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By Cindy VonQuednow, Danny Freeman, Lauren Mascarenhas, and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — The time has come. Travelers flying within the US starting Wednesday must use a state-issued ID that is “REAL ID compliant” or be subject to further screening. Things seemed to be operating relatively smoothly at a sampling of US airports Wednesday morning.

CNN, WRAL, DHS, KCBS, KCAL, POOL, KOCO, KOMO, CNNE, KCBS/KCAL By Cindy VonQuednow, Danny Freeman, Lauren Mascarenhas, and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — The time has come. Travelers flying within the US starting Wednesday must use a state-issued ID that is “REAL ID compliant” or be subject to further screening. Things seemed to be operating

CNN By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Rodney Hinton Jr., who authorities say intentionally hit and killed an Ohio sheriff’s deputy with a car after his son was fatally shot by police, will remain in jail without bond while he awaits trial on a murder charge. Hinton Jr. was denied bond at a Tuesday court

By Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — In the second such incident in less than a month, two airline planes clipped wings at a US airport, this time in San Francisco, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. United Airlines Flight 863, which was headed for Sydney, Australia, was pushing back from the gate at San Francisco

CNN By Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — In the second such incident in less than a month, two airline planes clipped wings at a US airport, this time in San Francisco, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. United Airlines Flight 863, which was headed for Sydney, Australia, was pushing back from the gate at San

By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — The fight between two of America’s most prominent institutions – the federal government and Harvard University – is getting personal. While President Donald Trump and Harvard President Alan Garber have been trading public barbs amid the legal battle over academic freedom and $2.2 billion in federal funding, hedge fund

By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Rodney Hinton Jr., who authorities say intentionally hit and killed an Ohio sheriff’s deputy with a car after his son was fatally shot by police, will remain in jail without bond while he awaits trial on a murder charge. Hinton Jr. was denied bond at a Tuesday court hearing

By Devon M. Sayers, CNN Winder, Georgia (CNN) — A defense attorney for Colt Gray, the teen accused of killing four people at a Georgia high school last fall, said Tuesday he may change his not-guilty plea. “We are here for the possible scheduling to the plea. I would likely ask the court for some

By Taylor Galgano and Maria Aguilar Prieto, CNN (CNN) — As the first day of his trial wrapped up and an eight-person jury was sworn in, the defendant stepped outside a Boston courthouse only to be immediately arrested by one of the prosecution’s witnesses — an ICE agent, his attorney tells CNN. Wilson Martell-Lebron, who

By Danny Freeman, CNN Camden, New Jersey (CNN) — When Scott Case realized the REAL ID deadline was coming up this week, he decided to head to his local department of motor vehicles Monday morning. “I’ve known about it and I’ve been putting it off, so some of it’s on me,” the frequent business traveler

By Pete Muntean, Rene Marsh, Aaron Cooper and Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — Air traffic controllers in Philadelphia were guiding planes to Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey last week when communications suddenly crashed. “Approach, are you there?” one pilot asked the controller. The controller stopped responding. United Airlines Flight 1951, flying from New

CNN By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Sunday said he would order the government to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a small island of the same name off the coast of San Francisco that once housed some of the most dangerous criminals in the country, including Al Capone,

By Betsy Klein, Michelle Krupa and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has unveiled new steps to target federal funding to Harvard University, cutting off all new federal research grants unless the elite school enacts political policy changes amid a broader national clash over academic freedom, federal funding and campus oversight. Harvard is

By Mark Morales and Caroll Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — One of six New York state prison guards indicted on murder charges in connection with the beating death of an inmate has pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter. Christopher Walrath, 36, accepted a plea deal at a court hearing Monday. The deal, which would effectively nullify his