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Officials urge residents in northern New Mexico to leave ahead of a rapidly growing blaze. An aircraft battles the Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon Fires in the Santa Fe National Forest in New Mexico on Thursday

‘Refusal to evacuate could be a fatal decision’: Officials urge residents in northern New Mexico to leave ahead of a rapidly growing blaze

By Hannah Sarisohn and Christina Maxouris, CNN Officials in northern New Mexico urged residents in more than two dozen communities to immediately evacuate Saturday ahead of a massive blaze that exploded in size in a day. The Calf Canyon Fire began last week and combined with the Hermits Peak Fire, which was already burning near

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Gal Weinstock (far left)

A Holocaust Remembrance Day event was canceled due to low registration. So hundreds showed up on Zoom to hear survivor’s story

By Ray Sanchez, CNN On one of the most solemn days on the Jewish calender, Holocaust survivor Arnold Fridland would not be silenced. Sydney Goldstein, 28, with a little help from others, saw to it. Fridland, 86, was supposed to speak Thursday evening in Boulder, Colorado, at a Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, event —

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As water levels decline in Lake Powell

Lake Powell officials face an impossible choice in the West’s megadrought: Water or electricity

By René Marsh, CNN Lake Powell, the country’s second-largest reservoir, is drying up. The situation is critical: if water levels at the lake were to drop another 32 feet, all hydroelectricity production would be halted at the reservoir’s Glen Canyon Dam. The West’s climate change-induced water crisis is now triggering a potential energy crisis for

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As water levels decline in Lake Powell

Lake Powell officials face an impossible choice in the West’s megadrought: Water or electricity

By René Marsh, CNN Lake Powell, the country’s second-largest reservoir, is drying up. The situation is critical: if water levels at the lake were to drop another 32 feet, all hydroelectricity production would be halted at the reservoir’s Glen Canyon Dam. The West’s climate change-induced water crisis is now triggering a potential energy crisis for

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Authorities believe Vicky White and Casey White were last in a copper-colored 2007 Ford Edge SUV.

An Alabama corrections officer sold her home days before she disappeared with an inmate. Now investigators suspect a romantic relationship

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Amara Walker, Jade Gordon, Holly Yan and Jamiel Lynch, CNN Extra food. Special privileges that other inmates didn’t get. Those are some of the clues that support the belief that Alabama corrections official Vicky White and murder suspect Casey White had a romantic relationship before both disappeared last week, said Lauderdale County

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CBP officers found cocaine concealed inside the insulated liner of these thermal cups shipped from Jamaica.

Customs officers intercept $70,000 worth of cocaine hidden in insulated thermal cups

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Customs officers intercepted four separate shipments of cocaine with a total street value of $70,000 hidden inside insulated thermal cups, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a statement. The shipments from Jamaica were discovered at processing centers in Cincinnati, New York and Philadelphia, the CBP said. Each shipment contained

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Inmate Casey White and Assistant Director of Corrections Vicki White (the two are not related).

Alabama authorities searching for an inmate and the corrections officer who removed him from jail

By Ralph Ellis, Rebekah Riess, Jamiel Lynch and Mallika Kallingal, CNN Authorities in Lauderdale County, Alabama, are searching for a corrections officer and an inmate charged with murder who went missing Friday morning. Vicky White, assistant director of corrections at the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office, and inmate Casey White were last seen about 9:30 a.m.

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North Port police released this image of Petito's van

Lawsuit claims Brian Laundrie’s parents knew ‘whereabouts’ of Gabby Petito’s body when they went on vacation

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN In an amendment to their lawsuit filed earlier this spring, Gabby Petito’s parents allege during the search for the young woman, Brian Laundrie’s parents knew their son had killed her and knew “the whereabouts of her body.” The amended suit, filed by Petito’s parents, alleges the Laundrie family went on vacation

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A request by Ghislaine Maxwell's attorneys to have her sex trafficking convictions dropped has been denied.

Judge denies Ghislaine Maxwell’s attempt to have her conviction on sex trafficking charges dropped

By Brian Vitagliano, CNN A request by Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorneys to have her sex trafficking convictions dropped has been denied. “The testimony and other trial evidence established the Defendant’s role in grooming and recruiting underage girls and using the cover of massage to perpetrate sexual abuse,” US District Judge Alison Nathan wrote in her opinion.

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Penn State Scandal Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the Penn State sexual abuse scandal. On November 4, 2011, a grand jury report was released containing testimony that former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually abused eight young boys over a period of at least 15 years. Officials at Penn State purportedly failed to notify law

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