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By Zoe Sottile, CNN RowVaughn Wells, whose 29-year-old son Tyre Nichols died from injuries sustained during a police traffic stop in Memphis earlier this month, says that the officers involved have “brought shame to their own families” and “brought shame to the Black community.” Wells spoke with CNN’s Don Lemon on Friday morning in her

By Jay Croft, CNN Announcer Billy Packer, who was called “the voice of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament” for decades, died Thursday, his son announced in a tweet. He was 82. He broadcast NCAA games for CBS starting in the early 1980s. “The Packer Family would like to share some sad news,” Mark Packer wrote.

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Rents are climbing across the US, and those high costs are among the many compelling reasons to try to buy a home. But with mortgage rates double what they were a year ago — and home inventory at a historic low — both options can be a magnet for stress. For

By Aya Elamroussi, Taylor Romine and Paradise Afshar, CNN Chunli Zhao, the farmworker accused of carrying out two shootings on farms in Northern California earlier this week, admitted to killing seven people and injuring one other, NBC Bay Area News reported. Monday’s mass killings stunned the coastal city of Half Moon Bay, becoming the deadliest

By Travis Caldwell, CNN “Appalling.” “Savage.” “Inhumane.” While video of an arrest in Memphis that resulted in a 29-year-old Black man’s hospitalization and death has yet to be publicly released, some family members as well as police officials have previewed the footage, sharing their disgust and horror at what they describe as a vicious beating

By Jason Hanna, Jamiel Lynch, Chuck Johnston, Shawn Nottingham and Andy Rose, CNN Tyre Nichols screamed for his mother and Memphis police officers struck him multiple times — including in the face while his hands were restrained — toward the end of the Black man’s deadly encounter with the officers this month, video released by

By Philip Wang and Jessie Yeung, CNN Five of the seven people killed in the Half Moon Bay shootings in California were Chinese citizens, China’s consulate in San Francisco said Thursday. The consulate strongly condemned the killings, which took place in the San Francisco Bay area on Monday, and sent its condolences to the victims’

By Mallika Kallingal, Paradise Afshar and Andy Rose, CNN The remains of a child found by Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agents in Rush Springs last week have been positively identified as those of a missing 4-year-old girl. The Oklahoma Chief Medical Examiner’s office says the remains are those of Athena Brownfield, who was first

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN It’s been almost three weeks since a traffic stop in Memphis led to a violent arrest and, three days later, the death of the 29-year-old Black driver. Tyre Nichols was hospitalized after he was pulled over on January 7, police have said. Five Memphis Police Department officers, who also are Black,