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By Zoe Sottile, CNN For the third year in a row, a Montana city is embracing the holiday spirit by allowing defendants to pay off some of their court fines with donations to the local food bank. Butte, Montana, launched the initiative in 2019, according to City Court Judge Jerome McCarthy. The project has brought

By Tavleen Tarrant, CNN New York became the tenth state to ban the sale of cosmetics tested on animals after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a measure into law Thursday evening. The law, known as the New York Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act, prohibits the sale and manufacturing of cosmetics that have been tested on animals. It is

By Tavleen Tarrant, CNN The State of New York has determined that New York City’s ban on foie gras, stuffed goose or duck liver, violates state law, according to documents filed in New York City Superior Court. The state Department of Agriculture and Markets informed city officials Wednesday that the ban “unreasonably restricts” the operations

By Hannah Sarisohn, Colin Jeffrey, CNN An individual hacked into a North Carolina high school’s intercom system Thursday and allegedly made antisemitic remarks over the loudspeaker, according to CNN affiliate WTVD. Jackie Jordan, principal at Enloe Magnet High School in Raleigh, issued an apology letter to parents following the incident, according to the letter obtained

By Paradise Afshar and Christina Maxouris, CNN El Paso, Texas, Mayor Oscar Leeser declared a state of emergency on Saturday evening following a surge of migrants who have recently arrived in the community and he says are living in unsafe conditions. The mayor, who had previously declined to issue a state of emergency, said “hundreds”

By Lauren Koenig and Zoe Sottile, CNN Police responded to reports of antisemitic graffiti at a Maryland high school on Saturday, school officials and police say. Graffiti reading “Jews Not Welcome” was discovered spray-painted on a sign outside Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside Washington, DC, according to the school’s principal. This

By Zenebou Sylla, Celina Tebor and Christina Maxouris, CNN New York is hoping to receive $3 billion from the federal government through 2026 to handle the influx of migrants that city leaders have been grappling with for months, according to a new government report. The city Comptroller’s Annual State of the City’s Economy and Finances

By Paradise Afshar and Zoe Sottile, CNN P-22, a mountain lion who has spent years in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park, has been euthanized after likely suffering injuries in a “vehicle strike,” officials say. The big cat made made headlines last month after he attacked and killed a resident’s leashed chihuahua. He was captured by authorities

By Zoe Sottile, CNN An Arizona man driving in the high-occupancy vehicle lane was ticketed after a police officer realized his passenger wasn’t a person at all. It was an inflatable Grinch. The man was spotted by an Arizona state trooper last week, according to a Tuesday tweet from the Arizona Department of Public Safety.

By Nick Valencia and Ray Sanchez, CNN For more than three years, Jimmy Hill has kept a weekly vigil outside the offices of the Fulton County district attorney in Atlanta, distributing fliers about his son’s death at the hands of police and demanding justice. This week, former Atlanta police officer Sung Kim was indicted on

By Nick Valencia and Ray Sanchez, CNN For more than three years, Jimmy Hill has kept a weekly vigil outside the offices of the Fulton County district attorney in Atlanta, distributing fliers about his son’s death at the hands of police and demanding justice. This week, former Atlanta police officer Sung Kim was indicted on

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN American college student Kenny DeLand Jr. has been reunited with his mother in Lyon, France, and is on his way back to the US, according to a French diplomatic official. DeLand Jr., who was reported missing more than two weeks ago in France, told relatives on Friday that he was safe

By Mary Kay Mallonee and Jason Hanna, CNN The number of firearms that TSA officers intercepted at airport security checkpoints in 2022 is the highest on record for a single year — and the vast majority of the weapons were loaded, the US Transportation Security Administration said Friday. TSA officers caught 6,301 firearms at checkpoints

By Tina Burnside and Andy Rose, CNN Five people were in critical condition after a “domestic situation” in Memphis Friday night ended in a shooting, police say. Officers responding to a report of a shooting in a north Memphis neighborhood shortly before 8 p.m. discovered two men and three women had been shot, according to

By Rebekah Riess, CNN Two children and a young adult died in a home fire early Saturday morning in Pittsburgh, authorities say. A woman was taken to the hospital and is reported in serious condition, the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire said. Another woman and eight children were safely evacuated. A firefighter was taken to the

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Kyra Kyles recalls the time early in her career when an abrupt staffing change at her communications job caused managers to look to her to fill a leadership role. Kyles said she knew she could handle the promotion. In fact, Kyles had already been performing some of the job responsibilities