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By Lauren del Valle, CNN Closing arguments concluded Tuesday in the trial of Sayfullo Saipov, the man prosecutors say was radicalized by ISIS propaganda before he allegedly drove a rented truck down a bike path in New York, killing eight pedestrians in 2017. The judge is expected to charge the jury with the case Wednesday

By Andy Rose, CNN Emergency responders in the Houston area say they are responding to reports of damage and stranded motorists after a possible tornado moved through the area Tuesday. Structural damage from a tornado in Pasadena, about 15 miles southeast of Houston, is “catastrophic,” according to the local police chief. “In my 25 years

By Jillian Sykes and Faith Karimi, CNN Dylan Gartenmayer has been diving and spearfishing along the Florida coast since he was 10. That experience helped him survive a frightening ordeal that left him stranded at sea for hours. The 21-year-old was free diving at the Western Sambo Reef near Key West Thursday afternoon when a

By Alisha Ebrahimji and David Culver, CNN Among the victims of a mass shooting at a dance studio in Monterey Park, California, on Saturday were a loving father and a woman whose family called her one of their biggest cheerleaders. Dozens in their 50s, 60s and 70s had gathered to celebrate the Lunar New Year

By Andi Babineau, CNN The man accused of killing 23 people and wounding nearly two dozen others in the 2019 mass shooting at a Texas Walmart in 2019 intends to plead guilty to federal charges, according to court filings. Days after the US government indicated it would not seek the death penalty, attorneys for Patrick

By Andi Babineau, CNN The Dallas Zoo is working with the Dallas Police Department to increase security on the zoo campus following a string of incidents involving several animals and enclosures, zoo officials said. “On Saturday morning, the animal care team discovered one of our lappet-faced vultures dead in its habitat,” zoo President and CEO

By Michelle Watson and Kiely Westhoff, CNN The family of Stone Foltz, a Bowling Green State University student who prosecutors said died from alcohol intoxication during a 2021 fraternity hazing, has reached a $2.9 million settlement with the university, the family’s attorney announced Monday. “Kudos to Bowling Green and the state of Ohio for understanding

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN We’re already more than halfway through winter — which runs from December through February — and understandably, people in the western US are ready for it to end after being inundated with rain and chilly weather for weeks. Meanwhile, some people on the other side of the country feel like the

By Holly Yan, Stella Chan, Christina Maxouris, Casey Tolan and Curt Devine, CNN The 66-year-old man suspected of killing four people at a California mushroom farm he worked at and three others at another nearby site Monday had been accused of trying to suffocate and threatening to kill a former coworker at another job nearly

By Nouran Salahieh, Stella Chan and Eric Levenson, CNN All 11 victims of the mass shooting at a dance studio on Lunar New Year in Monterey Park, California, were between the ages of 57 and 76, the LA County Coroner Medical Examiner’s Office said in a statement. The victims, five men and six women, were

By Taylor Romine, CNN Seven people were injured and one person was killed in a shooting Monday night in Oakland, California, police said. Officers were dispatched to the 5900 block of Macarthur Boulevard just after 6:00 p.m. to investigate an alert from a ShotSpotter, which is gunshot detection technology, the Oakland Police Department said in

By Joe Sutton, Theresa Waldrop and Aya Elamroussi, CNN At least seven people were killed and one person critically injured Monday in shootings at two separate locations in a small coastal community in the San Francisco Bay area, becoming the state’s second mass shooting in three days, officials said. The suspect, identified as 66-year-old Chunli