National-World

By Josh Campbell, CNN A former US Marine planned to attack a New York synagogue and engage in “widespread homicide and sexual assault”…

By Sharif Paget, CNN Belinda Asher was sleeping in her eastern Kentucky home when she was abruptly awoken a little after 1 a.m. Thursday by a flash…

By Paradise Afshar and David Williams, CNN A ferry terminal in Seattle is out of service on Thursday after a ferry crashed into a part of the…

By Rob Frehse and Christina Maxouris, CNN The Indiana attorney general’s investigation into an Ob-Gyn who provided abortion services to a…

By Amir Vera and Andy Rose, CNN While flash flooding in St. Louis, Missouri, had tapered out in the last two days, a new round of storms Thursday…

By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent On a ridge overlooking the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, it would have been possible to see…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which serves to protect and enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments. It was…

By Eric Levenson and Melissa Alonso, CNN Alabama inmate Joe Nathan James Jr. was executed Thursday night for the 1994 murder of Faith Hall Smith, the…

By Dakin Andone and Kevin Conlon, CNN For months leading up to the Parkland massacre, Nikolas Cruz searched the internet for information and videos…

By Judson Jones, Monica Garrett and Payton Major, CNN Flash drought conditions intensified in the Northeast and across the southern Plains, causing…