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By Faith Karimi, CNN Lawrence and Bianca Rudolph shared a passion for big game hunting. In late September 2016, the couple traveled from their Phoenix home to the southern African nation of Zambia, where Bianca Rudolph was determined to add a leopard to her collection of animal trophies. They carried two guns for the hunt:

By Paradise Afshar and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Samuel Sandoval, one of the last surviving Navajo Code Talkers who served during World War II, died Friday, according to a release from the Navajo Nation. During the war, Sandoval was one of hundreds of young Navajo men recruited to use an 813-word code based on the native

By Andy Rose and Christina Maxouris, CNN Two cyclists were killed and three were injured Saturday morning when an SUV crossed over the center line while trying to pass another vehicle, Michigan authorities said. The five cyclists were all participating in the Make-A-Wish bicycle tour, a three-day fundraising event and endurance ride that spans most

By Artemis Moshtaghian and Justin Gamble, CNN Georgia authorities released body camera footage Friday of an incident from earlier this month where a mother experiencing what her family called a mental health crisis died due to a fatal injury while in police custody. Brianna Grier, 28, was experiencing a mental health episode on July 15

By Artemis Moshtaghian and Christina Maxouris, CNN New York City officials declared monkeypox a public health emergency Saturday, saying the city is the epicenter of the state’s outbreak and the move will boost measures to help slow the spread of the disease. “We estimate that approximately 150,000 New Yorkers may currently be at risk for

By Zoe Sottile, CNN On Wednesday, Hawaii received its last shipment of coal before closing its last functioning coal plant. Gov. David Ige called the final shipment “a huge step forward in Hawaiʻi’s transition to clean energy” on Twitter. “In its time, coal was an important resource for Hawai’i and I’d like to thank the

By Emma Tucker, CNN Twenty-eight incarcerated women in Indiana have alleged in two separate federal lawsuits that they were ​threatened or sexually assaulted, including two who said they were raped, last year by ​men incarcerated at the same facility who, according to one of the lawsuits, bribed a corrections officer with $1,000 to obtain the

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Boaters in Massachusetts had a once-in-a-lifetime encounter with a real-life whale tail. A humpback breached and landed on the bow of a fishing boat near Plymouth on July 24, CNN affiliate WBZ-TV reported. The whale broke the water’s surface around 10 a.m. a few hundred yards off of Manomet Point. No

By Ray Sanchez, CNN Officials found more than $2 million in methamphetamine hidden in a vehicle at the Rio Grande City Port of Entry in Texas, US Customs and Border Protection say. CBP officers from the Rio Grande City International Bridge discovered it Sunday in a 2012 Dodge that arrived from Mexico, Port Director Andres

By Jason Hanna and Keith Allen, CNN The chase for the second-largest Mega Millions jackpot has ended — with a single ticket sold in the Chicago area for the whole $1.337 billion. One ticket bought in Des Plaines hit the top prize in Friday night’s drawing, according to the Illinois Lottery, securing the third-largest jackpot

By Nouran Salahieh, Zoe Sottile and Renée Rigdon, CNN When it comes to shark attacks, Florida typically tops global charts. But recently, New York has been making headlines for a spate of dangerous encounters that have rattled New Yorkers and triggered beach closures. Before 2022, there were only 12 recorded unprovoked bites in New York’s

By Tina Burnside and Paradise Afshar, CNN The body of a man who got off an aircraft mid-flight during an emergency landing Friday near Raleigh, North Carolina, has been recovered, authorities said. Around 2:40 p.m. ET, a twin-engine CASA CN-212 Aviocar landed in the grass at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration told CNN

By Emma Tucker, CNN Several high-profile mass shootings and a sustained rise in gun violence across the United States in 2022 have spurred law enforcement officials and lawmakers to push for more gun control measures. President Joe Biden in June signed into law the first major gun safety legislation passed in decades. The measure failed

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Dartmouth College, one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the United States, is set to welcome its first-ever female president: Sian Leah Beilock, the current president of Barnard College. Beilock will serve as the Ivy League school’s 19th president, and the first female president in its more than 250-year

By Nick Valencia, CNN The local Louisiana district attorney with jurisdiction over the town where Ronald Greene died following an interaction with state troopers said he has now received the federal case file and has begun reviewing their investigative reports. Third Judicial District Attorney John Belton told CNN that he met with federal investigators, including

By Alta Spells, Preston Fore and Celeste Noraian, CNN Just days after 22 states filed a lawsuit fighting the new US Department of Agriculture policy seeking to protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, Florida’s top education official is advising schools in his state to ignore the guidance. In a letter, Florida