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[ad_1] CNN  —  Nearly 1.6 million asylum applications are pending in US immigration courts and at US Citizenship and Immigration Services – the largest number of pending asylum cases on record, according to analysis of federal data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. US immigration courts have …

[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. Bergen is the author of “The Cost of Chaos: The Trump Administration and the World.” The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Here’s a look at the life of Richard Reid, also known as the “shoe bomber” because of his attempt to detonate explosives hidden in his sneakers while on an American Airlines flight. He is serving a life sentence at the US Penitentiary Administrative Maximum facility in Florence, …

[ad_1] CNN  —  [Breaking news update at 9:47 a.m. ET] At least 25 people have died in Erie County, New York, as a result of a massive winter storm that blasted much of the US, county executive Mark Poloncarz said in a news conference Monday, citing the findings of the …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Around 14,000 customers in Puyallup and Graham, Washington, were impacted Sunday after burglars vandalized three power substations belonging to Tacoma Public Utilities and Puget Sound Energy, police said. No suspects are in custody at this time, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department added in a statement Sunday. The …

[ad_1] CNN  —  When the blizzard first hit Buffalo, New York, a family of six packed up their bags and headed to a local hotel after they lost power at their home – but they ended up celebrating Christmas somewhere a little more surprising. Demetrice and Danielle, along with their …

[ad_1] CNN  —  When Santa Claus arrived at migrant shelter in El Paso, Texas, to bring presents for the children, one migrant asked for just a photo with him. The photo Geovanny Caripaz, 39, took was quickly sent through WhatsApp to his 7-year-old son in Venezuela. “I told him Santa …

[ad_1] CNN  —  A Kentucky woman brought home the best present at her office gift exchange. Lori Janes, from Louisville, won $175,000 after receiving a lottery ticket at her office holiday party, according to a news release from the Kentucky Lottery. Janes, an officer manager and treatment coordinator at Harmon …

[ad_1] CNN  —  A fire on board a JetBlue Airways plane forced more than 160 passengers to evacuate using emergency slides at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday, fire department officials said. The incident – which happened shortly after the flight from Barbados landed at the airport …

[ad_1] CNN  —  A nearly weeklong winter storm blasting much of the US has plunged temperatures to life-threatening lows, brought blizzards and floods, and left more than a quarter million people without power on Christmas Day. Blizzard conditions continue across the Great Lakes, while frigid cold temperatures grip the eastern …