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By Ray Sanchez, CNN On the final morning of his short life, 22-month-old Cooper Harris was up early, at 5:15, an hour before sunrise in the Atlanta…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The small whorled pogonia, a federally threatened species of orchid, has been rediscovered in Vermont — 120 years after the…

By Yenny Sanchez, CNN Call it a hat trick. A Maryland woman has won her third lottery prize of at least $100,000 in five years, a feat she attributes…

By Jason Hanna and Michelle Watson, CNN Four people are dead after the boat they were in capsized this week in an Idaho river, authorities said…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Onondaga Nation is set to regain over 1,000 acres of ancestral land in central New York in what the Department of Interior…

By Michelle Watson, Claudia Dominquez and Aya Elamroussi, CNN The bodies of a mother and two of her young children were found in a Minnesota lake…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN When Garrett Dickman drove through Yosemite National Park early this week, he passed through a diverse band of large trees…

By Taylor Romine, CNN A controversial California bill repealing loitering related to possible prostitution was signed into law Friday by Gov. Gavin…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN At least 10 million bees were released onto a highway after a semi-truck crashed in Utah. The truck, driven by a commercial…

By Raja Razek, CNN A workgroup developing a second-grade social studies curriculum for the Texas State Board of Education last month suggested using…

By Mark Morales, Kiely Westhoff and Samantha Beech, CNN The man accused of killing a young mother Wednesday as she pushed her 3-month-old baby in a…

By Jarrod Wardwell, CNN Four families are suing an Ohio school board to challenge a ban on race-based education and staff training in the latest…

By Melissa Alonso, Hannah Sarisohn and Steve Almasy, CNN The family of an 11-year-old boy who died last year after an Iowa amusement park ride…

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN The Florida Highway Patrol arrested two people this week for smuggling others into the state, according to incident reports from…

By Melissa Alonso and Steve Almasy, CNN The suspect in an hourslong shooting that killed three law enforcement officers and injured several others in…

By Adrienne Broaddus and Jason Kravarik, CNN Steps from an interstate and minutes from an airport sits a nondescript building with a tenant never…

By Jennifer Henderson and Alaa Elassar, CNN A teenage girl is in serious but stable condition after being bitten by a large shark while scalloping…

By Rebekah Riess, Jamiel Lynch and Ray Sanchez, CNN A 1-year-old child died Friday after being left in a car outside the father’s workplace in…

By Alaa Elassar and Rebekah Riess, CNN A Chicago police officer was shot numerous times while responding to a domestic disturbance Friday and is…