A U.S. infectious disease specialist confirmed that the "double mutant" COVID-19 variant first discovered in India is more infectious and deadly, and will bring more uncertainty to the U.S. anti-epidemic work.
About 16,000 people were evacuated from their homes on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent on Friday after the La Soufriere volcano erupted.
Drew Charter School, which made history in 2019 as the first all-black high school team and first public school to win the Georgia State Championship, look to do it again in 2021.
The Supreme Court by a 5-4 vote blocked another state Covid-19 restriction on religious services, with another late-night order, over protests from California officials that the limits affecting some Bible study sessions did not impinge on religious rights and were to be lifted within days.
A zoo in the United States has welcomed four recent hatchings of Humboldt penguin chicks. The new chicks hatched in Brookfield Zoo in Illinois on March 13, 16, 24 and April 3. (April 10)
Hundreds of Republican donors will gather for an invitation-only event at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. CNN's Michael Warren reads excerpts from a speech the former President is expected to give during the retreat.
The massive tornado funnel cloud was spotted tumbling over the Gulf of Mexico.
Voting advocates leaked video from a presentation given by a Harris County GOP official, who talks about recruiting an "army" of poll watchers in mostly minority areas of Houston.
A zoo in the United States has welcomed four recent hatchings of Humboldt penguin chicks. The new chicks hatched in Brookfield Zoo in Illinois on March 13, 16, 24 and April 3. (April 10)
An Italian prosecutor has told a court in Sicily there is no reason to put the right-wing leader, Matteo Salvini, on trial for alleged kidnapping when he refused to allow more than a hundred migrants ashore in 2019. At the hearing in Catania, Prosecutor Andrea Bonomo said Salvini's decision did not violate international treaties and was not to be considered kidnapping.
As a new debate begins over President Joe Biden's ambitious infrastructure proposal, the Brent Spence Bridge in Ohio offers a lesson for the challenges facing the administration. CNN's Jeff Zeleny reports.
A longtime producer of British royal events says there will be an outpouring of grief throughout the U.K. over the death of Prince Philip but that his immediate funeral is likely to be a small family affair because of the coronavirus pandemic.
