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By Jalen Brown and Justin Gamble, CNN Dario Otero Jr., affectionately known as DJ, admires Jackie Robinson for making history as the first Black American to play Major League Baseball. DJ, 13, said Robinson proved that Black players too could excel in professional baseball. But 75 years after the league was desegregated, DJ said he

By Andy Rose and Aya Elamroussi, CNN One man is dead and five other people were wounded in a drive-by shooting in broad daylight Tuesday in Denver, police said. The victims were standing on a sidewalk at East Colfax Avenue and North Verbena Street when the suspects pulled up next to them and opened fire

By Michelle Watson and Christina Maxouris, CNN The family of a 20-year-old Black man who was experiencing a mental health crisis when he was fatally shot by police is suing the city of Detroit and five police officers, family attorney Geoffrey Fieger said. Fieger announced the $50 million wrongful death suit on Tuesday, the same

By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman and Rachel Clarke, CNN “I’m in classroom 112,” the little girl tells the police dispatcher. “Please hurry. There is a lot of dead bodies.” The clear plea comes in a 12:10 p.m. call from Khloie Torres, then 10 years old and trapped at Robb Elementary School with a gunman

By Amir Vera, John Miller and Brynn Gingras, CNN A suspect accused of shooting two police officers in Newark, New Jersey, Tuesday was still at large following an hours-long search of a building where he was last seen, officials said. An arrest warrant was issued for Kendall Howard, 30, charging him with two counts of

By Eric Levenson, CNN The University of Florida Board of Trustees unanimously approved Republican US Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska as the university’s new president Tuesday in the face of faculty and student criticism over the secretive search process, his limited relevant experience and his past criticisms of same-sex marriage. Ahead of the vote, Sasse

By Jennifer Henderson, CNN The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has arrested a man in connection with the killing of 25-year-old Sandra DiFelice, nearly 42 years after her death. Paul Nuttall, 64, was arrested on charges of “open murder” with the use of a deadly weapon, sexual assault with the use of a deadly weapon

CNN Editorial Research Here’s some background information about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Timeline November 22, 1963– 11:37 a.m. – Air Force One arrives at Dallas’ Love Field with the President and his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John B. Connally Jr. and his wife, Idanell Connally. Vice President

By Amanda Musa and Amanda Watts, CNN A New York man has pleaded guilty to criminal sexual conduct charges in Michigan, more than 20 years after he began abusing two minors while he was involved with the Boy Scouts of America, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said. Mark Chapman, 52, pleaded guilty to one count

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN With the holiday travel surge right around the corner, some pilots are intensifying their push for better pay by insisting they will strike unless they get a new contract. Some Delta pilots say their contract is years out of date, while pilots at other airlines — especially regional carriers — have

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN As investigators announced Monday that a suspect has been arrested in the 2017 killing of two teen girls in Delphi, Indiana, they also implored the public for any information they may have and said the investigation “is far from complete.” Richard M. Allen, 50, was arrested Wednesday and charged with two

By Dakin Andone, CNN Anguished survivors of the Parkland school shooting and grieving relatives of victims faced the gunman in court before he’s sentenced to life in prison, testifying Tuesday about the loved ones and sense of security he stole from them, and expressing anger over a jury’s decision not to recommend he be put

By Raja Razek and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN As part of the city’s effort to find unidentified victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, 17 additional adult burials have been uncovered at an excavation site in the Oaklawn Cemetery, the Oklahoma state archeologist said Monday. The city is in the midst of a years-long investigation into