National-World

By Eric Zerkel, Joe Sutton, Paradise Afshar and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — More than 100 blazes are burning across Canada Monday, with several major wildfires prompting evacuations for hundreds of residents and threatening to swallow up communities. In the province of Manitoba, in eastern Canada, a massive fire had charred more than 86,000 acres

By Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN (CNN) — A New York judge struck down an executive order banning transgender athletes from competing in girls’ or women’s sports leagues and teams at Nassau County facilities on Long Island. Nassau County Supreme Court Judge Francis Ricigliano found on Friday Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman did not have the

By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — Two inmates are dead and several others are injured after a “group disturbance” at a privately run prison in southern Oklahoma, according to prison authorities. The incident took place at Lawton Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility on Friday and is being investigated by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, according to

By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — Columbia University’s graduating class of 1968 was no stranger to protests. The college years of its student body were marked by the anti-Vietnam War movement and the fight for civil rights. In the spring of that year, a series of events – including the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Two California hikers who went missing earlier this week on Mount Whitney have been found dead, authorities said. The Inyo County Sheriff’s Office dispatch received a call on Tuesday around 8:30 p.m. PT regarding the overdue hikers, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office on Thursday.

By Rebekah Riess and Jay Croft, CNN (CNN) — One of three men charged in the killing of a woman on a Colorado highway last year after allegedly throwing rocks at cars, has pleaded guilty, prosecutors say. Nicholas Karol-Chik, Joseph Koenig and Zachary Kwak each originally faced more than a dozen charges, including murder, in

CNN By Ray Sanchez and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — In case you missed the stunning nighttime spectacle of multicolored auroras dancing in the skies across the Northern Hemisphere, there is still a chance Sunday evening to catch a glimpse – but not for everyone. The auroras that have been visible starting Friday are

By Ray Sanchez and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — In case you missed the stunning nighttime spectacle of multicolored auroras dancing in the skies across the Northern Hemisphere, there is still a chance Sunday evening to catch a glimpse – but not for everyone. The auroras that have been visible starting Friday are a

By Kaila Nichols and Brammhi Balarajan, CNN (CNN) — Sub-zero temperatures. Frigid winds. Snow falling across a “tundra-like” plain. These were the conditions soldiers faced in the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir. For some 17 days in late 1950, they fought through blistering cold in the North Korean mountains. With limited logistics and no hope

By Paradise Afshar and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — The trooper who arrested the head of Philadelphia’s LGBT affairs and her husband, an incident captured in a video circulated on social media, “is no longer employed” by Pennsylvania State Police, the agency says. It was unclear whether the trooper, whose name has not been released,

By Kaila Nichols, CNN (CNN) — In late March, Tamiah Brevard-Rodriguez had a plan leading up to her April 24 due date. Coined “Operation Dissertation Before Baby,” the plan included Brevard-Rodriguez completing her dissertation and having her baby in time to celebrate graduation and the summer with family. In that order. Brevard-Rodriguez’s dissertation presentation –

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — More than two decades after authorities discovered a University of Georgia law student’s body at her apartment, where they say a fire was set intentionally, a man has been arrested and charged in connection with the cold case. Tara Louise Baker was found dead in her Athens, Georgia,

By Scott Glover, Audrey Ash and Bob Ortega, CNN (CNN) — As police cracked down on anti-war protests on college campuses across the US in recent weeks, among those arrested were a pair of silver-haired 65-year-old professors armed only with their cell phones. Annelise Orleck was knocked to the ground and restrained with plastic handcuffs