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By Alaa Elassar, Sharif Paget and Claudia Dominguez, CNN A small plane carrying four people crashed into a backyard in Houston on Friday, and all four people on board walked away. Officials responded to a report of a small-engine aircraft crash less than 10 miles from Houston’s Hobby Airport around 4 p.m. “Four civilians were

By Alaa Elassar, Hannah Sarisohn, Jennifer Henderson and Caroll Alvarado, CNN The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating a recent Covid-19 outbreak on a Carnival cruise ship that docked in Seattle after a two-week voyage. The Carnival Spirit, which sailed through the Panama Canal, departed Miami on April 17 and arrived in Seattle

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The critically endangered California condor has been absent from Northern California redwood forests for over a century — until Tuesday, when the Yurok Tribe and Redwood National and State Parks reintroduced two birds to the woodland area, the culmination of a 15-year reintroduction project. California condors have been out of Northern

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Four iconic video games have been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame: Ms. Pac-Man, Dance Dance Revolution, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Sid Meier’s Civilization. All four games “have influenced popular culture and the video game industry,” according to a statement from the World Video

By Jason Hanna and Rebekah Riess, CNN Wildlife workers have killed three coyotes in Dallas after a coyote seriously injured 2-year-old boy this week, officials said Friday. Destroying the animals is part of an effort to remove aggressive coyotes near where the attack happened, officials said. A coyote attacked the boy on a porch Tuesday

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Against the backdrop of the water crisis in the Colorado River Basin, where the country’s largest reservoirs are plunging at an alarming rate, California’s two largest reservoirs — Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville — are facing a similar struggle. Years of low rainfall and snowpack and more intense heat waves have

By Scottie Andrew, CNN The American fascination with true crime is well-established; you can find myriad podcasts, books and TV programs that prove as much. But there’s something about watching a potential crime unfold live — this month, it’s the disappearance of Alabama corrections officer Vicky White and convict Casey White — that scratches another,

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A river otter has been spotted in the Detroit River for the first time in a century. Eric Ste Marie, a marine ecologist studying at Windsor University in Ontario, told CNN that the remarkable sighting happened after his partner suggested they go for a walk before starting work. Ste Marie lives

By Zoe Sottile, CNN It might be time to check the authenticity of your new luxury watch. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Indianapolis seized two shipments of counterfeit Rolex watches on April 27 and 29. The fake luxury watches would have had a total value of $10.1 million if real, according to

By Paradise Afshar, CNN The body of an Austrian climber who was last heard from a week ago has been found on the slopes of Alaska’s Mount Denali, authorities said on Friday. An aerial search spotted the body of Matthias Rimml in the fall zone below Denali Pass, the National Park Service said. His body

By Christina Maxouris, CNN In their search for a missing former corrections official and an inmate facing murder charges, authorities announced a key discovery Friday: they located the car they previously believed the pair was traveling in. The car had been in a Tennessee tow lot for about a week, after local officials found it