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By Rosa Flores, CNN Nearly 1.6 million asylum applications are pending in US immigration courts and at US Citizenship and Immigration Services…

By Joshua Berlinger, CNN Photographs by Julian Rigg, CNN Armed with an iPhone, a microphone and a lifetime’s worth of connections with former…

By Sharif Paget, CNN After thousands of customers in Pierce County, Washington, were affected Sunday when burglars vandalized three energy…

By Michelle Krupa, Artemis Moshtaghian and Nicole Grether, CNN It was days before Christmas when the blizzard slammed Buffalo, New York, with the…

By Camila Bernal and Sarah Moon, CNN When Santa Claus arrived at a migrant shelter in El Paso, Texas, to bring presents for the children, one migrant…

By Hannah Sarisohn and Alaa Elassar, CNN Law enforcement officials are investigating an apparent murder-suicide on Sunday at a Jehovah’s…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Fifties’ child star Gayla Peevy’s plea for a “hippopotamus for Christmas” came true for one Virginia zoo.…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A Kentucky woman brought home the best present at her office gift exchange. Lori Janes, from Louisville, won $175,000 after…

By Zenebou Sylla, CNN A fire on board a JetBlue Airways plane forced more than 160 passengers to evacuate using emergency slides at New York’s…

By Camila Bernal, Sarah Moon, and Paradise Afshar, CNN More than 300 people stayed overnight at the El Paso Convention Center in Texas, as the…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN An “unhappy” 16-foot albino reticulated python was rescued by an animal shelter in Austin, Texas on Monday —…

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN There’s still time to win big at the lottery before the year is up. The Mega Millions jackpot has grown to an estimated…

By Amanda Musa and Harmeet Kaur, CNN Two Indianapolis police officers had spent the day searching in vain for a missing baby in a stolen vehicle when…

By Adrienne Broaddus, CNN Marzena Stasieluk needed a new kidney. She’d been diagnosed with kidney disease in 2015, and ultimately needed…