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But despite the hopes and prodding of his wife, Grace, and other allies now fallen out of favor, including the former information minister, Jonathan Moyo, Mr. Mugabe had become a political nonentity. Little was heard from him in the past year as he grew frailer and frailer. Instead, his sons — famous partygoers whose public misbehavior forced their parents to move them from Dubai to Johannesburg in recent years —…

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<!– –> A Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Super Puma helicopter arrives in Santa Barbara as part of the Conception dive boat response. (John Palminteri/KEYT.com) Conception Fire SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The investigation into one of the worst boating tragedies in the history of the Santa Barbara Channel is above and below the surface by Santa Cruz Island where the dive boat Conception caught on fire Monday morning. 34 on board died. 33 bodies…

But despite the hopes and prodding of his wife, Grace, and other allies now fallen out of favor, including the former information minister, Jonathan Moyo, Mr. Mugabe had become a political nonentity. Little was heard from him in the past year as he grew frailer and frailer. Instead, his sons — famous partygoers whose public misbehavior forced their parents to move them from Dubai to Johannesburg in recent years —…

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A photo purported to show the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland. On Thursday, scientist Neil Gemmell from the University of Otago in New Zealand said a research project found a surprisingly high amount of eel DNA in the water. (AP) Hannah Knowles September 5 at 9:35 PM It was a science story made for the headlines: a monster, more than a thousand years of mystery and maybe, finally, an answer….

Many vacationers had already left Outer Banks communities, and locals were scrambling to pack up their belongings as the wind started to pick up Thursday afternoon. Billy’s Seafood, a mom-and-pop store known for its fresh fish, soft-shell crabs and tuna salad, was closing up shop after moving its supplies several feet off the floor. “We were just getting ready to leave,” Judy Beasley, who owns the store with her family,…

Kris Van Cleave Kris Van Cleave is the transportation correspondent for CBS News.

The New York State Department of Health said Thursday that it is looking at vitamin E acetate as a potential cause of severe pulmonary illness cases in the state that have been associated with vaping. Daniel Becerril/Reuters hide caption toggle caption Daniel Becerril/Reuters The New York State Department of Health said Thursday that it is looking at vitamin E acetate as a potential cause of severe pulmonary illness cases in…

MURIETTA, Calif. – The Tenaja Fire continued to burn in Southern California on Thursday, charring some 2,000 acres and triggering mandatory evacuations for hundreds of residents, authorities said. As of Thursday morning, the fire was 7% contained, Cal Fire said. The fire broke out about 4 p.m. Wednesday in La Cresta, a community perched above Murrieta that contains sprawling, multimillion-dollar estates about 70 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Cal Fire…

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Hundreds of thousands were without power and North Carolinians were told to shelter in place as Hurricane Dorian, still a powerful Category 2 storm, drenched the coasts of the Carolinas on Thursday on its way to possible landfall in North Carolina. Almost 240,000 households and businesses were without power, most of them in counties along the South Carolina coast and immediately inland, and many roads were closed by flooding. Full…

(CNN)A jury on Thursday found one man not guilty of 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter in the 2016 fire at Oakland’s Ghost Ship warehouse but could not reach a verdict for the building’s leaseholder, according to CNN affiliate KGO. ‘);$vidEndSlate.removeClass(‘video__end-slate–inactive’).addClass(‘video__end-slate–active’);}};CNN.autoPlayVideoExist = (CNN.autoPlayVideoExist === true) ? true : false;var configObj = {thumb: ‘none’,video: ‘us/2016/12/07/oakland-fire-victim-mother-bts-nd.cnn’,width: ‘100%’,height: ‘100%’,section: ‘domestic’,profile: ‘expansion’,network: ‘cnn’,markupId: ‘body-text_15’,theoplayer: {allowNativeFullscreen: true},adsection: ‘const-article-inpage’,frameWidth: ‘100%’,frameHeight: ‘100%’,posterImageOverride: {“mini”:{“width”:220,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/161207101341-oakland-fire-victim-mother-bts-nd-00012106-small-169.jpg”,”height”:124},”xsmall”:{“width”:307,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/161207101341-oakland-fire-victim-mother-bts-nd-00012106-medium-plus-169.jpg”,”height”:173},”small”:{“width”:460,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/161207101341-oakland-fire-victim-mother-bts-nd-00012106-large-169.jpg”,”height”:259},”medium”:{“width”:780,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/161207101341-oakland-fire-victim-mother-bts-nd-00012106-exlarge-169.jpg”,”height”:438},”large”:{“width”:1100,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/161207101341-oakland-fire-victim-mother-bts-nd-00012106-super-169.jpg”,”height”:619},”full16x9″:{“width”:1600,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/161207101341-oakland-fire-victim-mother-bts-nd-00012106-full-169.jpg”,”height”:900},”mini1x1″:{“width”:120,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/161207101341-oakland-fire-victim-mother-bts-nd-00012106-small-11.jpg”,”height”:120}}},autoStartVideo = false,isVideoReplayClicked = false,callbackObj,containerEl,currentVideoCollection =…

Some of the products that New York health authorities found to contain vitamin E acetate. (New York State Department of Health) Lena H. Sun September 5 at 2:53 PM State and federal health officials investigating mysterious lung illnesses linked to vaping have found the same chemical in samples of marijuana products used by people sickened in different parts of the country and who used different brands of products in recent…

U.S. investigators on Thursday were examining potential ignition sources of a deadly fire on a scuba diving boat, including electronics aboard the vessel where 34 people were killed off the coast of Southern California. Investigators know photography equipment, batteries and other electronics were stored and plugged in on the Conception, said Jennifer Homendy, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board. “We are not ruling anything out at this point,”…

Jo Johnson, brother of Britain’s prime minister, Boris Johnson, resigned from Parliament and his brother’s Cabinet on Thursday. Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP hide caption toggle caption Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Jo Johnson, brother of Britain’s prime minister, Boris Johnson, resigned from Parliament and his brother’s Cabinet on Thursday. Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Jo Johnson, the brother of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has resigned from Parliament, in the latest sign of Brexit turmoil. Jo Johnson says…

As Hurricane Dorian slogs up the Carolina coast, forecasters are predicting high storm surges and drenching rains that could trigger flooding and unleash environmental hazards in areas still recovering from last year’s Hurricane Florence. The National Weather Service issued a hurricane warning Wednesday for the Atlantic coast from northern Georgia to southern Virginia, predicting a “potentially life threatening storm surge” up to 8 feet (2.4 meters) around the North Carolina-South…

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I would only be half-joking in proposing a Kamala Harris-Vladimir Putin ticket in 2020. The fact is, Harris’ policy positions fit very closely to those most desired by Putin. Just consider what Harris said at a CNN town hall on Wednesday evening. A questioner falsely claimed that fracking — which has reduced carbon emissions by more than all of the combined environmental legislation and activism in U.S. history — destroys…

Jo Johnson, brother of Britain’s prime minister, Boris Johnson, resigned from Parliament and his brother’s Cabinet on Thursday. Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP hide caption toggle caption Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Jo Johnson, brother of Britain’s prime minister, Boris Johnson, resigned from Parliament and his brother’s Cabinet on Thursday. Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Jo Johnson, the brother of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has resigned from Parliament, in the latest sign of Brexit turmoil. Jo Johnson says…