Bob Ortega

Exclusive: How understaffing and DHS policy drives rising deaths in ICE detention centers cnn.com/2026/05/15/us/…

Fact check: Hegseth twice made a false claim to Congress about troops being sent to voting places under Biden. It didn't happen cnn.com/2026/05/04/pol…

US drops to 64th in Reporters Without Border rankings of press freedom: rsf.org/en/classement-…

In more than a dozen FBI interviews, victims told authorities Epstein or Maxwell facilitated sexual encounters with his rich and powerful friends. They named more than a half dozen other men, including Wall Street executives, a former senator... cnn.com/2026/04/22/us/…

Exclusive: Beatings, restraints and isolation: Allegations of abuse at a migrant children’s shelter trigger federal review cnn.com/2026/04/16/pol…

A vital system of Atlantic Ocean currents is weakening and closer to collapse than thought, new studies find... "An event which would have catastrophic impacts on the planet’s weather and climate" cnn.com/2026/04/16/cli…

Fact check: The lies Trump is using to sell his latest attack on mail-in voting cnn.com/2026/03/24/pol…

It's not just vaccines: Parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns cnn.com/2026/03/24/hea… “Nature will allow 1 in 5 human infants to die in the first year of life."

US downgraded in democracy index as concerns grow over press freedom and suppression of dissent cnn.com/2026/03/18/med…

Michigan synagogue attacker’s relatives killed in Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, officials say cnn.com/2026/03/13/us/…

Meanwhile: Millions of Americans are skipping meals or cutting back on utilities to afford health care cnn.com/2026/03/12/hea…

CNN investigation: Missing teenager repeatedly appeared in d4vd’s orbit before her body was found cnn.com/2026/03/12/us/…

‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’ AI chatbots helped teen users plan violence in hundreds of tests: cnn.com/2026/03/11/ame…

Fake explosions, fake missiles, fake troops: AI videos and images of Iran war spread widely on social media cnn.com/2026/03/11/pol…

Congrats to Mica Rosenberg of ProPublica for winning the Sidney Award for telling the stories of kids in ICE Detention hillmanfoundation.org/sidney-awards/…

How Trump has undermined the agency tasked with making sure America never has another nuclear meltdown cnn.com/2026/03/10/cli…

Those include cases where officers deployed chemical weapons near children and where officers fired less-lethal weapons at protesters’ heads and faces from close range. In most cases, agents had no obvious reason to fear for their safety

Lost eyesight and broken bones: Federal agents flout rules when using less-lethal weapons against protesters, CNN analysis finds cnn.com/2026/03/10/us/…

US Tomahawk struck Iranian base next to school destroyed in deadly attack, video appears to confirm cnn.com/2026/03/09/mid…

The US military was likely responsible for the strike on an elementary school in southern Iran that killed scores of children, the deadliest incident of civilian casualties in the US and Israel's almost week-long war with Iran, according to CNN and expert analysis of evidence. cnn.it/4lhdAx9