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By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — A gunman who held medical staff hostage before killing a police officer and wounding five others at a hospital in south-central Pennsylvania Saturday is believed to have visited the facility in the days leading up to the incident, authorities said. The gunman, identified by officials as Diogenes Archangel-Ortiz, 49,

By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to strip Maine of its federal funding if it refuses to comply with his executive order banning transgender women from competing in women’s sports, marking the White House’s latest front in the nation’s culture wars. In a tense exchange with the president, Maine

By Dawn Sawyer, CNN (CNN) — Lachelle “Shelly” Jeannine Waite was 18 years old when her older sister, Annette, found her dead in their family home in 1986. After nearly four decades, police in Phoenix, Arizona, have finally arrested a suspect. Alfred Earl Green was arrested Thursday on suspicion of killing Waite, according to Phoenix

By Alaa Elassar and Taylor Galgano, CNN (CNN) — A police officer was killed and five other people were wounded when a man took medical staff hostage and opened fire at a York, Pennsylvania, hospital on Saturday morning, officials said. The gunman, identified by authorities as Diogenes Archangel Ortiz, 49, was also killed, authorities said.

By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Gordon Cordeiro, who spent more than half his life in prison for a murder he denied committing, walked out of a Maui correctional center on what he called “Freedom Friday” thanks to new DNA evidence. Hours after a judge ruled that the outcome of another potential murder trial against

By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — The woman’s call came around 7:20 p.m. last Sunday. Her husband and his 12-year-old son had gone hiking on the Red Mountain trail in southern Utah. She began to worry after the pair failed to show up hours later at a spot where she was supposed to pick them

By Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A US Border Patrol agent whose killing in Vermont during a traffic stop near the Canadian border has been tied to a cultlike group is scheduled to be buried with full military honors Saturday at a national cemetery. David Maland, 44, died Jan. 20 during the stop on Interstate

By Associated Press Columbia, South Carolina (AP) — Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad, a method of execution that has not been used in the US in 15 years. Sigmon is scheduled to die on March 7. On Friday, he became the first South Carolina

CNN By Emma Tucker, Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell and Zoe Sottile, CNN New York City (CNN) — Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old accused of killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO last year, appeared for a largely procedural court hearing Friday amid a groundswell of support from fans who braved the harsh New York City cold and lined up

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman recommended Friday that a judge reject Erik and Lyle Menendez’s request for a new trial in the 1989 killings of their parents – a petition the brothers filed over their claims of new evidence of abuse by their father. Hochman

By Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced Friday she has fired Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley, citing in part her response to last month’s devastating Palisades wildfire, among the most destructive in California’s history. Bass said the chief’s removal was “in the best interests of Los Angeles’ public safety,

By The Associated Press (AP) — Two more people have been charged with murder in the death of a transgender man who authorities say was tortured for more than a month before being killed in upstate New York. New York State Police said they arrested Kimberly Sochia, 29, of Canandaigua, and Thomas Eaves, 21, of

By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — An explosion following a suspected grill malfunction in Hawaii Thursday left at least seven people injured, authorities said. Officials received multiple reports of an explosion around 6:15 p.m. in Kāʻanapali Beach in Maui, the Maui Police Department told CNN in a statement. The address provided by authorities is The

CNN Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump and Elon Musk look like they’re having a blast in Washington, clear-cutting elements of the federal government and seizing power from states and Congress. Their glee is at odds with the growing evidence of repercussions and anger out in the country at their

By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Senate Republicans took a major step to advance President Donald Trump’s sweeping agenda early today, voting to adopt a budget blueprint that sets up a clash with House Republicans. The process of drafting the text of actual legislation is likely to be contentious and involve painstaking negotiations between the

By Emma Tucker, Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell and Zoe Sottile, CNN New York City (CNN) — Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old accused of killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO last year, appeared for a largely procedural court hearing Friday amid a groundswell of support from fans who braved the harsh New York City cold and lined up for

By Dalia Faheid and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Six prison workers in New York were indicted on murder charges Thursday in connection with the death of an inmate who was beaten while handcuffed. Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old Black man, died in the early hours of December 10 after he was beaten by multiple correctional

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By Hanna Park and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — A South Florida sheriff delivered a blistering rebuke of his own deputies this week, saying his department “failed” in its handling of a lengthy domestic violence case that he says culminated in a triple homicide. Seven deputies have been placed on leave with pay, the Broward

By Taylor Romine, Dawn Sawyer and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Two teenagers were arrested in Houston on suspicion of plotting an attack at a local school, the FBI Houston office said in a post on X Wednesday, the second potential mass attack thwarted by the FBI in the past week. The FBI said they