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By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN She’s dodged protesters in Greece, met the pope at the Vatican and posed beside the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Now a 12-foot-tall puppet is bringing her message to the United States as she walks the streets of New York City. Artists created Little Amal, whose name means hope in Arabic,

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The world’s first all-electric passenger aircraft has successfully taken to the sky with battery technology similar to that of an electric car or a cell phone. The zero-emission plane — named Alice — traveled at an altitude of 3,500 feet for eight minutes during its inaugural flight on Tuesday. Now, the

By Maria Cartaya, CNN The penalty trial for Parkland massacre gunman Nikolas Cruz will be delayed for three days in anticipation of Hurricane Ian’s landfall in Florida this week, the trial judge announced Tuesday. The Broward County Courthouse where Cruz’s trial is being held will be closed Wednesday and Thursday due to potential impacts of

By David Culver and Jason Kravarik, CNN Several times a week you can hear gunfire echoing from Brandi Joseph’s scenic Southern California property. A licensed firearms instructor and dealer, Joseph decided to open Fortune Firearms in December to serve a growing and rapidly changing clientele. “There is a huge uptick in female owners,” Joseph said.

By Amir Vera and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN A federal civil suit was filed in the US District Court of Connecticut Tuesday on behalf of Randy Cox, who is now partially paralyzed after an injury in the back of a New Haven police van, according to civil rights attorney Ben Crump and Scot X. Esdaile, the

By Nicki Brown and Rob Frehse, CNN A drive-by shooting behind a Philadelphia high school Tuesday afternoon left a 14-year-old dead and four other victims wounded, police said. Players were walking off the field after a football scrimmage behind Roxborough High School at about 4:41 p.m. when a car drove up and multiple shots were

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN The calls to quickly fix Jackson, Mississippi’s water system are growing louder, with the US Justice Department and NAACP demanding not just answers from the state and its capital city, but solutions. Days after the NAACP wrote Gov. Tate Reeves directly, the civil rights organization submitted a 25-page complaint to

By Liam Reilly, CNN The Prince George’s County school system in Maryland will change how it trains staff and administrators after it settled a lawsuit with a transgender teacher who says she suffered years of abuse and harassment in the district. The settlement includes monetary compensation and requires policy and training changes that will protect

By AJ Willingham, CNN Thirteen-year-old April Ajoy had a sense something wasn’t right. It was quiet in her Dallas house. Too quiet. Her brothers were gone. Her parents were gone. On her parents’ bed, a pile of her mother’s clothes signaled something terrifying. Ajoy’s mind began churning, trying to remember, trying to make plans. When

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN The Cherokee Nation is renewing its campaign for representation in Congress, calling on federal legislators to honor a treaty that the US government made nearly 200 years ago. In a video released last week, the tribal nation reasserted its demand that Congress seat its delegate in the House of Representatives —