging a new tactic: legal action. A coalition of students from Yale, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Vanderbilt working with the

By Michelle Watson, CNN Eleven people were injured after car crash pushed a vehicle into a group standing near a food truck in Austin, Texas, on Friday night, according to authorities. Two victims suffered potentially life-threatening injuries while two others sustained “potentially serious” injuries, according to Capt. Christa Stedman, a spokesperson for the Austin-Travis County

By Sara Smart, CNN What started out as an idea on a whim, turned into friendship across the Atlantic Ocean. In January 2020, Victoria Kay and her boyfriend, Graeme, were visiting St. Simons Island in Georgia from Knoxville, Tennessee. Kay told CNN she has been painting her entire life, and decided to paint a scene

By Amanda Musa and Rebekah Riess and Ray Sanchez, CNN A county coroner in Georgia discovered the bodies of his parents and his son, who were killed Friday in an apparent robbery at the Lock Stock & Barrel Shooting Range in Grantville, police say. All three were shot, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) confirmed

By Hannah Sarisohn and Claire Colbert, CNN A North Carolina grand jury indicted a former detention center nurse this week on a charge of involuntary manslaughter for her role in the 2019 death of a Black man in custody, according to the indictment obtained by CNN, but spared the corrections officers who restrained the man.

By Nick Valencia, Jade Gordon and Alta Spells, CNN The second in command in the Louisiana State Police (LSP), who was accused of erasing data from his work cellphone after the death of Ronald Greene, has been placed on administrative leave nearly three years after the Black motorist’s death. On Friday, the head of the

By Kiely Westhoff and Emma Tucker, CNN Maryland became the latest state on Friday to severely restrict the sale of so-called “ghost guns,” as law enforcement officials and gun violence prevention groups continue to sound the alarm on the rise of the privately-made firearms. Maryland joined Washington, DC and 10 other states — California, Connecticut,

By Paradise Afshar and Claudia Dominguez, CNN The Nevada man accused of fatally shooting an 18-year-old woman who disappeared from a Walmart parking lot in mid-March will remain in jail without bail, a judge ruled Friday. Troy Driver, 41, of Fallon, was arrested March 25 in connection with the death of Naomi Irion. She was