CNN By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday acknowledged that he could secure the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador last month but refuses to do so. The comments appear to contradict previous remarks made by him and his top aides
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Instead of finishing their lacrosse season, at least 11 high school players from Syracuse, New York, will face felony kidnapping charges if they don’t surrender to authorities by Thursday, officials said. The Westhill High School student athletes – who are not being identified due to their
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By Dakin Andone, Jean Casarez and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — A key witness in the retrial of Karen Read returned to the stand Wednesday for a second day of testimony, as she recounts the hours leading up to the death of Read’s boyfriend John O’Keefe – and the moment the off-duty Boston police
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By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — An attorney representing the driver of the boat that collided Sunday with a ferry off Clearwater, Florida, killing one person and injuring 10 others, disputes that he fled the scene, as the victim’s family demands answers about an investigation that has so far led to no arrests. The ferry
Continue Reading WFTS, SANDY TODD, ROBIN HAMM, CITY OF CLEARWATER, JANNUS LIVE, CNN By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — An attorney representing the driver of the boat that collided Sunday with a ferry off Clearwater, Florida, killing one person and injuring 10 others, disputes that he fled the scene, as the victim’s family demands answers about an
Continue ReadingBy Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — Spring has finally arrived in my neck of the woods. Although the last frost date isn’t until next week, the trees are abundant with white and pink blossoms and sage-colored leaves. The birds have returned from their southern sojourn and are once again singing love songs at 5 a.m.
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CNN By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — When both dogs are walking, Pearl, a 9.14-centimeter (3.6-inch) tall chihuahua, barely reaches the top of Reggie’s paw, such is the towering height of the 1.007-meter (3-foot, 4-inch) Great Dane. It’s easy to forget they are the same species. Pearl is the world’s shortest living dog and Reggie
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — When both dogs are walking, Pearl, a 9.14-centimeter (3.6-inch) tall chihuahua, barely reaches the top of Reggie’s paw, such is the towering height of the 1.007-meter (3-foot, 4-inch) Great Dane. It’s easy to forget they are the same species. Pearl is the world’s shortest living dog and Reggie is
Continue Reading By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday acknowledged that he could secure the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador last month but refuses to do so. The comments appear to contradict previous remarks made by him and his top aides who
Continue ReadingBy Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — As Jim Stephens approached the podium at the University of Alabama’s main graduation ceremony in May 2007, the United States was entering its fourth year of the Iraq War, with troops across the region – and the death toll – surging. For Stephens, a former soldier who’d become the
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AUSTIN PRICE By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — A runaway kangaroo temporarily shut down a portion of an interstate highway in Alabama on Tuesday as state troopers and the animal’s owner attempted to remove it from harm’s way. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said part of the southbound and northbound lanes of Interstate 85 in
Continue ReadingBy Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — A runaway kangaroo temporarily shut down a portion of an interstate highway in Alabama on Tuesday as state troopers and the animal’s owner attempted to remove it from harm’s way. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said part of the southbound and northbound lanes of Interstate 85 in Tuskegee, around
Continue Readingby Associated Press (AP) – Jurors in Karen Read’s second murder trial heard more testimony Tuesday about location and temperature data recorded on her boyfriend’s cell phone the night she’s accused of killing him. Prosecutors say Read, 45, backed her SUV into Boston police Officer John O’Keefe, 46, after dropping him off at a party
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By Andi Babineau, CNN (CNN) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a Milwaukee judge accused of obstructing immigration officials would be “temporarily prohibited from exercising the powers of a circuit court judge” while the case moves through the legal system, court records show. Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested last week at the Milwaukee
Continue ReadingBy Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — At least 11 high school students in Syracuse, New York, have 48 hours to turn themselves in or face felony charges of kidnapping for their alleged involvement in victimizing at least five younger lacrosse players in an incident the district attorney says “goes way beyond hazing.” The incident took
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Welcome to 5 Things PM! Facebook’s parent company just launched a separate app for its artificial intelligence assistant, similar to those offered by Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Alphabet’s Google. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is trying to strengthen Meta’s position in the competitive AI landscape. Here’s what else you might have missed during
By Andy Rose, Amanda Musa and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — As its legal battle over critical federal money plays out in court, two Harvard University task forces have released a pair of long-awaited internal reports: one on how antisemitism and anti-Israeli bias are handled on campus, and another on anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian bias.
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By Andy Rose and Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — Hours after Harvard University faced the Trump administration in court for the first time in its push to restore more than $2 billion in blocked federal funding, the nation’s oldest and wealthiest college made a symbolic bow to White House demands, renaming its diversity, equity and
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By Whitney Wild, Jason Hanna and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — A car’s crash into an after-school program building in central Illinois – a wreck that killed four people ages 7 to 18 and injured six other children – does not appear to have been a targeted attack, Illinois State Police said Tuesday. Still, the
Continue ReadingBy Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — During the first Trump administration, the Justice Department secretly pursued internal communications at several media outlets and issued gag orders on the news organizations’ leadership and lawyers so even the journalists didn’t know their records were being confiscated. In 2022, Attorney General Merrick Garland revised the DOJ’s policy and
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