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New Mexico police release body camera footage showing officers shooting, killing man after responding to the wrong address

By Paradise Afshar and Sara Smart, CNN Three New Mexico officers opened fire on a man after mistakenly responding to the wrong address earlier this month — an incident that left the man dead, police said Friday as they released body camera footage from the shooting. The Farmington Police Department released videos from body cameras

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3 dead in highway shootings involving outlaw motorcycle gang members in Southeast Texas, authorities say

By Paradise Afshar, CNN Three people were killed and one other was wounded Friday in shootings along Interstate 45 in two counties in Southeast Texas — incidents believed to have involved outlaw motorcycle gangs, authorities said. The incidents took place in Montgomery and Walker counties, north of Houston. At 12:18 p.m. local time, Texas Department

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Rockland County, New York, officials say sparks from CSX train apparently cause brush fires

By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN A CSX train apparently caused sparks as it traveled through its Rockland County, New York, route, creating “dozens of brush fires,” according to the Rockland County Sheriff’s Office. In a Facebook post, the sheriff’s office said, “A CSX train traveling through the Town of Clarkstown, Stony Point, Haverstraw, Village of Haverstraw,

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The Parkland school shooter got a life sentence. Now Florida is poised to require fewer jurors to agree on death penalty than any other state

By Dakin Andone, CNN Tony Montalto sat in a Florida courtroom and watched in disbelief as his 14-year-old daughter’s killer received a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole after a jury was unable to reach unanimous agreement that her murderer should be put to death. “It was the third worst thing

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Racial disparities are working against disaster recovery for people of color. Climate change could make it worse

By Lauren Lee, CNN People of color in the US face heightened risks of harm from climate-induced disasters. Now, non-profits are pushing to remedy that disparity with more equitable approaches to disaster preparedness, response and recovery. “Until we really address the root issues of climate injustice, we’re going to continue to see a disproportionate impact

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Father of former NFL player who killed six in mass shooting sues university following son’s CTE diagnosis

By Dianne Gallagher, CNN The father of a former NFL player who killed six people, including two children, in a South Carolina mass shooting before killing himself, is suing the university where his son played football. Alonzo Adams filed the wrongful death lawsuit in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, against South Carolina State University. His son,

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Unsealed documents from the Daniel Perry case show he made comments on social media about killing protesters and Muslims

By Taylor Romine, Ashley Killough and Ed Lavandera, CNN As the Texas pardons board considers a request from Gov. Greg Abbott to pardon a man convicted last week of fatally shooting a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally, newly unsealed documents show the Army sergeant talked about killing people and shared racist comments on

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Minneapolis reaches settlements in 2 suits alleging then-officer Derek Chauvin used excessive force years before George Floyd’s killing

By Paradise Afshar, CNN The city of Minneapolis has reached settlements totaling more than $8.8 million in two civil lawsuits that accuse former police officer Derek Chauvin of using excessive force in two incidents that happened nearly three years before he killed George Floyd during an arrest. The plaintiffs, John Pope and Zoya Code —

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Colorado high school students return to class amid investigation into possible bacterial meningitis deaths of two teachers

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Classes at a Colorado high school have resumed after two teachers died over the weekend after experiencing symptoms of bacterial meningitis, according to school administrators. The two teachers at Eaglecrest High School in Aurora, 24-year-old Madelaine Michelle Schmidt and 63-year-old Judith Briere Geoffroy, experienced symptoms of bacterial meningitis before their deaths,

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Children of missing Minnesota mother Madeline Kingsbury won’t be released to their father and will remain in county custody

By Tina Burnside and Kara Devlin, CNN A Minnesota judge has ruled the children of a missing woman will remain in county custody rather than be released to their father who says he is cooperating with law enforcement “at every turn,” nearly two weeks after the disappearance of 26-year-old Madeline Kingsbury. In a ruling on

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What is El Niño?

By Brandon Miller, Nick Thompson and Jennifer Gray, CNN El Niño is a climate pattern that originates in the Pacific Ocean along the equator and impacts weather all over the world. Warm water normally is confined to the western Pacific by winds that blow from east to west, pushing it toward Indonesia and Australia. But

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A man with schizophrenia died after being kept naked and malnourished in solitary confinement at an Indiana jail for nearly 3 weeks, lawsuit says

By Paradise Afshar and Andi Babineau, CNN An Indiana man with a history of schizophrenia died in the summer of 2021 due to organ failure following nearly three weeks in solitary confinement at a Jackson County jail, according to a newly filed lawsuit. The lawsuit says jailers placed Joshua McLemore, 29, in a windowless, padded

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