By Paradise Afshar and Theresa Waldrop, CNN More than 15,000 homes could be threatened over the next three days if the Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon fires in New Mexico continue to grow, according to Andy Lyon, a public information officer with the Southwest Incident Management Team. This includes the city of Las Vegas, New
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By Raja Razek and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Idaho intends to seek the death penalty for Lori Vallow, who is charged with the murder of her two children, Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow, the state said in a notice filed in court Monday. The state will seek the death penalty if Vallow is convicted of any
Continue Reading By Mick Krever and Olha Konovalova, CNN The warm spring air is coming to eastern Ukraine. The roads are lined with red tulips, and people are reopening their summer kitchens, small buildings outside traditional homes used to isolate the heat and smells of cooking in the hotter months. It was in her elderly mother’s wood-frame
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN Images of the war in Ukraine have inspired people worldwide to search for ways to try to help. Some have opened their homes to refugees or pledged donations to emergency appeals. Others have sought to support Ukrainian businesses. Among them is New Yorker Chelsey Brown. As she trawled for ideas online,
Continue Reading By Sara Sidner, Sandi Sidhu, Oleksandra Titorova and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Deep in a pine forest in Ukraine’s Bucha district, a bumpy dirt road dead-ends in a small tidy cemetery. There, a figure dressed in black, her head covered with a scarf, hunches over a fresh mound of dirt blanketed in flowers and adorned with
Continue Reading By Mick Krever and Olha Konovalova, CNN The warm spring air is coming to eastern Ukraine. The roads are lined with red tulips, and people are reopening their summer kitchens, small buildings outside traditional homes used to isolate the heat and smells of cooking in the hotter months. It was in her elderly mother’s wood-frame
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By Maryna Marukhnych, Natalie Gallón, Nick Paton Walsh, Tim Lister, Denis Lapin and Julia Presniakova, CNN Civilians evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol have described their harrowing ordeal after arriving in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia. CNN’s team in Zaporizhzhia saw the arrival of five buses with evacuees and witnessed emotional scenes
Continue Reading By René Marsh and Rachel Ramirez, CNN The federal government announced Tuesday it is taking unprecedented, emergency steps to help boost water levels at Lake Powell. The measures are intended to buy the surrounding communities more time to plan for the very real possibility the reservoir, the country’s second-largest, will soon run out of water
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By Sonia Moghe, CNN An attorney for Nxivm founder Keith Raniere on Tuesday asked for his conviction to be vacated, alleging in a court filing the FBI tampered with key evidence in the case against him and gave false testimony in his 2019 trial. Raniere was convicted on seven counts, including racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, wire
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By Jack Guy and Anna Chernova, CNN Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, and since then President Vladimir Putin has insisted that his troops are carrying out a “special military operation” instead of a war. But speculation is growing that this could change in the coming days. Western officials believe Putin could formally declare war
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By Rob Picheta, CNN Tens of millions of women in America are on the verge of losing access to abortion, according to a draft of a document that appears to show the Supreme Court has decided to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision which legalized the procedure across the country. Such a move would represent
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By Katie Hunt, CNN Ancient humans ate copious quantities of oysters — shucking billions of shells over thousands of years in a way that did not appear to cause oyster populations to collapse as they have in many places today. New research, based on an analysis of dozens of archaeological sites in the United States
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By Nimi Princewill, CNN Dozens of passengers kidnapped during a train attack in northern Nigeria in late March are being used as human shields by their captors, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. Buhari said this had further complicated rescue efforts. “They are using civilians as human shields, thereby making it difficult to confront them directly
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By Dakin Andone, CNN Abortion clinics in states likely to maintain access to the procedure are preparing for a potential influx of out-of-state patients following the report of a leaked draft of a Supreme Court majority opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade. “This is a devastating blow for millions of people who will find
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN The US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on Friday has reverberated around the world, setting the country apart from its key allies on reproductive healthcare. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it “clearly has a massive impact on people’s thinking around the world,” and called the court’s decision
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN When Jillian Orr walked across the stage to accept her degree in psychology from the Mormon-owned Brigham Young University, she was anxious — and not just with the usual pre-commencement, rest-of-your-life-ahead-of-you jitters. Orr planned to use her final moments as an undergrad to honor herself and the other LGBTQ students at
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Think of this as one very long last dance. Two galaxies located 60 million light-years from Earth have been in the process of coming together for 400 million years. The galaxies, NGC 1512 and NGC 1510, are located in the Horologium constellation, as seen from the Southern Hemisphere. The larger of
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at horse racing’s Triple Crown. The three races in the Triple Crown are the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes. Facts A horse must win all three races to achieve the Triple Crown. There have been 13 Triple Crown winners:– 1919 Sir Barton– 1930 Gallant Fox–
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By Jessie Yeung, CNN An elderly Shanghai resident was mistakenly declared dead and taken to a morgue in a body bag, in the latest sign of dysfunction in the Covid-stricken city where millions of people remain under government-enforced lockdown. Video footage, shot by a bystander, shows the moment several workers dressed head-to-toe in protective gear
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By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Work smarter, not harder. Some people assume that you need a six-figure income to retire decades early, but that’s not necessarily the case. Check out these valuable saving and investing strategies from a man who retired when he was only 33 — when his income topped out at around $70,000. Here’s
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