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By Michelle Krupa, CNN (CNN) — Checking the temperature reading during a heat wave won’t tell the whole sweltering story. It’s going to feel a lot hotter. Blame the heat index, also called “apparent temperature.” It’s a combination of air temperature and humidity, and it measures what the body actually feels, CNN meteorologist Haley Brink

By Dakin Andone and Denise Royal, CNN (CNN) — Jurors have ended their first day of deliberations in the trial of a former school resource officer who stayed outside during the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The jury is set to continue deliberating Tuesday morning. Earlier Monday, prosecutors urged the

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — A critical federal analysis of extreme rainfall is vastly underestimating the chances of flood events, with grave implications for everything from new roads and bridges to the rising cost of flood insurance, according to a new analysis. Intense rain events, like atmospheric rivers and torrential, training thunderstorms, are quickly

By Nouran Salahieh, Joe Sutton and Monica Garrett, CNN (CNN) — Severe tornado-spawning storms battered the Southeast and Ohio Valley, leaving at least two people dead and more than 400,000 homes and businesses without power as more storms Monday threaten from North Carolina to Philadelphia. One death was reported after severe storms Sunday slammed Martin

By Nouran Salahieh and Samantha Beech, CNN (CNN) — A robot is combing the sea floor for debris from the fatal implosion of the Titan submersible as authorities in both the US and Canada turn their attention from search and rescue to investigating what led up to the maritime disaster and whether any laws were

By Joe Sutton and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — A ground worker who was “ingested” into a plane’s engine at San Antonio International Airport Friday died by suicide, according to the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office. The cause of death is listed as blunt and sharp force injuries. The manner of death is listed as

By Jean Casarez and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — In a new court filing by an attorney for Bryan Kohberger, the suspect in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students last fall, attorney Jay Logsdon argues “there is no connection between Mr. Kohberger and the victims.” “There is no explanation for the total

By Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and other state leaders have spoken out against bigotry and hate after antisemitic demonstrations took place outside two synagogues in the state this weekend. Groups were observed yelling antisemitic messages outside a Macon temple Friday night and displaying swastikas and signs with neo-Nazi messages outside

By Michelle Watson and Keith Allen, CNN (CNN) — The cleanup has begun at the site of a train derailment in Montana that caused a bridge across the Yellowstone River to collapse, Montana Rail Link said in a statement Sunday. The company’s railcars left the tracks Saturday morning in Stillwater County, sending multiple cars into

By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — At least three people were killed – two men and one woman – and five others were injured after a Sunday morning shooting in Kansas City, Missouri, police said. Around 4:30 a.m. local time, police responded to the scene on 57th St. and Prospect Ave., where preliminary information indicated

By Christina Maxouris, Caitlin Kaiser and Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — More than 700,000 people across the Southeast and Ohio Valley are in the dark Sunday night as powerful storms ripped through the US, unleashing strong winds, hail and tornado threats. Thunderstorms battered parts of Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and parts of the Ohio Valley Sunday

By Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — Two people died Friday after hiking in extreme heat at Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas, the National Park Service said in a news release. A stepfather and his two stepsons from Florida were hiking the Marufo Vega Trail when temperatures were at 119 degrees, according to the

By Sabrina Souza, Jessica Xing and Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN (CNN) — Eleven sets of twins graduated from a New Jersey high school this week, but surprisingly, that’s not a record for the school. “We have a lot of twins here, I don’t know what’s going on here but something’s happening!” Joseph Occhino, principal of

By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Fourth of July celebrations are right around the corner. Time to light the grill and cook up some … lab-grown chicken? Yes, cell-based meat that is grown, or cultivated, in a lab is a thing now — although you can’t go buy it in stores just

By AJ Willingham, design by Ian Berry, CNN (CNN) — Flowers have their own vast language, communicating love, disdain and everything in between. Throughout history, LGBTQ communities have also used the subtle language of flowers to broadcast solidarity or personal identity, all through something as simple as a bloom pinned to a lapel. Many of

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — People in Utah have been seeing snow on the ground tinged with a red and pinkish hue. It’s certainly pretty to look at, but what’s behind the natural phenomenon that’s nicknamed “watermelon snow”? Experts say it’s a normal occurrence that appears across mountainous locations all over the world.

By Pamela Kirkland and Amara Walker, CNN (CNN) — “Sixteen years ago, I almost died giving birth,” Ebonie Karma Tudor said, recalling the birth of her son. “It was just a really traumatic experience.” It was 2007. Tudor, a Black woman, was 24 years old. During the delivery, she needed two blood transfusions and couldn’t