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By Chuck Johnston and Steve Almasy, CNN A Catholic priest has resigned after a church investigation found he performed invalid baptisms throughout most of his more than 20-year career, according to Bishop Thomas Olmsted of the Diocese of Phoenix. Father Andres Arango, who performed thousands of baptisms, would say, “We baptize you in the name

By Sara Smart, CNN A Colorado skier survived an avalanche that threw him off a 50-foot cliff and sent him sliding hundreds of feet. Anna DeBattiste, public information officer for the Summit County Rescue Group (SCRG), told CNN on Monday that the skier sustained no injuries aside from some slight bruising. DeBattiste said the incident

By Amir Vera and Bill Kirkos, CNN Former officers J. Alexander Kueng, Tou Thao and Thomas Lane said they will testify after the prosecution rested Monday in the federal civil rights trial of the three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights. Kueng and Thao told US District Judge Paul Magnuson

By Sarah Moon, CNN Just one day before California is set to relax a statewide mask mandate for vaccinated people in indoor public spaces, the state’s top health official announced that masks will still be required in schools. There will be no change to the school requirement, Health & Human Services Agency Secretary Dr. Mark

By Amir Vera and Tina Burnside, CNN The cause of death of Brian Laundrie, the fiancé of Gabby Petito whose disappearance caused a firestorm late last summer, was revealed Monday. An autopsy report by the Sarasota, Florida, Medical Examiner stated Laundrie died from a gunshot wound to the head. Laundrie’s skeletal remains were found in

By Stephanie Elam, CNN The West is in its worst drought in centuries, scientists reported Monday. A study published in Nature Climate Change found the period from 2000 to 2021 was the driest in 1,200 years. Last year’s drought severity was “exceptional,” researchers said, and all indications are the extreme conditions will continue through 2022.

By Holly Yan and Aileen Graef, CNN Once again, a bomb threat has derailed classes at Howard University — one of more than a dozen historically Black colleges and universities targeted with bomb threats during Black History Month. “A shelter-in-place order has been issued following a bomb threat against the main campus,” the university’s Department

By Pamela Kirkland, Kevin Conlon and Eric Levenson, CNN The three White men who chased down and killed Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger, had previously used racist language and followed Arbery because of their perceptions of Black people, a prosecutor said Monday in opening statements of their federal hate crimes trial. “At the end of

By Tina Burnside and Devon M. Sayers, CNN One body was recovered as the US Coast Guard searches for an airplane believed to have gone down about four miles east of Drum Inlet, on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, with eight people on board, CNN affiliate WITN reported, citing a sheriff. The search for the seven

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Some students’ rights were violated during a revival assembly led by an evangelical preacher at a high school, a West Virginia school district investigating the gathering said in a statement. Students involved in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, a nonprofit Christian sports ministry, conducted the assembly during a noninstructional homeroom period