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By Joe Sutton, Michael Guy and Hollie Silverman, CNN As hot, dry weather conditions continue to fuel wildfires across much of the United States, the Bootleg Fire in Oregon has become so intense that it’s creating its own weather. The fire has scorched more than 606 square miles — an area larger than Los Angeles

By Reuters Divers have discovered rare remains of a military vessel in the ancient sunken city of Thônis-Heracleion — once Egypt‘s largest port on the Mediterranean — and a funerary complex illustrating the presence of Greek merchants, the country said on Monday, July 19. The city, which controlled the entrance to Egypt at the mouth

By Stefano Pozzebon, Karol Suarez and Jose Armijo, CNN Six weeks after voters headed to the polls in Peru, former schoolteacher and union leader Pedro Castillo has been formally declared the country’s President-elect. He will be sworn in on July 28, the bicentennial of Peruvian independence, election authorities announced Monday. Earlier Monday, the National Jury

By Paula Newton, CNN Canada notched a significant milestone this weekend, fully vaccinating about 50% of its population and surpassing the US vaccination rate for Covid-19. According to Health Canada, nearly 70% of Canadians have received at least one dose of the vaccine, putting the country very close to the 75% threshold that public health

By Jackson Dill and Joshua Berlinger, CNN Two big storms have formed in the waters of East Asia, both of which are expected to lash the region with strong winds and heavy rains in the coming days. Tropical Storm Cempaka strengthened into a typhoon early Tuesday over the South China Sea. The storm had winds

By Jennifer Hansler and Naomi Thomas, CNN The US State Department raised its travel advisory for the United Kingdom to Level 4: Do Not Travel on Monday, aligning with an update made by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) earlier in the day. “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has

By Jennifer Gray and Allison Chinchar, CNN meteorologists Olympic athletes are the world’s best. They train hard in conditions that will be similar to what they will face at the games, to acclimate their bodies to the weather they will compete in. And this year, the weather is hot. The Mei-Yu Baiu front — also

By Hannah Gard and Monica Garrett, CNN Monsoon season is in full swing in the West with no end in sight, bringing hopes of a dent in the unrelenting historic drought — but with thunderstorms comes lightning and the potential for more wildfires. After enduring heat waves and years of minimal monsoonal moisture, the desert

Opinion by Senator Angus King and Tom Fanning for CNN Business Perspectives As anyone who has watched the news the last few months can attest, the United States’ critical infrastructure continues to be unacceptably vulnerable to cyberattacks. In early May, Colonial Pipeline, responsible for delivering refined gasoline to much of the East coast, was shut

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business Living in a perpetual state of disruption, uncertainty and grief can test anyone’s mental health. And events of the past 16 months have delivered all of those in spades thanks to a steady stream of horrors, including but hardly limited to the deadly pandemic, George Floyd’s murder, the January 6

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at Guantánamo Bay Naval Station and its detention facilities. Facts The base, sometimes referred to as “Gitmo,” is located in southeastern Cuba, on the coast of Guantánamo Bay. The United States has been leasing the 45 square miles that the base sits on since 1903. The base shares a

By Caitlin Hu, Natalie Gallón, Matt Rivers and Etant Dupain, CNN After a lengthy power struggle that has pitched Haiti’s political landscape into uncertainty, the country’s acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph has agreed to step down and hand power to his rival Ariel Henry, according to a top government official. The deal brings to a

By Juliet Izon, CNN Our fear of being indoors has considerably abated since last year, but it’s always magical to spend a night sleeping outside. And while you can simply camp in the backyard, we all deserve a little more pampering after getting through the past year and a half. These are hotel rooms where

By Gabriel Chaim, Isa Soares and Barbara Arvanitidis Deep in the Amazon rainforest, the Yanomami people are battling an old and elusive enemy — one they haven’t seen since the 1980s. Dressed in traditional headdress, faces decorated with paint, this indigenous community prepares its bows and spears to defend their land against garimpeiros — illegal