By Jason Hanna and Amanda Watts, CNN The gunman who killed two doctors and two others at an Oklahoma medical building Wednesday did so after he blamed one of the physicians for causing him pain from a recent back surgery, a police chief said Thursday. The shooter, Michael Louis, who police said killed himself after
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine, CNN A 16-year-old boy was arrested this week after police learned he was allegedly recruiting students to carry out a mass shooting at a high school in Berkeley, California, authorities said Wednesday. Police received a tip on May 21 of the teen’s alleged plot targeting Berkeley High School, which also included a
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Cramped seats. Shrinking legroom. Minimal bag space. That’s the norm for most airline passengers. So, in an effort to make flying more comfortable, some interior designers are re-imagining the outdated standard of inflight seating by posing a simple question: what if single-aisle airplanes were just, well, bigger? Here’s what you need
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose and Christina Maxouris, CNN At least four people were killed Wednesday in a shooting on a hospital campus in Tulsa, Oklahoma, police said in a news conference Wednesday evening. The gunman is also dead, police said. Authorities believe the shooter’s gunshot wound was self-inflicted, Tulsa Police Department Deputy Chief Eric Dalgleish said
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Chavez and Laura Studley, CNN A panel in California considering reparations for Black Americans released its first report Wednesday detailing the “innumerable” harms of slavery in the state that “have snowballed over generations.” In a 500-page interim report, the California Reparations Task Force detailed California’s involvement in slavery and how it continues to
Continue ReadingBy Tina Burnside and Kate Conerly, CNN A man searching a Florida lake for Frisbees may have died as a result of a possible alligator attack, according to a news release from Largo Police Department. The victim, who authorities have identified as 47-year-old Sean McGuinness, was discovered along the shoreline of Taylor Lake in Largo,
Continue ReadingBy Tina Burnside and Melissa Alonso, CNN Severe weather is being blamed for a parasailing accident that claimed the life of an Illinois woman and injured two children in the Florida Keys on Memorial Day, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). The incident occurred on Monday near Pigeon Key in Monroe
Continue ReadingBy Amir Vera and Amanda Watts, CNN Baltimore has sued the nation’s largest maker of so-called “ghost guns” that are easy to assemble, untraceable and increasingly used in violent crime across the country. The city accuses Polymer80 of causing a “public health crisis,” according to a news release Wednesday. Officials also said the company “intentionally
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Educators across the country are scrutinizing security plans to see what more they can do to protect students after the killing of 21 people — including 19 children — in one of the deadliest school shootings in American history. It’s an exercise that experts say may do little to prevent another
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez and Sharif Paget, CNN Memorial Day boaters captured the scene on video as a massive rockfall crashed into the waters of Lake Powell. The dramatic rockslide happened on the Utah side of the lake — the second largest reservoir in the country — where water levels have continued to plunge due to
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Chen and Dakin Andone, CNN Since 22-year-old soccer player Katie Meyer died by suicide in her Stanford University dorm room on March 1, her parents have experienced grief in tidal waves. Steve Meyer said he and his wife, Gina, cry every day, and they don’t know when the tears will come. It could
Continue ReadingBy Leah Asmelash, CNN The stereotype that Black people don’t swim is one oft repeated, but for Nathan Fluellen, it wasn’t one that was true. Fluellen grew up in a Black middle class neighborhood in Chicago, where everyone knew how to swim, he told CNN. What he never saw, though, was Black people surfing. “I
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar and Melissa Alonso, CNN The families of two Utah teenagers have filed a lawsuit challenging a state law that bans transgender women and girls from participating in school sports. The suit asks the court to declare the ban unconstitutional and block its enforcement. It was filed Tuesday in the Third Judicial District
Continue ReadingBy Omar Jimenez, Meridith Edwards, Travis Caldwell and Christina Maxouris, CNN No students or staff will be returning to Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, the site of a tragic massacre last month, Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Superintendent Hal Harrell reaffirmed Friday. “We’re not going back to that campus,” Harrell said during a special meeting
Continue ReadingBy Aaron Cooper, Shimon Prokupecz and Eric Levenson, CNN Pedro “Pete” Arredondo, the embattled Uvalde school police chief who led the flawed law enforcement response to last week’s school shooting and has remained out of the public eye since, spoke exclusively to CNN on Wednesday and declined to answer substantive questions about the massacre. According
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar, CNN A 9-year-old girl is recovering at a hospital in Washington state after being attacked by a cougar while playing hide-and-seek outdoors with her friends, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. Lily Kryzhanivskyy was attacked Saturday as she jumped out to surprise her friends, the department said in a
Continue ReadingBy Devon M. Sayers, CNN One of America’s most prolific slave trading ports is to open as a museum after more than two decades of planning in Charleston, South Carolina. The International African American Museum will open the weekend of January 21, 2023, the museum announced Wednesday. The 150,000-square-foot facility will be at the former
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN On this day 42 years ago, CNN made its debut as the first 24-hour news channel. So much has changed over four decades, but one thing remains largely as it was on June 1, 1980 — those three, unmistakable red and white letters. If you’d like to experience a wave of
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN On this day 42 years ago, CNN made its debut as the first 24-hour news channel. So much has changed over four decades, but one thing remains largely as it was on June 1, 1980 — those three, unmistakable red and white letters. If you’d like to experience a wave of
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar and Kaylene Chassie, CNN An Ohio woman was gored by a bison after she got within 10 feet of the animal in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, officials said. The 25-year-old woman, whose name has not been released, suffered puncture wound and other injuries Monday after she approached a bison near a
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