Skip to Content

CNN – National

Start your week smart: Fani Willis, Russian election, Realtor commissions, Pence endorsement, arrest in poisoning

CNN By Faith Karimi and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — The public absence of Catherine, Princess of Wales, has morphed into an international punchline with amateur detectives combining real concern with outlandish conspiracy. Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart. The weekend that was • Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis

Continue Reading

‘Been there before’: Haitian community leaders urge caution as Florida deploys troops to halt potential migrant surge

By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Eliantes Jean Jacques, a Haitian immigrant who has lived in Florida for more than three decades, is long familiar with the political instability, economic turmoil, and natural disasters that have left his homeland teetering on the precipice of collapse. But Haiti’s recent descent into gang-fueled lawlessness and chaos, Jean

Continue Reading

A Pennsylvania man killed 3 people, including his 13-year-old sister, police say. Here’s what we know

By Dalia Faheid and Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — A 26-year-old man is facing murder and other criminal charges after allegedly killing three people, including his 13-year-old sister, at two different homes in Pennsylvania before carjacking a driver and fleeing to New Jersey. In Pennsylvania, Andre Gordon is facing murder, burglary, and assault charges, along

Continue Reading

How a surprising detail in bank records helped a historian bust a longstanding myth about Irish immigrants

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — Tyler Anbinder didn’t know what he’d find when he started digging into a vast trove of records that had been locked inside a bank — and inaccessible to the public — for nearly 150 years. One detail immediately caught the historian’s attention: The accounts described in the bank’s ledgers had much

Continue Reading

Both James and Jennifer Crumbley were found guilty. But they took different paths to get there

By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Of the 15 witnesses who testified for the prosecution in James Crumbley’s manslaughter trial, all but one had already testified in his wife’s trial last month. In each trial, prosecutors used testimony from the same shooting survivors, police investigators and school employees to prove that each parent was “grossly

Continue Reading

A state trooper is investigating the death of a Boston police officer. Now, he’s accused of policy violations

By Faith Karimi and Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — A state trooper investigating the death of a Boston police officer is now under investigation himself, authorities said Thursday, adding another layer of complexity to a case that has sharply divided a Massachusetts suburb. The Massachusetts State Police said it has opened an internal investigation into

Continue Reading

Suspect charged with murder in connection with Indianapolis nightclub shooting that left 1 dead, 5 others injured

By Andy Rose and Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — A suspect is facing murder and other charges in connection with an early Saturday Indianapolis nightclub shooting that left one person dead and five others injured. Nicholas Fulk, 25, was arrested around 10 a.m. Saturday, the Indianapolis Metro Police Department said in a news release. On

Continue Reading

Residents in Indiana and Ohio are surveying the damage after tornadoes collapsed homes and left at least 3 dead

By Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Residents are surveying the damage to their homes as cleanup efforts continue this weekend after several tornadoes ripped across the Midwest, killing at least three people and destroying neighborhoods. Powerful tornadoes, large hail and damaging wind gusts – part of a storm system that stretched from Texas to Pennsylvania

Continue Reading

Residents in Indiana and Ohio are surveying the damage after tornadoes collapsed homes and left at least 3 dead

CNN By Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Residents are surveying the damage to their homes as cleanup efforts continue this weekend after several tornadoes ripped across the Midwest, killing at least three people and destroying neighborhoods. Powerful tornadoes, large hail and damaging wind gusts – part of a storm system that stretched from Texas to

Continue Reading

Brooklyn’s district attorney will not pursue charges against man in New York City subway shooting, citing self-defense

By Jeff Winter, CNN (CNN) — Brooklyn’s district attorney is not pursuing charges against the man who shot another man in the head on a crowded New York City subway train on Thursday, according to the office. “Yesterday’s shooting inside a crowded subway car was shocking and deeply upsetting,” Oren Yaniv, a spokesperson for the

Continue Reading

Michigan teen who alleges his underage friend shot him with a ghost gun in 2021 sues an online supplier

By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — A 19-year-old Michigan man who alleges in a lawsuit his then-best friend shot him in the face in 2021 with a ghost gun is suing the supplier he says illegally sold the underage friend the parts to assemble the weapon. The lawsuit, filed by Guy Boyd on Monday in Michigan’s Washtenaw County Circuit Court,

Continue Reading