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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…

Since 2017, China has prohibited any political activity by foreign organizations, under a law modeled on one that Russia adopted after the “color revolutions” swept former Soviet republics. Hong Kong, by contrast, still allows nongovernmental organizations a great deal of freedom, and the work that many of them do is effectively an affront to the values of the Communist government in Beijing. The National Endowment for Democracy, for example, regularly…

(CNN)Days after Hurricane Dorian inflicted “generational devastation” on islands in the Bahamas, foreign aid has arrived to support rescue efforts, feed the displaced and assess damage that’s being described in apocalyptic terms. ‘);$vidEndSlate.removeClass(‘video__end-slate–inactive’).addClass(‘video__end-slate–active’);}};CNN.autoPlayVideoExist = (CNN.autoPlayVideoExist === true) ? true : false;var configObj = {thumb: ‘none’,video: ‘tv/2019/09/04/lead-patrick-oppmann-live-jake-tapper.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/190904162258-lead-patrick-oppmann-live-jake-tapper-00024025-small-169.jpg”,”height”:124},”xsmall”:{“width”:307,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190904162258-lead-patrick-oppmann-live-jake-tapper-00024025-medium-plus-169.jpg”,”height”:173},”small”:{“width”:460,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190904162258-lead-patrick-oppmann-live-jake-tapper-00024025-large-169.jpg”,”height”:259},”medium”:{“width”:780,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190904162258-lead-patrick-oppmann-live-jake-tapper-00024025-exlarge-169.jpg”,”height”:438},”large”:{“width”:1100,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190904162258-lead-patrick-oppmann-live-jake-tapper-00024025-super-169.jpg”,”height”:619},”full16x9″:{“width”:1600,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190904162258-lead-patrick-oppmann-live-jake-tapper-00024025-full-169.jpg”,”height”:900},”mini1x1″:{“width”:120,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190904162258-lead-patrick-oppmann-live-jake-tapper-00024025-small-11.jpg”,”height”:120}}},autoStartVideo = false,isVideoReplayClicked = false,callbackObj,containerEl,currentVideoCollection = [],currentVideoCollectionId = ”,isLivePlayer = false,mediaMetadataCallbacks,mobilePinnedView = null,moveToNextTimeout,mutePlayerEnabled…

Though weakened, Dorian remained a force to be reckoned with, its swirling circle of winds and rain wrapped around a large, gaping eye visible on photos taken from space. At 11 p.m. EDT Wednesday the distinct eye of the hurricane churned about 105 miles (168 kilometers) south of Charleston, moving north at 7 mph (11 kph) off the coast. In Charleston’s downtown, stores and restaurants were boarded up with wood…

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – Students from a high school in Santa Cruz, a Fremont science teacher and his daughter, an adventurous marine biologist who worked in Santa Cruz, and a family of five from Stockton celebrating a birthday are among those presumed to have died when fire tore through a scuba diving boat off the Southern California coast, trapping dozens of sleeping people below deck. Authorities on Tuesday ended the…

Bernie Sanders defended the filibuster Wednesday, insisting that he would not need 60 votes to pass his $16.3 trillion climate change plan. Sanders, speaking at CNN’s climate change town hall, said he could accomplish his goals of reaching 100% renewable energy for electricity and transportation by 2030 through the parliamentary procedure of budget reconciliation, which allows for passing legislation with only a simple majority in the Senate. “I haven’t wavered,”…