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By Sara Smart, CNN Multiple schools in Fairfax County, Virginia, are under investigation after allegedly failing to give students their National Merit Scholarship recognition in a timely manner, before many students submitted college applications. State Attorney General Jason Miyares launched the investigation on January 4 against Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST)

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN The Memphis Police Department and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation have launched investigations into the action of officers involved in a traffic stop arrest of a man who later died and plan to take “immediate and appropriate action” against them, according to a release from the city. On January 8, the police

Michelle Watson and Aaron Eggleston, CNN A man was arrested in Beech Grove, Indiana, after video was shown on live TV of a toddler, reportedly the man’s son, waving and pulling the trigger of a handgun. The video was aired by Reelz series “On Patrol: Live,” during the TV show’s live broadcast on Saturday, January

By Justin Gamble and Nicole Chavez, CNN Backlash ensued soon after a monument meant to honor Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King‘s legacy in Boston was unveiled. The 20-foot tall, 40-foot wide “The Embrace” statue was unveiled Friday on Boston Common, where King gave a speech on April 23,

By Stella Chan, CNN At least six people, including a mother and her 6-month-old baby, are dead after an “early morning massacre” Monday that authorities in Goshen, California, said may be related to cartel activity. Deputies who responded to reports of gunfire after 3:30 a.m. Monday found six victims, including two who were in the

By Lauren del Valle and Eric Levenson, CNN Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn moved to dismiss charges against a New York Police Department officer who had been accused of acting as a foreign agent on behalf of the Chinese government. Baimadajie Angwang was charged in September 2020 with acting as a foreign agent for China without

By Andy Rose and Ashley Killough, CNN Fencing that was cut at the Dallas Zoo’s clouded leopard habitat Friday — resulting in the escape of one of the animals — wasn’t the only apparent tampering at the zoo that day, police said. “Zoo personnel showed investigators a similar cut found at a habitat that enclosed

By Tina Burnside, Christine Sever and Dakin Andone, CNN The suspect in an unprovoked attack allegedly said she was motivated by race when she repeatedly stabbed the victim — a student of Asian descent at Indiana University — last week on a city bus, according to court documents and a student group. In what appears

By Christina Maxouris, CNN When authorities in Newport News, Virginia, announced on January 6 that a 6-year-old boy brought a gun to school and shot his teacher, sending her to the hospital, the country was stunned. The city’s mayor said it was nearly impossible to grapple with what happened. The police chief called the case

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN In many corners of the US, people are hunkering down in their homes and layering on their clothes amid a bout of severe winter weather. Meanwhile, residents of the world’s coldest city say they still manage to get outside for work and errands, even though temperatures have plunged to an unimaginable

By Zenebou Sylla and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A man who saved more than 20 people during the deadly snowstorm that shrouded Erie County, New York, in December has been thanked for his actions with tickets to the Super Bowl gifted to him in part by the NFL’s Buffalo Bills. When Jay Withey, a mechanic in

By Alaa Elassar, CNN The United States Department of the Interior has replaced a derogatory term for Indigenous women used for centuries in five areas across the country. The Board on Geographic Names (BGN) voted on replacement names to remove the word sq—, an “offensive ethnic, racial and sexist slur, particularly for Indigenous women,” from