National-World

By Zoe Sottile, CNN More than 100 streets in New York City’s five boroughs will go car-free to celebrate Earth Day. For the fifth year in a row, the city will mark the occasion by closing streets to vehicles, according to a news release from the NYC Department of Transportation. The closings will take place

By Paradise Afshar and Caroline Kucera, CNN A four-alarm fire that ignited Saturday near a port in Benicia, about 40 miles northeast of San Francisco, has been extinguished, according to city officials. “The Benicia Port Fire that began Saturday, was declared contained at 9:40 a.m. on Sunday, April 10, and was declared extinguished at 12:24

Yenny Sanchez, CNN A California woman became an instant millionaire thanks to “some rude person.” LaQuedra Edwards put $40 into a California Lottery vending machine at Vons Supermarket in Tarzana, Los Angeles County, and was about to select her favorite scratch-off tickets when someone bumped into her, causing her to accidentally push a wrong number.

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