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By Tina Burnside and Raja Razek, CNN The governor of Oklahoma is calling on four McCurtain County officials to resign after they allegedly participated in a secretly recorded conversation that included racist remarks about lynching Black people and talking about killing journalists. The McCurtain Gazette-News over the weekend published the audio it said was recorded

By Isabel Rosales, Elizabeth Wolfe, Kevin Conlon and Taka Yokoyama, CNN Before Alexis Dowdell headed to her Sweet 16 party, she sat on her big brother’s bed to tell him she was nervous for the event she had been planning for months — only to have him make her laugh and assure her that he

By Laura Ly and Brynn Gingras, CNN A 20-year-old woman was shot and killed Saturday after she and three others accidentally turned into the wrong driveway while looking for a friend’s house in rural upstate New York, authorities said. The woman, identified as Kaylin Gillis, was a passenger in a vehicle when a man, 65-year-old

By Nouran Salahieh, Taylor Romine and Holly Yan, CNN The 84-year-old White man accused of shooting a Black teenager who rang his doorbell in Kansas City turned himself in Tuesday and was later released on bail, authorities said. Andrew Lester, who faces two felony charges — assault in the first degree and armed criminal action

By Dakin Andone, Polo Sandoval, Christal Hayes and Celina Tebor, CNN The eight police officers who shot and killed Jayland Walker, a Black man in Akron, Ohio, will not face state criminal charges after a special grand jury came to its long-awaited decision Monday. The city has been bracing for a decision following Walker’s death

By Eric Levenson, Dakin Andone, Polo Sandoval, Theresa Waldrop and Laura Ly, CNN A special grand jury in Ohio declined to indict the Akron police officers who shot a 25-year-old Black man dozens of times, killing him, after a car chase and foot chase last year. The grand jury concluded the officers were legally justified

By Ella Nilsen, CNN Planet-warming methane pollution from the US oil and gas industry was 70% higher than the Environmental Protection Agency’s own estimates between 2010 and 2019, scientists reported Monday. The new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests the federal government’s current system for detecting methane leaks from

By Carlos Suarez, Zoe Sottile and Denise Royal, CNN A Florida man who served three decades behind bars for a murder he says he didn’t commit returned to prison Monday after spending the past two years building a life outside prison walls. Since his conditional release in 2021 amid appeals, Crosley Green, 65, had held

By Alisha Ebrahimji, Elizabeth Wolfe and Isabel Rosales, CNN As a room full of Sweet 16 attendees in Dadeville, Alabama, moved to the sounds of a DJ Saturday night, their party was abruptly ended by an eruption of gunfire that injured dozens and left four partygoers dead, at least two of whom were local high

By Rashard Rose A Tennessee Air National Guardsman is facing charges after applying to be a hitman on a spoof “rent-a-hitman” website, according to the Department of Justice. Josiah Ernesto Garcia, 21, was charged Thursday after submitting an employment inquiry to the website rentahitman.com, which is a parody site that includes “testimonials” from purportedly satisfied

By Holly Yan, Isabel Rosales, Chris Boyette and Caroll Alvarado, CNN Two days after a killer gunned down revelers celebrating a Sweet 16 party, police say they have “strong leads” in the massacre that left four people dead, at least 32 others injured and a small Alabama city tormented by confusion and grief. In addition

By Cheri Mossburg, Taylor Romine and Steve Almasy, CNN A White 84-year-old homeowner who allegedly shot and wounded Ralph Yarl, a Black teen, after the 16-year-old went to the wrong home to pick up his siblings will face two felony charges, Clay County Prosecuting Attorney Zachary Thompson announced early Monday evening. Andrew Lester will face

By Gili Remen and Emma Tucker, CNN The family of a victim and several survivors of a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis filed a lawsuit against companies involved in the manufacturing, marketing and sale of the high capacity magazine used by the gunman who killed 8 people and injured several others in

By Raja Razek, CNN A substitute teacher in north Texas was fired after she “encouraged students to fight each other during class,” the Mesquite Independent School District said. School officials learned Thursday morning of a video showing fights the previous day in a Kimbrough Middle School class, which prompted an “immediate investigation,” the district said

By Paradise Afshar, Rebekah Riess and Zoe Sottile, CNN All passengers have safely disembarked a passenger ferry that ran aground on Saturday in Rich Passage near Bainbridge Island in Washington state. A total of 596 passengers and 15 crew members were aboard the ship, according to a tweet from US Coast Guard Pacific Northwest, which

By Faith Karimi, CNN I was cradling my newborn son one night in November 2016 when I suddenly began to sob. Something had dawned on me that filled me with fear. I was the mother of a Black son in America. I was born in Kenya and moved to the US after high school to