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Michigan authorities search for ‘armed and dangerous’ man who set police vehicles on fire and shot them with rifle

By Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — Michigan authorities are looking for an “armed and dangerous” suspect who they say set fire to multiple state police vehicles and struck them with rifle rounds early Wednesday at the Sault Ste. Marie post. No troopers were in the vehicles when the incident occurred at about 3:30 a.m., police

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A ‘flower burial’ unearthed in 1960 reshaped the study of Neanderthals. A new discovery calls it into question

By Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — A grave unearthed in 1960 led researchers to hypothesize that Neanderthals interred their dead with flowers — challenging the prevailing view that the ancient humans were dumb and brutish. Now scientists say a key piece of evidence from the site, which helped shape the study of Neanderthals, might have been

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Video shows murderer who escaped a Pennsylvania prison using same route as another inmate who broke out in May

By Nouran Salahieh and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — The manhunt continued Wednesday for murderer Danelo Cavalcante, who escaped from a Pennsylvania prison last week by thwarting newly installed razor wire put in place after another inmate briefly broke out a few months ago, authorities said at a Wednesday news conference. Cavalcante, 34, who was

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