National-World

By Rosa Flores, Conor Powell and Ray Sanchez, CNN The Del Rio Port of Entry in Texas was to reopen to vehicle traffic Saturday afternoon after a week-long shutdown prompted by a surge of migrants along the border with Mexico. Vehicle and pedestrian traffic was to resume at 4 p.m. local time Saturday, and cargo

By Jason Morris and Ryan Young, CNN Chuck Lovell was sworn in as Portland’s police chief in June 2020, not long into the pandemic and just a couple of chaos-filled weeks after George Floyd was murdered by a Minnesota police officer. As in cities across the country, protests erupted in Portland over Floyd’s death and

By Dakin Andone, CNN Three dismembered bodies — including a child — were found in a burning dumpster in Fort Worth, Texas, this week, according to the city’s police department. The bodies were “burned and heavily dismembered,” police said in a news release on Friday, adding there were “body parts unaccounted for.” Authorities have tentatively

By Theresa Waldrop, CNN Saturday’s Google Doodle honors Christopher Reeve, the “Superman” actor who became an activist for the disabled, on what would have been his 69th birthday. Reeve was paralyzed from the neck down in a horse riding accident in 1995 and spent the rest of his life lobbying for disabled rights and advocating

By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN Prince Andrew‘s lawyers acknowledge he has been served with legal papers in a civil sexual assault case against him, as do lawyers for the woman accusing him of sexual abuse, according to documents filed Friday in New York federal court. The proposed stipulation, filed in agreement and electronically signed by attorneys

By Emma Tucker, Peter Nickeas and Christina Carrega, CNN In the past month, attorneys general in three states have sought a court-ordered overhaul of local police departments, increasingly filling the role the federal government has played for decades of holding accountable police departments that are deemed to be behaving badly. State officials have been initiating

By Andy Rose and Jason Hanna, CNN A man was wounded in a shooting outside a central Alabama high school football game Friday night, halting the game for the night as alarm spread in the stands and on the field. The man was at a tailgating event at a Fairfield High Preparatory School parking lot

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN Kraft Heinz has just rolled out a new product that the condiment company says is the “biggest innovation in sauce since the packet itself.” Earlier this month, the world’s largest producer of ketchup announced the Packet Roller, a ketchup bottle-shaped gadget that allows users to squeeze the most out of a

By Carma Hassan, CNN Five residents of a nursing home in Colville, Washington, have died of Covid-19 after an outbreak last month that infected 74 people, officials said. The Northeast Tri-County Health District attributed the infections to the more transmissible Delta variant, which has been blamed for the surge in cases and hospitalizations across the

By Aya Elamroussi and Carma Hassan, CNN A veterans medical facility in Montana is planning to accept non-eligible patients in an effort to alleviate nearby hospitals, as the latest Covid-19 surge overwhelms resources in the state and forces some locations to start considering rationing care. “With more hospital beds available, hospitals now have another tool

By Alaa Elassar, CNN A multi-agency law enforcement operation in New Jersey resulted in the arrest of more than 190 fugitives, according to the US Marshals Service. Operation “Clean Sweep” focused on capturing some of the state’s “most violent offenders,” including gang members, sex offenders, and violent criminals, US Marshals said in a news release

By David Williams, CNN Hurricane Ida devastated Ironton, Louisiana, as it made its deadly march inland, with powerful flood waters that knocked homes off their foundations, swamped buildings with several feet of water and swept caskets out of their tombs, scattering them around the community. Some of those caskets are still sitting there almost four