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By Virginia Langmaid, CNN The chief of the embattled Aurora, Colorado, police department — who took over during the fallout over death of Elijah McClain — was fired Wednesday amid concerns that the city’s manager said were about management and leadership. “There are two main themes that continue to rise up as top of concerns:

By Nicole Chavez, CNN More than a 1,000 books have been banned in 86 school districts in 26 states across the United States, a new PEN America analysis shows. PEN America, a literary and free expression advocacy organization, released a detailed analysis on Thursday of challenges to and bans on school library books and class

By Rachel Ramirez A potent planet-warming gas set a record for the second year in a row, scientists reported Thursday, just as the UN’s panel on climate change warned the world is running out of time to rein in fossil fuel emissions. Methane — the second largest contributor to the human-caused climate crisis after carbon

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Despite qualifying, runners living in Russia or Belarus are banned from participating in this year’s Boston Marathon and Boston Athletic Association 5K, according to organizers. The ban affects 63 athletes who signed up for either one or both races, BAA spokesperson Kendra Butters told CNN. The 126th Boston Marathon is scheduled

By Faith Karimi, CNN Nancy Crampton-Brophy wrote steamy romance novels with muscular, often shirtless, men on their covers and titles like “The Wrong Husband.” Some carried a tagline that said, “wrong never felt so right.” But for Crampton-Brophy, life with her husband of almost two decades appeared anything but wrong. She and Daniel Brophy lived

By Jenn Selva, CNN A Pennsylvania police officer and two other people were shot in Northeast Philadelphia on Wednesday evening before the suspect fatally shot himself, according to authorities. The officer, who serves with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), is in critical but stable condition, the Philadelphia Police Department said in a statement. Two

By Rob Frehse, CNN The father who lived in his daughter’s college dorm room has been convicted of sex trafficking, forced labor, tax evasion and money laundering after less than a day of jury deliberations, the US Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York announced Wednesday. “Twelve years ago, Larry Ray moved into

By Paradise Afshar and Claudia Dominguez, CNN A Nevada man was charged with murder Tuesday in the death of an 18-year-old woman whose body was found last week after she disappeared in mid-March, court documents show. Naomi Irion was last seen March 12 around 5 a.m. in a Walmart parking lot in the Lyon County

By Tiffany Anthony, CNN George Mason University unveiled a new memorial this week honoring the people enslaved by the university’s namesake, as the Virginia school attempts to reckon with the prominent statesman’s controversial history. George Mason IV, a prominent figure in Virginia’s history, known for penning the state’s Declaration of Rights, which influenced several later

By Rachel Ramirez and Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir, CNN Kenneth Runnels doesn’t see himself as a “victim” of the drought. He says he’s an “adapter.” Runnels is the chief administrator of the Antelope Point Marina on Lake Powell, the second-largest reservoir in the country and part of the Colorado River system, which provides water

By Rebekah Riess and Eric Levenson, CNN A Missouri circuit court judge on Tuesday dismissed all criminal charges against three tour boat employees involved in the 2018 duck boat sinking near Branson, Missouri, that left 17 people dead, according to court documents. Judge Alan Blankenship wrote the court did not find probable cause the defendants

By Omar Jimenez, Brad Parks and Peter Nickeas, CNN Prosecutors declined to file charges against the Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Amir Locke or any other officers involved in the no-knock warrant service that led to the 22-year-old Black man’s death in early February. An officer shot Locke within a few seconds of entering