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By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Oklahoma on Thursday executed 59-year-old death row inmate Phillip Hancock, who was sentenced to death for the 2001 double murder of Robert Jett and James Lynch, according to a statement from the Department of Corrections. Hancock – who had claimed the killings were done in self-defense – was pronounced dead

By Khalil Abdallah, Nicole Grether, Polo Sandoval and Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — A Palestinian college student described how his training as an emergency medical technician helped him respond when he and his friends were shot in Vermont over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Kinnan Abdalhamid spoke to CNN by phone Wednesday night, detailing a harrowing

By Jason Hanna and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — More than a year after human remains were found in a barrel in the receding waters of Lake Mead, Nevada authorities on Wednesday released images they say are an approximation of the dead man’s face, hoping the images will spur the public to help investigators identify

By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A Texas woman who claims Jerry Jones is her father and that she was forced to stay silent about it for decades refiled her defamation lawsuit against the Dallas Cowboys owner and his associates Tuesday. Alexandra Davis, 26, says Jones and the other defendants harmed her reputation by claiming

By Sarah Dewberry and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — A 36-year-old woman slipped and fell several hundred feet from Oregon’s highest mountain right before the eyes of a group of volunteer rescue workers who rushed to her aid – and helped save her life. The woman was coming down a popular path on Mt. Hood,

By Carlos Suarez, Denise Royal and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — A Florida school district has temporarily removed a high school principal and other members of staff from their positions while it investigates allegations that a transgender student played on a girls’ volleyball team, education officials said. Transgender girls are banned from playing female sports

By Skylar Harris and Jillian Sykes, CNN (CNN) — A Vermont girls’ high school basketball team deemed ineligible to play in future activities after forfeiting a game against a team with a transgender student-athlete is now suing educational authorities in the state for religious discrimination, arguing they are punishing the school for its religious beliefs. In a lawsuit filed

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — Loved ones thought the three Palestinian college students who’d grown up like brothers would be safer in the United States – certainly in Vermont, celebrating a classic American holiday – than back in Israeli-occupied Ramallah. Now, they are living their worst nightmares. “Kinnan grew up in the West Bank, and we always thought that that could

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — The North American wolverine has officially been listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act and will receive long-anticipated federal protections, US officials announced Wednesday, as the climate crisis melts away their snowy mountain habitats. The US Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to list the wolverines as threatened in

By Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — Ryan Fournier, a co-founder of the political organization Students for Trump, was arrested and charged with assault last week in North Carolina after allegedly hitting a woman with a gun, court records show. Fournier was charged with misdemeanor assault on a female and assault with a deadly weapon on November 21,

By Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — Three people have been killed in an auto shop explosion that rattled an Ohio neighborhood, CNN affiliate WKRC reported. Firefighters in Highland County were dispatched to “an explosion and a fire” at the shop around 4 p.m. Tuesday, Paint Creek Joint EMS/Fire District Chief David Manning said. “It definitely

By Chandelis Duster, CNN (CNN) — The shooting of three Palestinian college students in Vermont has prompted calls for the suspect to be charged with a hate crime. Jason J. Eaton, 48, was arrested Sunday and charged with three counts of attempted second-degree murder in connection with the shooting. He has pleaded not guilty. Eaton

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Cold weather is stretching across the US while parts of the East are getting walloped by lake-effect snow. This occurs when cold air blows over warmer lake water, picking up more moisture and often dumping large amounts of snow in a short period of time. Here’s what else

By Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — What do snow goggles, suspension bridges, and lacrosse have in common? They are all innovations that were created by Native Americans thousands of years ago that we still use today. Many Native American contributions to our modern world often go unrecognized, according to Gaetana DeGennaro, a museum specialist at the

By Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — Kansas is going back to the drawing board after hundreds of people blasted the state’s new license plate design for next year, with many saying it resembled those of other states and a rival state university from neighboring Missouri. “I’ve heard you loud and clear,” Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly

By Dianne Gallagher, Shawn Nottingham and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors have dropped charges against Christina Pierre, the woman who was struck in the face by a Charlotte police officer and was later seen on video being repeatedly punched and kneed by another officer during her arrest earlier this month, court records show. Pierre

By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — The families of Sandy Hook shooting victims offered Infowars host Alex Jones a “path out of bankruptcy” if he pays them a “small fraction” of the more than $1 billion he owes in damages, according to a court document. Jones filed for personal bankruptcy in December 2022 after he was ordered to

By Raja Razek and Jason Hanna, CNN (CNN) — The police officers involved in last year’s shooting death of a 25-year-old Black man in the Ohio city of Akron did not violate agency policy in the incident, and none of them will be disciplined or released from duty, the Akron police chief said Tuesday, citing

By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — An infectious respiratory disease among dogs that continues to baffle veterinarians has now been reported in at least a dozen US states, from Washington, Oregon and California to New Hampshire, Florida and Pennsylvania. David B. Needle, a pathologist at the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and clinical associate professor

By Eric Levenson and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — A defense attorney for the rapper Young Thug accused prosecutors of misrepresenting evidence and ridiculed the idea that the Grammy-winning, world-renowned artist would be focused on running a small-time Atlanta street gang in opening statements of his racketeering trial Tuesday. “He is not running this criminal