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By Allison Chinchar, Hannah Gard and Monica Garrett, CNN The West is in the midst of a record-breaking heat wave this week, as all-time records were shattered and daily records broken in over a dozen states. Even by desert standards, the heat wave in the Southwest is atypical. On Thursday, the National Weather Service in

By Amanda Watts, CNN Canada has extended its Covid-19 restrictions on non-essential international and US travel until July 21. Bill Blair, Canada’s minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, announced the decision Friday on Twitter. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged that the extension of the travel restrictions may be “frustrating” for many people when

By Paul P. Murphy, CNN; Photo Editing by Will Lanzoni, CNN As extreme drought continues to choke the southwest, new satellite images are showing the significant effect it’s having on California’s reservoirs — many have critically low water levels. According to the US Drought Monitor, all of California is in some form of drought, with

CNN’s Stephanie Elam reports on the harsh drought plaguing the Western US and explains the impact this can have on the rest of the country.

By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Tesla has long led the auto industry — sometimes controversially — with its driver-assist system Autopilot. Now, it finds itself suddenly following the lead of an unlikely rival: Subaru. The automakers couldn’t be more different in many ways. Subaru builds family haulers for outdoorsy types, while Tesla has attention-grabbing features

Opinion by Shelley Stewart and Michael Chui for CNN Business Perspectives If Juneteenth doesn’t make you think about the economy, maybe it should. Racial discrimination has an obvious human cost, but there’s an economic cost, too. In new research, we examined the disparities Black Americans face in various economic roles — as workers, business owners,

By Aya Elamroussi and Stephanie Elam, CNN T.J. Atkin’s family has been in the cattle ranching business for nearly a century. In that time, he says, a drought has never hit their operations this hard. “Everyone else I’ve talked to says in 85 years, it has not been this bad,” Atkin told CNN. “We have

By Jay Croft and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Heavy rain and tropical storm-force winds were spreading across parts of the Gulf Coast on Friday as a tropical disturbance closed in on the US. There were tropical storm conditions from east of Morgan City, Louisiana, to the Florida Panhandle. About 7 million Americans are under warnings for

By Anna Bahney If there were ever a time to sell a house of horrors, the time is now. In this wild market, in which record low inventory and soaring demand is pushing home prices ever higher, you might expect that any old thing you put on the market would sell. Mimi Foster, a real

A Colorado Springs, Colorado, house was so badly trashed by a former tenant that its real estate agent describes it as a “house of horrors.” CNN affiliate KMGH takes us inside.

The newest tropical threat in the Gulf of Mexico aims for the northern Gulf Coast this weekend. Tropical storm warnings are already in place. CNN Meteorologist Tom Sater has the latest forecast.

By Hannah Gard and Judson Jones, CNN Not Lousiana again. The state is starting off this hurricane season right where it left off last year: In the sights of another tropical system. Tropical storm warnings are in effect from Intracoastal City, Louisiana, to the Alabama/Florida border, as Potential Tropical Cyclone (PTC) Three drifts toward the

By Brisa Colon, Pete Burn and Alexandra Meeks, CNN As record heat bakes the Southwest and an intensifying drought tightens its grip, vegetation in California has dried to historic levels, putting the region at even greater risk of wildfires, officials say. In the Los Angeles area, moisture levels in vegetation have fallen to lows not

By Marnie Hunter, Naomi Thomas and Keri Enriquez, CNN Health officials in the United States have eased their stance on the safety of cruise travel for vaccinated passengers, lowering the travel alert level just over a week before the first cruise in more than 15 months is scheduled to set sail from a US port.

By James Briggs and Jack Guy, CNN Business British supermarket chain Waitrose will change the name of one of its products to remove a racial slur used in South Africa during apartheid, the company announced Wednesday. The product, formerly known as “Kaffir Lime Leaves,” will have new packaging under the name “Makrut Lime Leaves.” Waitrose

Opinion by Ai-jen Poo and Dawn Gearhart for CNN Business Perspectives When the pandemic shut down the US economy, the domestic work sector was devastated. The nannies, house cleaners and caregivers who provide essential services in our homes were suddenly unable to go to work, finding themselves without jobs, without paid leave and with no

By Jack Guy, CNN A therapy dog has played a role in saving a woman who was considering taking her own life on a bridge over a highway in the UK, first responders attending the scene have said. Digby normally helps firefighters in therapy sessions deal with trauma. But in a change to his usual

By Anna Bahney, CNN It’s not just puppies and sourdough starter. Another thing that spiked during the pandemic: the purchase of vacation homes. Remote workers who were able to log on from anywhere snapped up homes in vacation areas, sending seasonal home purchases skyrocketing last year. Vacation home sales rose by 16% in 2020 from

By John Keefe and Rachel Ramirez, CNN As the Pacific Northwest prepares for record-breaking heat, vast swaths of the West are experiencing a historic and unrelenting drought, the worst in the region in at least 20 years. The most severe drought is centered in the Southwest in California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. But areas of

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN With millions of Californians set to experience a heat wave in the coming days, the operator of the state’s power grid issued an alert that called for residents to conserve electricity. The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) issued a statewide Flex Alert, urging people to cut back their electricity use from