By Amir Vera and Deanna Hackney, CNN Three people are dead, including a police officer, after a shooting in Arvada, Colorado, on Monday. A bystander and the suspect were also killed, officials said. The officer, Gordon Beesley, was a 19-year veteran of the police department, Arvada police Det. David Snelling told CNN. Earlier, Arvada Deputy
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Carl Nassib, a defensive lineman with the Las Vegas Raiders, has played in the NFL for five years and said he “agonized over the decision” to announce that he is gay.
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By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN A New York woman is giving back to the community after more than 150 Amazon boxes that did not belong to her showed up at her house. Jillian Cannan told CNN started receiving packages at her home on June 5 thinking they were related to her business. “I thought my
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Some states are making great strides in vaccinating their residents against Covid-19, but the ones that are not may soon be contending with a more transmissible variant, experts say. About 45.2% of the US population is fully vaccinated against Covid-19, CDC data showed, and in 16 states and Washington, DC, that
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By Andy Rose, Hollie Silverman, Keith Allen and Susannah Cullinane, CNN Authorities say the incident in which two pedestrians were hit by a truck at a Pride parade near Miami Saturday — leaving one dead and the other injured — was a “tragic accident” and not an intentional act. The 77-year-old driver of the truck,
Continue ReadingBy Jill Martin, CNN Carl Nassib, a defensive lineman with the Las Vegas Raiders, became the first active NFL player in league history to announce that he is gay. “What’s up, people,” Nassib said Monday in a video on Instagram. “I’m Carl Nassib. I’m at my house here in Westchester, Pennsylvania. I just wanted to
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By Alisha Ebrahimji and Amanda Jackson, CNN A man accused of killing three people in three separate incidents Friday in North Bend, Oregon, and then allegedly forcing a woman to drive him to Wisconsin, has turned himself in to authorities, officials said. The incidents began Friday morning, when Oen Evan Nicholson, 30, allegedly killed 83-year-old
Continue ReadingBy Stella Chan, CNN A Southern California sheriff’s deputy is under criminal investigation after surveillance video showed him kicking a pursuit suspect in the head after the man surrendered, an incident that one official called “alarming” and “disturbing.” The incident occurred early Wednesday in Victorville, about 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles, after a motorcyclist
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez As extreme drought plagues the Western US and more intense storms brew in the tropics, climate-minded people joined scientists and meteorologists on Monday in a campaign to turn the world’s attention toward the climate crisis. At its core, the #ShowYourStripes campaign is a visual one, designed to illustrate something inherently difficult to
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A police response team quits after they face scrutiny for their tactics during civil unrest in Portland, Oregon.
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