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By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Before you purchase those items in your Amazon cart, make sure you scan product reviews for anything suspicious. Amazon is trying to weed out thousands of online groups it says is responsible for orchestrating millions of fake reviews on its site. The company this week said it is using “advanced technology”

By Andy Rose and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Missouri’s top attorney filed a lawsuit Thursday against the city of St. Louis over a measure that allocated $1 million in federal funds to help people travel out of state for abortions. Abortion became severely restricted or totally banned in Missouri following the US Supreme Court’s reversal of

By Jamiel Lynch and Melissa Alonso, CNN The wife of a decorated New York City firefighter is suing the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, after a tree on the property fell on the family car and killed her husband, according to a lawsuit. Angela Skudin alleges that when she and her husband, Casey Skudin,

By Taylor Romine, CNN California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a set of gun safety bills into law on Thursday that require more regulations on gun sales and dealers within the state as well as increased information sharing between schools and law enforcement agencies. The state — amid a series of high-profile mass shootings that have

By Polo Sandoval, Kristina Sgueglia and Melanie Schuman, CNN The family of Jayland Walker, who was shot and killed by police in Akron, Ohio, last month, is calling for a federal investigation into Walker’s death and questioning the integrity of the ongoing state investigation. They held a news conference Wednesday, on what would have been

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Claudia Dominguez and Chuck Johnston, CNN The man accused of raping and impregnating a child who later traveled to Indiana seeking an abortion was indicted by a grand jury Thursday, court documents show. Gerson Fuentes, 27, is charged with two counts of felony rape, according to an indictment handed down by a

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Casey White, the Alabama prisoner whose escape with a corrections officer sparked a national manhunt in April, was federally indicted Thursday for illegally possessing firearms when he fled, the DOJ announced. The indictment alleges that Casey White had four handguns and an AR-15 rifle with him as he

By Laura Ly and Emily Chang, CNN A Rochester, New York, police investigator has been suspended with pay after he was seen on surveillance video pushing a Black EMT and handcuffing her at a hospital early last week, according to Carlos Alvarado, a spokesperson for the police department. Police announced the suspension earlier this week,

By Steve Almasy and Chuck Johnston, CNN The deadly collision last month between an Amtrak train with 282 people on board and a fully loaded dump truck in Missouri caused $4 million in damage, the National Transportation Safety Board announced Thursday. An NTSB preliminary report released Thursday cites Amtrak and BNSF Railway for the estimated

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A man sustained “serious injuries to his arm” after being attacked by an alligator in Manatee County, Florida, on Wednesday. Eric Merda, 43, of Sarasota County, was bitten by an alligator near Lake Manatee Fish Camp, according to a statement from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) shared with

By Michelle Watson, Caroll Alvarado and Alaa Elassar, CNN A train fire in Massachusetts Thursday morning prompted the evacuation of 200 people and the rescue of one person who escaped by jumping into a river. Flames and smoke were seen on a car of “a southbound Orange Line train approaching Assembly Station,” in Somerville, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation

By Sonia Moghe and Alaa Elassar, CNN A man allegedly seen in surveillance video punching an elderly Asian woman more than 100 times and stomping on her body in Yonkers, New York, has been indicted on multiple hate crime charges. Tammel Esco, 42, was indicted on attempted murder in the second degree as a hate