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By Alaa Elassar, CNN Two Boy Scouts in Missouri are set to be honored by their city’s fire department after rescuing a woman who was drowning in floodwaters. Joseph Diener, 16, and Dominic Viet, 15, were riding their bikes in Columbia, following a heavy storm on June 25, when they heard a woman screaming for

By Emma Tucker, CNN Nearly five years ago, the prosecution of six Baltimore police officers in the case of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old Black man whose death in police custody sparked historic unrest in the city, ended with no convictions. After three officers in the case were each tried and acquitted, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn

By Alaa Elassar, CNN For four days, Darren James and his family were multibillionaires. The real estate agent from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and his wife were doing a routine check on their finances last Saturday when they noticed $50 billion had been mistakenly deposited into their Chase Bank account. “That’s not like a one zero

Mark Morales, CNN Tom Marquardt, the former editor and publisher of the Capital Gazette, could have easily found himself in the cross-hairs of Jarrod Ramos, the man responsible for busting into the paper’s newsroom and killing five staffers with his pump action shotgun. Lucky for Marquardt, he had already retired from the newspaper. But three

By Rob Kuznia, Scott Glover, Curt Devine and Casey Tolan, CNN Sara Nir was up late, checking her email when she heard knocking sounds that went from a soft tapping to hard pounding to a frightful crash overhead — as if a wall had collapsed in the unit above her ground-floor condo. Raysa Rodriguez was

By Travis Caldwell, CNN Flying saucers. Unexplained lights. Tic-tacs in the skies. UFO sightings have confounded government officials, witnesses and enthusiasts for more than 70 years. Yet for all the expectations that were put upon an unclassified UFO report released on June 25, it’s only led to more questions than answers. Its findings, in short:

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Nearly 30 newly identified alleged abuse victims of former Ohio State University Dr. Richard Strauss filed a lawsuit against the university Monday, claiming the educational institution was aware of, facilitated and covered up Strauss’ alleged sexual abuse for decades. The lawsuit identifies six of the alleged 29 abuse male victims by

By Keely Aouga and Laura Ly, CNN Actress Phylicia Rashad sent a letter to Howard University students and parents on Friday, offering “[her] most sincere apology” for tweeting in celebration of Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction being overturned. “My remarks were in no way directed towards survivors of sexual assault. I vehemently oppose sexual violence,

By Rosa Flores, Rebekah Riess and Theresa Waldrop, CNN The city of North Miami Beach has ordered the immediate closure and evacuation of a condo building after a report submitted Friday determined the structure is unsafe, officials said. Crestview Towers, about seven miles north of the Surfside condo building that collapsed last week, was deemed

By Kendall Lanier, CNN A Texas district attorney announced that a grand jury has indicted Daniel Perry on charges including murder in the death of a man at a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020. Perry also was indicted on one count of aggravated assault and one misdemeanor count of deadly conduct stemming from the