By Sara Smart, CNN A sheriff and a local firearms dealer in Frederick County, Maryland, have been indicted on federal charges for their roles in a scheme to illegally acquire machine guns so they could be rented out for profit, federal prosecutors announced. A federal grand jury indicted Frederick County Sheriff Charles Austin Jenkins, 66,
Continue ReadingBy Eric Cheung, Will Ripley and John Mees, CNN Hundreds of feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, cocooned within one of the US Navy’s most technologically advanced pieces of equipment, Rear Adm. Jeff Jablon is clear-eyed about the two biggest challenges his team faces. “In today’s world, we are facing two nuclear peer
Continue ReadingBy Eric Cheung, Will Ripley and John Mees, CNN Hundreds of feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, cocooned within one of the US Navy’s most technologically advanced pieces of equipment, Rear Adm. Jeff Jablon is clear-eyed about the two biggest challenges his team faces. “In today’s world, we are facing two nuclear peer
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart, Holmes Lybrand and Haley Britzky, CNN Members of the FBI and the US Army Special Operations Command who were conducting a training exercise in downtown Boston raided the wrong hotel room and detained the person inside before realizing their mistake, the FBI said in a statement to CNN. The FBI said its
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson, CNN Former University of Alabama basketball player Darius Miles pleaded not guilty Monday to a capital murder charge in connection with a shooting in January, court records show. A waiver of arraignment filed in the Circuit Court of Tuscaloosa County indicates an attorney for Miles entered the not guilty plea, almost three
Continue ReadingBy Celina Tebor and Christina Zdanowicz, CNN A report from Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown released Wednesday alleges 156 Catholic clergy members and others abused at least 600 children over the course of more than six decades. “From the 1940s through 2002, over a hundred priests and other Archdiocese personnel engaged in horrific and repeated
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Dakin Andone, CNN The US Department of Justice on Wednesday announced it had reached an “agreement in principle” to settle claims from the November 2017 mass shooting at a Sutherland Springs, Texas, church for $144.5 million, according to a news release. A federal court in 2021 ruled the US government was
Continue ReadingBy Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN The FBI and federal prosecutors have opened a civil rights investigation into the deadly police shooting of 17-year-old Dalaneo Martin by an officer in Washington, DC, last month after the teen was found sleeping in an allegedly stolen vehicle. The announcement came after US Park Police and Washington Metropolitan Police
Continue ReadingBy Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN The FBI and federal prosecutors have opened a civil rights investigation into the deadly police shooting of 17-year-old Dalaneo Martin by an officer in Washington, DC, last month after the teen was found sleeping in an allegedly stolen vehicle. The announcement came after US Park Police and Washington Metropolitan Police
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Billions of items are scanned every day using a barcode, that block of parallel lines usually on the back of products. The laser-powered technology has revolutionized major industries since its debut 50 years ago. But, like many great inventions, it remains unclear whose idea it actually was. Here’s what else you
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Billions of items are scanned every day using a barcode, that block of parallel lines usually on the back of products. The laser-powered technology has revolutionized major industries since its debut 50 years ago. But, like many great inventions, it remains unclear whose idea it actually was. Here’s what else you
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN More than three months after Patrick Holland’s first shot at getting a heart transplant was ruined by winter weather that upended his travel and prevented him from getting to the Washington state hospital in time, the Alaska man has been given a second chance. The father of seven
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson and Raja Razek, CNN Law enforcement officials in central Florida are asking the public for any information related to the shooting deaths of three teenage friends being investigated as homicides after they were discovered in separate locations. While no arrests in the triple homicide have been made, Lt. Paul Bloom with Marion
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson and Raja Razek, CNN Law enforcement officials in central Florida are asking the public for any information related to the shooting deaths of three teenage friends being investigated as homicides after they were discovered in separate locations. While no arrests in the triple homicide have been made, Lt. Paul Bloom with Marion
Continue ReadingBy Cheri Mossburg and Christina Maxouris, CNN The family of an 18-year-old woman who was fatally shot by a California school safety officer in 2021 reached a $13 million settlement agreement with the Long Beach Unified School District in their civil case, family attorneys said in a news conference Tuesday. Manuela “Mona” Rodriguez was shot
Continue ReadingBy Justin Gamble and Nicole Chavez, CNN A review board voted Monday to continue the use of the 1998 movie “Ruby Bridges” as part of the curriculum at a Florida elementary school, according to Pinellas County Schools. The film came under scrutiny last month when a parent at North Shore Elementary School filed a complaint,
Continue ReadingBy Andi Babineau, Celina Tebor and Sara Smart, CNN Four men have been arrested in connection with more than a dozen robberies at bars and nightclubs in New York, including two suspects who are also charged with murder, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Robert Demaio, 34, and Jacob Barroso, 30, are charged with
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone, Ryan Young, Amy Simonson and Steve Almasy, CNN In an extraordinary, emotionally charged session marked by tense exchanges and punctuated by boos and chants from onlookers, Tennessee’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to expel two Black lawmakers — but failed to oust a third representative — a week after the three Democrats
Continue ReadingBy Carlos Suarez and Dakin Andone, CNN Investigators found a suicide note when they executed a search warrant at the home of the shooter who killed six people at a Nashville school last week, along with more weapons and ammunition, according to an inventory of items seized. The search warrant and the list of items
Continue ReadingBy Carlos Suarez and Dakin Andone, CNN Investigators found a suicide note when they searched the home of the shooter who killed six people at a Nashville school last week, along with weapons and ammunition, according to an inventory items authorities seized while executing a search warrant at the residence. The search warrant and the
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