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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN From patient waiting rooms to the halls of Congress, the language being used to talk about reproduction is shifting. Across the US, mainstream institutions such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and CNN are increasingly opting for gender-neutral terms such as “pregnant people,” “people

By Tina Burnside and Holly Yan, CNN Seven people were struck by gunfire overnight in Norfolk, Virginia, including several university students, officials said Sunday. Officers responded to the 5000 block of Killam Avenue around 12 a.m. ET and found four women and three men who had been shot, Norfolk police said. All seven victims were

By Emma Tucker, CNN Just one week after the school year began in Mississippi’s capital city, university students were faced with a crisis canceling all in-person classes and forcing them online, but this time, it wasn’t Covid-19. Hundreds of students at Jackson State University, a historically Black university, moved into their dorms August 18 as

By Tina Burnside, CNN Five people were injured in a shooting in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, early Sunday, police said. Two people have been arrested. Officers responded to the area of King Street and Morris Street around 12:55 a.m. due to gunshots, the Charleston Police Department said in a news release. All five are being

By Nouran Salahieh, CNN As a prolonged record-setting heat wave tightens its grip on the West, millions in California are for a fifth day being asked to reduce their energy consumption amid worries about a strained power grid. More than 45 million people throughout the Western US are currently under excessive heat warnings and advisories.

By Paradise Afshar, CNN A Canadian TikTok influencer died last week following a sky diving accident in Toronto, a friend who attended her funeral told CNN. Tanya Pardazi, 21, who went by the handle philosatea on TikTok, had more than 95,000 followers and two million likes on the app. Skydive Toronto said a sky diving

By Stephanie Elam and Jason Kravarik, CNN Bob’s Market in Angeleno Heights may look like a regular Los Angeles convenience store, but it’s an icon. In the Fast and Furious movie franchise, it was turned into Toretto’s, the shop owned by the family of the character portrayed by Vin Diesel. Throughout the day, fans from

By Rebekah Riess and Jay Croft, CNN As the West continues to roast in dangerous heat, two Northern California wildfires are growing and some residents have been told to leave, officials say. The Mill Fire in Siskiyou County almost doubled in size since Friday and has burned through an estimated 4,254 acres with 25% containment,

By Wayne Sterling, CNN The South Carolina Gamecocks women’s basketball team has canceled its home-and-home series with the Brigham Young University (BYU) Cougars following the racial incident involving Duke volleyball player Rachel Richardson at a BYU game last week, Dawn Staley, head coach for the defending national champions said on Friday. “As a head coach,

By Taylor Romine and Jason Hanna, CNN An algae bloom has killed thousands of fish in the San Francisco Bay Area in recent weeks, officials say, forcing shoreline cleanups, spreading unpleasant odor and spurring scientists to further investigate the extent of the ecological damage. The bloom was detected in late July in the Oakland and

By Pete Muntean, Theresa Waldrop and Sharif Paget, CNN A worker at an airport who stole a twin-engine plane Saturday morning and threatened to crash it into a Mississippi Walmart was arrested after he eventually landed in a field, police said. In a news conference Saturday, Tupelo Police Chief John Quaka identified the arrested pilot

By Andi Babineau, Jennifer Feldman and Kelly Murray, CNN An Ohio father faces charges in the death of his 1-year-old son after he intentionally left the baby in a hot car, police said. In a Facebook post, New Philadelphia Police Chief Michael Goodwin says the child was initially brought unresponsive into the emergency room by

By Amanda Musa, CNN Twenty-three years later, Frank DeAngelis vividly recalls the day his life changed forever. On April 20, 1999, he was the principal at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, when two students — carrying guns and bombs — entered the school and opened fire. Thirteen people died that day — 12 students

By Nicquel Terry Ellis and Brandon Tensley, CNN Photos by Austin Steele, CNN James Taylor lugged two 24-count cases of bottled water to his pickup truck as the sun beamed its rays onto the parking lot of Grocery Depot in west Jackson, Mississippi. It was already a scalding 88 degrees around 10 a.m. Taylor was

By Ella Nilsen, CNN A city in New Mexico has about 20 days of fresh water left, and officials there are scrambling to find another source to prevent cancer-causing particles from flowing out of faucets. The hillsides around Las Vegas, New Mexico, were scorched by the state’s largest wildfire on record this spring, which burned

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A Virginia man’s quip about winning the lottery turned out to be a lot more than just a joke. Charles Smith, a resident of Newport News, was saying goodbye to his wife before a trip when he joked, “I’ll call you when I win the lottery,” according to a news release