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By Melissa Alonso and Dakin Andone, CNN Tennessee House Republicans on Monday took steps toward expelling three Democratic state representatives after they participated in protests at the state Capitol last Thursday calling for more gun control in the wake of the deadly mass shooting at Nashville’s Covenant School. GOP lawmakers filed three resolutions Monday, one

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Fifty years ago this week, the first cell phone call was made on a sidewalk in New York City with a device the size of a brick. Each decade since that day in 1973 has seen the once-bulky phone evolve into a thinner, faster and smarter device that continues to reshape

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN When Zack Galifianakis asks Paul Rudd about his Jewishness in “Between Two Ferns: The Movie,” the actor responds with a quip. “I’m not a practicing Jew,” he says with a smirk. “I perfected it.” Rudd’s now widely referenced line nods to a sentiment felt by many Jews: There isn’t any one

By Amy Simonson, CNN The missing Florida toddler who was found dead in the mouth of an alligator last week was put in the lake by his father, who is also accused of killing the child’s mother, according to St. Petersburg police affidavits. Thomas Mosley, 21, is facing two counts of first-degree murder, according to

By Stephanie Elam and Rachel Ramirez, CNN After a remarkable series of winter storms, California water officials reported Monday in their April snow survey the Sierra snowpack is among the largest on record, dating back to the 1950s. The state’s Department of Water Resources surveys mountain snowpack once a month through the winter, and the

By Laura Paddison, CNN Oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico is belching out significantly higher levels of potent, planet-heating gas than previously thought, according to new research, which found the climate effects of the operations are twice that of official estimates. The report comes as the Biden administration last month put millions

By Dakin Andone, CNN The 28-year-old who killed three children and three adults at a Christian school in Nashville last week fired 152 rounds, Nashville police said Monday, adding that while they have yet to determine a motive, the shooter planned the attack “over a period of months” and studied other mass murderers. The shooter,

By Amy Simonson, CNN Two crew members were killed and a third was seriously wounded when a medical helicopter crashed while responding to a call in Alabama, officials said. The Life Saver helicopter operated by Air Methods was attempting to land around 5:20 p.m. Sunday when the crash occurred, according to the Shelby County Sheriff’s

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN In a few hours, the public will learn the names of the four astronauts tapped by NASA to complete a historic journey around the moon next year aboard the Artemis II rocket. The three Americans and one Canadian who are set to be revealed in a ceremony at 11 a.m. ET

By Nouran Salahieh and Holly Yan, CNN Parts of the Midwest and South devastated by catastrophic tornadoes will have almost no time to recover before another round of dangerous storms takes aim at hard-hit areas. At least 32 people were killed after an onslaught of tornado-spawning storms Friday obliterated houses, ripped roofs off buildings, wiped

By Dianne Gallagher and Melissa Alonso, CNN The body of Stephen Smith, whose 2015 death was thrust back into the spotlight during the investigation of the 2021 killings of Margaret “Maggie” Murdaugh and her son Paul Murdaugh, was exhumed over the weekend for an independent autopsy, attorneys for Smith’s family said. Smith’s body was exhumed,