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By Keith Allen and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A team with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has arrived at the Illinois site where a semi-truck carrying thousands of gallons of toxic ammonia crashed Friday, killing at least five people. A 15-person NTSB team including motor carrier, hazmat and survival factors investigators is at

Mitchell McCluskey and Kara Devlin, CNN (CNN) — The annual Twin Cities marathon has been canceled due to record-breaking heat in Minneapolis and St. Paul, marathon organizers announced Sunday morning. The event, slated to begin at 7 a.m. local time, was expected to draw 300,000 spectators, according to the organizers. Temperatures were forecast to reach

By Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — In a historic first, Harvard University inaugurated new president Claudine Gay on Friday, the first Black person and second woman to lead the university. “I stand before you on this stage with the weight and the honor of being a first,” Gay told an audience huddled under umbrellas and

By Alaa Elassar and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — The Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a move a lawyer representing dozens of child sexual abuse survivors says is an attempt “to evade accountability.” The filing comes as a new law is set to take effect in Maryland October 1,

CNN By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Generation X, the roughly 65 million people born between 1965 and 1980, witnessed many innovations: MTV, web browsing, digital music downloads and smartphones, to name just a few. They were also the first generation to enter the workforce after the shift from employer-run pension plans

By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Generation X, the roughly 65 million people born between 1965 and 1980, witnessed many innovations: MTV, web browsing, digital music downloads and smartphones, to name just a few. They were also the first generation to enter the workforce after the shift from employer-run pension plans to

By Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — FBI personnel have surged to tribal lands across the United States in past months to help solve violent crimes and cold cases impacting Native Americans, the agency told CNN in an exclusive interview. The urgent effort, deemed Operation Not Forgotten, involved dozens of special agents, intelligence analysts, and professional

By Rachel Ramirez and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Hurricanes, heat and humidity have always been looming threats on the Gulf Coast. But as drought grows in the Central US and sea level rises, residents in southern Louisiana are finding a formerly unusual emergency is becoming more frequent: saltwater is infecting drinking water city by

By Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — A Texas couple who sold an exotic South American cat to an undercover agent was arrested while trying to sell a jaguar cub to the same agent a month later, according to court documents. And while the felines may be small in size, selling them violated the federal Big

By Raja Razek and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — The Marion, Kansas, police chief has been suspended after the police raid of a local newspaper and the home of the paper’s publisher last month. Officers in August searched the office of the Marion County Record, as well as the home of the paper’s publisher and

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — The Powerball jackpot has soared to an estimated $1.04 billion after no tickets matched all six numbers in Saturday night’s drawing. Saturday night’s drawing produced white balls 19, 30, 37, 44 and 46 and red Powerball 22. The $1.04 billion prize – an estimated $478.2 million in cash value

By Mitchell McCluskey and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Saturday blocked two provisions of a near-total ban on abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy from taking effect in North Carolina, saying that one of the provisions is unconstitutionally vague, while the other lacks medical evidence. Senate Bill 20, dubbed the “Care

By Amanda Jackson and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Water levels are so low at Canyon Lake in Texas that an underwater cave and remnants of communities that stood more than a century ago at the site are reappearing. The lake, located in Comal County just northeast of San Antonio, is a man-made lake spanning

By Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — Giles, a charismatic black kitty, took home a trophy and some stitches after finding himself stuck between a cushion and a hard place. Giles won the 15th Annual Hambone Award, and this year’s competition was stiff. Some of the finalists included a Labrador that took an unexpected jump off

By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A suspect has been arrested after the former assistant to the Duchess of York was found dead in a Dallas apartment earlier this week, officials said. Officers responded Monday afternoon to a home in downtown Dallas where they found Jenean Chapman, 46, had died, according to the Dallas Police

By Maria Sole Campinoti and Jessica Xing, CNN (CNN) — The family of an 8-year-old girl who was shot and killed by police gunfire near a Pennsylvania high school football game in 2021 has settled its lawsuit against a Philadelphia suburb, its police chief, and the three officers involved for $11 million. Fanta Bility was

By Kelly Murray (CNN) — Any potential winner of tonight’s nearly $1 billion Powerball jackpot would be very, very rich. Saturday night’s drawing produced white balls 19, 30, 37, 44 and 46 with red Powerball 22. After Wednesday’s drawing became the 30th consecutive drawing without a grand prize winner, the Powerball jackpot grew to $960

By Sara Smart, CNN and Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — A microscopic parasite was detected in the Druid Lake Reservoir in Baltimore, and vulnerable residents are being told to take precautions when drinking water. Traces of Cryptosporidium were found in the lake during a routine test by the Baltimore City Department of Public Works crew

By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — An Iowa firefighter has been arrested and charged with 13 counts of arson after he allegedly set a series of fires and then later responded to them, authorities say. Kendall Rhoads, 60, was also charged with one count of reckless use of fire or explosives, according to the Grundy

By Paradise Afshar and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — At least five people were killed and parts of an Illinois neighborhood were evacuated due to a Friday crash involving a semi-truck carrying thousands of gallons of anhydrous ammonia. The truck was carrying about 7,500 gallons of the toxic substance at the time of the wreck