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By Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — Children from families in the top 1% financially are more than twice as likely to attend an elite university than those from middle-class families with comparable SAT and ACT scores, a new study found. The research was conducted by Opportunity Insights, a group of Harvard researchers and policy analysts

By Isabel Rosales, Dakin Andone, Raja Razek and Polo Sandoval, CNN (CNN) — The unarmed Black man who was attacked by a police K-9 while surrendering to authorities with his hands up earlier this month told emergency dispatchers that officers were “trying to kill” him and he did not feel safe pulling over, according to

By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — For decades, criminologists and true crime documentaries have attempted to understand what causes serial killers to commit the atrocities they do. Dennis Rader, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Albert DeSalvo and Ted Bundy are just a few of more than 3,600 serial killers documented in the United States as

By Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — A portion of the Custer Gallatin National Forest in Montana is closed after a woman was found dead following an apparent bear encounter, wildlife officials said. Grizzly bear tracks were found near the woman’s body, which was discovered Saturday on the Buttermilk Trail, west of the town of West

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — A French photographer is on a mission to capture what our world would look like if humans were to vanish. His collection of eerily beautiful images reveals long-forgotten places completely overrun by nature. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day.

By Joe Sutton and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — Residents in parts of Arizona were ordered to evacuate Sunday as firefighters battled several wildfires across the state amid extreme temperatures that have persisted for weeks. About 160 residents were ordered to evacuate from the Sunflower area in Arizona’s Maricopa County Sunday as a wildfire burned

By Rob Frehse, Christina Maxouris and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Officials are continuing the investigation of Gilgo Beach serial killings suspect Rex Heuermann, using ground-penetrating radar and a backhoe to search the yard of his Massapequa Park home, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison told reporters Monday. There was also a police dog on

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Yemen police have arrested 21 suspects in the killing of a local office head of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in Taiz, according to Yemen’s Interior Ministry. Moayad Hameidi was shot dead in Turbah in the Taiz governorate. Turbah is a town near the coast of the

By Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — Two female hikers were found dead in Nevada’s Valley of Fire State Park on Saturday afternoon, state police say. Several hikers saw the women enter the park Saturday morning and became concerned after they did not see them return, Nevada State Police said in a statement released Sunday. After

By Mitchell McCluskey and Cara-Lynn Clarkson, CNN (CNN) — A boat crashed into a home near the Lake of the Ozarks on Saturday night, injuring all eight people on board and extensively damaging the house, according to Missouri law enforcement. The boat’s occupants were thrown from the vessel when it crashed at the 1.5-mile mark

By Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of people were injured after a patio collapsed during an event at a southern Montana country club, authorities said. The collapse happened at the Briarwood Country Club in Billings on Saturday night, according to a Facebook post by the Billings Police Department. Police responded at around 7:50 p.m.

By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — When customs officials encountered a pickup truck transporting four large wheels of cheese from Mexico into the Presidio Port of entry in Texas Thursday, they had a hunch something was off. An X-ray scan of the cheese revealed “anomalies,” which upon further inspection turned out to be 17.8 pounds

By Sarah Dewberry and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — An aircraft hit a power line and crashed in Houston on Saturday night, killing one person and knocking out power in the area, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. The crash involved a crop-duster-style aircraft, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said on Facebook, a general

By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Have any big plans for the upcoming week? If not, we suggest volunteering in your community. New research shows volunteering late in life may protect the brain, leading to better scores on tests of cognitive function in older adults. Here’s what else you need to know

By Maureen Chowdhury, CNN (CNN) — It’s been over a year since Roe v. Wade was overturned by the US Supreme Court, eliminating the constitutional right to abortion nationwide. The opinion was one of the most consequential Supreme Court decisions in decades and paved the way for states to pass laws to limit or ban

By Eric Zerkel, CNN (CNN) — Extreme heat appears to be killing people in America’s national parks at an alarming pace this year, highlighting both its severity and the changing calculus of personal risk in the country’s natural places as climate change fuels more weather extremes. More people are suspected to have died since June

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — The doubt surrounding the alleged kidnapping of Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell, which Alabama police said they couldn’t verify, threatens to overshadow thousands of unsolved cases of missing Black people, advocates say Russell went missing shortly after calling 911 on July 13 to report a toddler in a diaper

By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Texas A&M University president M. Katherine Banks resigned Thursday amid controversy over the school’s failed attempt to hire a new professor to lead its journalism program. Banks’ decision came after the Faculty Senate announced its own plans to investigate why the school announced the hiring of journalist and professor

By Andy Rose and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Police in Oregon say a suspect is dead after opening fire in a hospital in downtown Portland Saturday, a shooting that left one person dead and another injured. Authorities say the suspect, who fled Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center after the shooting, was stopped in a