
Adam Carr, the former boyfriend of US Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom — the National Guard member killed in an ambush-style attack in Washington, DC — spoke to CNN’s Gabe Cohen about her deployment to DC.

Adam Carr, the former boyfriend of US Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom — the National Guard member killed in an ambush-style attack in Washington, DC — spoke to CNN’s Gabe Cohen about her deployment to DC.

A winter storm placed around 49 million people under winter weather alerts over the weekend. It caused whiteout conditions on highways across the Midwest, between cities like St. Louis and Chicago.

Pope Leo XIV visited the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, on Saturday during his first foreign trip since becoming pontiff. Leo will then travel to Lebanon as part of an ongoing effort to promote interfaith dialogue.

The Vancouver Police Department posted a video online that they say shows a rideshare driver helping a woman escape a "domestic-violence-related assault" in Washington state on November 15. Detectives are investigating the incident, police said.

Hippos regularly wander through neighborhoods at night in the South African town of St. Lucia. This eco-tourism hotspot sits beside one of the country’s largest hippo habitats.

There’s been a spate of record-breaking auction sales recently and experts at Christie’s in London think we might be about to see another. A legendary Fabergé Imperial Egg, commissioned by Russian emperors to celebrate Easter, is one of the last left in private hands, and it’s now going up for sale for the first time in two decades. Christie's estimates that this 1913 Winter Egg will fetch “in excess of” £20 million ($26 million) on December 2, which would not only set an auction record for a Fabergé egg — it would also obliterate the one the Winter Egg itself set in 2002. CNN's Fiona Sinclair Scott visits Christie's to learn more about this curio.

The emotional moment a conservationist found the rare flower that he’d been looking for for years has gone viral. Septi Andriki and a team of conservationists found the rare Rafflesia Hasseltii in bloom deep in the rainforest in west Sumatra, Indonesia.

After a wildfire destroyed much of the Pacific Palisades neighborhood in January, one image among the devastation went global: a vintage VW bus that had somehow survived the most destructive fire in the history of Los Angeles. CNN’s Nick Watt visits the iconic vehicle at the LA Auto Show.


