National-World

By Lucy Kafanov, Leslie Perrot and Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Great Salt Lake is also known as America’s Dead Sea — owing to a likeness to its much smaller Middle Eastern counterpart — but scientists worry the moniker could soon take new meaning. Human water consumption and diversion have long depleted the Utah lake. Its

By Rachel Trent, CNN Of all the aspects of normality Americans missed throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, physical touch has been a common theme. The touch associated with browsing at a record store is no exception — clicking a download button can’t match the feeling of walking into a shop with other music fans, flipping through

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN The fight for voting rights intensified this week with a Black woman lawmaker being arrested while protesting, Texas House Democrats fleeing the state to block Republicans from passing voter restrictions, and Black civil rights leaders blasting President Joe Biden for falling short of their demand to discuss ending the filibuster

By Holly Yan, CNN On a balmy Missouri evening in 1981, this was one of the hottest places to be. More than 1,500 revelers had gathered on the first floor of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency for a popular tea dance party hosted by the swanky 1-year-old hotel. As musicians performed big band hits, couples

By Melissa Alonso, Sonnet Swire and Aaron Pellish, CNN A 6-year-old girl was killed and five adults were injured in a drive-by shooting in Washington, DC, on Friday night, officials said. The incident happened shortly after 11 p.m. in the southeast part of the district. In a video released by DC police, a silver or

By Adrienne Broaddus, CNN Entrepreneur Justin Turk knew his start-up was special, but a $1 million prize from Grammy award-winning singer and producer Pharrell Williams came as a shock. On Tuesday, Williams announced the winners of his Black Ambition prize competition — and Turk and his business partner, Andre Davis, are in the national spotlight.

By Alexandra Meeks and Aya Elamroussi, CNN The man known as the “Hollywood Ripper” was sentenced to death on Friday in the murders of two women and the attempted murder of another, a court spokesperson told CNN. Michael Gargiulo, 45, was found guilty of the charges by a California jury in August 2019. The case,

By Alaa Elassar, CNN Nearly four years ago, Danielle Crull rescued a stray kitten from a forest in Pennsylvania. Now, that spunky kitty is changing hundreds of lives by helping children with eye problems feel more confident about wearing glasses and eye patches. Truffles, now famous for her glamorous glasses — which range from sparkling

By Rebekah Riess and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Investigators in Atlanta were able to extract DNA from two child murder cases for additional analysis as part of the city’s probe into the dozens of decades-old unsolved killings, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said Friday. Authorities in March 2019 reopened the investigation into a series of child murders

By Kristina Sgueglia, Mirna Alsharif and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Video circulating of a man who was tased by police after they say he helped another passenger evade a subway fare in New York City has drawn scrutiny from local politicians and community leaders. On July 6, an individual opened an exit gate for an acquaintance

By Brisa Colon, CNN Despite an “exhaustive investigation,” the US Forest Service announced Friday the cause of the largest single fire in California’s recorded history is undetermined. The Creek Fire, which burned more than 379,000 acres in the mountains of Fresno and Madera counties for months last year, destroyed more than 850 structures and spawned

By Dakin Andone, CNN A grand jury has indicted a Virginia’s sheriff’s deputy in connection with the April shooting of Isiah Brown, who was unarmed, according to a special prosecutor for the case. Prosecutor Justin Witt of the Fredericksburg County Commonwealth Attorney’s Office told CNN on Friday that Spotsylvania County Deputy David Turbyfill had been

By Amanda Watts and Alaa Elassar, CNN Two former police officers in Maine have pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges stemming from an incident in which they beat porcupines to death with their batons while on duty, Sagadahoc County District Attorney Natasha Irving told CNN. Addison Cox and Michael Rolerson both pleaded guilty on Thursday