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Here’s what we know — and don’t know — about the killings of 4 University of Idaho students as a suspect has yet to be identified

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN As the University of Idaho mourns the loss of four students killed in an attack at an off-campus home last weekend, a community remains in crisis over few known details surrounding the students’ deaths and the lack of an identified suspect. The four students — Ethan Chapin, 20; Kaylee Goncalves, 21;

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Here’s what we know — and don’t know — about the killings of 4 University of Idaho students as a suspect has yet to be identified

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN As the University of Idaho mourns the loss of four students killed in an attack at an off-campus home last weekend, a community remains in crisis over few known details surrounding the students’ deaths and the lack of an identified suspect. The four students — Ethan Chapin, 20; Kaylee Goncalves, 21;

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The ‘callous and inhumane’ school shooting hoaxes are still happening around the US. Here’s what we know

By Ray Sanchez, Nicki Brown and Brynn Gingras, CNN A disturbing trend is causing disruptions of school life across the country, forcing lockdowns and straining police resources, sowing fear and confusion among students, parents and educators, and tormenting already anxious communities. The age of the active shooter has brought with it not only the frightful

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University of Virginia running back wounded in Sunday’s bus shooting was trying to warn others when he was shot, his mother says

By Jennifer Henderson, Nouran Salahieh and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN The mother of University of Virginia running back Mike Hollins, who was hospitalized after a shooting that killed three football players last Sunday, says her son was trying to warn others before being struck by gunfire. Hollins, a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is one of

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The FBI has opened an investigation after a 25-year-old North Carolina woman was found dead while on vacation in Mexico

By Hannah Sarisohn and Jamiel Lynch, CNN The family of a North Carolina woman found dead last month in a vacation rental property in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico is still looking for answers more than two weeks after her death. Shanquella Robinson, 25, traveled to Mexico on a vacation with her college friends from Winston-Salem

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Judge grants motion to preserve evidence after Kenneth Smith execution called off due to inability to gain access to sufficient veins

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN An Alabama judge granted an emergency motion on Friday to preserve evidence filed by the attorneys of death row inmate Kenneth Smith after his execution was called off on Thursday night. In their motion, Smith’s attorneys asked the court to preserve evidence in Smith’s execution, which was called off Thursday around

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NASA still won’t rename the James Webb Space Telescope, citing new investigation into namesake’s career

By Scottie Andrew, CNN Despite numerous calls from astronomers to rename its powerful new telescope, NASA officials stood by the naming of the James Webb Space Telescope before its launch. With the telescope nearly a year into its stint in space, the agency has released its chief historian’s investigation into the namesake of the telescope.

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University of Idaho students were ‘likely asleep’ before being attacked, police say as search for answers intensifies

By Aya Elamroussi and Veronica Miracle, CNN The four University of Idaho students who were found stabbed multiple times in their off-campus home were “likely asleep,” before they were attacked, Moscow, Idaho, police said in a Friday evening update. In the update, posted on Facebook, authorities released several new details about the gruesome killings that

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Former lawyer who threw a Molotov cocktail at an NYPD vehicle during a police brutality protest has been sentenced to 15 months in prison

By Brian Vitagliano and Alaa Elassar, CNN A US District Judge has sentenced a former lawyer to 15 months in prison after she made a Molotov cocktail and threw it at an empty New York Police Department vehicle during a anti-Brooklyn police brutality protest in 2020. Urooj Rahman, 34, was sentenced on Friday by Judge

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