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By Maya Brown, CNN A non-profit organization has put up four billboards throughout South Florida in an effort to raise awareness about anti-Semitism and make people think about its effects. JewBelong, an online resource created to welcome and inspire Jewish people, put up the billboards on Friday throughout Miami-Dade and Broward counties as part of

By Kendall Trammell, CNN Winner winner, chicken dinner! It’s an age-old cheer, but certainly one that applies to a lucky Maryland family, whose recent trip to a grocery store turned into a $100,000 lottery windfall. “My wife sent me in to get precooked chicken for dinner,” a man from Hagerstown told Maryland Lottery officials. He

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Georgia prosecutors proved Ahmaud Arbery’s killers guilty of murder. Now, lawyers for the federal government will try to prove they chased down the 25-year-old jogger because he was Black. That case may be tougher to make. Following jury selection, Assistant US Attorney Barbara Bernstein laid out the crux of her

By Dakin Andone, CNN The attorneys general of 13 states and Washington DC this week expressed support for a federal lawsuit by the Mexican government that accuses a group of American gun manufacturers of facilitating the trafficking of weapons to criminals in Mexico, fueling gun violence. In a brief filed in federal court in Massachusetts,

By Kiely Westhoff and Aya Elamroussi, CNN An off-duty New York Police Department officer was shot in the foot Saturday in West Harlem, becoming the second off-duty NYPD officer to be shot in the past week. In Saturday’s incident, the off-duty officer was shot as he exited a community center at the Manhattanville housing development

By Andy Rose, CNN A Colorado man is accused of breaking into a ranch owned by billionaire Michael Bloomberg and kidnapping an employee, asking her about the former New York City mayor’s daughters, according to an arrest warrant affidavit and a criminal complaint filed in federal court. Joseph Beecher allegedly rammed his truck through the

By Michelle Watson, CNN Five people died in a car crash Saturday morning north of Fresno, California, an official with the California Highway Patrol (CHP) told CNN. A Hyundai Accent traveling south on Millerton Road around 4:30 a.m. “crossed over the double yellow lines” and hit a northbound Honda Accord, Lt. J. Castaneda with CHP

By Ray Sanchez and Jennifer Henderson, CNN Travis Reinking, who killed four people in 2018 when he opened fire with an assault-style rifle at a Waffle House in Tennessee, was sentenced Saturday to life in prison without parole. Reinking, 33, was found guilty Friday of all 16 counts, including eight first-degree murder charges. The defendant,

By Jason Hanna and Andy Rose, CNN The mayor of Oregon’s most populous city on Friday banned encampments near highways and high-traffic intersections, saying homeless people comprised the majority of pedestrians who were killed in Portland traffic incidents last year. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s emergency order enacting the ban is set to run at least

By Paul Vercammen, CNN Amalia Jimenez, a 38-year-old single mother with three children, had never heard of the Los Angeles Rams’ Andrew Whitworth, who helped her out of homelessness. “I’m not really good with sports; it’s not my thing,” Jimenez told CNN about Whitworth, who will play in the Super Bowl on February 13. “But

By Christina Maxouris and Christina Zdanowicz, CNN Lauren Reynolds started crying when she found out her university was shuttering the early childhood and elementary education program she was in. One of the last three students in the program, she will graduate in spring. Oklahoma City University officials announced they were suspending the programs in 2020

By Giselle Rhoden and Kaanita Iyer, CNN In 2012, Nupol Kiazolu entered Stone Mountain Middle School with a pack of Skittles, a bottle of iced tea and a gray hoodie that read: “Do I Look Suspicious?” The 12-year-old was threatened with suspension and expulsion from the school in Stone Mountain, Georgia. When she was sent

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN The parents of Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black man fatally shot by police in a Minneapolis apartment during a no-knock warrant execution, said Friday that he had obtained a gun legally after a conversation with the family. “He made sure that he did his research, everything was going to be legal,”

By Jason Hanna and Melissa Alonso, CNN A man suspected in a deadly shooting at a hookah lounge near Virginia Tech’s campus in downtown Blacksburg late Friday was taken into custody Saturday, police said. One person was killed and four others were injured in the shooting. Jamel Flint, 24, faces a first-degree murder charge in

By Amanda Musa, CNN Two people who were looking after a cabin in a remote part of California were rescued this week after being snowed in for two months and facing a dwindling food supply, officials said Friday. The unidentified couple called the Sierra County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday morning, asking to be rescued from