National-World

By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — Harsh weather conditions have slowed the search for two American men and a Canadian climber who went missing after they attempted to summit New Zealand’s highest mountain, officials said. Kurt Blair, 56, Carlos Romero, 50, and the Canadian national were reported overdue from their planned ascent of Mount Cook

By Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — A California man confessed to helping the North Korean regime prepare for an attack in a “sophisticated scheme” to illegally obtain restricted weapons and military grade technology, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday. Shenghua Wen, a Chinese national residing unlawfully in Ontario, California, conspired with North Korean officials to obtain prohibited

By Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — Dressed in a black sweatshirt and tie-dyed leggings, Hannah Kobayashi casually walked off her flight from Maui to Los Angeles International Airport on November 8. The 30-year-old had plans to fly to New York City the same day. But she did not board that plane. Then, she seemingly vanished.

By Lauren del Valle, Gloria Pazmino, Celina Tebor and Eric Levenson, CNN New York (CNN) — A Manhattan jury deliberated for a third day Thursday in the manslaughter trial of Daniel Penny, the former Marine charged in the chokehold death of a homeless man on a New York City subway last year. Penny, 26, is

CNN By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — Hannah Kobayashi, the Hawaii woman who’s been missing for more than three weeks after arriving in Los Angeles on a flight from Maui, has been declared a voluntary missing person, Los Angeles police said Monday. “As the family is aware, late yesterday after traveling to the US-Mexico border

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — When Tennessee banned gender-affirming care for transgender youth last year, Sarah began taking days off work to drive hundreds of miles from her home in Nashville to a North Carolina clinic that could treat her transgender son. But just a month later, a similar ban went into effect in

By Amy Chillag, CNN (CNN) — On Giving Tuesday, you can help Mother Nature in a battle for survival. Pollinators, which provide one out of every three bites of our food, are struggling. Five butterfly species in the United States have gone extinct since 1950, and dozens more are on the verge of extinction according

By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Police in Gloucester, Massachusetts, are seeking charges against three teenagers who allegedly assaulted a transgender teen, who says he was punched and called slurs during the attack. The Gloucester Police Department filed applications for assault and battery charges in Gloucester Juvenile Court against two 17-year-old males and one 16-year-old

By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — Hannah Kobayashi, the Hawaii woman who’s been missing for more than three weeks after arriving in Los Angeles on a flight from Maui, has been declared a voluntary missing person, Los Angeles police said Monday. “As the family is aware, late yesterday after traveling to the US-Mexico border we

By Steve Almasy and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — A grand jury has handed up a murder indictment against a man whose wife disappeared this July, sparking a flurry of concern in the Nepalese community of Northern Virginia and beyond for the nurse and young mother. Naresh Bhatt is now facing state charges of murder