National-World

By Rosa Flores, Sara Weisfeldt and Jay Croft, CNN Houston (CNN) — A migrant surge continues to overwhelm authorities at the US-Mexico border — and in US cities where many asylum-seekers are being sent. Here are the latest developments: The number of migrant encounters in Eagle Pass, Texas – very recently the epicenter of the migrant crisis

By Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — The families of victims who were killed or injured in a 2022 shooting attack at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket will meet with Justice Department officials ahead of a previously scheduled status hearing, an attorney representing victims’ families says. On May 14, 2022, a White gunman killed 10 people

By Paradise Afshar and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — An investigation is underway to figure out why a US Navy helicopter crashed this week into San Diego Bay during routine training, Navy officials said. All six crew members got a medical evaluation after the incident Thursday around 6:40 p.m. – almost two hours after sunset – the military branch said in a

By Jennifer Henderson, CNN (CNN) — Local authorities lifted a boil-water notice Friday in Jackson, Mississippi, a day after health officials ordered residents of Jackson and nearby Flowood to boil water. On Thursday, the Mississippi State Department of Health issued the boil water order, which resulted in an exchange of tense news releases between the

By Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN (CNN) — The man who attacked three New York City police officers with a machete on New Year’s Eve in 2022 has pleaded guilty to charges of attempted murder and assault, the United States Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York announced Thursday. Trevor Bickford, 20, pleaded guilty

By Melissa Alonso, Amy Simonson and Caroll Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Authorities arrested an Ohio woman and charged her with theft after she allegedly lied about her child having cancer to collect thousands of dollars in donations, according to the Noble County Sheriff’s Office.  Detectives arrested Pamela Reed, 41, of Pleasant City, Ohio, Monday after the sheriff’s office

By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Two families have claimed that when the Alabama Department of Corrections returned the bodies of their loved ones who died in prison, they were found to be missing one or more internal organs, court documents show. When Charles Edward Singleton died at age 74, he was incarcerated at the Hamilton

By Maria Sole Campinoti, Holly Yan, Zenebou Sylla and Samantha Beech, CNN (CNN) — An Ohio woman who suffered a miscarriage and left the nonviable fetus at home will not be criminally charged, a grand jury decided Thursday, dismissing a case that highlighted the extent to which women can be prosecuted when their pregnancy ends – whether

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — The United Negro College Fund has been awarded a $100 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to support a capital campaign that was created in part to boost endowments for historically Black colleges and universities. The award, which was announced Thursday by the UNCF, marks the largest unrestricted private grant the

By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — A Houston rapper kidnapped a pregnant woman and kept her captive in his squalid garage for more than four years despite her repeated attempts to escape, police say. Lee Carter, 52, whose stage name is Viper, was arrested last week and charged with aggravated kidnapping, according to court documents