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By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors could seek the death penalty against a Mexican national charged with fatally shooting five people in a Texas home, after a grand jury indicted him for capital murder, the district attorney told CNN on Friday. Francisco Oropesa, 38, was charged in May for the killings in the town

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — Suzanne Wheeler doesn’t want to symbolize a movement. She just wants to live as a trans woman in Kansas as she has for the past eight years: unapologetically herself – and with the official documents to prove it. But now Wheeler wonders if that’s even possible, given a new

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — If you’ve made it to your 40th birthday without tying the knot, you’re not alone, according to a recent report from the Pew Research Center. A look at 2021 US Census Bureau data found a quarter of 40-year-olds in the United States had never been married, the research

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — A Maryland woman who’d played the same lottery numbers for a year won big after getting some inspiration from a previous winner, she told lottery officials. The unidentified woman from Forestville, which is about 10 miles east of Washington, DC, won $50,000 in a Pick 5 game, according

By Nick Valencia and Pamela Kirkland, CNN (CNN) — A Nicaraguan national who died last week in federal immigration custody had spent more than one year in detention. Despite having been recommended for release more than seven months ago, he continued to be held in immigration custody, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Ernesto

By Andy Rose and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — An Oklahoma sheriff who allegedly participated in a secretly recorded conversation that included racist remarks about lynching Black people and comments about killing journalists will not face criminal charges and cannot be removed from office, the state’s attorney general announced Friday. In a letter to Oklahoma

By Elizabeth Joseph, CNN (CNN) — A California woman has been sentenced to 90 days in jail after lying to authorities that a couple was attempting to kidnap her children, according to the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office. Kathleen Sorensen, 31, was sentenced to jail Thursday on a single count of knowingly making a false

By Sara Smart and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — E. coli contamination from a sewage discharge has prompted the closure of a six-mile stretch of the Chattahoochee River in Roswell, Georgia, ahead of the July 4th holiday weekend. The river is closed from the Chattahoochee Nature Center to Johnson Ferry Road, according to a tweet

By Nic F. Anderson and Samantha Beech, CNN (CNN) — A Philadelphia towing company has been accused of running an organized criminal enterprise which purchased millions of dollars’ worth of stolen catalytic converters from thieves to sell at a profit, according to prosecutors. Prosecutors said TDI Towing purchased $8.2 million dollars’ worth of stolen catalytic

By Nicole Chavez and Isabel Yip, CNN (CNN) — While most Americans support stricter gun measures, people of color are more likely to favor them compared to White Americans, a new report says. The Pew Research Center found Black adults showed the highest support for stricter laws, at 77%, followed by Asian adults at 74%

By Eli Masket and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A commercial truck driver who caused a fiery six-vehicle crash in January in Arizona was “actively using the TikTok application” when he rear-ended two passenger vehicles, killing five, according to officials. The driver, identified as Danny G. Tiner, collided with the vehicles in the early morning

By Sabrina Souza, CNN (CNN) — The Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooter told a forensic psychologist who evaluated him that he had identified multiple targets to carry out the mass shooting of Jews, testimony at the killer’s death penalty trial revealed Thursday. Under cross-examination by federal prosecutor Eric Olshan, defense witness Dr. Richard Rogers said convicted

By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — Today is the traditional getaway day for the long holiday weekend. We’re taking some time off here at 5 Things too. We’ll be back in your inboxes next Wednesday. Until then, happy Fourth of July! Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with

By Andy Rose and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Homer Hogues, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, died this week in Dallas, just two days after the death of his wife, according to an obituary provided by his family. He was 96. Hogues, who served in the US military as an airplane mechanic and

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — The Texas Department of Public Safety must release records related to last year’s deadly Uvalde elementary school shooting, a district court judge in Austin ruled Thursday. District court judge Daniella Deseta Lyttle ruled in favor of a coalition of media outlets – including CNN – that

By Justin Gamble, Meron Moges-Gerbi and Jeremy Harlan, CNN (CNN) — Navajo Nation police officers are searching for Native Americans who have been victimized by what the state of Arizona calls “fraudulent Medicaid providers.” According to state officials, treatment facilities designed to treat Native Americans for substance abuse and mental health issues allegedly defrauded the

By Brynn Gingras and Linh Tran, CNN (CNN) — If Megan Talkington’s daughter told her mother she wanted to be in law enforcement, the veteran police officer in West Virginia says she knows exactly her response. “I would tell her, ‘No.’ I would not want my daughter to walk through the halls of the West

By Samantha Beech (CNN) — A Virginia sheriff is facing federal fraud and conspiracy charges as the US Justice Department claims he handed out deputy sheriff badges in exchange for money to help fund his reelection campaign, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday. Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Howard Jenkins, 51, and three other Virginia men

By Nicole Chavez, Stephanie Elam and Anna-Maja-Rappard, CNN (CNN) — A task force examining reparations for Black residents in California released its final report Thursday with more than 115 recommendations for how the state should compensate those harmed by slavery and “historical atrocities.” Recommendations in the landmark report, comprised of more than 1,000 pages, include