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By Tavleen Tarrant, CNN A teenager has been charged as an adult after police claim he killed another young person and confessed on an Instagram video chat, asking for help disposing of the body. Police in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, said they received a call from a woman Friday afternoon who claimed her daughter had received a

By Dakin Andone, CNN A federal court has denied a 19-year-old’s request to let her witness her father’s execution on Tuesday, when the state of Missouri is scheduled to put him to death for the 2005 murder of police sergeant William McEntee. Corionsa Ramey is barred from attending the execution of her father, Kevin Johnson,

By Emma Tucker, CNN The prior arrest of the 22-year-old suspected gunman who allegedly opened fire in a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub last weekend has put the spotlight on a state law which can be utilized to temporarily remove gun access from those deemed a danger to themselves or others. Colorado’s controversial red flag law,

From Tavleen Tarrant, CNN Two young brothers — an 11-month-old baby and a 3-year-old boy — were stabbed to death in New York City, police said. The two boys were found unresponsive with “multiple stab wounds” to their necks and torsos at an apartment building in the Bronx late Saturday, the New York Police Department

By Oren Liebermann, Eric Levenson and Travis Caldwell, CNN Thomas James, one of the two men who helped disarm a shooter during last week’s mass shooting inside Club Q in Colorado Springs, issued his first statement about his role in the attack on Sunday. “I simply wanted to save the family I found,” James, a

By Ray Sanchez, CNN Shanquella Robinson arrived in the picturesque Mexican town of San José del Cabo on October 28 with six of her friends. One day later, the 25-year-old student at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina died while staying in a luxury rental property in Baja California Sur. Now, nearly one month after

By Tina Burnside, CNN Nashville authorities are investigating a drive-by shooting after a funeral service at a church Saturday that left two people wounded, police said. As the funeral service was letting out at the New Season Church around 1:40 p.m., at least one person drove by and opened fire on the attendees as they

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Two weeks after the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students, dozens of local, state and federal investigators are still working to determine who carried out the brutal attack. After sifting through more than 1,000 tips and conducting at least 150 interviews, investigators have yet to identify a suspect or

By Raja Razek and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN A 12-year-old was killed and five teenagers were injured in a shooting Saturday night after gunfire erupted near Atlanta’s Atlantic Station retail district following a dispute involving juveniles, according to city officials. Of those who were injured, one teenager sustained critical injuries while four others were “shot or

By Marlon Sorto and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Cuban businessman Felipe Valls Sr., founder of the iconic Versailles restaurant in Miami, Florida, died Saturday, his granddaughter, Nicole Valls confirmed to CNN. He was 89 years old. Nicole Valls did not provide further details on her grandfather’s death, but said the family’s spokespeople are expected to provide

By Tina Burnside and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Almost two weeks after the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students, police are still searching for clues and asking the public for help. Investigators are reviewing more than 260 digital submissions — including videos and photos — by the public to an FBI link, the Moscow

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN The youngest victim in this week’s mass shooting inside a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, is a 16-year-old employee who reportedly used his first paycheck to buy his mother a gift before he was killed two days ahead of Thanksgiving. Fernando Chavez-Barron, along with five other coworkers, was shot and killed Tuesday

By Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN Black Twitter is mourning the possible end of the influential community they found on Twitter more than a decade ago, but users are split between finding a new app or staying put. “I’m not ready to go because I feel like that’s the case with a lot of things. Black people

By Tavleen Tarrant, CNN A good Samaritan, who was at the right place at the right time, and a team of New York City officers who rushed on scene rescued a man who fell on the subway tracks just seconds before an incoming train arrived, police said. Two officers from the NYPD’s 25th Precinct were

By Rashad Walker, Karol Suarez and Melissa Alonso, CNN An arrest warrant has been issued in Mexico for a woman suspected of fatally assaulting a friend from North Carolina while on vacation last month in San Jose del Cabo, a prosecutor says. Shanquella Robinson, 25, was traveling with college friends from Winston-Salem State University when

By John Blake, CNN Jesse Leroy Brown was hurtling over the North Korean countryside in his Corsair fighter 17 miles behind enemy lines when he discovered that he was in trouble. “Jesse, something’s wrong,” one of the men in his squadron radioed him. “You’re bleeding fuel.” It was the beginning of the Korean War, but