National-World

By Kaylene Chassie and Keith Allen, CNN Alcohol may have been a contributing factor when a motorist drove into an encampment of unhoused people early Sunday in Salem, Oregon, killing four, police said. A preliminary investigation suggests the driver plowed into the encampment around 2 a.m. (5 a.m. ET) after veering off the road, the

By Dakin Andone, CNN A woman died in Grand Canyon National Park on Thursday after falling into rapids on the Colorado River, according to the National Park Service. The woman — identified as 68-year-old Mary Kelley of Steamboat Springs, Colorado — was on the ninth day of a private boating trip when she “entered the

By Melissa Alonso, CNN A structure fire at an ExxonMobil refinery in Montana burned for more than three hours, officials said Sunday. “Last night, our Billings Refinery personnel responded to a fire at one of our units at approximately 9:50 p.m. The fire was reported out at about 1:15 a.m.,” ExxonMobil Operations Media Manager Julie

By Zoe Sottile, CNN After waiting more than 80 years, Merrill Pittman Cooper finally received his high school diploma. Cooper, 101, attended Storer College in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, from 1934 to 1938, but dropped out during his senior year when his family relocated to Philadelphia for financial reasons, Jefferson County Schools said in a

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Florida’s got yet another spring breaker in town: Scot, a massive great white shark, has been recorded swimming off the Gulf Coast. Scot, an adult male, measures just over 12-feet long and weighs 1,600 pounds, according to OCEARCH, the non-profit marine group that spotted the big fish Thursday. Scot is the

By Christina Maxouris, CNN David Lipson sat in his dining room talking on the phone with his son when he smelled the smoke. He grabbed his dog, his gun and a pair of guitars he bought in 1976 — the year he married his wife — and ran out of his home near Gorman, Texas.

By Leah Asmelash, CNN College students across the country are facing a crisis. It’s not just the basic cost of attending college, which has steadily been climbing. And it’s not the stress of getting into a post-secondary program. The problem is housing. For many college students across the country, especially those who are low-income or

By Yenny Sanchez, CNN If you think the PS5 is expensive, get a load of Atari’s “Home Pong” prototype. The original 1975, hand-carved wood mock-up of the Pong system recently sold for $270,910 at auction, according to seller RR Auction. The one-off system features paddle control knobs, a bright red “start game” button, a metal

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN A construction worker died Saturday after suffering a “substantial” fall while apparently inside a crane at a Boston parking garage that partially collapsed while it was being demolished, officials said. The collapse was reported to first responders around 5:40 p.m., Boston Fire Commissioner Jack Dempsey said during a news conference. When

By Mark Morales and Emma Tucker, CNN New York City is executing a plan to clear out encampments across the city where homeless people are known to live and connect those individuals with social services over the next two weeks, according to an official with Mayor Eric Adams’ office. City officials will work to eradicate

By Andy Rose, CNN A wildfire near Boulder, Colorado, prompted an evacuation warning for nearly 20,000 people Saturday evening. “Evacuation areas include 19,000 people and 8,000 homes,” the Boulder Office of Emergency Management tweeted. The NCAR Fire broke out Saturday afternoon. It was just 123 acres by Saturday evening, but not contained at all, officials

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A California man has been charged with smuggling more than a thousand reptiles, some endangered, into the United States. Jose Manuel Perez, 30, of Oxnard, also known as “Julio Rodriguez,” was charged with one count of conspiracy, nine counts of smuggling goods into the United States and two counts of wildlife

By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN A man who was allegedly manufacturing fentanyl in his New Jersey apartment faces almost 30 charges after his 12-year-old nephew died following exposure to paraphernalia containing the substance, the Camden County prosecutor’s office said. On March 21, prosecutors charged Troy Nokes, 35, of Blackwood, New Jersey, with first-degree aggravated manslaughter and

By Emma Tucker, CNN The Memphis Police Department and the New York State Police took a pledge this week to increase the representation of women in their ranks to 30%, joining a total of 150 law enforcement agencies in the US and Canada that have made the commitment in the past year. The 30×30 Initiative

By Sara Smart, CNN On Tuesday, a 9-year-old girl set up her drum kit outside of the Foo Fighters’ hotel in Paraguay, hoping to impress the band. Surrounded by other fans who cheered her on, her skills soon caught the ears of the late Taylor Hawkins, who came down to see the young drummer. Emma