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By Nicole Chavez, CNN Huey German-Wilson has spent six years trying to get rid of piles of tires, mattresses, and other debris that have marred the streets of her Houston neighborhood. “It steals our dignity,” said German-Wilson, 58, an activist living in Houston’s Trinity / Houston Gardens neighborhood. “I’ve seen the (neighborhood’s) dignity slowly fade

By Sonia Moghe and Nouran Salahieh, CNN New York’s highest court has agreed to hear disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s appeal challenging his 2020 conviction on sex crime charges, according to a copy of the court filing provided by Weinstein’s team. Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore’s ruling will allow Weinstein’s lawyers to argue their case

By Rosa Flores and Rosalina Nieves, CNN On the banks of the Rio Grande, Maverick County Sheriff Tom Schmerber pointed at the spot where just a day earlier a 3-year-old boy had drowned. “Medical attention (was) provided,” Schmerber said. “He died anyway.” The boy’s white t-shirt had a murky tinge in a post-mortem photo. Schmerber

By Nick Watt, CNN On an average night in Los Angeles County, more than 60,000 people are homeless. At the same time, there are more than 20,000 vacant hotel rooms. In 2024, residents will get to vote: Should those rooms be offered to the unhoused? “It’s insane. It isn’t going to solve the problem,” says

By Rebekah Riess, CNN An Oklahoma teacher says she has resigned from her position as an English teacher with Norman Public Schools following controversy over the display of, and student access to, more than 500 books in her classroom library. Summer Boismier, who was an English teacher at Norman High School, told CNN that before

By Eric Bradner and Chris Boyette, CNN The Columbus, Ohio, teachers’ union and the Columbus Board of Education have reached a “conceptual agreement,” ending a strike and allowing students to return to classrooms next week, the school district announced early Thursday morning. The Columbus Education Association confirmed the agreement on Twitter, saying the “comprehensive conceptual

By Jason Kravarik, Natasha Chen, Eric Levenson and Amir Vera, CNN A federal jury awarded $31 million in damages to Kobe Bryant’s widow and her co-plaintiff on Thursday after finding the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s and Fire departments liable for infringing on their constitutional rights for taking and sharing gruesome photos of the January 2020

By Jeanne Bonner, CNN Dog attacks like the one that took the life of a mail carrier in Florida are a common hazard of the job, with thousands of postal workers attacked every year, according to the United States Postal Service. A 61-year-old postal carrier died after being attacked by five dogs in rural northern

By Jason Hanna, Amanda Watts and Amanda Jackson, CNN Sometime during her 66-day hospital stay, Uvalde school shooting survivor Mayah Zamora learned she had lived just blocks from the gunman — and she found it too hard to return home when she was released, a non-profit organization says. So donors are building a new house

Ella Nilsen, CNN California air regulators are expected Thursday to issue stringent rules to ban the sale of new gasoline cars by 2035 and set interim targets to phase the cars out. The California Air Resources Board will vote on the measure Thursday afternoon, board member Daniel Sperling told CNN. Sperling added he was “99.9%”

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The climate crisis rarely evokes feelings of joy, but a discovery this week had some scientists excited about what a drought has revealed. Dinosaur tracks from around 113 million years ago were uncovered in a riverbed in Texas due to severe drought conditions — and more prehistoric findings are likely as

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN A prized manuscript in the University of Michigan library that was believed to have been written by the famed Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei is a forgery, the university said. The 1-page document known as the “Galileo manuscript” can’t be traced to any earlier than 1930 and was likely written by the

By Paradise Afshar and Nouran Salahieh, CNN The ACLU and multiple news organizations filed a lawsuit over an Arizona law that made it a crime to video record within eight feet of law enforcement activity after a warning is given from an officer. The law, which was signed by Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey in