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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

By Lauren del Valle, CNN Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s former confidante now serving a 20-year prison sentence for child sex trafficking, is being sued for more than $878,000 in unpaid legal fees by a law firm representing her, according to court documents. Two lawyers from the firm, Jeffrey Pagliuca and Laura Menninger, were lead attorneys

By Dakin Andone, CNN Oklahoma has executed 50-year-old James Coddington, the first of 25 death row inmates the state intends to put to death through 2024, the state’s corrections director confirmed Thursday morning. Coddington, who was sentenced to die for murdering Albert Hale in 1997 amid his struggle with a crack cocaine addiction, was executed

Teachers briefly went on strike in Columbus, Ohio, partly over classroom conditions and wanting functional heating and cooling systems. In Atlanta, students at one high school shared images on social media of flooding rooms and other disrepair. CNN is investigating school conditions across the US. Teachers: What are the classroom conditions in your local schools

By Paradise Afshar, Chris Boyette and Andi Babineau, CNN A teacher strike has delayed the start of the school year for students in King County, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, one of several school showdowns nationally. Negotiations between the Kent School District and the Kent Education Association, the union representing teachers in the district, have

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN When David Robinson’s 24-year-old son went missing in June of 2021, he uprooted his life in South Carolina and moved to Buckeye, Arizona, to lead the search. Robinson said he knew that the only way he would get answers and potentially find Daniel Robinson would be if he was on

By Geneva Sands and Cheri Mossburg, CNN An altercation involving United States Border Patrol agents and two migrants on a Southern California beach was captured on video Sunday, prompting the FBI to investigate an alleged assault on federal officers. The incident comes amid a rise in migrant apprehensions in the San Diego region, where the