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By Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken Women don’t belong out at sea working on ships with men, the 62-year-old engineer told the 19-year-old trainee just weeks before she says he raped her. The young woman, Hope Hicks, was a student at the US Merchant Marine Academy. The man, Edgar Sison, was her boss. He worked

By Andi Babineau and Alaa Elassar, CNN A train that derailed in western Arizona Wednesday evening was carrying corn syrup, the railroad said, after the county sheriff’s office said it may have been carrying hazardous materials. “BNSF Railway can confirm that a train carrying corn syrup derailed” around 7:40 p.m., company spokesperson Lena Kent told

By Joe Sutton, CNN Two hikers were found dead and one has been rescued after authorities believe they were caught in a flash flood while trekking the popular Buckskin Gulch slot canyon in southern Utah. The three men, all in their 50s, began their hike Friday but officials believe they were caught in the flooding

By Andy Rose, CNN The man who investigators say is connected to a string of unusual animal habitat tamperings at the Dallas Zoo — including the alleged theft of two tamarin monkeys — was indicted Tuesday on felony burglary charges, court records show. Davion Irvin, 24, was indicted by a grand jury on two counts

By AJ Willingham, CNN The term “incel” is everywhere. What was once a niche piece of internet slang now populates international headlines and is a frequent topic in discussions about gender, misogyny, violence and extremism. “Incel” is a portmanteau of “involuntary celibate.” In its most basic form, incel describes someone, usually a male, who is

By Paradise Afshar, CNN A man who in 2021 was an Army trainee in South Carolina was found not guilty by reason of insanity last week in connection with an alleged hijacking of a school bus with 18 elementary students onboard. Jovan Collazo, who is now 25, had been accused of getting on a bus

By Melissa Alonso and Theresa Waldrop, CNN A man who served more than 34 years of a 400-year sentence for an armed robbery was released from a Florida jail this week after prosecutors dismissed charges against the wrongly convicted man. “I never lost hope and always knew this day would come,” Sidney Holmes, now 57,

By Taylor Romine and Chris Boyette, CNN A one-time payment of $5 million to each eligible Black resident is among recommendations unanimously accepted by San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors as part of a draft plan by a panel proposing reparations. The move Tuesday was an intermediate step, with a final report that includes board feedback

By Pete Muntean and Greg Wallace, CNN Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday cited an “uptick” in recent aviation incidents and called on participants at a Federal Aviation Administration safety summit to help find the “root causes” of the problem. “We are particularly concerned because we have seen an uptick in serious close calls,”

By Leah Asmelash, CNN Move over, Labrador Retrievers. There’s a new top dog in town. For the first time in 31 years, the Labrador Retriever has been unseated as the most popular dog breed in the US, according to the American Kennel Club’s 2022 registration statistics. In its place sits the cute and compact French

By Sara Smart, Michelle Watson, Brian Todd and Eric Levenson, CNN Seven sheriff’s deputies in central Virginia were arrested and charged with second-degree murder Tuesday in the death of a Black man who prosecutors say was fatally “smothered” while in custody. Irvo Otieno, 28, died on March 6 at a state mental health facility during

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN When you’re craving a quick snack, how often do you reach into the fridge for a few strawberries or grapes without rinsing them? (It’s okay to admit it, we’ve all done it before.) While consuming unwashed fruits and vegetables isn’t totally detrimental to your health, some scientists say you should make

By Justin Gamble, Nicole Chavez and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Students at Wellesley College in Massachusetts approved a referendum Tuesday that called for accepting admissions applications from all nonbinary and transgender prospective students, a college spokesperson said. The women’s college of about 2,300 students currently accepts those who “live as women and consistently identify as women,”

By Cheri Mossburg and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Advances in DNA technology led to the arrest of a man in the 1997 shooting death of a teller during a bank robbery in California, authorities announced Tuesday. On April 28, 1997, two robbers disguised as construction workers wearing raincoats, hard hats and pantyhose over their faces went

By Artemis Moshtaghian, Zenebou Sylla and Rob Frehse, CNN A 20-year-old man from Upstate New York has been charged with making a terroristic threat after threatening to carry out a shooting at the Tops Friendly Markets in Manlius, New York, in a Discord post, according to court documents and local police. Police responded to a

By Pete Muntean and Theresa Waldrop, CNN The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating yet another close call between commercial airliners, this time at Reagan National Airport near Washington, DC — the seventh since the start of this year. On March 7, Republic Airways Flight 4736 crossed a runway, without clearance, that United Airlines Flight 2003