National-World

By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Janice Cooke remembers the first time she heard bugs murder a tree over the phone. It was at the height of the petulance plague, when the warming Canadian Rockies gave rise to swarms of beetles so Biblical they were able to kill 100,000 big lodgepole pines in a

By Peter Nickeas, CNN The shooting death of Amir Locke by a Minneapolis SWAT officer serving a no-knock warrant during a homicide investigation last week has prompted calls for an end to the practice of serving high-risk warrants on homes without giving occupants a chance to open the door. There’s growing consensus among policing leaders

By Gregory Wallace, CNN Deaths and crashes linked to drunken driving dropped almost 20% in Utah, the only state with a lower legal limit of .05, according to a new study. The conclusions are a piece of encouraging news for highway safety, where the number of deaths rose at the highest rate ever recorded during

By Adrienne Broaddus, CNN David Bracho became a nurse after nearly two decades in the US Army Reserve. He’s now working in a Covid-19 ward at Rush Medical Center in Chicago — and he recognizes the parallels. He was deployed twice, Bracho said, and what he saw in Afghanistan is similar to what he has

By Giselle Rhoden, Nick Valencia and Jade Gordon, CNN Three weeks ago, Brittany Murphree enrolled in Law 743, a unique class for the University of Mississippi. Despite the skepticism from fellow Republican friends and family, the second-year law student wanted to take the class “to see what it’s all about.” “Honestly, I love it,” Murphree

By Sarah Moon and Steve Almasy, CNN A California man who had symbols linked to the extremist Boogaloo movement pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder charges related to a 2020 “drive-by shooting” outside a federal building complex in Oakland, the US Department of Justice said in a news release Friday. Steven Carrillo, who was

By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN After a week of backlash, the University of Alabama System’s Board of Trustees voted Friday to name a building after the school’s first Black student instead of having her share the name with a Ku Klux Klan leader. The trustees reversed a February 3 decision to name the building Lucy-Graves Hall

By Jennifer Henderson, CNN A former administrator for the Little Rock School District (LRSD) in Arkansas pleaded guilty to mail fraud on Wednesday after spending more than $230,000 in school district funds for her personal online shopping, according to a news release from the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas. From August

By Maximillian Boudreaux, CNN A triple homicide committed 50 years ago has been solved after the Watauga County Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina received information revealed by a Georgia inmate during a visit with his son. In February 1972, a man and his wife went with a neighbor to check on her parents and brother

By Peter Nickeas, CNN Prosecutors declined to bring charges against an Orange County, California, sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot a man 16 months ago during a struggle over a fellow deputy’s gun that started as a street stop for jaywalking. The sheriff’s office released video of the incident in February 2021, and the prosecutors’ office