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By Eric Levenson, CNN Lia Thomas stood tall and smiled wide atop the championship podium, her nearly 6-foot-4 frame pushing her head past the top of the Ivy League’s green photo backdrop. With one hand she held a placard reading “Ivy 2022 Champion,” and with the other she stuck up two fingers in that classic

By Travis Caldwell, CNN A man who was bitten by a shark while fishing near Bimini, Bahamas, was rescued via helicopter, the US Coast Guard said in a news release. Coast Guard Sector Miami watchstanders received word midday Monday the 51-year-old was bitten while aboard a vessel and a tourniquet was applied to the man’s

By Jason Hanna and Travis Caldwell, CNN A jury has found the three White men who killed Ahmaud Arbery in 2020 guilty of all charges in their federal hate crimes trial, backing prosecutors’ case that the men chased the 25-year-old through the streets of a Georgia neighborhood because he was Black. Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael

By Liam Reilly, CNN An Uber driver found dead near Pittsburgh was robbed and killed by her passenger, with key moments of the incident recorded on the car’s dash camera and leading to an arrest, according to a criminal complaint. Police were called to a wooded area last Saturday, where they recovered the body of

By Amanda Jackson, CNN A resident at a college dorm in Utah decided to try to make rocket fuel on his kitchen stove, leading to a fireball causing serious property damage, according to police. Now, 22 students are displaced from their dorm in Provo, Utah. The experiment mishap occurred at the on-campus housing at Brigham

By Amir Vera, CNN Defense attorneys rested their case Monday in the federal civil rights trial of three former officers involved in George Floyd’s death. All three officers have testified about their points of view on May 25, 2020, when Floyd, a Black man, was fatally restrained. With each vantage point now on record, the

By Jason Hanna, CNN After deliberating for a little more than two and a half hours, the jury in the federal hate crimes trial of the three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery was excused for the day Monday. Deliberation will resume at 9 a.m. Tuesday on whether the men committed the crime because of

By Christina Maxouris, CNN The federal hate crimes trial for the three White men convicted of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, featured testimony from more than 20 witnesses — several of whom spoke about racist messages used by the defendants. A former Coast Guard colleague told jurors Travis McMichael, who shot

By Laura Studley, CNN One man died and another was injured after they were struck by subway trains in different areas of New York City within hours of each other Saturday night, the New York Police Department (NYPD) said. In the first incident, a 35-year-old male was walking between train cars on the southbound J

By Claudia Dominguez, Tina Burnside and Emma Tucker, CNN An elementary school student in South Carolina brought a loaded handgun to his school because he wanted to “shoot zombies,” Detective J.C. Brewington from the Laurens Police Department said in a news conference on Friday. A staff member of the elementary school in Laurens found a

By Emma Tucker and Pooja Agrawal, CNN At least six people have been stabbed or slashed on the New York City subway since the unveiling of a new transit safety plan on Friday, the New York City Police Department said. Officials have vowed to combat crime and address homelessness in the city’s transit system as

By Tina Burnside and Taliah Miller, CNN A Florida woman has been charged with first-degree murder after police say she allegedly stabbed her husband more than 140 times. Joan Burke, 61, who is being held without bond, appeared before a Palm Beach County judge on Sunday via video conference, according to court documents obtained by