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By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — As new students arrived on campus for the fall semester at Yale University, they were given flyers containing “misleading … disturbing and inflammatory rhetoric” about the school’s safety, according to university officials. The flyers, titled “Welcome to Yale: A survival guide for first-year students of Yale University,” were

By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — The devastating fires in Maui have caused at least 115 deaths, yet only 46 of those have been identified two weeks on from the blaze, police said Thursday. Hundreds of people remain unaccounted for, too. The grim contrast between those numbers shows the difficulty in locating and identifying victims’

By Michelle Watson and Lechelle Benken, CNN (CNN) — At least two people were wounded by gunfire during a baseball game Friday night at Chicago’s Guaranteed Rate Field, police said. A 42-year-old woman is hospitalized in fair condition after suffering a gunshot wound to her leg during a game between the Chicago White Sox and

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — A zoo in Chicago recently welcomed a stripey new addition to its family. A 16-year-old Grevy’s zebra named Adia gave birth to a “strong, female foal” at the Lincoln Park Zoo on August 21, according to a news release. The yet-unnamed baby zebra is Adia’s fifth offspring and

By Carma Hassan, CNN (CNN) — The parents of two Black men who died in unrelated in-custody encounters with law enforcement in Shelby County, Tennessee, this summer said they are seeking transparency. Jarveon Hudspeth, 21, died following a traffic stop with a Shelby County sheriff’s deputy on June 24. Courtney Ross died after he was

By Lauren del Valle and Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — Decades-old personal writings from Dennis Rader, the self-proclaimed BTK serial killer, have led local Oklahoma law enforcement to believe he is the “prime suspect” in a missing persons case from 1976. Rader has been linked to the missing persons case of 16-year-old Cynthia Dawn Kinney,

By Brynn Gingras, CNN (CNN) — Two women held in Suffolk County jail say they had encounters with the Gilgo Beach killings suspect Rex Heuermann, describing the meetings with him as “violent” and “aggressive,” sheriff’s department spokesperson Vicki DiStefano said Thursday. The alleged encounters with the two female sex workers are believed to have happened

By Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — The Oregon man arrested for allegedly holding a woman captive in a makeshift cinder block dungeon was caught trying to escape jail, officials said. Negasi Zuberi, 29, has been in federal custody since his arrest this month and is now charged with second-degree attempted escape and first-degree disorderly conduct,

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the Flight 93 National Memorial. It is a memorial to the 40 passengers and crew who died on United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001 near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Facts The memorial site is managed by the National Park Service. The memorial encompasses 2,200 acres and the

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the rebuilding of Ground Zero in lower Manhattan and the memorial to the victims of the September 11 attacks. September 11 Memorial The memorial honors those killed on September 11, 2001, in all locations of the attack, as well as those killed on February 26, 1993,

By Mark Morales and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A New York Police Department sergeant has been suspended without pay after he threw a picnic cooler at a man, fatally knocking him from his motorbike. Eric Duprey was pronounced dead at the scene in Queens, according to a news release from the New York Attorney

By Raja Razek and Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — Fire crews have contained a large fire at a refinery storage tank in Garyville, Louisiana, about 40 miles west of New Orleans, authorities said. A mandatory evacuation order put in place Friday morning within a two-mile radius around the facility was lifted in the afternoon by

By Oren Liebermann and Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — The pilot of a US Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet that crashed Thursday night near San Diego has been confirmed dead, according to a statement from the unit. The pilot was the only person aboard the aircraft. Search and rescue teams sent out after the

By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — A boil water advisory has been issued for parts of San Diego and surrounding areas in Southern California that will last through the weekend. Originally issued in the Silver Strand area of Coronado and Imperial Beach, the advisory was expanded late Thursday to include parts of San Diego and

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of Wells Fargo customers reported issues with the bank’s systems Thursday, with problems ranging from transferring funds to declining ATM cards. This is the second major technical issue to impact the bank this month after some customers a few weeks ago noticed their direct deposits had disappeared from

By Renee Rigdon and Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — A brutal heat wave that baked most of the central and southern US this week will slowly shift its most intense heat southward through the weekend and tie or break dozens of heat records. On Friday, temperatures could top 100 degrees and records could fall across

By Michelle Watson, Kelly McCleary, Cheri Mossburg, Anna-Maja Rappard and Natasha Chen, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of people are still listed as unaccounted for after this month’s devastating wildfires on Maui – a number that’s expected to change as the FBI continues vetting names. The “validated list” curated by the FBI currently includes 388 names,

WFTV, FLAGLER SCHOOLS, CNN By Raja Razek and Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — The principal and a teacher at a Flagler County, Florida, elementary school are on paid administrative leave after an assembly was held only for fourth and fifth-grade Black students, who were collectively told to improve their school performance, according to the school