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Hospitalizations are up 225% since early June in Springfield, Missouri, which experts are blaming on the Covid-19 Delta variant. CNN’s Martin Savidge reports.

By Angela Barajas and Martin Savidge, CNN In June Louie Michael and his wife, Patti, were admitted as Covid-19 patients at Springfield’s Mercy Hospital, one of two major hospitals in southwest Missouri. Pattie was hospitalized first. She has asthma and is immunocompromised. Michael followed the next day, arriving by ambulance. He chronicled his bout with

Rescue crews are sifting through a mountain of rubble hoping to find those still missing after a residential building partially collapsed in Surfside, Florida.

By Theresa Waldrop, CNN One man happened to be walking his dog. Another awoke to “an incredible bang” only to discover dust and debris outside his third-floor condominium. When part of the 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Florida, collapsed early Thursday, it left a pile of rubble where the beachside residences once

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN When Britney Spears asked a court this week to end her years-long conservatorship, she renewed attention on a little-understood section of US law. A convervatorship is a legal arrangement that gives a court-appointed individual, known as the conservator, the power to handle the financial and/or personal affairs of another adult who

By Alaa Elassar, CNN The parents of a student who died during the Parkland school shooting tricked a former president of the National Rifle Association (NRA) to give a speech in front of thousands of empty chairs representing victims of school gun violence. Video posted online shows David Keene addressing a makeshift field in Las Vegas. Keene thought

David Keene, a former head and current board member of the National Rifle Association, was duped by a gun control activist group into giving a fake graduation speech to empty chairs that represented the victims of gun violence who would have graduated this year.

Jorge Soto, who lives across from the Florida condominium complex, tells CNN’s Victor Blackwell about what he experienced while speaking with survivors of the residential building collapse.

By Nicquel Terry Ellis and Boris Sanchez, CNN A Virginia school district is under fire after chaos erupted during public comment at a school board meeting earlier this week over a proposed transgender policy and claims that critical race theory is being taught in the classroom. The turmoil ended with one person being arrested and

By Theresa Waldrop, Alisha Ebrahimji, Ray Sanchez and Claire Colbert, CNN The dead and unaccounted for residents of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, reflect the area’s rich cultural diversity, an international tragedy that has touched members of a tight-knit Jewish community and families from as far away as Argentina, Paraguay and Colombia. Scores

By Ganesh Setty and Leah Asmelash, CNN A controversial statue of Theodore Roosevelt will finally be moved from its current location after years of debate — and one year after a formal request for its removal. The statue debuted in 1940 and stands in front of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

By Eric Levenson, CNN As New York Mets pitcher Tylor Megill walked off the mound after his Major League Baseball debut Wednesday night, the home faithful got to their feet and heartily applauded the 25-year-old. But those cheers soured when Megill was forced to make a pit stop. The home plate umpire approached Megill and