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By Melissa Gray, CNN Roald Dahl, the author of children’s classics such as “James and the Giant Peach” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” believed in stories that enthralled young readers, getting them to love books for a lifetime. He put those thoughts in a letter sent more than 30 years ago to a university

By Zamira Rahim, CNN A “special” Australian kelpie has sold for a record-breaking 35,200 Australian dollars ($27,090) at a working dog auction in the country’s Victoria state. Two-year-old kelpie Hoover was sold at the Australian Premier Working Dog Auction in the town of Casterton on Sunday, CNN affiliate 7News reports. The sale has broken a

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Three communities in Arizona have been asked to evacuate after a fire that crews have been working for days to contain jumped the containment line. The Telegraph Fire grew overnight, burning through 104,755 acres with containment down to 68%, fire authorities said during a community meeting late Monday. Track wildfires in

By Jessie Yeung and Swati Gupta, CNN The pilot had just completed a commercial flight from the United States to Covid-struck India when he received the news his colleague had died of the virus. “We parked the plane in Delhi, switched off the engines, switched on our phones, and the guy sitting next to me

By Hannah Gard and Jennifer Gray, CNN All-time records are in jeopardy this week as a dangerous heat wave bakes much of the Western United States, an area already begging for moisture due to exceptional drought. “Record-high tempertures will just continue the vicious cycle that so often happens in droughts, where hot, cloudless skies result

By Jennifer Gray, Hollie Silverman and Michael Guy, CNN [Breaking news update, published at 11:30 p.m. ET] Tropical Storm Bill strengthened from a tropical depression in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina Monday night. It is the second named storm of the North Atlantic Hurricane Season. The storm is likely to be

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business Teenage workers are in high demand this summer, especially at Main Street businesses. And that will come as a relief since working teens were hard hit by pandemic-related layoffs. In May of 2020, their national unemployment rate was just shy of 30%, according to federal jobs data. But by this

Opinion by Chuck Collins for CNN Business Perspectives If you paid $5 in taxes in 2011, you paid more that year than Jeff Bezos, one of the wealthiest people in the world. That’s just one of the many revelations from ProPublica’s release of secret IRS files. The fact that the US tax system is rigged

By Hollie Silverman, Kay Jones and Michael Guy, CNN Multiple wildfires prompted evacuations in California and Arizona over the weekend after quickly charring more than 1,500 acres of land. The region has already seen hundreds of acres burned as a drought continues to grip the region amid rising temperatures and a strengthening heat wave that

Story by Reuters Cambodia’s capital of Phnom Penh has started evicting its famous “floating villages” on the banks of the Tonle Sap River, despite the objections of longtime residents who say they have nowhere else to go. For generations, the floating wooden houseboats of Phnom Penh have been both livelihood and way of life for

By Holly Yan, CNN A young constable was struck and killed by the truck he had pulled over during a traffic stop, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Saskatchewan said. Shelby Patton, 26, was following two suspects who were in a stolen truck from Manitoba on Saturday morning, Saskatchewan RCMP Commanding Officer and Assistant Commissioner

Kris Fordham, CNN After more than a year of lockdowns and quarantine and social distancing, we’re all more than ready for a big, celebratory, I-just-endured-a-pandemic vacation. Unfortunately, with many international borders still closed and some countries facing their second — or third, or fourth — Covid-19 waves, much of the world isn’t ready for leisure

By Rafael Romo, CNN She says she feels angry and desperate, but the way she speaks and what she says make it clear that she refuses to be afraid. Berta Valle is the wife of Félix Maradiaga Blandón, one of at least seven opposition leaders who have been detained in Nicaragua so far this month.

By Lindsay Isaac and Dakin Andone, CNN A second man has been charged in the shooting last month of Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson, the London Metropolitan Police said in a statement Saturday. Devonte Brown, 18, of Southwark, was charged Friday with conspiracy to murder Johnson and was expected to appear at the Westminster

The maker of the iconic aluminum travel trailer is jumping into the off-road van business with the Interstate 24X.

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Airstream has long been famous for its classic shiny camper trailers that can be parked along the smooth dirt driving paths of campsites that have hook-ups for electricity and plumbing. But now it has come out with its four-wheel-drive off-road camper van for those who want to get even further

By Eoin McSweeney, CNN Never one to do things by halves, Queen Elizabeth II showed off her sword skills Friday cutting a cake at a lunch organized by educational charity Eden Project. The Queen smiled and joked with Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall as she swapped a knife for the longer

By Jonny Hallam, CNN British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has said the path is now clear for a virtual trial of Anne Sacoolas, the US woman accused of killing 19-year-old Harry Dunn in August 2019 while she was driving on the wrong side of the road in England. Sacoolas claimed diplomatic immunity and fled to

By Jackson Dill, CNN Amid a worsening drought across the southwestern United States, residents are hoping for rain from the upcoming monsoon season. But there may not be much luck this year. “A drier than normal Southwest monsoon season is slightly favored for 2021,” Scott Handel, lead meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s

By Angela Dewan, CNN A bronze sculpture of a tin miner overlooks a short strip of budget food and clothing stores, and boarded up businesses in Cornwall’s Redruth. It’s a celebration of the town’s proud mining history, but also a reminder of its decline. A surgical mask on the statue’s face symbolizes the town’s sense