National-World

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — US Customs and Border Protection officers in Arizona have seized 242 pounds of swim bladders – the organ that helps fish control their buoyancy – that came from the endangered Totoaba fish, authorities said. Officers working at the Nogales Port of Entry in Santa Cruz County discovered the

By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Two American tourists who police say were attacked – one fatally – while hiking in Germany were identified as recent graduates of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, according to the school. Eva Liu, 21, was allegedly attacked by a 30-year-old American man she had met while hiking near one

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — After nearly 10 years of playing the same lottery number combination, a $50,000 payday has finally arrived for a man in Maryland, lottery officials said. The winner from Prince George’s County, who remained anonymous, won the big prize on May 28 after playing the Maryland Lottery’s Bonus Match

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Agriculture is investigating a “possible data breach” of a department contractor connected to a broader hack on multiple federal agencies that officials have blamed on Russian cybercriminals, a department spokesperson told CNN on Saturday night. “USDA is aware of a possible data breach with a

By Andy Rose, Ashley R. Williams and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Eight people, including teenagers, were injured in a shooting in Los Angeles County, authorities said Saturday. Two are in critical condition. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies responded early Saturday to a report of multiple gunshot victims at a residence in Carson, about

By Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — Mississippi authorities say they have captured the second of two escapees who broke out of a detention facility in May. “Escapee-Joseph Spring was captured this morning by HCSO and the US Marshals Fugitive Task Force following a brief vehicle encounter in the west Jackson area,” Hinds County Sheriff Tyree

By Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — The US Coast Guard has seized more than 14,153 pounds of cocaine worth more than $186 million, according to a news release. Authorities said the drugs were intercepted during nine separate cases in international waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Twelve suspected smugglers were also apprehended

By Samantha Beech and Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — The damaged section of Interstate 95 that collapsed in Philadelphia will be reopened within the next two weeks, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Saturday. The interstate crumbled June 11 after a tanker truck carrying 8,500 gallons of gasoline crashed and exploded in flames under the highway,

By Zenebou Sylla and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — At least 17 people were injured Saturday after a bus collided with two civilian vehicles in Baltimore, according to the Baltimore City Fire Department. “Fortunately, there were no critical life-threatening injuries at this incident,” Baltimore City Fire Department communications director Kevin Cartwright told CNN affiliate

By Rebekah Riess and Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — A Chicago police sergeant has been acquitted of aggravated assault and felony official misconduct in a case involving a teenager he held in a prone position with his knee while off-duty. Michael Vitellaro, 49, who has worked for the Chicago Police Department since 2000, “escaped criminal

By Keith Allen and Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Donald Gray Triplett, the first person diagnosed with autism symptoms, died Thursday, according to his longtime employer. Triplett was 89. Triplett started working at the Bank of Forest in 1958 and was remembered as a “fixture” at the small Mississippi city bank that sits about 40

By Alaa Elassar and Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — An Arizona man was fatally mauled by a black bear that attacked him unprovoked while he was having his morning coffee on Friday. Steven Jackson, 66, died and the bear was killed by a neighbor who was trying to save his life, according to the Yavapai

By Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — For much of the past two-plus weeks, many of the federal government’s 60 witnesses described the horror when a gunman entered the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018 and killed 11 worshippers – the deadliest attack ever on Jewish people in the United States. A federal jury

By Isabel Yip, Jason Carroll and Linh Tran, CNN (CNN) — Decades after Lee Vernon Newby Jr. was one of the first Black recruits to break the color barrier in the Marine Corps, he and his family are still fighting for recognition. The 100-year-old and his four children want him to be honored with a

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Forty-five years after an Ohio woman went missing somewhere along the West Coast, her two remaining relatives – the woman’s nieces – now know what became of their Aunt Dolly. Unidentified human remains found in October of 1978 inside a garment bag in a remote area of Imlay,

By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A 19-year-old from Pickford, Michigan, was arrested by the FBI on Friday for allegedly making antisemitic threats on Instagram. Seann Pietila was charged in a criminal complaint with “transmitting a communication containing a threat to injure another,” US Attorney Mark Totten announced Friday in a news release. “Antisemitic threats

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Are your fingers this fast? In just 3.13 seconds, a 21-year-old speedcuber from California broke the world record for the fastest time of solving a 3x3x3 rotating puzzle cube, according to Guinness World Records. Max Park completed the world-record solve during a Pride at Long Beach event on