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By Hannah Gard and Haley Brink, CNN The Northeast is bracing for more heavy rain Monday after severe storms last week inundated New York City subways and submerged streets. The region then took a hit from Tropical Storm Elsa, enduring even more rainfall. A weak storm system will slowly bend southward Monday and Tuesday, carrying

By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Buying a home of her own became a priority for Kelly Robinson during the pandemic, as she began to feel cramped in her Indianapolis apartment. “Last fall having to stay home so much, that really made me decide that it is time to buy a house,” she said. Among the

By Rhea Mogul, CNN A dramatic government health advertisement showing a young woman gasping for air while on a ventilator has sparked a backlash in Australia, with social media users criticizing its targeting of young people for coronavirus vaccination — the majority of whom are not yet eligible to receive the recommended shot. “Covid can

By Reuters A Tokyo hotel has apologized and removed signs reading “Japanese only” and “foreigners only” from elevators after the anti-Covid-19 precaution sparked outrage on social media ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics. Tokyo entered a state of emergency on July 12 amid concerns that an influx of tens of thousands of athletes and officials

By Caitlin Hu, Mitchell McCluskey and Jessie Yeung, CNN Haitian authorities have arrested a man they say helped orchestrate the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, the country’s police chief announced on Sunday. Moise was killed Wednesday in his Port-au-Prince home, in an attack that has shaken a country already rattled by rampant violence and political

By Caitlin Hu, Etant Dupain, Stefano Pozzebon, Matt Rivers and Natalie Gallón, CNN Agents from the United States and other nations are joining the criminal inquiry into the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise following days of dizzying intrigue. Moise was killed Wednesday in his home in a shocking incident for which authorities are still

By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Jenny Capador still cannot believe she will never see her brother again — and she certainly does not believe that he is an assassin, as officials in two countries have now alleged. Her brother Duberney Capador is one of at least three people killed in a police operation in the Haitian

By David Williams, CNN The devastating heat wave that ravaged British Columbia last week is being blamed for a massive die-off of mussels, clams and other marine animals that live on the beaches of Western Canada. Christopher Harley, a professor in the zoology department at The University of British Columbia, found countless dead mussels popped

By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist Over 30 million people are under heat alerts across Western states as temperatures are forecast to soar well into the triple digits this weekend. Nearly the entire state of California will be impacted by this heat wave, in addition to major metro areas in the Southwest. Numerous daily temperature records

By Caitlin Hu and Etant Dupain, CNN The charred shells of three burned-out cars marked the road to the president’s house on Friday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Just up the hill, former leader Jovenel Moise had been murdered in his bedroom two days earlier, in an otherwise quiet neighborhood of big houses and high walls topped

By Forrest Brown, CNN Visitors and residents of the Northeastern United States puzzlin’ where to go with their children this summer have another travel option. On Friday, the Legoland New York Resort fully opened with all seven of its lands available for kids and adults to explore. Reservations are required, even for annual pass holders.

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN After a deadly, climate change-fueled heat wave smothered the Pacific Northwest at the end of June, historic heat threatens records once again, particularly in the drought-stricken Southwest region. More than 30 million people are under heat warnings and advisories. The National Weather Service says the risk level for this heat wave

By Hannah Gard and Jennifer Gray, CNN Human-caused climate change pushed June into unprecedented territory. Tens of millions of people in the Southwest roasted under an intense heat dome around the middle of the month, which lasted for nearly a week. Overnight lows in Phoenix didn’t drop below 90 degrees. Hundreds of records were set

By Hannah Gard and Haley Brink, CNN Another relentless heat wave is expected to grip the West this weekend. The extreme conditions in the forecast have prompted the National Weather Service (NWS) to categorize much of California and Nevada in the highest heat risk level by Sunday. Over 30 million people are under heat alerts