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By Justin Gamble and Rikki Klaus, CNN Theresa Czapieski couldn’t hold back tears when police in Tacoma, Washington, showed her what her daughter could look like today. She has not stopped searching for the then-2-year-old Teekah Lewis since 1999. “I’m not giving up until my daughter is found,” Czapieski told CNN. Tacoma police released an

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN If you’ve been sweating the deadline to apply for a REAL ID, you can now breathe a sigh of relief. The federal government announced an extension to obtain your updated driver’s license or identification card that will soon be required for all US air travel. Here’s what else you need to

By Aya Elamroussi and Holly Yan, CNN The relentless eruption of the world’s largest active volcano has prompted Hawaii’s National Guard to step in as residents and tourists flock to see it. For 10 days, Mauna Loa has been shooting jets of lava toward the sky and down the massive mountain. While officials say there’s

By Andi Babineau and Raja Razek, CNN More than three years after a boy was thrown over a balcony at the Mall of America in Minnesota, the child’s family has reached a settlement with the mall, the family’s attorneys said. The 5-year-old, publicly identified only as Landen, was standing with his mother outside the third-floor

By Steve Almasy, Jason Hanna and Amanda Musa, CNN The tens of thousands of customers in central North Carolina who haven’t had power since two weekend attacks on utility substations should see the lights come on by late Wednesday, a spokesperson for Duke Energy said at a news conference. The two substations in Moore County

By Taylor Romine and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN One of the people charged in the shooting and robbery of Lady Gaga’s dog walker last year has been sentenced to 21 years in state prison, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office said Monday. James Howard Jackson, 20, pleaded no contest to one count of attempted murder

By Michelle Watson and Amanda Musa, CNN People in Bowling Green, Kentucky, won’t be deprived of a Christmas parade after all. The city on Saturday canceled the annual event scheduled for that day after threats against protesters related to the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a Black boy, in 1955. On Monday, Mary-John Carmon, chairwoman

By Mark Morales and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN A man known as the “Times Square Killer” — already serving life for murder — admitted five additional cold-case killings Monday in a New York court. Richard Cottingham, 76, pleaded guilty to one count of murder in the second degree for the 1968 killing of Diane Cusick, and

By Nouran Salahieh and Cheri Mossburg, CNN A Los Angeles jury will return Tuesday to continue its deliberations in the second sexual assault trial of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, who is accused of using his Hollywood influence to lure women into private meetings and assault them. In total, jurors have been deliberating for more

By David Culver, Anna-Maja Rappard and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN From a deep fracture in Mauna Loa’s dark terrain, the volcano’s magnificent eruption sends geyser-like fountains of lava spraying into the sky. The fissure — cracked open on the northeastern slope of the world’s largest active volcano — feeds a searing flow of molten rock that