By Cheri Mossburg and Taylor Romine, CNN The widower of a Black woman who died shortly after giving birth to the couple’s second son is taking aim at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and its parent health system for a second time by filing a civil rights lawsuit alleging she received inferior care because of the color
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By Amanda Watts, CNN The body of a 14-year-old girl was found in the Mississippi River, the second body recovered after three children went missing in the water last month, according to the New Orleans mayor. “Last night’s tragic news on the recovery of the body of 14-year-old Brandy Wilson from the Mississippi River breaks
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By Alaa Elassar and Rebekah Riess, CNN The Colorado man whose trial over the disappearance and death of his wife was dismissed has spoken out in his first public interview since the charges were dropped. Barry Morphew, whose wife, Suzanne Morphew, was last seen cycling on Mother’s Day in 2020, told ABC’s Good Morning America
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By Justin Gamble, CNN The town of Mason, Tennessee, and the NAACP reached an agreement this week with the Tennessee Comptroller’s Office to settle a lawsuit filed after the state attempted to gain financial control of the majority-Black town. Mason, which is just northeast of Memphis, was thrown into the national spotlight in March after
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By Amanda Watts, CNN Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed a bill Thursday criminalizing abortion-inducing drugs that are provided via mail. The measure, known as HB2416, establishes criminal penalties for offenders, but would not apply to the patient who was provided the abortion drugs. The legislation sets strict parameters around abortion-inducing drugs. The drugs “may be
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By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN The last few Independence Days have been tough for Austin Williams. It’s not only that his mother, Connie Ridgeway, loved America and collected anything bearing its flag, but July 4 was her birthday. When the family was sorting through her Rogersville, Alabama, home after her fatal 2015 stabbing, “half the
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By CNN Staff The Nashville Public Library (NPL) is hoping to give out 5,000 free “banned books” library cards to local readers by the end of the month as Tennessee is among the states embroiled in the ongoing censorship debate across the nation. The “Freedom to Read” campaign, which launched last week, is a direct
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By Toyin Owoseje, CNN A Great Dane has been crowned the world’s tallest living dog by Guinness World Records. Two-year old Zeus from Bedford, Texas stands at a whopping 1.046 meters (3 feet, 5.18 inches), making him the tallest dog in the world. He officially received the paw-some plaudit on March 22, after his height
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Mother Nature is cooking up a historic heat wave for Mother’s Day weekend. Hot temperatures will bake much of Texas, the Plains and the Midwest tomorrow and into early next week — with some areas feeling like 110 degrees due to the humidity. Here’s what you need to know to Get
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Mother Nature is cooking up a historic heat wave for Mother’s Day weekend. Hot temperatures will bake much of Texas, the Plains and the Midwest tomorrow and into early next week — with some areas feeling like 110 degrees due to the humidity. Here’s what you need to know to Get
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Mother Nature is cooking up a historic heat wave for Mother’s Day weekend. Hot temperatures will bake much of Texas, the Plains and the Midwest tomorrow and into early next week — with some areas feeling like 110 degrees due to the humidity. Here’s what you need to know to Get
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Mother Nature is cooking up a historic heat wave for Mother’s Day weekend. Hot temperatures will bake much of Texas, the Plains and the Midwest tomorrow and into early next week — with some areas feeling like 110 degrees due to the humidity. Here’s what you need to know to Get
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Mother Nature is cooking up a historic heat wave for Mother’s Day weekend. Hot temperatures will bake much of Texas, the Plains and the Midwest tomorrow and into early next week — with some areas feeling like 110 degrees due to the humidity. Here’s what you need to know to Get
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By Paradise Afshar, CNN In the weeks following the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, Greg McMichael, one of the men later convicted in Arbery’s death, participated in 16 phone calls with the former Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson, according to court documents filed in the Superior Court of Glynn County on Wednesday. Arbery,
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By Elizabeth Wolfe, Ryan Young, Jaide Timm-Garcia, Paradise Afshar and Christina Maxouris, CNN The escape vehicle used by Vicky White and Casey White, the missing former Alabama corrections officer and inmate, was found in Tennessee — and authorities are trying to determine whether the pair may now have another car. The orange 2007 Ford Edge
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By Omar Jimenez, CNN Katie Wright, the mother of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, is calling for the firing of a Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer who she says tried to arrest her for filming a traffic stop. Daunte Wright was shot and killed by Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter in April 2021 during a traffic
Continue Reading By Omar Jimenez, CNN Katie Wright, the mother of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, is calling for the firing of a Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer who she says tried to arrest her for filming a traffic stop. Daunte Wright was shot and killed by Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter in April 2021 during a traffic
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By Meg Dunn, CNN Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, attacks on Asian Americans have surged across the country. In the first half of 2021, New York City alone saw a 395% increase over the previous year in reported anti-Asian hate crimes. Michelle Tran, a Chinese and Vietnamese American medical student living in the
Continue Reading By Meg Dunn, CNN Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, attacks on Asian Americans have surged across the country. In the first half of 2021, New York City alone saw a 395% increase over the previous year in reported anti-Asian hate crimes. Michelle Tran, a Chinese and Vietnamese American medical student living in the
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By Nicole Chavez, CNN Shawna Toya was eager to carry on her ancestor’s legacy of pottery making in New Mexico when her mother’s cellphone rang about 3:45 a.m. and the “worst call” came in last year. “Oh no, it can’t be … I just talked to her. You have the wrong person,” Geraldine Toya recalls
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