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By Ryan Young, Dakin Andone and Pamela Kirkland, CNN Deborah Roberts grew up in a family of gun owners. But it wasn’t until March this year that the 68-year-old finally pulled the trigger and purchased her own firearm. “I think the rhetoric and how things are stirred up in the country just made me feel

By AJ Willingham, CNN The Amazon rainforest may be headed for another devastating fire season. After a destructive 2020 and with drought conditions in Brazil, the forest has rarely been drier than it is right now. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also

The heat is returning to the Pacific Northwest where more heat records are likely to be broken. CNN Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri has the forecast.

By Aya Elamroussi and Chris Boyette, CNN Officials in Tulsa, Oklahoma, are warning residents their personal information may have been leaked to the dark web following a ransomware attack on the city last month. The city announced Tuesday that hackers obtained more than 18,000 city files. The leaked files are mostly police citations and internal

By Alexandra Meeks and Jon Passantino, CNN Vanessa Bryant and other families have settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the company that owned and operated the helicopter that crashed last year in Southern California, killing her husband, NBA legend Kobe Bryant, their daughter and seven others. Attorneys for Bryant filed a joint notice of settlement

By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN A bill in Connecticut makes calls from prison free for the inmates and their families, becoming the first state to do so. The bill, sponsored by state Rep. Josh Elliott and Sen. Martin M. Looney, will make all voice communication, including video and electronic mail services, free to those incarcerated

By Keith Allen, CNN A grand jury in Texas declined Tuesday to indict the eight former detention officers involved in the in-custody death of Marvin Scott III, according to a news release from Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis. Scott died in March after being placed on a restraint bed, pepper-sprayed, and having a spit

Chicago community leaders and politicians are working together to try to slow the pace of gun violence. CNN’s Omar Jimenez reports.

By Omar Jimenez, CNN “I’m not saying I’m God or I can prevent anything from happening, but I know in my heart I did what I can at 1 or 2 in the morning to help put this guy in a safer environment.” That’s how Jervon Hicks describes his mission as an outreach worker and

By Keith Allen, CNN More than 150 Houston Methodist Hospital employees were officially out of a job Tuesday, 10 days after a judge dismissed a lawsuit against the hospital by employees who opposed a Covid-19 vaccine mandate as a condition of employment, a hospital spokesperson said. The 153 employees either resigned in the two-week suspension

By Rebekah Riess and Steve Almasy, CNN A potential showdown is looming between eight students who want to come to the Indiana University campus in August but think the school’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate is unconstitutional. The mandate requires students, faculty and staff to be vaccinated or get an exemption for religious or medical reasons before

By Keith Allen, CNN The shooting that left three people dead in Arvada, Colorado, on Monday appears to have been a deliberate attack on a police officer, Police Chief Link Strate told reporters Tuesday afternoon. Gordon Beesley, a 19-year veteran of the Arvada Police Department, and a bystander identified Tuesday as John Hurley, 40, of

By Leah Asmelash, CNN Disney World is turning the big 5-0, but the resort isn’t letting its age slow it down. Walt Disney World announced a slew of new events, scheduled to begin October 1, in honor of the park’s 50th anniversary. The first is “Disney Enchantment,” a nighttime event in the Magic Kingdom featuring

By Leah Asmelash, CNN A New Jersey school board has voted to overturn a decision that took all holiday names off the district calendar, following conflict over an earlier decision to refer to Columbus Day as “Indigenous Peoples’ Day.” The Randolph Board of Education had voted on June 10 to eliminate all the names of

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Something is off about Sacramento’s water. It smells and tastes a little “earthy,” residents are saying — an effect of compounding climatechange crises: extreme heat, little to no precipitation and a historic drought that has gripped the region for the better part of a decade. Up and down the state of

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Gerald R. Ford, the 38th president of the United States. Personal Birth date: July 14, 1913 Death date: December 26, 2006 Birth place: Omaha, Nebraska (grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan) Birth name: Leslie Lynch King Jr. Father: Leslie Lynch King Sr. Mother: Dorothy Ayer

By Eric Levenson, CNN A man suspected of brazenly shoplifting items at a Walgreens in San Francisco last week was arrested while carrying out another such theft on Saturday morning, according to police, and is accused of a spree of similar crimes. The videotaped shoplifting was a stark example of what chain drug stores and