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By Pamela Brown, Shoshana Dubnow, Holly Yan, Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — The families of 13 girls and two counselors who died in the catastrophic flooding that swept through Camp Mystic this summer are suing the Texas camp and its owners, accusing them of gross negligence, according to four lawsuits filed this week. The flurry

CNN, KCAL, KCBS, KCAL/KCBS By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Xavier Vega and his partner, Soluna Vega, cheered in relief as the “Welcome to Connecticut” sign came into view. It marked the end of an unplanned 17-hour highway odyssey home after their flight became one of more than 1,000 cancellations on Saturday alone tied to

By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — The ashes have settled over the charred Louisville neighborhood where nine people remain missing and families cling to hope as investigators comb through the wreckage of Tuesday’s fatal UPS cargo plane crash. A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 aircraft plummeted from the sky in Kentucky into a community on the edge

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — The mother of a 9-year-old California girl who vanished during their road trip last month was arrested Friday on a felony charge of false imprisonment – but it’s not directly related to the search for her daughter, officials said. Investigators were looking into the disappearance of Ashlee

By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN (CNN) — James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died Thursday after a brief illness, according to a statement from his former employer. He was 97. His death was confirmed by a spokesperson with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where

By Bill Kirkos, Priscilla Alvarez, Nayeli Jaramillo-Plata, CNN Chicago (CNN) — A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction restricting the use of force by federal agents in Chicago, finding the Trump administration’s version of recent events involving agents was not credible. One of the incidents in question was a confrontation between federal agents and protestors,

By Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — A civil jury’s decision this week to award $10 million to a former teacher shot and wounded by a 6-year-old student could weigh against the ex-assistant principal who now faces a criminal trial over the 2023 incident, legal experts said. Teacher Abby Zwerner sued then-administrator Ebony Parker for

CNN, POOL, WCCO, WBZ, DELTA AIRLINES, SOUTHWEST AIRLINES By Holly Yan, Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — Travel plans for millions of Americans could come to a screeching halt this month as more flights get canceled during the longest government shutdown in US history. More than 1,000 Friday flights were slashed on the first day of

CNN By Rob Kuznia, Allison Gordon, Ed Lavandera, CNN (CNN) — Zane Shamblin sat alone in his car with a loaded handgun, his face illuminated in the predawn dark by the dull glow of a phone. He was ready to die. But first, he wanted to keep conferring with his closest confidant. “I’m used to

By Rob Kuznia, Allison Gordon, Ed Lavandera, CNN (CNN) — Zane Shamblin sat alone in his car with a loaded handgun, his face illuminated in the predawn dark by the dull glow of a phone. He was ready to die. But first, he wanted to keep conferring with his closest confidant. “I’m used to the

By Holly Yan, Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — Travel plans for millions of Americans could come to a screeching halt this month as more flights get canceled during the longest government shutdown in US history. About 800 Friday flights were canceled on the first day of the Trump administration’s mandatory cuts to reduce US air

CNN By Bill Kirkos, Priscilla Alvarez, Nayeli Jaramillo-Plata, CNN Chicago (CNN) — A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction restricting the use of force by federal agents in Chicago, finding the Trump administration’s version of recent events involving agents was not credible. One of the incidents in question was a confrontation between federal agents and

CNN By Chris Boyette, Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — A jury on Thursday awarded $10 million to Abby Zwerner, the former Virginia teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student in 2023, in a civil trial that offered a preview of the criminal case to come against the school administrator accused of ignoring warnings

CNN, WLKY, KENTUCKY TRUCK PARTS & SERVICE: ANELA HADZIC By Isabel Rosales, Dalia Faheid, Jason Morris, Taylor Galgano, CNN Louisville, Kentucky (CNN) — The power had just gone off and the ground was shaking at Grade A Auto Parts when the owner received a panicked video call from his chief financial officer. On his screen,

By Whitney Wild, CNN (CNN) — The arrest by federal agents of a day care teacher inside a child care center in northwest Chicago has drawn strong condemnation from local leaders. Two ICE agents flanked the teacher Wednesday inside Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center and then forced her outside through the doors

CNN By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — More than two dozen officials with the National Transportation and Safety Board are on site and have begun sifting through the mangled remnants of a UPS cargo plane that crashed after an engine detached during takeoff near Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. They’ll try to determine what led

By Omar Jimenez, Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Chicago (CNN) — A Customs and Border Protection agent appeared to brag to fellow agents about his marksmanship after he repeatedly shot a Chicago woman following a collision between their cars, text messages shown in court revealed. The woman, Marimar Martinez, is accused of closely pursuing the agent and

CNN, WLKY, KENTUCKY TRUCK PARTS & SERVICE, KENTUCKY GOVERNOR’S OFFICE, SOCIAL MEDIA By Danya Gainor, Michelle Watson, Amanda Musa, Emma Tucker, Alexandra Skores, Pete Muntean, Cindy Von Quednow, Holly Yan, Andy Rose, Amanda Jackson and Jordan D. Brown, CNN (CNN) — A UPS cargo plane crashed shortly after taking off from the Louisville, Kentucky, airport

By Danya Gainor, Michelle Watson, Amanda Musa, Emma Tucker, Alexandra Skores, Pete Muntean, Cindy Von Quednow, Holly Yan, Andy Rose, Amanda Jackson and Jordan D. Brown, CNN (CNN) — A UPS cargo plane crashed shortly after taking off from the Louisville, Kentucky, airport Tuesday, leaving a fiery trail of destruction and a half-mile-long debris field.

CNN, KENTUCKY TRUCK PARTS & SERVICE, WAVE, WLKY By Danya Gainor, Michelle Watson, Amanda Musa, Emma Tucker, Alexandra Skores, Pete Muntean, Cindy Von Quednow, Holly Yan, Andy Rose, Amanda Jackson and Jordan D. Brown, CNN (CNN) — A UPS cargo plane crashed shortly after taking off from the Louisville, Kentucky, airport Tuesday, leaving a fiery

By Mark Morales, Brynn Gingras, John Miller, CNN (CNN) — Two New Jersey men were arrested in a terror plot probe on the heels of arrests in Michigan in an alleged ISIS-inspired terrorist plot, said Alina Habba, acting US attorney for New Jersey. The two men are said to have been part of the same

By Karina Tsui, Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — As the sun set and businesses started to close in Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday, the evening calm was suddenly shattered by a giant explosion near the city’s airport. A UPS cargo plane crashed shortly after taking off from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport –– ripping through several

CNN, WAVE, WLKY, SEE PREFONTS By Karina Tsui, Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — As the sun set and businesses started to close in Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday, the evening calm was suddenly shattered by a giant explosion near the city’s airport. A UPS cargo plane crashed shortly after taking off from Louisville Muhammad Ali International

By Pete Muntean, Amanda Musa, Emma Tucker, Amanda Jackson, Alexandra Skores, Aaron Cooper, CNN (CNN) — We’ve moved to Live Updates for coverage of this developing story. Follow the latest here. A UPS MD-11 plane crashed shortly after take-off near the Louisville, Kentucky, airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. UPS Flight 2976 crashed just

By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Department of Transportation may close some parts of US airspace if enough air traffic controllers don’t show up to work, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Tuesday. “If you bring us to a week from today, Democrats, you will see mass chaos,” Duffy said at a news conference

By Michelle Watson, Melissa Gray, CNN (CNN) — Two men were arrested following an explosion this weekend at Harvard Medical School, according to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Harvard University Police Department. The US Attorney’s Office is expected to hold an afternoon news conference at the federal courthouse in Boston. The incident

By David J. Lopez, CNN (CNN) — At 7:32 a.m. on Friday, FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X that his agency “thwarted a potential terrorist attack and arrested multiple subjects in Michigan.” “More details to come,” Patel said. Two law enforcement sources with knowledge of the case told CNN about a cryptic reference to

By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington (CNN) — Air traffic controllers not showing up to work or taking second jobs to make ends meet, coupled with long lines at the airport and delays, understandably heighten the anxieties of some passengers. Since the start of the shutdown, controllers and other essential workers, like Transportation Security Administration screeners,

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Human remains discovered earlier this year in a remote area of northwestern Washington state are those of an Indigenous woman who had been missing since 2020, police say. Authorities announced Friday they used DNA analysis to confirm the remains matched Mary Johnson. Johnson, an enrolled citizen of the