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By Christina Maxouris, CNN In November 2018, Elizabeth Jernberg was preparing to make her lifelong dream a reality: She was gearing up for the grand opening of her first food truck and arcade store, a family-owned business in Paradise, California. But days before the November 13 opening, the Camp Fire tore through the town, burning

By John Blake, CNN Cutting taxes for the rich helps the poor. There is no such thing as a Republican or a Democratic judge. Climate change is a hoax. Some political myths refuse to die despite all evidence the contrary. Here’s another: When White people are no longer a majority, racism will fade and the

By Rebekah Riess, Keith Allen and Dave Alsup, CNN Louisiana health officials said Saturday they had confirmed seven deaths of nursing home residents evacuated to a temporary shelter in the town of Independence ahead of Hurricane Ida. Five of those deaths have been classified as storm-related, the state’s health department said in a news release.

By Andy Rose, CNN Jacqueline Jackson, the wife of civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson, was released from a Chicago hospital Friday as she recovers from Covid-19. Her husband remains hospitalized at a rehab facility, the family said in a statement. “Our mother is leaving the Northwestern Memorial Hospital and coming home,” Jackson’s son Jonathan

By Mark Morales and Christina Maxouris, CNN Most of the homes where residents were found dead in New York City after the remnants of Ida battered the region were illegally converted basement or cellar apartments, city officials said Friday. An analysis that was done by the city’s buildings department in the aftermath of Wednesday’s massive

By Kevin Dotson and Steve Almasy, CNN Hall of Fame boxer Oscar De La Hoya has been hospitalized with Covid-19, according to social media posts from the fighter. De La Hoya, who says he is fully vaccinated, also announced that his planned return to the ring after nearly 13 years away will be put on

By Jason Hanna, CNN Rosa Almonte says she had no choice but to try to drive out of the flash flooding that suddenly surrounded her New York City transit bus Wednesday night. And she was so focused on forcing the bus to safety, she says, she didn’t notice her passengers were standing on their seats

By Kevin Dotson, CNN David Patten, who helped the New England Patriots clinch three Super Bowls between 2001 and 2004, died Thursday, according to a statement from the Patriots. A South Carolina native, Patten was 47 years old. According to The State newspaper, the Richland County (SC) Coroner confirmed that Patten died in a motorcycle

By Paul P. Murphy, CNN A man was in critical condition after a shark attacked him, partially severing his leg, when he fell overboard while untangling fishing nets from a boat propeller in the Gulf of Mexico. The Coast Guard said a medical helicopter transferred the 64-year-old man to a hospital early Friday morning after

By David Williams, CNN One of two teachers at a Texas junior high school who died last week of Covid-19 was nervous about returning to school because of the Delta variant, her sister told CNN. Natalia Chansler, a 6th grade social studies teacher at Connally Junior High in Elm Mott, Texas, died of Covid-19 complications

By Gregory Wallace, CNN The passenger accused of punching a Southwest Airlines flight attendant and breaking three of her teeth on a May flight now faces federal felony charges. Vyvianna Quinonez is accused of assault resulting in serious bodily injury and interference with flight crew members and attendants, according to court documents. This incident is

By Lauren del Valle, CNN Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was defrocked by The Vatican in 2019 over sex abuse allegations, pleaded not guilty to three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or older at an arraignment in Dedham District Court in Massachusetts Friday. A judge set a $5000 cash bail,

By Christopher Dawson and Ben Burnstein, CNN Twenty years ago, terrorists seized control of four airliners, killed 2,977 people and shook the national conscience of the United States. But the attacks of 9/11 also aroused a sense of patriotism, duty and civic resolve not seen in generations. In the two decades since that tragic moment,

By Leyla Santiago and Dakin Andone, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has appealed a judge’s ruling that stated the governor overreached and did not have the authority to ban school districts from implementing mask mandates without a parent opt-out. The notice to appeal filed Thursday says that “the filing in this Notice triggers an automatic

By Martin Savidge and Angela Barajas, CNN A former district attorney in Georgia has been charged after allegedly interfering with the arrest of a man involved in the 2020 shooting death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery. Former Brunswick District Attorney Jackie Johnson has been indicted on charges of violating her oath as a public officer and

By Keith Allen, Dave Alsup and Rebekah Riess, CNN Louisiana’s attorney general on Friday announced the state’s justice department is launching a full investigation into the deaths of four nursing home residents who were transferred to a warehouse in the town of Independence on August 27 ahead of Hurricane Ida. Following Ida’s landfall on August