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By John Blake, CNN Maybe you shared that viral video of Kimberly “Sweet Brown” Wilkins telling a reporter after narrowly escaping an apartment fire, “Ain’t nobody got time for that!” Perhaps you posted that meme of supermodel Tyra Banks exploding in anger on “America’s Next Top Model” (“I was rooting for you! We were all

By Nicole Grether, CNN “Papa died last night, but his death is not the end.” Those are the first words Veronica Fletcher uttered to her three children after her husband, Joseph Fletcher, died from Covid-19 on April 11, 2020. “We’re going to keep papa’s name alive,” Fletcher, 49, later told her children. “He lives in

By Andy Rose, CNN Actor Jonathan Majors, who has recently starred in “Creed III” and “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” was arrested Saturday morning in an alleged domestic dispute, New York police say. Majors, 33, was taken into custody following a 911 call made from an apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, according to

By Paradise Afshar, CNN A 32-year-old man has died following a shooting at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Lake Tahoe, located in Stateline, Nevada, on Saturday, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies were dispatched to the hotel at 8:08 a.m. local time following reports of an active shooter and the first deputy

By Paradise Afshar, Melissa Alonso and Zoe Sottile, CNN Two migrants from Cuba landed at Key West International Airport in Florida on Saturday via a motorized hang glider, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. The pair landed at about 10:30 a.m. local time, and were not seriously injured, the sheriff’s office announced on its

By Kia Fatahi and Zenebou Sylla, CNN An Indiana teen who was missing for eight days and “believed to be in extreme danger” last week was found safe Friday evening, according to officials. Scottie D. Morris, 14, was located by an Eaton, Indiana, police officer in Eaton, authorities said in a Facebook post Saturday. He

By Rosa Flores, Andy Rose, Zoe Sottile and Paradise Afshar, CNN Two migrants were found dead in a shipping container on a train the authorities stopped east of Uvalde, Texas, on Friday, according to local police. One other person was left in serious condition and another in critical condition. In a news release Friday night,

By Scottie Andrew, CNN Many lovers of spiders profess a lifelong fascination with all things creepy crawly. Heather Bruen’s affinity for spiders was borne out of necessity. At first she couldn’t stand them — their creepy eight-legged walk-and-stalk, that haunting gaze and garish, hairy body. But living in Florida, where the regal jumping spider is

By Sara Sidner, Meridith Edwards and Rachel Clarke, CNN Tammie Bailey worries every day that her water will turn bad. That the smell of rotten eggs and rotting meat will come out of her kitchen tap again. Worse still, that the water will be the soupy mix of sediment and contaminants that forced her to

By Sara Smart, Samantha Beech, Zoe Sottile and Dakin Andone, CNN A fourth person has been confirmed dead in an explosion at an eastern Pennsylvania candy factory, officials said Sunday, as rescue crews continue to search for three others who remain missing amid waning hope of finding more survivors. Rescue crews located the fourth victim

By Nick Valencia, CNN A large portion of a public park near Atlanta on the proposed site of a police and fire training facility — dubbed “Cop City” by critics — has been temporarily closed by an executive order, after county officials said they located “life threatening” hidden traps scattered in the park. “They confiscated

By Taylor Romine, CNN The Los Angeles Unified School District and Service Employees International Union Local 99 have reached a deal following a three-day strike, officials said in a news conference Friday evening. The union represents about 30,000 Los Angeles school custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers and other student services staff, and was calling for

By Rosa Flores, CNN US Customs and Border Protection recently transferred 34 Mexican nationals from the Swanton Border Patrol Sector on the US border with Canada, to El Paso, Texas, for immigration processing at a southern border facility, according to a federal law enforcement source familiar with operations. The individuals were transported on a CBP-contracted

By Zenebou Sylla, CNN A Pennsylvania school district is suing Norfolk Southern for negligence stemming from last month’s train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, and the subsequent “controlled” release of toxic chemicals at the derailment site, according to a complaint filed Thursday. The Blackhawk School District in Beaver County is alleging “the toxic fires and

By Mallika Kallingal and Greg Wallace, CNN The largest US airline pilots union is counseling its members to be more focused to avoid additional close calls. There have been multiple close calls on runways this year which have raised questions about air safety. The Air Line Pilots Association issued a safety alert encouraging pilots to

By Rashard Rose and Andrea Cambron, CNN A Virginia police officer has been fired and is under criminal investigation after police say he shot and killed an unarmed shoplifting suspect, Fairfax County police announced Thursday. Officers suspected the man who was killed, Timothy Johnson, 37, had stolen items from a Tysons Corner shopping center February

By Jalen Brown Langston University announced this week it will clear student balances for a second time in recent years to “lessen the burden” of those enrolled in the school. More than $4.5 million in student debt is being canceled at the historically Black university in Oklahoma, Langston President Kent J. Smith Jr. said Wednesday

By Melissa Alonso and Zoe Sottile, CNN A judge sentenced Aiden Fucci — the Florida teenager convicted of first-degree murder for stabbing a 13-year-old over 100 times in 2021 — to life in prison on Friday. Fucci, 16, entered his guilty plea in February 2023 at a hearing intended to get jury selection for his