An eighth of the US population is sweltering under a record-breaking heat dome. Climate change is making it worse
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A potentially lethal heat wave is affecting more than 40 million people in the US this week.
"No easy way to say this, so we'll just cut straight to the chase: it's going to be *very* hot for a *long time*," tweeted the National Weather Service in Salt Lake City in the lead-up to this historic heat wave. This heat wave and the exceptional drought in the Southwest are part of a damaging feedback loop enhanced by climate change, experts say. The hotter it gets, the drier it gets; the drier it gets, the hotter it gets.
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Israel’s attack on Iran was long in the making – the result of years of meticulous planning by Israel and days of high-stakes talks between Tel Aviv and Washington, officials told CNN.
Historian Rutger Bregman argues in a new book that people should aspire to “moral ambition” — a mix of idealism and ruthless pragmatism — to make the world a better place.
As the Army celebrates its 250th birthday, officials say the military’s apolitical nature is at risk
As the US Army prepares for its 250th birthday celebration with a major parade of military hardware in Washington, DC, which just happens to coincide with President Donald’s Trumps birthday, former officials are growing increasingly concerned about how the military is being pulled into the political arena by the Trump administration, multiple former and current officials told CNN.
Ranked-choice voting could once again decide New York City’s mayoral primary, four years after the process was slow and marred by a major tabulation error.
A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months.
As a military parade rolls through Washington, DC, on Saturday – President Donald Trump’s birthday – millions of Americans are expected to protest in what organizers predict will be the strongest display of opposition to Trump’s administration since he took office in January.
A group of roughly 60 individuals were arrested outside the US Capitol on Friday after breaching a police line of bike racks and moving toward steps leading to the Capitol Rotunda, according to the Capitol Police.
President Donald Trump has made millions from his family’s cryptocurrency venture, private golf clubs and hawking everything from bibles to watches – as he’s capitalized on his political prominence to expand his business empire, according to financial documents released Friday afternoon.
An Afghan man in Oklahoma accused of planning an Election Day attack in the US on behalf of the Islamic State group pleaded guilty Friday to terrorism-related charges in federal court.
Mahmoud Khalil’s hopes of being freed on bond as he continues fighting the Trump administration’s efforts to deport him were dashed Friday, despite a judge saying the government could no longer hold Khalil on the premise that his presence in the country is against the national interest.
Israel’s military and intelligence operation against Iran that began Thursday night is unprecedented in scale and scope. I was on live with Anderson Cooper as it unfolded and the full extent of the attack began to clarify.