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By Taylor Romine, Abby Phillip, CNN (CNN) — Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson was released from Northwestern Memorial Hospital Monday, the Rainbow PUSH Organization said, after sources said he was receiving care to manage his blood pressure. Jackson, 84, a protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has been under observation for progressive

By Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — More than 100 homes were damaged Monday afternoon after tornadoes ripped through Harris County, Texas, Constable Mark Herman said in a Facebook post. No serious injuries or deaths have been reported after the storms, said Brian Murray, spokesperson for the Harris County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency

By Omar Jimenez, CNN (CNN) — Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, died at 111 years old Monday, her grandson Ike Howard told CNN. “She had a beautiful smile on her face,” Howard said. “She loved life, she loved people.” Oklahoma State Senator Regina Goodwin said she was with

By Emma Tucker, CNN Baltimore (CNN) — Cars stop on the street for Rochelle Johnson, a mother of five, when she walks through her Baltimore neighborhood greeting every person she encounters, running up to children and adults alike as she gives countless hugs. She approaches a man sitting alone outside in the alley behind an

By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — In New Orleans, people are used to having their resilience tested. There was Hurricane Katrina, the BP oil spill, a major hotel collapse, a vicious early pandemic surge and a terror attack during the 2025 New Year’s celebrations. Now immigrants and organizers say they’re preparing for what feels like

By Amanda Musa, Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Morgan Geyser, who was living under supervised release at a group home in Wisconsin for her role in the high-profile 2014 stabbing of her 12-year-old classmate, was found late Sunday about 150 miles away in Illinois. She had disappeared Saturday night after cutting off her monitoring bracelet,

By Chris Boyette, Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — A woman who stabbed her sixth-grade classmate to win favor with a fictional internet character named “Slender Man” more than a decade ago has been taken into custody, a day after cutting off her monitoring bracelet and leaving a group home where she’d been living, police said.

By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Like any American school, Mooresville High School in Indiana had long since set up security protocols and mental health services to try to prevent violence on campus. Yet those policies didn’t fully prepare them psychologically for the arrest in February of an 18-year-old senior accused of planning “Parkland part

By Chelsea Bailey, CNN Washington (CNN) — For years, Joy Kenley would open the doors of the Washington, DC, Metro bus she drove to the rush of federal workers and business professionals. Her passengers, she said, would often shuffle on board silently to begin their days in the nation’s capital. And though she saw many

CNN By Taylor Galgano Caroll Alvarado and Diego Mendoza, CNN (CNN) — Aggressive tactics by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents drew the ire of Rhode Island’s governor and state Supreme Court chief justice this week when a high school intern was detained and questioned before being released. The incident, captured on video, showed ICE agents

By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Garry McFadden, a charismatic and opinionated detective-turned-TV personality, was elected sheriff of North Carolina’s Mecklenburg County years ago after promising that he’d limit the jail’s cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But this month, agents with ICE’s sister agency, Customs and Border Protection, marched into Charlotte and other parts

By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — A fire that erupted Friday evening on a cargo ship docked at the Port of Los Angeles — requiring more than 180 firefighters to battle the blaze — is now “substantially contained,” according to a news release Saturday from the seaport. An electrical fire on a lower deck of