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By Amir Vera, Taylor Romine and Stella Chan, CNN The Fairview Fire has now charred more nearly 20,000 acres in the two days it’s been burning in Southern California, according to Cal Fire. The fire, which had spread to 19,377 acres and is 5% contained as of late Wednesday, has not shown signs of slowing

By Nicole Chavez and Amanda Musa, CNN Classes at Brigham Young University have just begun, and queer students are already being reminded of the complicated relationship they have with the private religious school. When LGBTQ students, alumni and friends gathered off campus at a park in Provo, Utah, for a back-to-school event last weekend, they

By Melissa Alonso and Devon M. Sayers, CNN Two sisters who survived the Holocaust, and fulfilled their fathers dream to make it to America, died days apart from each other in Alabama, according to the Alabama Holocaust Education Center. Ruth Scheuer Siegler, 95, died on September 3 and her sister, Ilse Scheuer Nathan, 98, died

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN News anchor Julie Chin had the morning lined up for her audience in Tulsa, Oklahoma: weather forecasts for the long weekend, NASA’s rescheduled Artemis I liftoff and a rundown of the first weekend of football. As she reported Saturday on the Tulsa Air and Space Museum’s plans to hold an

By Scottie Andrew, CNN Peter Straub, an author who helped usher in our decades-long fascination with horror fiction, had a way of weaving macabre and heart-wrenching prose into one sentence. Even stories about ghostly hauntings, sinister parallel universes or grisly murders could feel mournful, sensitive and cathartic in Straub’s hands. From his seminal 1979 novel,

By Nicole Chavez, CNN It’s been only a few weeks since millions of children returned to America’s schools — but the debate surrounding the teaching of gender identity and race is already at a fever pitch. Dozens of books have been pulled from shelves in Texas, new policies expanding oversight of books are being drafted

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN With summer nearing an end, the battle to get employees back into the office is getting a little more heated. About 70% of mid- to large-sized companies experimenting with hybrid work schedules have said they want employees back in the office for a set number of days each week. But many

By Aya Elamroussi, Paradise Afshar and Dakin Andone, CNN The first day for public schools students in Seattle is delayed after the teachers union became the latest in recent weeks to vote to go on strike, demanding more support for students with the greatest needs, workload balance and class size controls, along with better compensation.

By Jason Hanna, Melissa Alonso and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A man suspected of abducting and killing a Memphis teacher who was out jogging was temporarily ordered held without bond Wednesday on a murder charge that was added after her body was identified. Cleotha Henderson, accused of killing 34-year-old Eliza “Liza” Fletcher after kidnapping her in

By Amir Vera, Eric Levenson and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Myles Sanderson, the suspect in the mass stabbing in Canada, died Wednesday after going into “medical distress” after his arrest, according to Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore. Sanderson’s death means both suspects in the attack that rocked the Canadian province of Saskatchewan are

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Paradise Afshar, CNN A woman who embarked on a multi-day backpacking trip through the Grand Canyon National Park died on a trail Sunday, the park said. Delphine Martinez, 59, of Window Rock, Arizona, “became disoriented and later unconscious” while hiking along the Thunder River Trail and was not able to be

By Paradise Afshar, CNN A cruise ship passenger from Pennsylvania died Tuesday after being attacked by a shark while snorkeling with her family in the Bahamas, authorities said. The passenger, a mother in her 50s who was onboard the Royal Caribbean ship, Harmony of the Seas, was attacked in Green Cay, off the coast of

By Nouran Salahieh, Rachel Ramirez and Dakin Andone, CNN A record-breaking heat wave has baked the West for days — setting record high temperatures, fueling destructive wildfires and threatening rolling power shutoffs in California — and it could last even longer due to the effects of a strengthening hurricane along Mexico’s Pacific coast. “We are

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Jennifer Henderson, CNN Investigators have used genealogy technology to determine the killer of a Michigan woman who was missing for 33 years before her remains were identified using the same technique earlier this year, authorities said. Stacey Lyn Chahorski was reported missing in January 1989, but it took more than three