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By Dakin Andone and Theresa Waldrop, CNN At least 13 people were killed and more than 40 others injured in shootings across the country this weekend, including one in Sacramento, where the police chief called the scale of violence “unprecedented” in her 27-year career there. Six people died and 12 were injured in that incident

By Amir Vera and Raja Razek, CNN The Dallas concert that left one dead and 16 injured did not have a permit, according to Dallas Police Chief Edgardo “Eddie” Garcia. “This crime is a prime example that non-permitted and promoted events can lead to violence,” Garcia said. “This, of course, can happen at any event,

By Alisha Ebrahimji and Pooja Salhotra, CNN Nirmal Singh had only been visiting in New York City for two weeks when he was allegedly punched in the nose while walking, according to police. The 70-year-old Sikh man is visiting from Punjab, India, and is staying at the Sikh Cultural Society, a well-known religious and cultural

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN The US Mint has announced the next five women to appear on American quarters. After honoring such figures as Maya Angelou and Sally Ride in the first run of its American Women Quarters Program, the agency has selected a new group of pioneering women who will be celebrated on US currency:

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Following Sunday’s mass shooting in downtown Sacramento, California, that left six people dead and a dozen injured, the head coach of one of the NBA’s most-watched teams has renewed his call for stronger gun control laws. Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr spoke about the Sacramento shooting during a news

By Dakin Andone, CNN Potential jurors arrived Monday at a Florida courthouse where they could be chosen to help decide the fate of Nikolas Cruz more than four years after he killed 17 people in the deadliest high school shooting in US history. Cruz, now 23, pleaded guilty in October to 17 counts of murder

By Chris Boyette, CNN Three people are facing capital murder charges after an off-duty Harris County deputy was shot and killed while leaving a grocery store with his wife, officials said. Deputy Darren Almendarez, 51, and his wife were walking to their truck at a Houston-area store around 8:35 p.m. Thursday when they saw a

By Pooja Salhotra and Kelly McCleary, CNN Police were called to assist a wayward traveler in Southampton, New York, Sunday after a baby seal was spotted scooting through a traffic circle. “Some of our officers responded and found a baby harbor seal in the roadway,” a Facebook post from the Southampton Town Police Department said.

By Susannah Cullinane, Tina Burnside and Dakin Andone, CNN Police have discovered the body of missing Florida woman Cassie Carli in a “shallow grave” in Alabama, the Santa Rosa County, Florida, sheriff said Sunday. Carli, 37, was last seen on March 27 when she met Marcus Spanevelo — the father of her 4-year-old daughter —

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Close to 7 million records from the 1950 US census have been made public. The digital records were released on Friday and are available to the public free of charge at a dedicated website, allowing viewers to research their family histories and backgrounds. They include 6.57 million population schedules — many

By Alaa Elassar and Chuck Johnston, CNN Five people were injured Friday night in a shooting along a rural road in South Carolina. The Colleton County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call around 11:30 “regarding people shooting at each other” on Logan Farm Road, police said on Twitter. When they arrived to what was described

By Alaa Elassar, CNN California is calling upon Native American tribes to bring back the once-prohibited practice of lighting controlled burns to help prevent devastating wildfires that have wreaked havoc on the state. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force has launched a new plan — “Strategic Plan for Expanding the Use of

By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN One person was killed and at least 10 others were wounded in a shooting at a Dallas concert Saturday night, the Dallas Police Department said. Police responded to a report of a shooting in the 5000 block of Cleveland Road shortly after 11:30 p.m. Saturday, a police statement said. When police