By AJ Willingham, CNN A year ago, rioters protesting the results of the 2020 election attacked the US Capitol building, infiltrating some of the most hallowed chambers of American democracy and setting off shockwaves of violence and division across the country. Much has happened since, but the consequences of that day continue to reverberate. Here’s
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN A year ago, rioters protesting the results of the 2020 election attacked the US Capitol building, infiltrating some of the most hallowed chambers of American democracy and setting off shockwaves of violence and division across the country. Much has happened since, but the consequences of that day continue to reverberate. Here’s
Continue ReadingBy Sonia Moghe and Kara Scannell, CNN Defense attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell said the convicted sex trafficker should get a new trial after a juror said in media interviews that he was a victim of sexual abuse as a child, court documents show. Prosecutors also asked Judge Alison Nathan to bring the juror back to
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By Sonia Moghe, CNN Just days after taking office, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg released a memo detailing new charging, bail, plea and sentencing policies that he said he believes will make the city safer and the criminal justice system more fair, yet the plan faces criticism from police union leaders. Among the crimes Bragg
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By Amir Vera, Jason Hanna, Paul P. Murphy, Taylor Romine and Laura Dolan, CNN Three women who were sisters and all but one of their children were identified as the victims in the fire at a Philadelphia row home that left 12 people dead, according to their cousins, Frank and Pamela McDonald. Sisters Rosalee McDonald,
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By Kelly McCleary, CNN Two lucky lotto players will find themselves in a new tax bracket in 2022 after hitting the $632.6 million jackpot in Wednesday night’s drawing. The winning tickets, sold in California and Wisconsin, matched all six numbers: 6 – 14 – 25 – 33 – 46 with a Powerball number of 17.
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By Sarah Moon, CNN A federal judge in California has denied a request from Los Angeles County to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Vanessa Bryant over photos taken at the scene of her husband Kobe Bryant’s fatal helicopter crash in January 2020. The NBA legend, his daughter Gianna and seven others were killed when a
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By Claudia Dominguez and Amy Simonson, CNN Ryan Remington, the Tucson police officer who fatally shot a man in a motorized wheelchair, was terminated on Wednesday after an internal investigation came to an end, according to an updated statement posted on the police department’s website. The termination is effective immediately, the statement said, and he
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By Amir Vera, Chris Boyette and Jessica Jordan, CNN The Memphis Police Department issued a warrant for the suspect in the fatal shooting of rapper Young Dolph, according to the US Marshals Service. The rapper, whose real name is Adolph Robert Thornton, Jr., was fatally shot November 17, 2021, at Makeda’s Homemade Butter Cookies in
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By Raja Razek and Christina Maxouris, CNN Partial human remains found earlier this week while Boulder County, Colorado, authorities looked for missing people after the Marshall Fire have been identified, the county coroner’s office said in a news release. The remains, found Wednesday in the 5900 block of Marshall Road in unincorporated Boulder, are those
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By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN The oldest known living US World War II veteran died Wednesday at 112, the National WWII Museum said. Lawrence Brooks was drafted into the US Army at 31 and spent World War II in the predominantly African American 91st Engineer Battalion, which was stationed in New Guinea and the Philippines,
Continue ReadingBy Sara Sidner, Omar Jimenez, Rosa Flores, Kacey Cherry and Sarah Moon, CNN George Floyd’s 4-year-old grandniece, Arianna Delane, was shot and injured after several shots were fired into an apartment in Houston on New Year’s Day, Derrick Delane, the girl’s father, told CNN affiliate KTRK. “She is recovering,” Delane told CNN correspondent Rosa Flores
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By Paul P. Murphy and Amir Vera, CNN Thanks to a garbage bag containing an envelope with an address, the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office was able to bust the alleged robbery ring responsible for nearly 600 missing Amazon packages during the holidays. Initially on December 30, authorities found the packages dumped in a rural area
Continue Reading By Paul P. Murphy and Amir Vera, CNN Thanks to a garbage bag containing an envelope with an address, the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office was able to bust the alleged robbery ring responsible for nearly 600 missing Amazon packages during the holidays. Initially on December 30, authorities found the packages dumped in a rural area
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By Laura Ly, CNN The father of missing 7-year-old Harmony Montgomery has been arrested and charged in connection with her disappearance, according to court documents filed Wednesday. Adam Montgomery, 31, has been charged with a second-degree felony assault charge, two misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of a child, and one misdemeanor count of interference
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By Sara Smart, CNN One Kentucky family recently got a piece of royal mail in their mailbox, sent straight from Windsor Castle. When Katelyn Sutherland checked the mail on December 27, she wasn’t expecting to find a letter addressed to her daughter, Jalayne, with a royal stamp on it. “It was mixed in with our
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By David Williams, CNN Bob and Sue Walker were inseparable during more than 44 years of marriage and called each other “mate” and “matey” because they were soulmates, their adult children told CNN. They died of Covid-19 over the holidays on separate floors in an Arizona hospital. “They were truly, truly a couple, you know.
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By Tina Burnside, CNN Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday granted a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy, the man at the center of the landmark civil rights Supreme Court ruling, Plessy v. Ferguson. The governor was joined by Plessy descendants at a ceremony in New Orleans, where he officially signed the pardon. The ceremony,
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By Leyla Santiago, CNN University of Florida President Kent Fuchs will step down, a decision he said was in the works for months, he announced in a video on the school’s Twitter account Wednesday. Fuchs will remain until a replacement is appointed, he said, adding he expects the transition in early 2023. He did not
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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN The dean at one of the country’s top law schools is calling comments from a professor at the university “racist” and “anti-intellectual” after she said the influx of “Asian elites” in the US is dangerous and problematic. Theodore Rugers, the dean at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, issued a statement
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