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By Denise Royal and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN On the eve of the one-year anniversary of a catastrophic condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, a judge approved an approximately $1 billion settlement for those impacted by the disaster that killed 98 people, an attorney for the plaintiffs confirmed Thursday. The judge’s decision finalizes a tentative settlement that

By Raja Razek and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A North Texas school district has updated its dress code for the upcoming school year to ban hooded clothing as well as dresses and skirts for many of its grade levels, reasoning that the change will help students in their future careers. The bans quickly elicited a backlash

By Paradise Afshar and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A group of hikers filming a reality show were rescued via helicopter from a trail in Phoenix on Thursday due to heat-related illnesses, officials said. At least eight people needed assistance getting down from the Echo Canyon Trail on Camelback Mountain as temperatures hit triple digits, said Capt.

By Jalen Beckford, CNN Authorities in Florida are investigating the deaths of two cave divers at a wildlife park, the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies were alerted Wednesday afternoon after one of three teenagers who were spending the day at the Buford Springs Cave called 911, the sheriff’s office said. The teens, who arrived

By Sonia Moghe, CNN The parents of accused Oxford, Michigan, school shooter Ethan Crumbley will still face multiple involuntary manslaughter charges, a judge ruled Wednesday, despite their attempts to quash the counts against them. Judge Cheryl Matthews said a lower court had ruled correctly that Crumbley’s parents can stand trial for the charges. Jennifer and

By Kiely Westhoff, CNN Two major insurance companies terminated their relationships with a Maine insurance agency after it allegedly displayed a racist sign about the Juneteenth holiday earlier this week. Photos taken Monday, which CNN has obtained, show a sign taped to the inside window of the Harry E. Reed Insurance agency in Millinocket, Maine.

By Dakin Andone, CNN New York leaders are condemning the US Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to knock down a century-old state law that placed restrictions on carrying a concealed gun outside the home, with Gov. Kathy Hochul calling the ruling both reckless and outrageous. “It is outrageous,” she said on Twitter, “that at a moment

By Emma Tucker and Rebekah Riess, CNN Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, the woman suspected of fatally shooting 25-year-old elite cyclist Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson in Texas in May, sold her Jeep to an Austin dealership, the US Marshals Service said Thursday. Investigators from the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force learned that Armstrong sold her black Jeep

By Ray Sanchez and Tina Burnside, CNN Leanna Taylor has long maintained that her ex-husband did not mean to leave their 22-month-old son Cooper to die in the back of a sweltering SUV eight years ago. In 2016, Taylor took the stand at the trial of Justin Ross Harris, the Georgia father sentenced to life

By Laura Ly and Eric Levenson, CNN Federal prosecutors asked a judge in a court filing Wednesday to sentence Ghislaine Maxwell to 30 to 55 years in prison for sex trafficking a minor and other charges related to a sprawling conspiracy to abuse young girls with the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein. “Maxwell was an adult

By Brad Parks, CNN Federal prosecutors asked a federal judge in the District of Minnesota on Wednesday to sentence former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to 25 years in prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights. Chauvin pleaded guilty in December to depriving Floyd of his civil rights when the former officer kneeled on Floyd’s

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN You can’t predict the future, but you can do your best to prepare for it. According to a survey of more than 1,100 US retirees, 70% of respondents wished their younger selves would have saved more and started earlier to create bigger nest eggs for retirement. Here’s what you need to