By Amanda Watts and Holly Yan, CNN The man who gunned down the Houston area’s beloved first Sikh sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to death, according to court records. “We are extremely grateful that justice has been served,” Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez tweeted. “Sandeep changed our Sheriff’s Office family for the better, and we
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, Shimon Prokupecz and Matthew J. Friedman, CNN In the face of calls for his resignation by victims’ relatives and a major newspaper, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steven McCraw is not stepping down, saying at a meeting of the agency’s oversight board Thursday that his officers “did not fail the
Continue Reading By Adam Pourahmadi, Mostafa Salem and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Mourners gathering to commemorate the 40th day since the death of Nika Shahkarami, an Iranian teenager who went missing on September 20 after attending protests in the capital Tehran, were met with gunfire and tear gas by security forces, according to video posted on social media
Continue Reading By Kiely Westhoff, CNN Laura Kavanagh, who became the first female commissioner of the Fire Department of New York Thursday, hopes her appointment will pave the way for other women to hold the role in the future. “This moment — me being first — only matters if I am not the last,” said Kavanagh. Having
Continue Reading By Melissa Alonso, CNN The Miami Beach City Commission on Wednesday voted unanimously to prohibit discriminatory practices “based on the texture or style of a person’s hair,” according to a news release. The new ordinance bans discrimination based on a person’s hair when seeking housing, employment, public services, funding or use of facilities across the
Continue Reading By Laura Ly and Eric Levenson, CNN A Massachusetts man was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to the murder of Vanessa Marcotte, a 27-year-old Google employee who was killed after she went for a walk in 2016, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Angelo Colon-Ortiz, 36, of Worcester, won’t be eligible for parole for at
Continue Reading By Anna Chernova and Rob Picheta, CNN Russian lawmakers agreed to toughen the country’s discriminatory law against so-called same-sex “propaganda,” moving to ban all Russians from promoting or “praising” homosexual relationships or publicly suggesting that they are “normal.” Moscow’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, approved unanimously amendments to strengthen the law against “propaganda
Continue Reading By Leah Asmelash, CNN Five years ago, a single hashtag sent waves across the world: #MeToo. News of sexual harassment and assault allegations against ubiquitous Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein had just broken. In its wake, countless people came forward with stories of sexual abuse — accusing high-profile men from former president George H. W. Bush
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN A Tuesday court ruling has cleared the way for Richmond, Virginia, to remove its last-standing Confederate statue. The statue, standing at the intersection of the city’s Hermitage Road and Laburnum Avenue, depicts A.P. Hill, a Confederate general killed during the Third Battle of Petersburg in the American Civil War. The statue
Continue Reading By Hadas Gold, Mostafa Salem, Mia Albert, Celine Alkhaldi and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Israel and Lebanon finalized an agreement defining their maritime borders in the Mediterranean on Thursday, President Joe Biden announced on Twitter, inking a United States-brokered deal at the United Nations mission on the land border between the countries. The signing ceremony officially
Continue Reading By Melissa Alonso and Amy Simonson, CNN An Arkansas man is in the hospital — but expected to recover — after he was engulfed by a fireball when he was tased by state police while wearing a backpack with a gallon of gasoline inside, according to a news release from Arkansas State Police. Around 1:18
Continue Reading By Anna Chernova, CNN Russian TV host and 2018 presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak has fled Russia for Lithuania, Russian state news agency TASS reported Thursday. Sobchack entered Lithuania using her Israeli passport, according to the country’s State Security Department director Darius Jauniskis. “Yes, I can confirm that Sobchak is in Lithuania,” TASS cited Jauniskis as
Continue Reading By Eliza Mackintosh, CNN An opposition leader in exile from Belarus has demanded that President Alexsandr Lukashenko be held to account for his regime’s complicity in the Ukraine war and for Russian soldiers to withdraw from Belarusian soil, after a CNN investigation revealed new evidence that the country provided medical assistance to injured Russian troops.
Continue Reading By Celine Alkhaldi, Adam Pourahmadi and Tara John, CNN Clashes broke out throughout Iran Wednesday as thousands of people came to the burial site of Mahsa Amini in Saqqez, a city in the Kurdistan province, to mark 40 days since her death, semi-official Iranian state news agency ISNA said. Protests have swept through the Islamic
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, Shimon Prokupecz and Matthew J. Friedman, CNN In the face of calls for his resignation by victims’ relatives and a major newspaper, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steven McCraw is not stepping down, saying at a meeting of the agency’s oversight board Thursday that his officers “did not fail the
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN If you’re planning on hitting the streets this Halloween weekend, check your local forecast to make sure the weather won’t spook your plans. While most of the country should be pretty fright-free, there will be some pockets of slightly scary skies in the Pacific Northwest and the Deep South. Here’s what
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN If you’re planning on hitting the streets this Halloween weekend, check your local forecast to make sure the weather won’t spook your plans. While most of the country should be pretty fright-free, there will be some pockets of slightly scary skies in the Pacific Northwest and the Deep South. Here’s what
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN If you’re planning on hitting the streets this Halloween weekend, check your local forecast to make sure the weather won’t spook your plans. While most of the country should be pretty fright-free, there will be some pockets of slightly scary skies in the Pacific Northwest and the Deep South. Here’s what
Continue Reading By Justin Gamble and Dalila-Johari Paul, CNN Four years after a synagogue attack that forever changed her life, Andrea Wedner hopes to inspire the next generation to root out antisemitism amid continued reports of anti-Jewish bigotry. For weeks, Andrea and her husband, Ron Wedner, have been working with students at the Community Day School in
Continue Reading By Clarissa Ward, Mick Krever, Scott McWhinnie and Dave Alsup, CNN The body of an American man killed in August while fighting alongside the Ukrainian military has been returned to Ukrainian custody by the Russian military. A CNN team witnessed the transfer in the Zaporizhzhia region on Wednesday. The American is 24-year-old Joshua Jones, who
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