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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business General Motors announced Wednesday that it has increased its planned spending on electric vehicles to $35 billion by 2025. That represents a 75% increase since March, 2020. At that time, GM had said it would spend $20 billion on electric vehicles in that timeframe — an amount that was later

By Rafael Rome, Natalie Gallón and Karol Suarez, CNN Construction flaws led to the collapse of a Mexico City subway line that killed 26 people and left dozens injured last month, according to the preliminary findings of an independent probe released by the city government on Wednesday. The investigation, carried out by Norwegian risk management

The third named storm of the season will likely develop soon and bring drenching rains to the northern Gulf Coast by the end of the week. CNN meteorologist Jennifer Gray is tracking the latest.

By Hannah Gard and Monica Garrett, CNN The US will likely be hit by the first tropical system of the season by the end of this week, bringing nearly a foot of rain to parts of an already drenched South. The system is currently stationed over over the Bay of Campeche in the Gulf of

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. Facts The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30. The areas covered include the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. The National Weather Service defines a hurricane as a “tropical cyclone with maximum sustained winds

By David Williams, CNN As a dangerous heat wave grips much of the western US, doctors say that sidewalks, roads and other surfaces can get hot enough to cause serious burns in a matter of seconds. The Arizona Burn Center – Valleywise Health in Phoenix warns that these surfaces can reach temperatures of 180 degrees

By Eliza Mackintosh and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN British Prime Minister Boris Johnson described his health minister as “totally f**king hopeless” during the early days of the pandemic, text messages published by his disaffected former chief adviser revealed on Wednesday. Writing on Substack and in a Twitter thread, Dominic Cummings shared photos of his WhatsApp conversations

By Anna Bahney, CNN Business What do homebuyers have to do to get a house in this cutthroat real estate market? Offer sellers a Caribbean vacation? Bid $1 million over the asking price? Pay a competing bidder hundreds of thousands of dollars to walk away? What about buying two homes just to live in one?

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN One of Arizona’s largest wildfires has scorched more than 139,000 acres and continues to spread rapidly as weather conditions are expected to remain hot and dry. More than 1,000 people are fighting to tame the Telegraph Fire, burning east of Phoenix, as it has grown and began merging with the neighboring

By Zamira Rahim, CNN It’s an arachnophobe’s worst nightmare: towns draped in spider webs. Residents of the Australian region of Gippsland in the state of Victoria were greeted with layers of gossamer cobwebs after the area was hit by severe flooding, according to CNN affiliate 9News. The Victoria State Emergency Service issued multiple flood warnings

By Melissa Gray, CNN Roald Dahl, the author of children’s classics such as “James and the Giant Peach” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” believed in stories that enthralled young readers, getting them to love books for a lifetime. He put those thoughts in a letter sent more than 30 years ago to a university

By Hannah Gard and Monica Garrett, CNN Nevada and Arizona are looking at breaking all-time state record highs this week, but Phoenix was only able to tie its record Tuesday because of wildfire smoke. The National Weather Service (NWS) forecasted a high of 117 degrees in Phoenix on Tuesday, which would have surpassed the record

By Zamira Rahim, CNN A “special” Australian kelpie has sold for a record-breaking 35,200 Australian dollars ($27,090) at a working dog auction in the country’s Victoria state. Two-year-old kelpie Hoover was sold at the Australian Premier Working Dog Auction in the town of Casterton on Sunday, CNN affiliate 7News reports. The sale has broken a

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Three communities in Arizona have been asked to evacuate after a fire that crews have been working for days to contain jumped the containment line. The Telegraph Fire grew overnight, burning through 104,755 acres with containment down to 68%, fire authorities said during a community meeting late Monday. Track wildfires in

By Jessie Yeung and Swati Gupta, CNN The pilot had just completed a commercial flight from the United States to Covid-struck India when he received the news his colleague had died of the virus. “We parked the plane in Delhi, switched off the engines, switched on our phones, and the guy sitting next to me

By Amanda Jackson, CNN A man driving on a Florida highway was left uninjured after lightning struck his vehicle Monday morning, according to officials. The lightning strike damaged the compact SUV the 48-year-old was driving and left a 7-foot-long, 4-inch-wide gouge in the pavement, according to Florida Highway Patrol (FHP). The man, who police didn’t

By Hannah Gard and Jennifer Gray, CNN All-time records are in jeopardy this week as a dangerous heat wave bakes much of the Western United States, an area already begging for moisture due to exceptional drought. “Record-high tempertures will just continue the vicious cycle that so often happens in droughts, where hot, cloudless skies result

By Jennifer Gray, Hollie Silverman and Michael Guy, CNN [Breaking news update, published at 11:30 p.m. ET] Tropical Storm Bill strengthened from a tropical depression in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina Monday night. It is the second named storm of the North Atlantic Hurricane Season. The storm is likely to be

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business Teenage workers are in high demand this summer, especially at Main Street businesses. And that will come as a relief since working teens were hard hit by pandemic-related layoffs. In May of 2020, their national unemployment rate was just shy of 30%, according to federal jobs data. But by this