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By Rachel Trent, CNN TikTok is full of users with big mouths, but one star on the social media platform just proved hers is quite literally the largest. Guinness World Records confirmed that Samantha Ramsdell, from Connecticut, is the record holder for the world’s largest mouth gape for a female. Her mouth gape measures 6.56

By Matthew Hilk and Ray Sanchez, CNN The pace of Covid-19 vaccinations in the US has risen steadily over the past three weeks, particularly in several Southern states with poor vaccination rates and strong hesitancy against the shot, according to a CNN analysis of data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With

By Faith Karimi, CNN When Olympic gymnasts compete Sunday and Monday in the individual floor exercises in Tokyo, viewers will notice a key difference between the events. The women will leap and flip and tumble to recorded music. The men’s routines will be accompanied by silence. The reason for the disparity dates back almost a

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN A Queens man was arrested and charged on suspicion of dragging an 11-year-old girl into an alleyway, robbing her and cutting her neck with a sharp metal object, a district attorney in the New York City borough said Friday. Jonathan Perez, 34, allegedly approached the girl early Sunday as she was

By Alaa Elassar, CNN Park volunteers patrolling a beach in South Carolina on Wednesday stumbled upon an unexpected surprise: a two-headed baby sea turtle. A group of patrollers and volunteers at Edisto Beach State Park were making a routine inventory to check on sea turtle nests when they stumbled across the special hatchling, South Carolina

By Scottie Andrew, CNN Tom Waddell knew what to expect from an Olympics opening ceremony. He’d experienced one before as a decathlete at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. He remembered the parade of athletes from around the world, proudly marching alongside their flags before an audience of thousands, cheering on their every move. His gay

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Voice quavering, Rick Wershe Jr., who as a teen in 1980s Detroit was painted as a murderous drug kingpin, dabbed his eyes as he recalled one of the last conversations he had with his father, who he’d always looked up to as a strong man. Suffering from brain cancer, his

By Sahar Akbarzai, CNN A Philadelphia man wrongfully convicted of murder is finally free after spending more than three decades behind bars. “I feel exceedingly joyful, happy, that finally, you know … after 30 or more years, after constantly knocking on the door for somebody to please hear me, that day finally came,” 60-year-old Curtis

By Sahar Akbarzai, CNN When Ray Lucas and his girlfriend Shi’Ann Brown returned after a trip to the corner store to pick up milk, they found their Michigan home engulfed in flames — and their twin daughters were trapped inside. His mother, who had been watching the 18-month-old girls, was panicking on the front yard