CNN – National

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Linh Tran, CNN Nearly two weeks after a racist petition to bring back slavery circulated at her daughter’s school, Julie Stutterheim is still angry. She says it was yet another example of a racist incident at Park Hill South High School in the suburbs of Kansas City, Missouri. “She was very

By Mallika Kallingal and Jamie Crawford, CNN The Justice Department announced Friday it will not pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against a Kenosha Police Department officer for his involvement in the shooting of Jacob Blake. Rusten Sheskey, a White officer, shot Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, seven times while responding to a domestic incident

By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN The KNP Complex Fire has destroyed many of California’s iconic sequoia trees and is only 11% contained, according to the National Park Service. On October 4, the high-intensity fire pushed north and caused damage to Redwood Canyon, the National Park Service told CNN in a statement. The fire now covers

By Elizabeth Joseph, CNN A federal jury on Friday found two wealthy parents charged in a national conspiracy that facilitated cheating on college admissions for their children guilty on all counts, the US Attorney’s Office announced. Gamal Abdelaziz, 64, and John Wilson, 62, are the first parents in the scheme to be convicted by a

By Jennifer Henderson and Melissa Alonso, CNN The Estate of Cornelius Frederick is suing Lakeside Academy, a residential treatment facility in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and 10 employees for $50 million. The 16-year-old boy was restrained on April 29, 2020, in the facility, went into cardiac arrest and died at a hospital two days later. The facility

By Brianna Keilar and Ryan Bergeron Lieutenant General Gwen Bingham has spent much of her Army career being a frontrunner. She is only the second African American woman ever to become a three-star General in the Army and as she advanced throughout her career, she has been either the first woman, the first African American, or

By Stella Chan, CNN California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law Thursday making the state the first to prohibit “stealthing,” or removing a condom during intercourse without a partner’s verbal consent. The new law makes the removal of a condom without consent a sexual assault, and affirms that the practice “causes long-term physical

By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN New York City will phase out its controversial gifted and talented student program after years of debate that the exclusive classes further segregated students. City officials say the new policy will allow all rising kindergarteners to have access to accelerated learning, in what the Mayor says will provide an equitable model

By Meg Dunn, CNN When runners cross the finish line during Monday’s 125th Boston Marathon, Heather Abbott will be there cheering them on. For Abbott and her friends, catching a Red Sox game and walking through downtown Boston to watch the race had been an annual tradition. But on April 15, 2013, their fun day

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN The US Marshals Service is back to the drawing board in it search for a fugitive on the run for 23 years. They had just identified someone at a Dodgers baseball game who resembled the wanted man. But it turns out they were looking at the wrong guy. On Thursday, a