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By Dakin Andone, CNN Alabama corrections officials Thursday cited time constraints caused by a late-night court battle in halting the scheduled execution of a death row prisoner — the second time in as many months the state failed to carry out an execution before the expiration of a death warrant. Kenneth Smith’s execution by lethal

By Travis Caldwell, Amy Simonson and Amanda Musa, CNN Michael Hollins, the University of Virginia football player who was seriously wounded in Sunday’s mass shooting, was taken off intubation and moved from the hospital’s intensive care unit, a family friend told CNN on Thursday. “Mike is doing better today,” Gipson said. “He is in intermediate

By Sharif Paget, Caroll Alvarado, Eric Levenson and Amir Vera, CNN Two of the four University of Idaho students who were killed on Sunday were last seen alive ordering at a late-night food truck in Moscow, Idaho, at about 1:41 a.m., the truck’s live Twitch stream shows. In the video, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves

By Andy Rose, Shimon Prokupecz and Matthew J. Friedman, CNN As a senior law enforcement officer with Uvalde, Texas, police faces potential termination this weekend amid fallout from the Robb Elementary School shooting, the public school district has named its new police chief. Josh Gutierrez was named the interim executive director of safety and security

By Alta Spells, Devon M. Sayers and Jamiel Lynch, CNN Five Camden County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Office employees have been placed on administrative duty amid an internal and a state investigation into the September beating of Jarrett Hobbs, a 41-year-old Black man, while he was in custody, a department spokesperson told CNN on Wednesday. The employees

By Jessica Schneider, CNN The FBI is broadening its outreach to historically Black colleges and universities at the same time the agency’s director announced that one minor will be charged with making dozens of racist threats earlier this year against more than 50 HBCUs across the country. “We have worked with state prosecutors to ensure

By Scottie Andrew, CNN As our language evolves, so does Scrabble: Now, you can use hundreds of new words, from “ambigram” to “zedonk,” to spell your way to victory in the beloved board game. Hasbro and Merriam-Webster have added more than 500 new words to the official Scrabble dictionary, which consists of all of the

By Nick Watt, CNN A group of veterans has filed a lawsuit to force homes to be built for them on land now used for elite sports facilities in Los Angeles. Fourteen unhoused veterans and the National Veterans Foundation filed a complaint in Central California’s federal district court against the Department of Veterans Affairs on

By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman, Rachel Clarke and Rebekah Riess, CNN Angry relatives of some of the children killed in the Robb Elementary School massacre are demanding that the acting police chief from that day, Lt. Mariano Pargas, quit his role as a Uvalde county commissioner. “He was made aware that people were injured

By Leah Asmelash, CNN Yale and Harvard law schools, two of the premier law schools in the country, have each held a spot on the U.S. News & World Report’s list of best law schools for decades. Now, the schools are bowing out. Every year, U.S. News releases a list of the country’s best colleges,

By Susannah Cullinane and Andi Babineau, CNN A Black middle school student told CNN he was angry when his teacher, a White man, told his class that his race “is the superior one.” Videos of the conversation in a Pflugerville, Texas, classroom were posted on social media last week. The teacher seen in the video