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By Rebekah Riess and Sara Smart, CNN A high-altitude meteor which blew up when it hit the atmosphere “is likely the best theory” for a loud boom heard across portions of northern Utah and southern Idaho on Saturday, said Utah Gov. Spencer Cox. Cox, a Republican, said in a tweet he heard a loud boom

By Paul Vercammen, CNN “When Jackie Robinson stepped on the field as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, for us Black folk, it was our Neil Armstrong landing on the moon,” said Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City. Now, 75 years after Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier,

By Jason Kravarik, CNN Amid heavy fog and dense brush, eight members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department set off on foot up the remote terrain of the Santa Monica Mountains. It was about 10 a.m. on January 26, 2020, and a helicopter had just crashed. Smoke filled the air and first responders did

By Rebekah Riess, CNN The family of Army Spc. Vanessa Guillén, who disappeared from Fort Hood, Texas, in 2020 and was later found dead, filed a case Friday seeking $35 million in damages from the Department of the Army, according to a court filing and Natalie Khawam, attorney for Guillén’s family. The case claims that

By Claire Colbert, CNN About 133,000 people in the Greater Detroit area remain under a boil water advisory Sunday, a day after a leak was discovered in a 120-inch water transmission main that distributes water from the Lake Huron Water Treatment Facility to residents, the Great Lakes Water Authority said. That’s down from 935,000 people

By Zoe Sottile, CNN When teacher and recreational caver Rick Haley set out to help map a cave on August 6, he had no idea he would end up staging a rescue mission — let alone reuniting a lost dog with her owner. Haley, along with a team of around 30 spelunkers, was mapping a

By Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN An employment discrimination lawsuit filed by a former Delta Air Lines flight attendant says she was fired for posting an image of former President Donald Trump wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood on her personal Facebook page. The plaintiff, Leondra Taylor, who is Black, admitted she posted a cartoon image on

By Topher Gauk-Roger and Josh Campbell, CNN The captain of a San Diego vessel that sank in 2021 killing three of 32 smuggled migrants on board was sentenced to 18 years in prison Friday, the US Attorney’s Office said in a release. Antonio Hurtado, 40, was charged with attempting to bring people into the US

By Jacquelyne Germain, CNN Behind glass-fronted cabinets in a University of Pennsylvania classroom, the skulls of Black Philadelphians whose remains were either graverobbed or unethically obtained were on display until 2020. For nearly six years, students had been taking introductory and advanced anthropology classes surrounded by a couple hundred skulls that made up only a

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Buying diapers and feminine hygiene products is about to get just a little bit easier for Coloradans. HB22-1055, also known as the Sales Tax Exemption Essential Hygiene Products Act, went into effect on Wednesday. “From now on in Colorado, there will no longer be state sales tax on diapers and feminine

By Paul P. Murphy, Aya Elamroussi, Nicki Brown, Samantha Beech, Liam Reilly and Ray Sanchez, CNN The man suspected of stabbing renowned author Salman Rushdie in western New York pleaded not guilty Saturday to attempted murder in the second degree and other charges, his attorney says. Hadi Matar, 24, is accused of stabbing Rushdie —

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A Florida alligator was euthanized after bystanders spotted the reptile swimming with a knife stuck between its eyes, officials say. An alligator trapper captured the injured gator July 1 in a pond in Deltona, Florida, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission told CNN in a statement. Several passersby had shared