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By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s landmark decision to bar colleges and universities from considering race as a specific basis for admission will make it more difficult for schools to achieve a diverse student population, civil rights leaders and education advocates say. The gutting of affirmative action upends a long-standing precedent

By Joe Sutton and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Richard Allen, the man charged in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls in Delphi, Indiana, confessed to the crime during a phone call with his wife while in custody, a newly unsealed court document alleges. Allen was arrested in October and faces murder charges in

By Dakin Andone, Denise Royal and Carlos Suarez, CNN Fort Lauderdale, Florida (CNN) — A jury has acquitted on all counts the former school resource officer who stayed outside during the February 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida – absolving him of wrongdoing in the rare trial of a law

By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — With summer activities in full swing, CNN Travel asked flight attendants for secrets to surviving one of the year’s most chaotic travel seasons – and used their insight to compile a list of essential tips. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On

By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — The family of Irvo Otieno – who died in March while being admitted to a Virginia mental health facility – is asking the Department of Justice for a federal investigation into his death, their attorneys announced Wednesday. Seven sheriff’s deputies and one hospital worker are facing second-degree murder charges

By Rob Frehse, CNN (CNN) — Two more police officers in New Haven, Connecticut, are being fired in connection with a 2022 incident that paralyzed Randy Cox as he was being transported in a police van handcuffed and without a seat belt. The New Haven Board of Police Commissioners voted 5-0 to fire Officer Oscar

By Lauren Mascarenhas and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — Dangerous air quality and hazy skies persist as smoke from Canada’s raging wildfires drifts south, leaving more than 100 million people under air quality alerts across a dozen states from Minnesota to New York and down to the Carolinas. By 6 p.m. Thursday, Detroit topped the

By Christina Maxouris and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — US medical experts will analyze “presumed human remains” found within the Titan submersible’s wreckage as mystery still surrounds the vessel’s catastrophic implosion last week in the North Atlantic. “There is still a substantial amount of work to be done to understand the factors that led to

By Cheri Mossburg and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — At least 16 people were injured Wednesday when an Amtrak train collided with a truck blocking the tracks and partially derailed in Southern California, local officials said. The driver of the truck was transported to a trauma center and another person was taken to a medical

By Isabel Yip, CNN (CNN) — For Nancy Johnson, Windsor Park was like a dream when she first moved to a new home in the historically Black North Las Vegas neighborhood in 1976. But within a few years, the cracks began to show – and homes started to sink. “The homes, the streets started cracking,

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — A Florida man who has been on the run for almost four decades for a 1984 murder has been caught in California and extradited back to Florida, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Donald Santini was wanted for the murder of Cynthia Wood. Santini was

By Sabrina Souza and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — The Pittsburgh synagogue shooter was “blatantly psychotic” and believed he should have been rewarded with medals and a parade for the attack, a forensic psychologist who examined him last year testified at his death penalty trial on Thursday. “He tried not to express this very much,

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the July 20, 2012, movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado. Twelve people were killed and 70 injured. On July 16, 2015, James Holmes was found guilty on all 165 counts against him: 24 first-degree murder, 140 attempted murder and one count of possession or control

By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — Matthew Nilo, a Massachusetts man who was charged in the sexual assaults of four women after his DNA was pulled from a drinking glass, was indicted on new rape charges stemming from “sexual attacks” that happened between 2007 and 2008, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said in a

By Amy Simonson and Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — A Texas police officer tells two children with their mom in a mall parking lot to be good and to wear their seat belts when a burst of gunfire erupts. The mother is then seen in footage from the officer’s body camera ducking and whisking her

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Grammy-winning singer Linda Ronstadt. Personal Birth date: July 15, 1946 Birth place: Tucson, Arizona Birth name: Linda Marie Ronstadt Father: Gilbert Ronstadt, hardware store owner Mother: Ruth Mary (Copeman) Ronstadt, homemaker Children: adopted: Carlos and Mary Clementine Education: Attended University of Arizona,

By Shawn Nottingham and Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — The Rankin County Sheriff’s Office in Mississippi has fired multiple deputies after two Black men filed a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging six White deputies entered their private residence illegally and tortured them for nearly two hours. “Due to recent developments, including findings during our internal

By Taylor Romine and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Two mushroom farms that employed the Half Moon Bay mass shooting suspect were cited for “serious” health and safety violations in an investigation stemming from the January workplace attacks, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health announced in a news release Monday. The two farms

By Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran charged in the death of a homeless Black man he put in a chokehold on the New York City subway, has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide during a court appearance. Penny, who is White, only spoke to