By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — At Sunday morning church services around the country, conservative religious leaders found the same word to describe Charlie Kirk, the podcaster and political activist killed on Wednesday: martyr. “Today, we celebrate the life of Charlie Kirk, a 31-year-old God-fearing Christian man, a husband, father of two, a patriot, a
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By Hanna Park, Adam Cancryn, Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Monday that he’s taking executive action to establish a “Memphis Safe Task Force” aimed at leading a crime crackdown, leaving the Tennessee city bracing for the arrival of the National Guard as his administration intensifies its efforts to crack down on
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By Pete Muntean, CNN Washington (CNN) — Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and United Airlines say they have suspended workers for social media posts about last week’s fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk. “We were made aware of Delta employees whose social media content, related to the recent murder of activist Charlie Kirk, went well beyond
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By John Blake, CNN (CNN) — Peter Mutabazi spotted his target one evening as the man walked through a crowded marketplace. The man was alone and smartly dressed in a button-down shirt, khaki pants and professorial eyeglasses. He sauntered through the food stalls, oblivious to Mutabazi getting closer with each step. This guy doesn’t have
Continue ReadingBy Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Kiva Williams lives in Tampa, Florida, but she’s worried the state is going to turn into the “wild, wild West.” Florida officials announced their intent to end all vaccine mandates this month, which would make it the first state to terminate the well-established and constitutionally upheld practice of
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — As the Trump administration has continued its monthslong immigration enforcement blitz, its tactics – including large-scale workplace raids and the use of masked officers – have sparked condemnation from advocates and civil rights groups. Amid the ongoing campaign to deport tens of thousands of immigrants, “Know Your Rights” trainings
Continue ReadingBy Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Wearing earbuds and a T-shirt for the pizzeria where she worked, Iryna Zarutska took a seat on a Charlotte light rail train one night last month and stared down at the screen of her phone on what was supposed to be an ordinary commute home. Similar scenes play out
Continue ReadingBy Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — The fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk this week on a Utah college campus marks the latest example of violence tearing through American politics across centuries and the ideological spectrum. While history tends to highlight presidential assassinations, the targeting of national figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and
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By Dalia Faheid, Betsy Klein, Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — As investigators pore through online messages, notes and engraved shell casings in their search for a motive in the killing of one of the country’s most prominent conservative activists at a Utah Valley University campus event, authorities are also looking into whether suspect Tyler Robinson’s
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — It’s been more than five years since Clare Yeo got her masters in piano performance, but this fall, she’s assigned herself a semester of coursework. Yeo, 33, is studying the relationship between good and evil through a series of classic texts: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” and “The Idiot,”
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By Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Like thousands of Americans captivated by the manhunt for the shooter who killed conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, a Utah father had seen the photos and video footage of the suspect released by authorities. The man in the images, dressed in a black T-shirt plastered with an eagle and
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By Meena Duerson, Matthew J. Friedman, CNN Phoenix, Arizona (CNN) — Prayer beads hang over a banner with Charlie Kirk’s face and the exhortation: “May Charlie be received into the merciful arms of Jesus, our loving Savior.” Flowers and US flags are laid beneath, outside the Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, and a
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By Nic F. Anderson, CNN (CNN) — A Cuban national, who officials say is in the US illegally, has admitted to using a machete to kill a man in Dallas, according to a court affidavit filed in the case. The suspect is accused of attacking and ultimately beheading another man in a violent incident at
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CNN By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a man who resisted arrest and dragged the officer during a vehicle stop in a Chicago suburb Friday morning, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The man, Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, was an undocumented immigrant, according to DHS. The officer, who
Continue ReadingBy Aaron Cooper, CNN (CNN) — A United Airlines Boeing 737-800 flying from Tokyo to Cebu in the Philippines made an emergency landing Friday after an “indication of potential fire in the cargo hold,” the airline said in a statement. United Flight 32 was about an hour into the four-hour flight, flying at 34,000 feet
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington (CNN) — A firefighting helicopter crew’s decision to fly an altitude higher than they were cleared for and the subsequent rapid descent led to the deaths of three people in a midair collision in 2023, according to a final report from the National Transportation Safety Board. Thursday’s report concludes the
Continue Reading By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a man who resisted arrest and dragged the officer during a vehicle stop in a Chicago suburb Friday morning, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The man, Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, was an undocumented immigrant, according to DHS. The officer, who was
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By Casey Tolan, Scott Glover, Curt Devine, Jeff Winter, Isabelle Chapman, Allison Gordon, John Miller, CNN Washington, Utah (CNN) — Growing up in a Utah suburb, Tyler Robinson seemed to be on a promising path: he had a close-knit family, scored well on standardized tests, and earned a 4.0 GPA, according to social media posts.
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN You may be ready for fall, but summer isn’t ready to let go. A surge of heat is on the way for a large swath of the US, with millions of people expecting highs above 90°F by Sunday. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN You may be ready for fall, but summer isn’t ready to let go. A surge of heat is on the way for a large swath of the US, with millions of people expecting highs above 90°F by Sunday. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed
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