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By Zoe Sottile, CNN New York’s highest court is set to determine whether Happy, a 47-year-old Asian elephant living at the Bronx Zoo, is being unlawfully imprisoned. Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), a nonprofit civil rights organization advocating for the legal personhood of great apes, elephants, dolphins and whales, filed its first petition against the zoo

By Alaa Elassar, CNN Early Voting won the 147th Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. The horse, with odds of 5-1, put on a strong finish, passing runner ups Epicenter and Creative Minister down the stretch. The victory at the Preakness Stakes is the first for jockey José Ortiz. “It is

By Emmy Abbassi, CNN A rare copy of Detective Comics #27 — the issue that introduced the world to Batman in 1939 — is set to fetch more than $1 million at auction this weekend and could flirt with a record for that edition. The copy, up for auction for more than two weeks at

By Ray Sanchez, CNN Mac Jaehnert said he put 1,000 miles on his car in the last week looking for a specialty nutritional formula for daughter MacKenzie and other premature babies in his southeastern Washington state community. “It’s been a frustrating, heartbreaking, unnecessary challenge for a kid who has already overcome so much,” Jaehnert told

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A Texas mother learned an important lesson about leaving her phone unlocked after her 2-year-old son accidentally ordered 31 McDonald’s cheeseburgers from DoorDash. On Monday, Kelsey Golden, who works in media marketing for a school, was working on the school’s annual yearbook on her computer at home. She was transferring photos

By Omar Jimenez, Andy Rose and Ray Sanchez, CNN Explosive allegations that Minneapolis police used covert social media accounts to spy on Black organizations and elected officials can’t be substantiated by prosecutors, the deputy city attorney said in a letter Friday. Erik Nilsson wrote to Mayor Jacob Frey and other city leaders that a review

By Rebekah Riess, CNN A man was killed and three other people injured in a shooting in New Orleans’ Holy Cross neighborhood overnight, police said Saturday. Officers responded to a call of a shooting and found four people shot, the New Orleans Police Department said. A 43-year-old man was dead on the scene. A 29-year-old

By Zoe Sottile, CNN California is set to establish its first new state park in 13 years. The 2,500-acre property, known as Dos Rios Ranch, will likely be donated to the California state park system by River Partners, a non-profit that has worked to rehabilitate and rewild the land after years of use as farmland.

By Liam Reilly and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A second teen allegedly involved in the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old girl in New York’s Bronx neighborhood last week was arrested Monday after turning himself in, the New York Police Department said. Omar Bojang, 18, is believed to have been driving the moped from which his passenger,

By Zoe Sottile, CNN These are not your average pool toys. Customs officers in Michigan discovered a whopping 2,175 pounds of marijuana in a shipment labeled as “pool toys” on May 11, according to a news release from US Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The illegal shipment was first noticed during an X-ray scan of

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A behemoth alligator in Florida enjoyed an early start to the summer — by jumping into a family’s swimming pool. A family in Deep Creek, Florida, was awakened by some “loud noises” in the early hours of Monday morning, according to a Facebook post from the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office. When

By Jennifer Henderson, CNN Two Florida deputies saved a 9-year-old boy’s life Thursday night, pulling him through the window of a burning home. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies arrived shortly after 11 p.m. ET at a home engulfed in flames and were told there was a child still in the house, according to a news