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By Taylor Romine and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A former inmate who alleges her newborn died in the hospital after staff at a California jail was slow to respond to her medical emergency — including stopping at Starbucks as they drove her to the hospital — has been approved to receive a $480,000 settlement in her

By Faith Karimi, CNN After more than three decades of questions and grief, Tamika Reyes finally knows who killed her mother. Anna Kane was 26 when her body was found on October 23, 1988, in a wooded area near Reading, Pennsylvania, with baling twine around her neck. An investigation revealed she’d been strangled elsewhere and

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Scientists have long wondered about doppelgängers — people who look alike but have no actual family connection. Now, some researchers believe they can explain why unrelated people resemble each other. Plus, according to their study, there’s probably someone in the world who looks like you, and they may even share your

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN A patient being transferred in an ambulance to a Hawaii hospital emergency room died when the vehicle caught fire, officials said Thursday. The paramedic treating the 91-year-old patient Wednesday in the back of the ambulance was severely injured and in critical condition, Dr. Jim Ireland, the head of Honolulu’s emergency services

By Paradise Afshar, CNN A Canadian climber fell to his death in Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state earlier this week, officials said Thursday. Chun Hui Zhang, 52, died Monday while he was descending the Disappointment Cleaver route on Mount Rainier, park officials said in a news release. It’s the most popular summit route,

By Amy Simonson, CNN Ohio authorities are hoping to identify a man whose remains were found 35 years ago and have released images of a facial reconstruction in the hopes that someone may recognize him. The man’s partial skeletal remains were discovered on September 10, 1987, near Mount Hope Cemetery in Youngstown, Ohio, according to

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Andy Rose, CNN A federal judge has ruled that a Texas law that bans people ages 18 to 20 from carrying handguns in public is unconstitutional, saying the restriction is inconsistent with the Second Amendment and US history. The decision follows a transformational Supreme Court ruling in June which significantly expanded

By Paradise Afshar, Amanda Musa and Aya Elamroussi, CNN An Arizona grand jury indicted a former police officer on a manslaughter charge in the shooting death last year of a man who was in a motorized wheelchair, officials said Thursday. Former police officer Ryan Remington, who was fired from the Tucson Police Department earlier this

By Cheri Mossburg and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Two women have accused former heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman of sexually abusing them when they were minors in the 1970s, according to lawsuits filed this week. One of the women is described as the daughter of an adviser and manager to Foreman while the second woman is

By Caroll Alvarado and Alfonso Serrano, CNN After a two-month, 10-country trek — through the jungles of northern Colombia, the Darién Gap, and the US immigration system — Anabel and Crisman Urbaez of Venezuela, alongside their two children and dog, now sleep on warm beds at a Brooklyn family shelter. But their relative calm these

By Rebekah Riess, CNN After Texas school districts started receiving donated posters and framed copies of the national motto, “In God We Trust,” which they are required to display in accordance with a new state law, a political activist in Florida has started a GoFundMe to provide districts with signs of national motto in Arabic

By Rebekah Riess and Eric Levenson, CNN A school district in southwest Missouri adopted an opt-in policy this school year allowing corporal punishment of students “only in reasonable form” and when “all other alternative means of discipline have failed,” according to the district’s website. The district did not clarify how it defines “reasonable,” though the

By Ella Nilsen, CNN California air regulators voted Thursday to approve stringent rules that would ban the sale of new gasoline cars by 2035 and set interim targets to phase the cars out. The measure is a historic one in the US, and would be one of the first such bans worldwide. It has major

By Josh Campbell, CNN A person accused of jumping the fence and throwing rocks at the FBI field office in Chicago has been taken to a hospital for evaluation, a spokesperson for the Homeland Security agency that protects federal buildings told CNN Thursday. “FPS detained the individual and Chicago PD have taken the individual to

By Michelle Watson, CNN A high school near Pennsylvania’s capital has canceled its upcoming football season over reports of hazing by members of the school’s football team. The incidents involving the football team at Middletown Area High School were reported to parents in a letter from the school district’s superintendent this month. The district had

By Nicole Chavez and Justin Gamble, CNN Officials at a North Texas school named after a Black man who learned to read and write when he was 98 years old has ruled that a portion of his memoir describing his best friend getting lynched is not appropriate for some students. The Carroll Independent School District