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By Brynn Gingras and Yon Pomrenze, CNN Abdullah el-Faisal believed every word in a speech by Osama bin Laden was “like a gem,” and thought images of the coffins of US service members were laughable, New York prosecutors say. They also believe the Muslim cleric is “one of the most influential English-speaking terrorists of our

By Pete Muntean, CNN An off-duty pilot who was a passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight stepped in to help the flight crew after one of the on-duty pilots had a medical emergency mid-flight. The incident began not long after Flight 6013 to Columbus, Ohio, took off from Las Vegas Wednesday, Southwest Airlines said. One

By Aya Elamroussi, Dakin Andone and Andy Rose, CNN One day after two faculty members were shot and wounded by a student at a Denver high school, the local school board voted unanimously to temporarily suspend its nearly two-year-old ban on armed guards and police officers in its schools. “Based on the emergency situation presented

By Christina Maxouris, CNN Stephen Smith’s mother says she’s been fighting for justice since the day her 19-year-old son was found dead in the middle of a rural South Carolina road. His 2015 death was initially deemed a hit-and-run, but Sandy Smith never believed that was the case. Then, in June 2021, the South Carolina

By Jamiel Lynch and Tina Burnside, CNN The Tennessee plane crash that killed a Christian diet guru and six others in 2021 was caused by the pilot losing airplane control during a climb “due to spatial disorientation,” according to a National Transportation Safety Board report filed Wednesday. Dietician Gwen Shamblin Lara, her husband, actor William

By Sara Smart and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Six highway workers were killed when a vehicle crashed into a construction zone near Baltimore, Maryland, according to police. The crash happened around 12:40 p.m. Wednesday at a work zone between temporary concrete walls on Interstate 695 in Woodlawn, about 8 miles northwest of Baltimore, Maryland State Police

By Andy Rose and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A Wyoming district court judge has temporarily blocked a state abortion ban that went into effect over the weekend, count documents show. Judge Melissa Owens of the Teton County District Court granted the restraining order Wednesday, blocking enforcement of the anti-abortion law while the court considers a legal

By Cheri Mossburg and Nick Watt, CNN A man who is accused of shooting and killing a Los Angeles bishop in February pleaded not guilty during a Wednesday hearing. Carlos Medina, the 61-year-old husband of the housekeeper for Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell, remains in custody on $2.03 million bail. The defense team is “in the

By Justin Gamble, CNN Studies Weekly, a publisher that provides educational periodicals for Florida’s K-6 grades, revised one of their lesson plans for the 2022-2023 school year to take out race as the reason Rosa Parks was told to change her bus seat and why she was subsequently arrested. The initial text, which reportedly said

By Jalen Brown, CNN After close to a century, Vanderbilt University’s neurosurgery residency program will have its first Black woman resident. Tamia Potter is the first Black woman to accept a spot in the neurosurgery position at the university’s medical center in Nashville, Tennessee. The 26-year-old received the news on March 17 — better known

By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN Tucked into a small art studio at a California university, Sea Krob took their 3-year-old and 7-year-old to graduate school with them because they didn’t have a daycare option this week. They are one of the parents of the half-million students who are out of school for three days because of

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN A California lawmaker has introduced a bill in the state Senate that would explicitly ban caste discrimination — the first such effort by a US state legislature. The bill, announced Wednesday, would add caste as a protected class to California’s anti-discrimination laws alongside categories such as race, physical disability and gender