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By Brynn Gingras, CNN With New York City’s vaccine mandate for employees set to go into effect this week, officials at the fire and police departments are scrambling to deal with potential staff shortages. As of Wednesday, about 65% of city firefighters and 75% of police officers had received at least one dose of the

By Brynn Gingras, CNN In a settlement between Philadelphia and the family of Walter Wallace, the city says it will provide money for stun guns, such as Tasers, for every patrol officer in the Police Department. The city also says officers will be required to wear the less-lethal weapons, and they will be properly trained

By Steve Almasy and Raja Razek, CNN If Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner has a new hammer next week it’s bad news for Atlanta Braves fans. As part of a yearly tradition, the mayors of the two World Series participants have placed a friendly wager with each other. The losing mayor, be it Turner or Atlanta

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN With the exception of a small bronze plaque on a downtown sidewalk, Los Angeles shows very few traces of a massacre that took place there 150 years ago — one of the worst in US history. Michael Woo, who in 1985 became the first Asian American elected to the Los Angeles

By Mark Morales, CNN A jury has been selected in the civil trial that will decide whether organizers behind the August 2017 “Unite the Right” rally will be held responsible for the violence that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia. The plaintiffs, who include town residents and counterprotesters injured in two days of clashes, contend the

By Gregory Lemos and Rebekah Riess, CNN The Broward County Public School Board in Florida voted to relax masking protocols in district-area high schools Tuesday. Masks will no longer be required but are strongly encouraged in high schools starting Monday. Broward County was one of eight school districts the Florida State Board of Education sanctioned

By Stella Chan, CNN A judge in Vanessa Bryant’s lawsuit concerning allegedly leaked photos of the crash that killed her husband, Kobe Bryant, has granted her motion to compel the Los Angeles sheriff and fire chief to be deposed. In the Tuesday ruling, Judge Charles F. Eick noted that Sheriff Alex Villanueva and Fire Chief

By Omar Jimenez and Rachel Clarke, CNN The disappearance and death of Jelani Day left a mother heartbroken, a family grieving and a community with more questions than answers. Amid the questions are clues. His car was found in woods in Peru, Illinois, nearly 70 miles from where he was last seen alive. His wallet,

By Rebekah Riess Three decades after infant remains were found in a North Carolina beach town, police say they have arrested and charged a couple based on new DNA evidence. Scott Gordon Poole, 54, and his wife Robin Lynn Byrum, 51, were arrested last week and charged with concealing the birth of a child, a

By Jenn Selva and Kelly McCleary, CNN The men shot by Kyle Rittenhouse in August 2020 can potentially be referred to at his trial as “rioters” or “looters,” a Wisconsin judge said Monday while reiterating his long-held view that attorneys should not use the word “victim.” Defense lawyers maintain the young man acted in self-defense