National-World

By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — A newly identified pack of endangered gray wolves is roaming in California’s Sierra Nevada, at least 200 miles away from the nearest known pack, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Friday. The pack was spotted in the Sequoia National Forest in Tulare County, where wildlife technicians found

By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Nestlé USA announced a voluntary recall of some Nestlé Toll House chocolate chip cookie dough bars due to the potential presence of wood fragments. The announcement on Thursday applied to two batches of the “break and bake” bar products that were produced in April, the company said. A “small

CNN By Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — Crews in west Maui are continuing the heart-wrenching work of sifting through the ashes of what used to be homes and beloved landmarks wiped out by the deadliest US wildfire in more than 100 years – and the death toll has been rising. There have been 96 confirmed

By Jillian Sykes, CNN (CNN) — James “Jimmy” Hendricks set out across the American West, bearing the ashes of his late father, in a journey nearly five years in the making. Hendricks, 66, inherited a love for nature from his father, which inspired what he called “Travels with Neil: A Final Journey with My Father.”

By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — College campuses across the country will be filling up in the coming weeks as the fall semester gets underway. It can be a stressful time for students learning to balance their course loads with extracurricular activities — leading some to take ill-advised shortcuts, like letting ChatGPT

By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — A “mob of criminals” stole more than $300,000 worth of merchandise from the Westfield Topanga Shopping Center in Los Angeles Saturday afternoon, police said. More than 30 people entered a Nordstrom store at once and grabbed merchandise from displays near the entrance shortly after 4 p.m. before fleeing, Los

By Sarah Moon, CNN (CNN) — Law enforcement officers in Kansas raided the home and office of a newspaper owner, prompting a sharp rebuke from a press freedom group and raising constitutional questions far beyond the small city in the state. The paper’s co-owner and publisher, Eric Meyer, said he believes Friday’s raid in Marion

By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — On the evening of January 24, three sheriff’s deputies in Rankin County, Mississippi, received a group text message from another deputy on the same shift: “Are y’all available for a mission?” The deputy, Christian Dedmon, informed his colleagues Hunter Elward, Jeffrey Middleton and Daniel Opdyke they were going to

By Mike Valerio, Nouran Salahieh and Andy Rose, CNN MAUI COUNTY, Hawaii (CNN) — The long recovery process from the Maui wildfires that killed at least 93 people was underway Sunday as some residents returned to Lahaina and many struggled to find a place to stay. “We’re short on housing here,” Mike Cicchino told CNN.

By Samantha Beech and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — An explosion in a residential suburb outside Pittsburgh on Saturday morning left six people dead – including a father and son – and injured several others. The explosion and large fire in Plum, Pennsylvania, a suburb northeast of Pittsburgh, marked at least the third time in

By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Lahaina resident Cole Millington, his dog and a go bag at his side, was already behind the wheel of his truck late Tuesday afternoon when an emergency alert appeared on his phone. “There wasn’t really an evacuation notice for us,” Millington said. The real warning, he said, came from

By Rebekah Riess and Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — A US Marine who was questioned last month about a once-missing teenage girl found in his barracks has now been charged in an earlier, unrelated case, according to an update from the 1st Marine Logistics Group. The new charges are sexual assault of a minor and

By Paul P. Murphy, CNN Ka’anapali, Hawaii (CNN) — On a typical day, the Ocean Spirit would be operating eco-tours across Maui as part of the non-profit Pacific Whale Foundation’s marine conservation and education program. The ship survived the Maui wildfires earlier this week that leveled entire communities and killed at least 80 people because