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By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Ohio has filed a federal lawsuit against Norfolk Southern over last month’s toxic chemical derailment in East Palestine, Attorney General Dave Yost announced Tuesday. Yost outlined the 58-count complaint, saying that Norfolk Southern violated numerous state, federal and Ohio common laws and violated the state’s Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability

By Jeremy Grisham and Chris Boyette, CNN A 14-year-old was killed and two other teens were hospitalized Tuesday after a vehicle crashed into them while they were riding horses that the Dallas Police Department says were stolen. Two of the horses also died, Dallas Police said in a news release. Police responded to the crash

By Melissa Alonso and Jennifer Henderson, CNN The former sheriff of a suburban Atlanta county was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in federal prison on civil rights charges related to his treatment of incarcerated people, according to the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Victor Hill, previously the Clayton County sheriff, was

By Josh Campbell, CNN A gunman races across the quad at a southern California university, spraying a barrage of bullets from the barrel of an assault-style rifle. Campus police arrive on scene and return fire as the suspect rushes toward the school’s library. As the officers give chase, throngs of screaming students and teachers flood

By Tina Burnside, CNN A 13-year-old girl reported missing in Dallas was found locked in a shed more than 1,000 miles away in North Carolina after she was abducted and raped by a man she met on a social media platform, authorities said. The girl was found in Lexington, about an hour’s drive northeast of

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Make sure you’re getting a long, restful night’s sleep before you head to the doctor’s office for a vaccination. A new study finds you should aim for at least six hours of quality slumber in order to maximize your body’s response to a vaccine. Here’s what else you need to know to

By Sara Smart, CNN A man was hospitalized after a zebra attacked him and bit his arm in Ohio Sunday before a deputy shot and killed the animal, according to law enforcement. Deputies were dispatched to a home in Circleville, Ohio, after getting a call from a man who said “his arm had been bitten

By Dakin Andone, Nick Valencia and Pamela Kirkland, CNN The family of an environmental activist killed while protesting a planned law enforcement training facility in Atlanta earlier this year has filed a lawsuit against the city, seeking the release of records to aid in their search for answers about what led to the fatal shooting.

By Polo Sandoval and Sarah Boxer, CNN On a snowy March afternoon, a small convoy of taxis and hired cars rolled north along a New York country road that dead-ends at the Canadian border. Among those onboard: a Nigerian family of five, a Russian man traveling alone and a tearful South American woman named Giovanna.

By Lauren del Valle, CNN A terrorist convicted of committing a 2017 attack for ISIS that killed eight on a New York City bike path will serve life in prison after a jury said Monday it could not reach a unanimous decision on the death penalty. Sayfullo Saipov effectively learned his sentence when the jury

By Chris Boyette and Eric Levenson, CNN A 3-year-old girl fatally wounded her 4-year-old sister in an unintentional shooting in Texas, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said. “This basically involves a 3-year-old and a 4-year-old,” Gonzalez said. “The 3-year-old is the alleged shooter. It appears to be unintentional.” Calling the incident “tragic” but “very preventable,”

By Rebekah Riess, CNN The placing of an antisemitic drawing in a dormitory at Stanford University is being investigated by campus police as a hate crime, officials said. The drawing, which included “multiple swastikas and an image modified to resemble Adolf Hitler,” was discovered on a whiteboard attached to a Jewish student’s dorm room door

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Wouldn’t it be convenient if doctors could just print a kidney for transplants, instead of having to find a donor match? Well, thanks to these regenerative medicine technologies, some scientists say they’ll be able to 3D-print bioartificial organs in the coming decades. Here’s what else you need to know to Get

By Alaa Elassar, CNN Mary Saladino spends most of her days holding her son in her arms while he violently seizes, whispering to him as she frantically tries to save his life. Nearly every day she witnesses her baby waver on the brink of death, not breathing and often paralyzed. Her 3-year-old son, Henry, suffers

By Nouran Salahieh and Holly Yan, CNN Californians pummeled by an onslaught of dangerous storms will get deluged again as another atmospheric river threatens more deadly flooding. More than 30 million people in California were under flood watches Monday that cover much of the state, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Fresno and Sacramento. The brunt