Black man misidentified by police and jailed for 6 days wins $90,000 settlement
By Camila Moreno-Lizarazo, CNN A Black man who spent six days in jail after police misidentified him for a 49-year-old White man with an outstanding…
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Sacha Baron Cohen wins defamation appeal brought by Roy Moore
By Samantha Beech and Kara Scannell, CNN Actor Sacha Baron Cohen has defeated an appeal brought by former Alabama judge Roy Moore, who claimed the…
Continue Reading The woman who planned her synagogue’s funerals was killed in the Highland Park massacre. Now a friend embarks on an unimaginable task
By Holly Yan, CNN Anytime there was a major life event at her synagogue, Jacki Sundheim was on top of it. The 63-year-old meticulously planned…
Continue Reading Expert explains how to protect yourself against the recent Covid surges
By Katia Hetter, CNN The much-awaited summer lull in coronavirus cases doesn’t appear to be happening as Covid-19 infections continue to…
Continue Reading 5 things to know for July 8: Shinzo Abe, Parade shooting, Brittney Griner, Covid, Heat
By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Summer travel is heating up, but understaffed airlines are struggling to avoid melting down. American Airlines this week…
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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died after being shot while giving a campaign speech on a street in central…
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Dangerous heat continues for the southern US, as storms develop for parts of the Northern Rockies and Ohio Valley. CNN meteorologist Karen Maginnis…
Continue Reading California to make its own low-cost insulin, governor says
By Aya Elamroussi, CNN California will begin making its own low-cost insulin in an effort to make it more financially accessible amid soaring prices…
Continue Reading Fire threatens Yosemite’s Mariposa Grove, home to more than 500 giant sequoia trees
By Taylor Romine A wildfire is threatening a famed giant sequoia tree grove in California’s Yosemite National Park, officials said Thursday.…
Continue Reading Highland Park shooter’s rooftop position made it hard for police to find him quickly as parade turned into chaos, chief says
By Aya Elamroussi, Josh Campbell and Yon Pomrenze, CNN The Fourth of July parade shooter’s location — concealed on a rooftop along…
Continue Reading Woman accused of killing elite cyclist used passport that belonged to someone ‘closely associated’ with her to flee to Costa Rica, authorities say
By Raja Razek, CNN The woman who fled to Costa Rica after allegedly killing an elite cyclist in Texas used several aliases and a passport that…
Continue Reading Officer who fatally shot Tamir Rice sworn in and resigned from new law enforcement position in the same week, official says
By Liam Reilly, CNN Timothy Loehmann, the former Cleveland, Ohio, police officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014, resigned from his…
Continue Reading Connecticut officials announce reforms after Randy Cox was partially paralyzed in a police van
By Samantha Beech and Zenebou Sylla, CNN After Randy Cox suffered an injury in the back of a New Haven police van that left him partially paralyzed,…
Continue Reading The 8-year-old boy paralyzed from waist down after Highland Park parade shooting woke up and asked to see his twin and dog
By Joe Sutton and Christina Maxouris, CNN An 8-year-old boy who was attending the Highland Park Fourth of July parade with his parents and twin…
Continue Reading Officers were justified in the fatal shooting of Charleena Lyles, a pregnant mother of 4, jury finds
By Paradise Afshar and Alaa Elassar, CNN Seattle police officers were justified in the fatal shooting of Charleena Lyles, a pregnant mother of four…
Continue Reading Derek Chauvin sentenced to 21 years in federal prison for depriving George Floyd of his civil rights
By Paul Vercammen and Steve Almasy, CNN Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin will serve 245 months in federal prison for violating George…
Continue Reading Mother drowns her 3 children in a murder-suicide following husband’s suicide, sheriff’s office says
By Rebekah Riess, CNN A mother and her three children whose bodies were found in a Minnesota lake over the weekend died in a murder-suicide,…
Continue Reading Mortgage rates see largest decline since 2008
By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Mortgage rates dropped for the second week in a row, notching the largest decline since December, 2008. The 30-year…
Continue Reading New York Post: Father of Highland Park gunman wants his son to serve a ‘long’ sentence
By Travis Caldwell, Joe Sutton and Rebekah Riess, CNN Days after a gunman killed seven and wounded dozens more in a rampage at a Fourth of July…
Continue Reading New York Post: Father of Highland Park gunman wants his son to serve a ‘long’ sentence
Illinois state Representative Bob Morgan (D) was at the July 4th parade in Highland Park, Illinois, with his kids when a mass shooting killed seven…
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Robert E. Crimo III, the gunman detained in the deadly shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Illinois will be held without bond, a judge in…
Continue Reading Authorities are searching for whoever set off an explosion at a mysterious Georgia monument
CNN’s Nick Valencia reports on the mysterious Georgia monument partially destroyed by an explosive device detonated near the attraction as…
Continue Reading Authorities are searching for whoever set off an explosion at a mysterious Georgia monument
By Devon M. Sayers and Jamiel Lynch, CNN A mysterious Georgia monument was damaged Wednesday when an explosive device was detonated near the…
Continue Reading A former funeral home operator pleads guilty to stealing human remains and selling them, prosecutors say
By Jarrod Wardwell, CNN A former Colorado funeral home operator has pleaded guilty to stealing and then selling hundreds of human bodies or body…
Continue Reading Officer injured in Philadelphia July Fourth shooting says he found a bullet in his hat
Philadelphia police officer Sergio Diggs was wounded at a Fourth of July celebration when a gunman opened fire on the crowd. He tells CNN’s Brianna…
Continue Reading Officer injured in Philadelphia July Fourth shooting says he found a bullet in his hat
By Kiely Westhoff and Aya Elamroussi, CNN One of the two police officers injured in a shooting during a July Fourth celebration in Philadelphia…
Continue Reading Possible tornado causes significant damage in Ohio town, displacing several hundred people, officials say
By Amir Vera, Amy Simonson and Taylor Ward, CNN An unconfirmed tornado in Ohio caused significant structural damage to the Goshen Township Police and…
Continue Reading Uvalde teacher feels forgotten by the officers sent to rescue him and his students
Teacher Arnie Reyes was the only one alive in Classroom 111 after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas. He describes to CNN’s Shimon…
Continue Reading Uvalde teacher feels forgotten by the officers sent to rescue him and his students
By Shimon Prokupecz and Matthew J. Friedman, CNN As he lay in his own blood, with dead and dying students around him, Arnie Reyes knew help was just…
Continue Reading An officer sought permission to shoot the Uvalde gunman before he entered school but didn’t hear back in time, report says
By Rosa Flores, Rosalina Nieves and Christina Maxouris, CNN An Uvalde police officer armed with a rifle spotted the gunman outside Robb Elementary…
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