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By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Kent Carter, vice president of the NAACP’s Arlington, Virginia, branch, was shot and killed Sunday while vacationing in Turks & Caicos to celebrate his 40th birthday, according to statements from the NAACP and the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force. Two people were murdered in a targeted attack on their

By Stephanie Becker, CNN The terrifying kidnapping and murder in Merced, California, of 8-month old Aroohi Dheri, her mother and father, Jasleen Kaur and Jasdeep Singh, and his older brother, Amandeep Singh, have horrified and left heartbroken the relatives in this tight knit Sikh family. A grieving close relative of the brothers told CNN, “You

By Jalen Brown and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Philadelphia has apologized for experiments conducted on mostly Black men incarcerated in the city’s now-inactive Holmesburg Prison, which exposed subjects to herpes, skin blistering chemicals, radioactive isotopes, and poisonous chemicals used during the Vietnam war. In the city’s statement Thursday, Mayor Jim Kenney said the “historical impact and

Josh Campbell, CNN A San Antonio Police Department officer has been fired after shooting a 17-year-old boy who was eating a meal in a McDonald’s parking lot Sunday, the department said. The unnamed officer, described by the department as a probationary officer with seven months’ experience, was fired for violating the department’s “tactics, training, and

By Shimon Prokupecz, CNN The superintendent of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District has told staff of his intention to retire, in the wake of CNN’s reporting on the district’s actions after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. In an email obtained by CNN, Superintendent Hal Harrell told district staff Monday’s school board meeting

By Emma Tucker and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN A 20-year-old Black man was experiencing a mental health crisis when he was killed this week after five Detroit police officers fired 38 shots at him in roughly three seconds, according to police. Porter Burks, who is diagnosed with schizophrenia, was experiencing a psychotic break on Sunday morning

By Matt J. Friedman and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District said Friday it had suspended its school police force, less than five months after the attack that left 19 children and two teachers dead. “The District has made the decision to suspend all activities of the Uvalde CISD Police Department for

By Lizete Dos Santos, Matt Foster and Amanda Davies, CNN At least three new cases of misconduct have emerged since the release of a report alleging systemic abuse within women’s professional soccer, US Soccer Federation president Cindy Parlow Cone said Friday. “One of the great things to come out of this report is that it

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Pebbles, the world’s oldest dog, has died at the age of 22, according to Guinness World Records. The record-breaking toy fox terrier died of natural causes at her home in Taylors, South Carolina, on Monday, said Guinness in a news release. The elderly pooch was five months shy of her 23rd

By Rachel Ramirez and Stephanie Elam, CNN The past three years have been the driest such period on record in California, state officials said this week. The state is now preparing for the increasing probability that it will see a fourth consecutive dry year as it works to conserve water resources as reservoir supplies dwindle.

By Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, CNN A cargo ship was sailing across the Atlantic Ocean when the captain summoned two young US Merchant Marine Academy cadets to his room and gave them each a drink. Shortly thereafter, the students started feeling like something was wrong. Unbeknownst to them, their boss had spiked their drinks,

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The Nobel Peace Prize, one of humanity’s most coveted accolades, was jointly awarded today to human rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian human rights organization Memorial, and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties. This year’s announcement ranked among the most closely watched — and complicated — decisions made