By Aya Elamroussi and Liam Reilly, CNN A former athletics official at the University of Southern California pleaded guilty Friday in an admissions scandal for allegedly helping students cheat their way for acceptance into the prestigious college. Donna Heinel, who was USC’s senior associate athletic director, pleaded guilty to one count of honest services wire
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN Mochi “Mo” Rickert, holder of the record for the longest tongue on a living dog, has died, according to Guinness World Records. The female Saint Bernard’s tongue measured 18.58 cm (7.3 in), Guinness says. Mochi held the record for five years. Mochi was a rescue dog in Colorado. She made more
Continue ReadingBy Leah Asmelash, CNN Earlier this year, Miry Whitehill met a family of Afghan refugees who had just fled their homes following the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. The family — a mom, dad, and two one-year-old twins — were living like many recent refugees to the US. They had left in a rush on one
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By Jason Hanna, Maya Brown and Rosa Flores, CNN Members of a densely packed crowd surged toward a stage and were crushed against each other at a Houston music festival Friday night. At least eight people were killed and scores of others were injured in the chaos, witnesses and officials said. The victims were 14,
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Nadeem Muaddi, CNN A Missouri couple is $2.4 million richer thanks to a persistent wife. “My wife forced me to pull over and buy a Lottery ticket because I was wanting to get home and watch the football game,” her husband told Missouri Lottery officials on Thursday. “So I pulled over and bought the Lottery
Continue ReadingBy Raja Razek and Melissa Alonso, CNN Two 16-year-old high school students have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a Spanish teacher at their Iowa school, court documents show. The remains of Nohema Graber, who was a Spanish teacher at Fairfield High School, were discovered in Chautauqua Park in Fairfield, Iowa, on
Continue ReadingBy David Williams, CNN A California woman is recovering and says she feels lucky to be alive after being mauled by a black bear that broke into her Lake Tahoe cabin and rummaged through her kitchen. Laurel-Rose von Hoffmann-Curzi was woken up early on October 30 by a series of thumping sounds downstairs in her
Continue ReadingBy Liam Reilly and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration has signed agreements with 20 unions to reaffirm the city’s vaccine mandate, the mayor’s deputy press secretary said Friday. The deal does not include the unions representing the fire department or the police department, spokesperson Laura Feyer said. The agreements
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By Christina Maxouris, CNN Ahmaud Arbery’s mother put her head in her hands and wept as body cam video that showed the aftermath of her son’s shooting was played in court Friday. The pool reporter in the room who made the observation also noted that during that footage, one of the jurors was seen “shielding
Continue ReadingBy Stella Chan, CNN A San Diego County nurse faces an involuntary manslaughter charge for allegedly neglecting a collapsed inmate who later died, according to the San Diego County District Attorney’s office. On November 10, 2019, Elisa Serna, 24, an inmate at the Las Colinas Detention Facility in Santee, California said she was dizzy and
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By Noah Sheidlower and Justin Lear, CNN On a brisk Tuesday at Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin, maritime archaeologists, scuba divers, and residents of the Spring Harbor neighborhood stood in the cold as a canoe was brought to shore. But this was not just any racing or touring canoe — it dates back more than
Continue ReadingBy David Williams, CNN A California woman is recovering and says she feels lucky to be alive after being mauled by a black bear that broke into her Lake Tahoe cabin and rummaged through her kitchen. Laurel-Rose von Hoffmann-Curzi was woken up early on October 30 by a series of thumping sounds downstairs in her
Continue ReadingBy David Williams, CNN A California woman is recovering and says she feels lucky to be alive after being mauled by a black bear that broke into her Lake Tahoe cabin and rummaged through her kitchen. Laurel-Rose von Hoffmann-Curzi was woken up early on October 30 by a series of thumping sounds downstairs in her
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of award-winning singer, actress, comedian and activist Bette Midler. Personal Birth date: December 1, 1945 Birth place: Honolulu, Hawaii Birth name: Bette Davis Midler Father: Fred Midler, house painter Mother: Ruth (Schindel) Midler, seamstress Marriage: Martin von Haselberg (1984-present) Children: Sophie Education: Attended the University
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By Taylor Romine and Alexander Harring, CNN A 14-year-old girl in New Jersey has been missing for more than 20 days after she walked to a local deli and never returned, officials said during a Friday press conference. Jashyah Moore disappeared on the morning of October 14 while visiting a neighborhood deli close to her
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By Nicole Chavez and Brandon Tensley, CNN The possibility that three White men accused of chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery may be acquitted had Georgia residents tense and anxious when this week’s approval of a nearly all-White jury in the men’s trial became a reminder of why Black people mistrust the criminal justice system. Scholars
Continue ReadingBy Leyla Santiago, Sara Weisfeldt, Maria Cartaya and Tina Burnside, CNN The University of Florida on Friday announced that it will now allow three professors to testify as paid experts in a voting rights lawsuit, reversing its previous decision. In an email sent to the campus community on Friday, university President Kent Fuchs explained that
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By Judson Jones and Monica Garrett, CNN Water levels reached the major flood stage in Charleston, South Carolina, on Friday morning, according to a tidal gauge report. The gauge shows the tide reached 8 feet, the minimal level for major flooding, for a few minutes around 9 a.m. Saturday morning’s tide is forecast to be
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By Carma Hassan, Ray Sanchez and Brad Parks, CNN The first man shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse during protests in Wisconsin acted “belligerently” and asked to be shot but was not perceived as a serious threat, a former Marine testified Friday. The testimony of Jason Lackowski, the state’s seventh witness, came after a second
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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN In the middle of a small border town in West Texas sits an unassuming dirt mound dotted with piles of rocks, with just some wire strung between posts separating it from the road. To the outside observer, the patch of land might easily be overlooked as part of the desert landscape.
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