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By Amy Simonson, CNN After hundreds of Catholic baptisms performed in Michigan between 1986 and 1999 were deemed invalid because of the language used during the ritual, the Archdiocese of Detroit is still trying to remedy the situation. The case mirrors a recent predicament for the Catholic Church in Arizona, where it was discovered that

By Jennifer Henderson, CNN A desperate note sent from a mother with her child to her elementary school has led police in the Las Vegas area to a toddler’s remains. The note sent Tuesday morning with the child was a cry for help, with her mother writing that she was being held captive by her

By Julia Jones and Christina Maxouris, CNN Former Minneapolis police officers Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane were found guilty of violating George Floyd’s civil rights by a federal jury in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Thursday. The 12 jurors — four men and eight women — found Lane, Kueng and Thao guilty of

By Amir Vera and Ashley Killough, CNN In a stunning legal opinion released publicly this week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton declared gender-affirming surgical procedures in children and prescribing drugs that affect puberty to be considered “child abuse,” a claim seen by many as an attack on transgender children. “There is no doubt that these

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN Amid a nationwide rise in homicides, a new study has found that “stand your ground” laws — which allow people to respond to threats with potentially lethal force without fear of criminal prosecution — are linked to increased homicide rates, amounting to hundreds of additional deaths per year. States saw an

By Giselle Rhoden and Nicole Chavez, CNN Black male immigrants are less likely to be approved for United States citizenship than White immigrants, a new study released this week shows. Researchers at the University of Southern California analyzed more than 2 million citizenship applications filed by US permanent residents between October 2014 and March 2018,

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Two years ago people around the world pledged to jog, walk or run 2.23 miles, symbolic of the day Georgia man, Ahmaud Arbery was gunned down while running February 23, 2020. Today, many of those are doing it again under the hashtag #IStillRunWithMaud, to honor Arbery’s life and advocate for racial