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By Emma Tucker and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — An Alabama death row inmate has asked a federal appeals court to stop his execution scheduled for this week, arguing the state hasn’t made sufficient changes to its capital punishment system after problems relating to several other scheduled lethal injections prompted a three-month pause on executions.

By Gregory Wallace and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — First responders treated at least one person for “heat-related discomfort” in a Delta Airlines flight that experienced “uncomfortable temperatures inside the cabin” at Las Vegas’ Harry Reid International Airport Monday, the airline said. Flight 555, which was scheduled to fly from Las Vegas to Atlanta, was

By Holly Yan and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Crews in Pennsylvania are still searching for two children who were swept away over the weekend by turbulent floodwaters that killed their mother as a violent storm slammed the region. Matilda “Mattie” Sheils, 2, and her 9-month-old brother, Conrad Sheils, vanished after intense flooding engulfed parts

By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — An unidentified former member of the Northwestern University football team is suing the school and the recently fired head coach, according to a civil claim filed Tuesday in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. The suit alleges former coach Pat Fitzgerald “enabled a culture of racism and/or other

By Tina Burnside, CNN (CNN) — A 10-year-old boy was critically injured after falling from a carnival ride in Illinois, setting off an investigation by local police and state officials. The boy was attending the Taste of Summer Festival in Antioch on Sunday afternoon when he was thrown from the Moby Dick ride around 2:40

By Tina Burnside, Lauren Mascarenhas and Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — A 12-year-old girl facing assault charges after allegedly throwing acid on an 11-year-old girl at a Detroit playground appeared in court Tuesday, officials said. Deaira Summers, the 11-year-old, suffered second-degree burns on her back, legs and arms in the July 9 attack, her mother,

By Elizabeth Wolfe, John Miller and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Family members of the Gilgo Beach serial killings suspect were shocked, disgusted and embarrassed when they learned about the crimes he is accused of committing, police say. “It’s a very good thing that we got this animal off the streets,” Suffolk County Police Commissioner

By Rachel Clarke, Ashley Killough, Sarah Moon and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — Emails shared with CNN by the Texas Department of Public Safety detail a trooper-medic expressing concerns to a supervisor over the inhumane treatment of migrants along the border in Eagle Pass, Texas. The Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department are

By Tina Burnside, CNN (CNN) — The Powerball jackpot soared to $1 billion for the third time in the game’s history after no ticket matched all six numbers in Monday night’s drawing. The mammoth grand prize ranks as the seventh largest US lottery jackpot and third largest Powerball jackpot, behind the world record $2.04 billion

By Raja Razek and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A bison gored a 47-year-old Arizona woman Monday morning in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, leaving her with significant injuries to her chest and abdomen, park officials said. The woman was walking with another person in a field near the Lake Lodge Cabins on Yellowstone Lake’s

By Jillian Sykes, CNN (CNN) — Monica De Leon Barba, a US citizen who the FBI said was kidnapped in Mexico in November, has been reunited with her family. De Leon Barba was released by her captors last week, roughly eight months since she was kidnapped while walking home from work with her dog, the

By Sabrina Souza, CNN (CNN) — The final phase of the Pittsburgh synagogue gunman’s death penalty trial began Monday as prosecutors laid out why the shooter should be sentenced to death, including his continued lack of remorse in the attack that left 11 worshippers dead and six others wounded. “He defiled a house of worship,

By Nicquel Terry Ellis (CNN) — New York City has appointed its first Latino police commissioner as authorities work to diversify leadership of the country’s largest police department and curb the city’s crime rate. Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday that Edward Caban had been promoted to the city’s top cop position. Caban, who is of

By Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — The family of a teenager killed in a crash involving a boat owned by the prominent South Carolina Murdaugh family has settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the convenience store that Paul Murdaugh, then 19, purchased alcohol from the night of the crash. A “global settlement” for $15 million