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As water runs short in California

As water runs short in California, commission rejects $1.4 billion desalination plant

By Stephanie Elam, CNN As California battles a historic drought and a water crisis looms, the state’s coastline protection agency on Thursday unanimously rejected the development of a $1.4 billion desalination plant in Huntington Beach that would have converted ocean water into municipal water for Orange County residents. Eleven members of the California Coastal Commission

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Morgan Freeman Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of actor Morgan Freeman. Personal Birth date: June 1, 1937 Birth place: Memphis, Tennessee Birth name: Morgan Porterfield Freeman Jr. Father: Morgan Porterfield Freeman Sr., a barber Mother: Mayme Edna (Revere) Freeman, a teacher Marriages: Myrna (Colley-Lee) Freeman (June 16, 1984-September 15, 2010, divorced); Jeanette

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A tentative settlement

Tentative settlement, valued at $997 million, reached with families of victims of Surfside condominium collapse

By Chuck Johnston and Jamiel Lynch, CNN A tentative settlement worth nearly $1 billion has been reached with multiple entities over the collapse last year of a residential building in Surfside, Florida, that killed 98 people, according to an attorney for plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit. Harley Tropin, one of the plaintiffs’ lead attorneys, announced

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Convicted Arizona murderer Clarence Dixon was executed by lethal injection on May 11 morning despite several attempts by his attorneys to delay his death

Arizona prisoner Clarence Dixon executed nearly 8 years after the state’s last execution was botched

By Andi Babineau and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Convicted Arizona murderer Clarence Dixon was executed by lethal injection Wednesday morning despite several attempts by his attorneys to delay his death, the state department of corrections confirmed. Dixon, 66, is the first person to be put to death in Arizona since the botched lethal injection execution of

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Delaware State University expresses outrage over lacrosse team traffic stop in Georgia. Sheriff says it was not racial profiling

By Joe Sutton, Claudia Dominguez and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Delaware State University, a historically Black institution, said its women’s lacrosse team was racially profiled by sheriff’s deputies last month during a traffic stop in Georgia. The team’s bus was headed north on Interstate 95 in Liberty County on April 20 following a game in Florida

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