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By Alisha Ebrahimji and Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — The live-in boyfriend of Irene Gakwa was sentenced Wednesday to up to six years in prison and ordered to pay more than $13,000 in fines and restitution after pleading guilty to stealing thousands of dollars from her in the weeks after she vanished more than a

By Laura Ly, CNN (CNN) — A former morgue manager at Harvard Medical School is facing federal charges for allegedly stealing, selling and shipping human body parts, according to an indictment. Cedric Lodge, 55, who worked at the medical school’s morgue in Boston, “stole dissected portions of donated cadavers, including…heads, brains, skin, bones, and other

By Nick Valencia, CNN (CNN) — A Mississippi civil rights attorney alleges she was wrongfully arrested over the weekend and believes it may have been in retaliation for her advocacy work in the city of Lexington highlighting claims of discrimination by police against its Black residents. Civil rights attorney Jill Jefferson was arrested Saturday by

By Michelle Watson and Kelly Murray, CNN (CNN) — In less than two weeks, all five of the Philadelphia Zoo’s meerkats died. Now, the zoo needs to find out why. “We had five meerkats that passed between June 1st and Monday,” Amy Shearer, chief experience officer for the zoo, said Wednesday in a phone interview.

By John Miller, CNN (CNN) — A Manhattan grand jury has indicted Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran who held the homeless Black man and street artist Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on the New York City subway, a Manhattan District Attorney’s spokesperson told CNN. Penny, 24, was indicted on second-degree manslaughter charges. An arraignment is

By Nicole Chavez (CNN) — The Black Lives Matter movement has lost support among Americans in the past three years, according to a new study released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center. Pew found that 51% of Americans say they strongly or somewhat support the Black Lives Matter movement. That’s down from nearly 70% of

By Rachel Ramirez and Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — Once a stark example of the drastic effects of California’s yearslong megadrought, Lake Oroville has rebounded and is once again filled to capacity, data from the state’s Department of Water Resources shows. California’s drought-stricken reservoirs have seen a remarkable recovery in recent months after a barrage

By Dakin Andone and Shawn Nottingham, CNN (CNN) — The annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention voted to affirm a decision made earlier this year to remove Saddleback Church, a major southern California congregation founded by the pastor and author Rick Warren, due to its having women pastors. Representatives at the conference in New

By Sabrina Souza and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — The final witness to testify in the Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting trial said Wednesday she played dead and stayed by her dying mother’s side during the attack. Andrea Wedner and her 97-year-old mother, Rose Mallinger, who was killed in the attack, were inside the synagogue that

By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — Yoleidy Rosario-Hernandez was just seven months into a job as chief diversity officer at the New College of Florida when the news came: The board of trustees announced it was dissolving the diversity, equity and inclusion office. The news, which came in February, disappointed Rosario-Hernandez, who spent those seven

By Lauren Mascarenhas, Nouran Salahieh, Celina Tebor and Danny Freeman, CNN (CNN) — Demolition work on the section of Interstate 95 that collapsed in Philadelphia on Sunday will be completed by Thursday, when teams will begin working around the clock to rebuild the overpass, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Wednesday. The interstate crumbled after a

By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — US students give their schools an overall B- grade on average, according to a new report released Wednesday that asked fifth through twelfth graders to assess their school’s quality in multiple categories, including teaching, effectiveness in preparing them for the future and mental health support. Two-thirds of students graded

By Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — Houston police are investigating the death of a 4-year-old K-9 who suffered heat exhaustion Monday after being left in an air-conditioned patrol car when the engine unexpectedly shut off, police said. Houston Police Department K-9 vehicles are equipped with a system that notifies the handler, activates cooling fans and

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — A young woman walking along a road in Upstate New York was struck and killed by a suspected drunken driver – a coworker whom she had been drinking with earlier in the night and refused to ride with, authorities say. Madison Faltisco, 22, was bar hopping with the coworker