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By Amanda Jackson, Sharif Paget, Zoe Sottile and Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — A pilot is dead and several people were injured after a small business jet crashed into a parked plane as it arrived at Scottsdale Airport in Arizona, just east of Phoenix, on Monday afternoon. The plane that was landing is a Learjet

By Daniel Wine, CNN Editor’s Note: CNN’s 5 Things newsletter is your one-stop shop for the latest headlines and fascinating stories to start and end your busy day. Sign up here. 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! How important is extra legroom on a plane? Extremely, according to the ratings of the best airlines across the

By Chris Boyette and Chris Youd, CNN (CNN) — Adan Manzano was in New Orleans to cover Super Bowl LIX, but the sports reporter was found dead in his hotel room before kickoff. Police are trying to figure out what happened and what, if anything, “a career criminal” police say is known to run fraud

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth and a former US senator. Personal Birth date: July 18, 1921 Death date: December 8, 2016 Birth place: Cambridge, Ohio Birth name: John Herschel Glenn Jr. Father: John Glenn Sr., a plumber Mother:

By Dakin Andone and Sharif Paget, CNN (CNN) — The Super Bowl halftime performer who held up the Sudanese and Palestinian flags in protest during Sunday night’s performance in New Orleans will be banned for life from all NFL stadiums and events, a league spokesperson told CNN. The protester was confirmed by the NFL to

By Devyn Byers, CNN (CNN) — A Southern California man returned home after evacuating last month’s devastating Los Angeles-area wildfires to discover an unexpected resident lurking beneath it. Samy Arbid told CNN he found a 525-pound adult, male black bear living under his Altadena, California, home after the Eaton Fire blazed through the city. The

By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Happy Monday, readers! If caffeine is your daily vice, you may be glad that all Starbucks are offering free coffee today to members of their loyalty program. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. 1. Super Bowl The Philadelphia

By Artemis Moshtaghian and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — The counties of San Francisco and Santa Clara in California in addition to King County, Washington, and the cities of Portland, Oregon, and New Haven, Connecticut, have sued the Trump administration alleging it has threatened and unlawfully targeted sanctuary jurisdictions, according to a lawsuit filed in

By Andrew Torgan and Meghan Pryce, CNN (CNN) — It’s Super Bowl Sunday — the most important day of the year for NFL fans and big-name brands. Advertisers have shelled out upwards of $8 million for a 30-second spot during the game in the hopes of making an impression on an estimated 120 million viewers.

By Alaa Elassar and Sharif Paget, CNN (CNN) — Andre Howard Jr. had just picked up his three children from school and taken them to Dunkin’ Donuts for an evening snack, a cherished weekly family ritual that abruptly turned into a terrifying, narrow escape from tragedy. Their wholesome tradition was violently disrupted when a medevac

By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Local residents confronted and drove off neo-Nazi demonstrators waving large swastika-emblazoned flags along a highway overpass on Friday between Lincoln Heights and Evendale, Ohio, home to a historically Black community that has endured a long history of racism. White nationalist groups in Ohio have recently grown increasingly brazen in

By Yash Roy, CNN (CNN) — Known as the neighborhood grandma, 88-year-old Edna Schubert often spent her days helping children with their math homework or watching them ride their bikes on her driveway. She lived alone in her North Bay Shore one-story house and while she had no children of her own, she treated the

By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — The federal hiring freeze implemented by President Donald Trump has affected the hiring of a crucial group of federal workers: firefighters. The freeze comes at a critical time, when fire departments across the country would typically onboard thousands of seasonal federal firefighters in preparation for wildfires in the spring

CNN By Karina Tsui and Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — All 10 people killed when a regional airline flight crashed off the coast of western Alaska have been recovered and identified, authorities said Saturday. “All ten individuals aboard the Bering Air plane have been officially brought home,” the Nome Volunteer Fire Department said in a

By Hanna Park and Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — All major pieces of the American Airlines plane and Black Hawk helicopter that collided last week in Washington, DC, have been recovered, the National Transportation Safety Board announced Saturday. The wreckage from the two aircraft, which crashed January 29 over the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Diversity, equity and inclusion programs were created to help communities that have historically faced obstacles to equal opportunities in the workplace or felt a lack of belonging in majority-White corporate settings. These programs expanded on the Civil Rights Act, signed in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, outlawing

By Karina Tsui and Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — The bodies of all 10 people who were killed when a regional airline flight crashed off the coast of western Alaska have been recovered and identified, authorities said Saturday. “All ten individuals aboard the Bering Air plane have been officially brought home,” the Nome Volunteer Fire

By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — A 6-year-old first grader in New York City has been asking to visit the school nurse almost every day for the last month, hoping to be sent home. Her teacher eventually figured out why. “She is afraid if she waits to the end of the day, she’s not going

CNN By Emma Tucker, Rebekah Riess, Jessie Yeung and Isaac Yee, CNN (CNN) — The regional airline flight that disappeared in Alaska Thursday has been found and all 10 people who were aboard are dead, the US Coast Guard said Friday. The small commuter aircraft was found Friday about 34 miles southeast of Nome, according

By Andy Rose and Eric Zerkel, CNN (CNN) — The year’s first deadly US tornado struck after dark Thursday, killing two people in a small East Tennessee community as the first of five back-to-back, jet stream-driven winter storms pummeled the eastern United States. Severe weather blasted through Morgan County, killing a mother and daughter in

By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its January jobs report today, which showed fewer job gains than expected at the start of the year. The relatively steady labor market now appears to be approaching some obstacles in the road, with a pullback in hiring, a high interest rate environment

By Emma Tucker, Rebekah Riess, Jessie Yeung and Isaac Yee, CNN (CNN) — A regional airline flight that disappeared in Alaska Thursday has been found and all 10 people who were aboard are dead, the US Coast Guard said Friday. The small commuter aircraft was found Friday about 34 miles southeast of Nome, the flight’s

By Daniel Wine, CNN Editor’s Note: CNN’s 5 Things newsletter is your one-stop shop for the latest headlines and fascinating stories to start and end your busy day. Sign up here. 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Ocean currents. Chemical reactions. Blood flow. Storm clouds. These are all examples of turbulence, and scientists believe they’ve made

By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Three former athletes at the University of Pennsylvania women’s swimming program sued the school, the Ivy League Council of Presidents and athletics organizations Tuesday, claiming they violated federal law to allow transgender athlete Lia Thomas to compete against them. The lawsuit comes amid a flurry of efforts attempting to

By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — California utility company Southern California Edison on Thursday said its equipment “may be associated with” the ignition of the Hurst Fire, which burned alongside the Eaton and Palisades fires during January’s Los Angeles firestorms. The admission came amid a required filing with the state’s utility regulators. Last month, the

By Rebekah Riess and Danny Freeman, CNN (CNN) — A father who was inside his car when a medevac jet crashed in a Philadelphia neighborhood last week was among seven killed in the incident, a medical examiner’s office says, meaning those seven have now been publicly identified. And his young son who was also in

By Hanna Park, Lauren Mascarenhas and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — The man accused of killing two people in a mass shooting at an Ohio warehouse Tuesday night said in court Thursday he did not resist arrest and was ordered held on a $20 million bond. Bruce Reginald Foster III, 28, was arrested at a

By Rebekah Riess and Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has called for criminal charges to be filed and arrests to be made after an autopsy report determined Black inmate Robert Brooks’ fatal beating at the hands of correctional officers in December to be a homicide. Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old man