By Nick Paton Walsh, Daria Markina, Sebastian Shukla, Oleksandra Ochman and Darya Tarasova, CNN Promises of freedom and riches are made to convicts in cramped jail cells. Frantic phone calls ensue between relatives and inmates weighing the offer. Then prisoners vanish, leaving their loved ones to sift through reports of the wounded arriving in hospitals.
Continue Reading By Chuck Johnston, CNN A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the White woman who accused 14-year-old Emmett Till of making advances toward her nearly 70 years ago, allegations that led to the Black teen’s brutal death. A Leflore County grand jury last week heard seven hours of testimony from investigators and witnesses
Continue Reading By Nick Watt, CNN Across Tennessee, pitching a tent on public land outside of designated camp sites is now a felony offense. Tennessee is the first state in the nation to take such a draconian step, but it’s just one of a number of states essentially criminalizing homelessness in an effort to reduce the number
Continue Reading By Stella Chan, CNN Friends, family and authorities are scrambling to find 16-year-old Kiely Rodni after she disappeared following a campground party in Northern California. Kiely was at the Prosser Family Campground on Friday night and was last seen around 12:30 a.m. Saturday, the Placer County Sheriff’s Office said. “We are treating her disappearance as
Continue Reading By Omar Jimenez, CNN The Ramsey County Board of Commissioners in Minnesota on Tuesday approved a nearly $1.5 million settlement agreement for eight correctional officers of color who were barred from guarding former police officer Derek Chauvin in 2020. The correctional officers claimed in a lawsuit last year that the Ramsey County Adult Detention Center
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh and Christina Maxouris, CNN Hundreds of tips poured in after Albuquerque police sounded an alarm about the shooting deaths of four Muslim men in the city, leading to an arrest in the killings on Tuesday. Though authorities are still searching for a motive and working to confirm whether they’re all related, police
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone and Chuck Johnston, CNN The family of Gabby Petito has submitted a $50 million claim against the Moab, Utah, Police Department, arguing the 22-year-old may not have been killed last year by her fiancé if officers had recognized he was the “true primary aggressor” in a domestic dispute about two weeks before
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone and Chuck Johnston, CNN The family of Gabby Petito has submitted a $50 million claim against the Moab, Utah, Police Department, arguing the 22-year-old may not have been killed last year by her fiancé if officers had recognized he was the “true primary aggressor” in a domestic dispute about two weeks before
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Continue Reading By Tim Lister, Anna Chernova, Olga Voitovich, Yulia Kesaieva and Ivana Kottasová, CNN One person has died and multiple others were injured in a series of large explosions that rocked the area of a Russian military airbase in the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea on Tuesday, local authorities have said. Footage from the scene showed
Continue Reading By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Photographs by Bryan Anselm/Redux for CNN Kayla Slone hops out of the bed of her husband’s pickup truck as it stops in front of what used to be a house. A friend hands her a couple of Styrofoam takeout containers from the stacks that fill the truck, and Slone makes her
Continue Reading By Stephanie Busari, CNN Acclaimed novelist and filmmaker Biyi Bandele has died, his family announced in a Facebook post late Monday. Bandele, 54, was a prolific author, playwright and filmmaker whose work includes the adaptation of famed Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton. His death
Continue Reading By Isabelle Chapman and Daniel A. Medina As many American women reckon with the sudden loss of their constitutional right to abortion, conservatives have floated an alternative they say makes abortion less necessary: safe haven laws. The laws, which allow mothers to anonymously abandon infants at hospitals and other designated sites shortly after giving birth,
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN If an automaker finds a minor safety problem with your vehicle, you’ll likely receive a recall notice to get it serviced at your convenience. But in some extreme cases, car companies may offer to buy back your vehicle to help reduce the hassle. That option was recently presented to about 260
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN If an automaker finds a minor safety problem with your vehicle, you’ll likely receive a recall notice to get it serviced at your convenience. But in some extreme cases, car companies may offer to buy back your vehicle to help reduce the hassle. That option was recently presented to about 260
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN If an automaker finds a minor safety problem with your vehicle, you’ll likely receive a recall notice to get it serviced at your convenience. But in some extreme cases, car companies may offer to buy back your vehicle to help reduce the hassle. That option was recently presented to about 260
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN If an automaker finds a minor safety problem with your vehicle, you’ll likely receive a recall notice to get it serviced at your convenience. But in some extreme cases, car companies may offer to buy back your vehicle to help reduce the hassle. That option was recently presented to about 260
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN If an automaker finds a minor safety problem with your vehicle, you’ll likely receive a recall notice to get it serviced at your convenience. But in some extreme cases, car companies may offer to buy back your vehicle to help reduce the hassle. That option was recently presented to about 260
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN If an automaker finds a minor safety problem with your vehicle, you’ll likely receive a recall notice to get it serviced at your convenience. But in some extreme cases, car companies may offer to buy back your vehicle to help reduce the hassle. That option was recently presented to about 260
Continue Reading By Abeer Salman, Amir Tal and Kareem El Damanhoury Three Palestinian men were killed during an Israeli military operation against suspected militants in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday morning, according to information from the Palestinian health ministry. Among the dead is Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi, the apparent target of the Israeli raid. The other men killed
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