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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

By Melissa Alonso, CNN A 16-year-old from Dania Beach, Florida, was arrested on suspicion of making a series of false reports of bomb threats at several schools and the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Friday, authorities said. The teenager, who has not been publicly identified, allegedly made the first call to 9-1-1 around 10 a.m.,

By Samantha Beech, CNN New York City will open the city’s first asylum-seeker arrival center next week, as hundreds of migrants continue to arrive in the city each day, following the expiration of a pandemic-era border restriction, city officials said. The center will double as the city’s ninth Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center, as

By Mitchell McCluskey and Zoe Sottile, CNN A Maryland man was arrested after allegedly stealing a five-ton military vehicle and leading police on a chase on Friday night, according to local police. The Harford County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that Michael D. Stevens II, 38, stole a privately owned 1986 923-A 5-ton

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN US Customs and Border Protection officers in Cincinnati seized dozens of shipments of unapproved injectable cosmetic treatments — including Juvéderm and Botox — over a two-week period, authorities said. The unregulated fillers from Bulgaria, Spain, China and Korea were being sent to Oregon, South Carolina, Florida, New York and other

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN Chances have dwindled for finding two climbers alive more than a week after they went missing in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve, as park authorities announced they have scaled back their active search. A small slab avalanche may have swept Eli Michel, 34, of Columbia City, Indiana, and Nafiun

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN Wildlife officials in Colorado have euthanized a young mountain lion this week after the animal swatted and injured an 11-year-old girl in a “rare” attack. The child encountered the animal in her family’s wooden hen house Wednesday night at their rural home southwest of Buena Vista, about 94 miles west of

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Four influential video games have been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame: “Wii Sports,” “The Last of Us,” “Computer Space,” and “Barbie Fashion Designer.” The four iconic games beat out other finalists like “Angry Birds” and “FIFA International Soccer,” according to a May 4 news release from the

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Diocelina Querales cranes her neck as she tries to catch a glimpse of the faces behind the tinted windows of a bus that just rumbled in. In a matter of moments, she shakes her head. “Nada,” she says. Nothing. Only men are on this bus that’s just arrived from a

By Rebekah Riess, CNN One person died and a dozen people were injured when a tornado struck around 4 a.m. Saturday along the southern coast of Texas, near the Mexico border, a Cameron County official said. Port Isabel officials earlier said two people had been killed in Laguna Heights, which is between Port Isabel and