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By Aya Elamroussi, CNN A woman was pronounced dead early Saturday morning after trying to swim across the US-Mexican border with a group of migrants, federal officials said. US Border Patrol agents were notified shortly before midnight Friday that a group of about 70 people were trying to swim around the barrier between Tijuana, Mexico,

By Claudia Dominguez, CNN Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot asked residents in a news conference Saturday to “step up” and come forward with any information that will lead to the shooter or shooters that killed a 4-year-old boy on September 3. “We are committed as a city to do everything that we can to bring these

By Carma Hassan, Melissa Alonso and Andy Rose, CNN The University of Florida told three professors hired to testify as expert witnesses in a voting rights case against the state that they cannot participate. The University of Florida told the professors “that they were not authorized to serve as experts on behalf of Plaintiffs in

By Maya Brown and Emma Tucker, CNN When Philadelphia’s mayor signs landmark legislation as soon as this week, the city will become the first major US city to ban police from stopping drivers for low-level traffic violations — stops that studies show target Black drivers at disproportionately higher rates. The Driving Equality Bill, passed 14-2

By Jason Hanna and Alexandra Meeks, CNN Two captive female California condors each produced a chick asexually years ago — the only such instances ever recorded for that endangered species, researchers reported Thursday. And while this has been seen in other vertebrates and even birds, these are believed to be the first recorded instances in

By Melissa Alonso, CNN Three people were killed and another was injured early Saturday when an Amtrak train struck a vehicle at a South Carolina railroad crossing, fire officials said. A police officer reported the crash about 2:30 a.m., according to a statement from the North Charleston Fire Department. First responders found four people near

By Amy Simonson, CNN A federal judge in Utah ordered the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) and two of its affiliates to pay nearly $1 million for allegedly violating child labor laws when they employed minors on a ranch without paying them for years. The decision comes after a 2012 video

By Leah Asmelash and Scottie Andrew, CNN No other flavor wields quite as much power as the coveted pumpkin spice. For a few weeks every year, pumpkin spice has almost complete and total dominion over hungry consumers across the US. It surreptitiously infiltrates store shelves and then pantries, appearing as soon as the first tree

By Rob Frehse, CNN New York State health care workers will no longer have a religious exemption to the state’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate after a federal appeals court vacated a temporary injunction Friday. The three-judge panel in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit also sent the two court cases back to the

By Mark Morales and Ralph Ellis, CNN The first witness in the civil lawsuit filed against organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally testified Friday, saying the attacks by angry White nationalists left her physically and emotionally scarred. Natalie Romero said she and friends were standing at the Thomas Jefferson statue on the University

By Rebekah Riess A New Orleans man will have nearly $30,000 returned to him after it was seized by DEA agents at the Columbus International Airport in Ohio last year. According to a settlement agreement signed Thursday, the federal government agreed to dismiss its civil forfeiture case. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents seized $28,180.00 of