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By Zoe Sottile, CNN Comic book stores across the United States will be offering special releases for Free Comic Book Day on Saturday — and yes, you can actually get a comic book for free. Select stores will give away comic books to celebrate the beloved medium that brought us timeless superheroes like Spider-Man and

By Steve Almasy Nine people were treated for dehydration and scores of others fled the scene when authorities discovered up to 100 undocumented workers in the trailer of a broken-down semi in rural Texas, officials said Friday. The truck became disabled on a rural highway about 2 miles north of the town of Ganado. When

By Mallika Kallingal and Jamiel Lynch, CNN At least 37 active wildfires have burned over 22,000 acres in Florida, according to the Florida Forest Service. Of those, 26 fires have been contained, the agency added. The three largest fires are burning in the Everglades in Broward and Palm Beach counties. The L39 and 2Alpha fires

By Amanda Watts, CNN The body of a 14-year-old girl was found in the Mississippi River, the second body recovered after three children went missing in the water last month, according to the New Orleans mayor. “Last night’s tragic news on the recovery of the body of 14-year-old Brandy Wilson from the Mississippi River breaks

By Alaa Elassar and Rebekah Riess, CNN The Colorado man whose trial over the disappearance and death of his wife was dismissed has spoken out in his first public interview since the charges were dropped. Barry Morphew, whose wife, Suzanne Morphew, was last seen cycling on Mother’s Day in 2020, told ABC’s Good Morning America

By Justin Gamble, CNN The town of Mason, Tennessee, and the NAACP reached an agreement this week with the Tennessee Comptroller’s Office to settle a lawsuit filed after the state attempted to gain financial control of the majority-Black town. Mason, which is just northeast of Memphis, was thrown into the national spotlight in March after

By Toyin Owoseje, CNN A Great Dane has been crowned the world’s tallest living dog by Guinness World Records. Two-year old Zeus from Bedford, Texas stands at a whopping 1.046 meters (3 feet, 5.18 inches), making him the tallest dog in the world. He officially received the paw-some plaudit on March 22, after his height

By Paradise Afshar, CNN In the weeks following the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, Greg McMichael, one of the men later convicted in Arbery’s death, participated in 16 phone calls with the former Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson, according to court documents filed in the Superior Court of Glynn County on Wednesday. Arbery,

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Ryan Young, Jaide Timm-Garcia, Paradise Afshar and Christina Maxouris, CNN The escape vehicle used by Vicky White and Casey White, the missing former Alabama corrections officer and inmate, was found in Tennessee — and authorities are trying to determine whether the pair may now have another car. The orange 2007 Ford Edge

By Omar Jimenez, CNN Katie Wright, the mother of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, is calling for the firing of a Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer who she says tried to arrest her for filming a traffic stop. Daunte Wright was shot and killed by Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter in April 2021 during a traffic