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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Millions of acres scorched by wildfires in the Western US and Canada — an area roughly the size of South Carolina — can be traced back to carbon pollution from the world’s largest fossil fuel and cement companies, scientists reported Tuesday. The study by the Union of Concerned Scientists,

By Chris Boyette and Zoe Sottile, CNN A mother in Dallas, Texas, was going to pick up a prom dress with her daughter when she was fatally shot by a stray bullet — just a day before Mother’s Day. Ana Moreno, 39, was driving with her teenage daughter when she was struck by the bullet

By Joe Sutton, CNN The St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office has filed a motion asking a Missouri court to set aside the conviction of a man who prosecutors say has served more than 30 years of a life sentence for a murder he didn’t commit. Christopher Dunn, now 52, was convicted in 1991 and sentenced

By Jamiel Lynch and Zoe Sottile, CNN The US Department of Justice has reached an agreement with a Georgia sheriff’s office, resolving a racial discrimination complaint after police allegedly stopped a bus of Black female lacrosse players from Delaware State University last year. In April of 2022, the university’s women’s lacrosse team was on a

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Caden Cox made history in 2021 during his time as a student athlete at Hocking College as the first known player with Down syndrome to play in and score during a college football game. Two years later, the 23-year-old is suing his alma mater for alleged discrimination, assault and harassment he

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN The gunman who on Monday shot and killed three people and wounded multiple others, including two law enforcement officers, in Farmington, New Mexico, was 18 years old, the deputy police chief told reporters. Police didn’t say what kind of weapon the gunman used before he was killed by responding officers. Farmington

By Cheri Mossburg, Chris Boyette and Zoe Sottile, CNN More than a week after educators first hit the picket line, the Oakland Education Association, which represents public school teachers in Oakland, California, announced Monday morning it has reached a tentative agreement with the Oakland Unified School District, ending the strike and sending some 35,000 students

By Melissa Alonso and Isabel Rosales, CNN A fifth-grade teacher said she is being investigated by the Florida Department of Education after she showed her students “Strange World,” a 2022 animated Disney movie featuring a character who is biracial and gay. Jenna Barbee, a teacher in Hernando County’s Winding Waters K-8 school, told her story

By Jack Guy, CNN A Florida scientist who calls himself Dr. Deep Sea has broken the record for the longest time lived underwater. In an Instagram post on Sunday, US Navy veteran Joe Dituri announced that he had spent 73 days in a habitat under the sea, and he plans to spend a total of

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN A Michigan teen used a slingshot to successfully ward off a kidnapper who had grabbed his younger sister while she was playing in their backyard on Wednesday, according to Michigan State Police. The 8-year-old girl was “mushroom hunting” in the backyard of her Alpena Township home when a man emerged from

By Gloria Pazmino and Norma Galeana, CNN “Welcome to the United States.” This was the greeting Enderson Amaya Blanco dreamed of hearing after trekking thousands of miles through dangerous and deadly terrain to take his chances at freedom in the US. The young father is one of thousands of migrants who turned themselves in to

By Nouran Salahieh, Polo Sandoval, Rosa Flores, Andrea Cambron and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Despite warnings of a potential crush of migrants that sent thousands of federal personnel to the southern border and US cities scrambling to prepare, the days after the expiration of Title 42 saw a much narrower influx of migrants than expected. Officials

By Tina Burnside, CNN Rescue crews in St. Louis, Missouri, responded to numerous reports of drivers trapped in flood waters Sunday as thousands in the area were under flash flood warnings. The St. Louis Fire Department responded to at least 15 different calls involving vehicles stranded and motorists trapped due to flood waters, St. Louis

By Tina Burnside and Zoe Sottile, CNN More than a week after public school educators in Oakland, California, hit the picket lines, the teachers’ union announced it has reached an agreement with the school district on four “common good” demands on Saturday night. The Oakland Education Association, which represents the teachers, announced the agreement in

By Paradise Afshar and Ashley R. Williams, CNN Police in southwestern Arizona are investigating a fatal weekend shooting that left two people dead and five others injured, including teenagers, authorities said Sunday. Victims ranged from 15 to 20 years old in the shooting that happened Saturday night at a gathering in a residential area of

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN How can a losing lottery ticket earn a big prize? It happened for a Michigan man who played a multimillion-dollar lottery game several times and lost — but still won $100,000. The Wayne County man, who chose to remain anonymous, cashed in using his previously unsuccessful tickets as part of

By Nouran Salahieh, CNN The expiration of a Covid-related border restriction policy known as Title 42 has so far brought fewer migrant arrivals than expected, but southern border communities still worry about overcrowded migrant processing and detention facilities. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday the number of migrants at the US southern border “are

By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN April showers bring May flowers … and also college graduates. Commencement season is underway in the US, and for many newly minted adults, the prospect of supporting themselves for the first time can be somewhat terrifying. One way to calm those fears is to take control of your

By Sara Sidner, CNN Tanya Tilghman moved to the Bay Area as a teenager to live with her mom. Later, she married, had two sons and made a home in San Francisco’s historically Italian North Beach district, up the hill from the tourist and financial centers. Even when her marriage broke down, she never thought

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN On the day she was killed, Simone Crawley’s grandmother, Ruth E. Whitfield, was buying seeds for her garden — a labor of love — where she planted sweet peppers and sweet potatoes. Whitfield, the family’s matriarch, was among the 10 people who died in a racist mass shooting at a