Start your week smart: Ukraine, Pakistan, France, Puerto Rico, Dwayne Haskins
By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Soaring inflation. The war in Ukraine. Yet another rise in Covid cases. With so much going on this year it’s hard to…
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4 people shot near Nationals Park, police say
By Keith Allen, Christian Sierra and Kelly Murray, CNN Four people, including two teens, were shot near Nationals Park in Washington, DC, on Saturday…
Continue Reading $3.2 million in alleged cocaine seized at Texas border
By Kelly Murray, CNN A tractor trailer coming into the US from Mexico was caught Friday carrying 427 pounds of alleged cocaine, the US Customs and…
Continue Reading 6 people are injured after a shooting in an Illinois residential neighborhood
By Amanda Watts, CNN An overnight shooting in a residential part of Elgin, Illinois, has left six people injured, police said. The shooting happened…
Continue Reading 17-year-old arrested in South Bronx shooting that left one teen dead, two others injured
By Kiely Westhoff A 17-year-old boy has been arrested for a shooting in the Bronx Friday that killed a 16-year-old girl and wounded two other…
Continue Reading This Texas teacher is helping make her students’ menstrual cycles a little easier
By Sara Smart, CNN This Texas teacher’s goal is to provide everything she can for her students — and that includes pads and tampons. As…
Continue Reading 6 people were shot — including 1 fatally — after an apparent fight at a birthday party in Indianapolis, police say
By Michelle Watson, CNN An apparent fight at a birthday party in Indianapolis devolved into a shooting, leaving one person dead and five others…
Continue Reading Man arrested in connection with Cedar Rapids nightclub shooting that left 2 dead and 10 injured, police say
By Amanda Watts, Michelle Watson, Hannah Sarisohn, Amy Simonson and Amir Vera, CNN Cedar Rapids, Iowa, police have arrested a suspect in connection…
Continue Reading This man won the lottery using his little brother’s license plate numbers
By Zoe Sottile, CNN A lucky Maryland man snagged a $25,000 lottery prize after playing the numbers on his younger brother’s license plate. The…
Continue Reading School of Black Utah student who died by suicide allowed bullying ‘on any ground’ to go unchecked, report finds
By Nicole Chavez, CNN When Isabella “Izzy” Tichenor died by suicide in November, her mother alleged that the 10-year-old Black and…
Continue Reading Power has been restored to much of Puerto Rico following an island-wide outage
By Melissa Alonso and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Power has been restored to 99.7% of LUMA Energy customers in Puerto Rico, the utility said Sunday, after…
Continue Reading Over 100 NYC streets will be car-free for Earth Day
By Zoe Sottile, CNN More than 100 streets in New York City’s five boroughs will go car-free to celebrate Earth Day. For the fifth year in a…
Continue Reading Northern California firefighters extinguish four-alarm blaze near port
By Paradise Afshar and Caroline Kucera, CNN A four-alarm fire that ignited Saturday near a port in Benicia, about 40 miles northeast of San…
Continue Reading Police arrest man after he allegedly buried his mother and sister in the backyard and continued to cash Social Security checks
By Amy Simonson and Alaa Elassar, CNN A man has been arrested and charged in connection with the burial of both his mother and sister inside plastic…
Continue Reading A ‘rude person’ bumped her into a lottery machine and out came a $10 million ticket
Yenny Sanchez, CNN A California woman became an instant millionaire thanks to “some rude person.” LaQuedra Edwards put $40 into a…
Continue Reading Man arrested after allegedly stealing car in Atlanta, driving off with 9-year-old boy still inside, police say
By Michelle Watson and Melissa Alonso, CNN A man allegedly carjacked a woman’s car in Atlanta with her 9-year-old son still inside on Monday…
Continue Reading Frustrated and anxious, climate advocates are turning to legal action. The latest petitioners: College students
By Pooja Salhotra, CNN College campuses have for years been at the center of climate change activism. But now, frustrated and anxious by what they…
Continue Reading Zoos are moving their birds indoors to protect them against a deadly strain of the avian flu
By Abby Bustin and Claudia Dominguez, CNN Zoos across the country are moving their birds indoors to protect them from the spread of a contagious and…
Continue Reading Convicted hit man’s escape evokes mob’s ‘ruthless’ heyday in one American city
By Ray Sanchez, CNN Dominic Taddeo was in his early 20s when a US Justice Department lawyer appeared before a Senate subcommittee with a dire warning…
Continue Reading Convicted hit man’s escape evokes mob’s ‘ruthless’ heyday in one American city
Authorities are searching for escaped La Cosa Nostra hitman Dominic Taddeo, who disappeared from federal custody in Florida with months left on his…
Continue Reading 1 killed and 4 others injured in shooting outside Houston-area sports bar
By Jason Hanna, CNN Gunshots from two groups of people fighting outside a Houston-area sports bar early Saturday left one man dead and four other…
Continue Reading Rescuers discover missing nonverbal teen after hearing him clink rocks
By Zoe Sottile, CNN A missing nonverbal California teenager was discovered after a rescuer heard him clinking rocks. The teen, who is developmentally…
Continue Reading Car crash near Austin food truck leave 11 people injured, officials say
By Michelle Watson, CNN Eleven people were injured after car crash pushed a vehicle into a group standing near a food truck in Austin, Texas, on…
Continue Reading A message in a bottle started its journey in Georgia. After two years and more than 4,000 miles it was found off the coast of France
By Sara Smart, CNN What started out as an idea on a whim, turned into friendship across the Atlantic Ocean. In January 2020, Victoria Kay and her…
Continue Reading Georgia coroner discovers bodies of his parents and son at scene of apparent robbery, officials say
By Amanda Musa and Rebekah Riess and Ray Sanchez, CNN A county coroner in Georgia discovered the bodies of his parents and his son, who were killed…
Continue Reading North Carolina grand jury indicts nurse but not corrections officers in death of jailed Black man
By Hannah Sarisohn and Claire Colbert, CNN A North Carolina grand jury indicted a former detention center nurse this week on a charge of involuntary…
Continue Reading Louisiana State Police senior officer on leave over phone data in Ronald Greene’s death
By Nick Valencia, Jade Gordon and Alta Spells, CNN The second in command in the Louisiana State Police (LSP), who was accused of erasing data from…
Continue Reading Maryland joins 10 states and DC becoming latest to place restrictions on ghost guns
By Kiely Westhoff and Emma Tucker, CNN Maryland became the latest state on Friday to severely restrict the sale of so-called “ghost…
Continue Reading No bail for Nevada man accused of fatally shooting Naomi Irion
By Paradise Afshar and Claudia Dominguez, CNN The Nevada man accused of fatally shooting an 18-year-old woman who disappeared from a Walmart parking…
Continue Reading Three South Bronx high school students shot, one dead after shooting near school
By Laura Studley, CNN One teenager was killed and two others were injured as they walked home from school Friday after gunshots were fired during a…
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