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By Janelle Davis, CNN An unexpected rainstorm. A traffic jam on your morning commute. Realizing you forget to put on deodorant. There are many things that can turn your day from good to bad. But there is one thing you’re probably not thinking about. Being called “ma’am.” I was completely unaware of how much women

By Nouran Salahieh and Holly Yan, CNN Another round of storms is headed to flood-ravaged California, where residents are still grappling with impassable roads, overflowing rivers, inundated neighborhoods and a levee breach that forced hundreds to evacuate. By Sunday afternoon, parts of California’s famed Highway 1 already looked like ponds — prompting authorities to shut

By Rebekah Riess, CNN A radiographic camera containing radioactive material has gone missing in Houston, Texas, officials said Saturday. The 53-pound camera — which is commonly used in the construction industry — went missing on March 9 and was last seen on Little York Road in Houston, the Texas Department of State Health Services said

By Christina Maxouris, CNN Six months after US authorities in New York seized three metal swords and a stone axe head that had been stolen from Ukraine, the cultural artifacts were returned to the people they belong to. The Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, DC, accepted the artifacts Friday, according to a Twitter post. “Honored to

By Jay Croft, CNN A Maryland man who just won his second lottery prize has a simple explanation for his good luck. It’s his long hair. William Daniels Jr., 31, of Middle River won $50,000 last week on a Maryland Lottery Gold X50 scratch-off. He also won $100,000 on a Baltimore Ravens-themed scratch-off back in

By Polo Sandoval, Melissa Alonso, Emma Tucker and Andrew Millman, CNN Three women are believed to be missing in Mexico after they crossed the US border traveling from Texas to sell clothes at a flea market more than two weeks ago, police told CNN on Saturday. Mexican authorities are investigating the disappearance of the three

By Jay Croft, CNN You can live like American royalty in the capital kingdom of Washington, DC. For just $26.5 million. That’s the price tag for the sale of three Georgetown mansions, which have been combined into one property with a total area of 16,000 square feet. An early Georgetown mayor and a former Miss

By Nick Valencia and Paradise Afshar, CNN A “Cop City” protester’s hands were raised when law enforcement officers who were attempting to clear the site of a planned police and fire training facility near Atlanta opened fire, an autopsy commissioned by the activist’s family found, attorneys say. The hands of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, 26,

By Andy Rose and Raja Razek, CNN A woman and her husband were shot and killed in their Redmond, Washington, home by an online stalker who authorities were attempting to serve with a protection order, police said. Ramin Khodakaramrezaei, 38, also shot himself dead early Friday morning at the couple’s home after breaking in through

By Paradise Afshar and Christina Maxouris, CNN The three White men who killed Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black jogger, are appealing their federal hate crime convictions, with two of the three arguing the government did not prove they chased the young man because of his race. The men’s attorneys, who filed the appeals earlier this

By Alisha Ebrahimji and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN The gunman who killed three Michigan State University students and critically wounded five others last month in a mass shooting wrote in a note found in his pocket that he was “tired of being rejected” and was hurt, police said Friday. The Michigan State University Police and Public

By Chris Boyette and Rebekah Riess, CNN A man whom prosecutors say kept a woman captive for four years locked inside a trailer in Houston has been charged with kidnapping, according to court records. Abraham Bravo Segura, 42, was arrested on Wednesday night and remained in a Harris County Jail facility with a $150,000 bond

By Rob Frehse, Michelle Krupa and Gabe Cohen, CNN Norfolk Southern found loose wheels on a series of rail cars involved in last week’s derailment near Springfield, Ohio, the company has announced, the latest safety problem to emerge as scrutiny intensifies on the operator — and US freight safety broadly — following that wreck, a