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By Michelle Watson and Holly Yan, CNN Two highly respected police officers were killed Wednesday night and a third seriously wounded when a suspect fired over 80 rounds at them while they were responding to a call in Connecticut, authorities said. “Sadly, we lost two exceptional Bristol police officers. And a third was seriously injured

By Aya Elamroussi and Rob Frehse, CNN Days after federal officials announced the largest rainbow fentanyl seizure in New York City history, an even greater quantity of the highly addictive substance has been found, prosecutors said Wednesday. Two people have been arrested and charged with multiple drug and firearm charges in connection to the seizure

By Dakin Andone, Alta Spells and Denise Royal, CNN The Parkland school shooter has avoided the death penalty after a jury recommended he be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the February 2018 massacre at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — a move that left some of the victims’

By Nouran Salahieh, CNN Stanford University apologized Wednesday for limiting Jewish student admissions during the 1950s and then denying such a practice existed in the years that followed. The apology comes after a task force appointed by the university’s president in January completed an archive-based report that found that Stanford took actions to suppress its

By Jamiel Lynch and Melissa Alonso, CNN A man accused of killing five people in South Carolina was arrested in neighboring Georgia after he allegedly committed another crime, authorities said Tuesday. Deputies arrested James Douglas Drayton of Spartanburg, South Carolina, on Monday after he robbed a gas station with a weapon, according to a release

By Nick Valencia and Jade Gordon, CNN More than three years after the incident, a grand jury will finally get to hear evidence in the case of motorist Ronald Greene, who died after he was violently arrested by Louisiana State Police troopers. Union Parish District Attorney John Belton told CNN he will present evidence in

By Steve Almasy and Michelle Watson, CNN Three SWAT officers were shot around 6 a.m. ET Wednesday as they tried to serve a warrant to a homicide suspect who was fatally wounded during a gunfight with cops, Philadelphia Police officials said. After knocking on a door, the SWAT team was “immediately met by gunfire,” First

Josh Campbell and Andy Rose, CNN A Minnesota man who claimed Antifa set fire to his camper during the political unrest of 2020 because he had displayed a Trump campaign flag admitted to staging the event and committing insurance fraud, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. Denis Molla, age 30, of Minneapolis suburb Brooklyn Center was