CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Sonia Sotomayor, associate justice of the US Supreme Court. Personal Birth date: June 25, 1954 Birth place: New York, New York Birth name: Sonia Maria Sotomayor Father: Juan Sotomayor, factory worker Mother: Celina (Baez) Sotomayor, nurse Marriage: Kevin Edward Noonan (August 1976-October 1983, divorced) Education:
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi, CNN A fund created for the victims of the massacre at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school has garnered more than $11 million from donations worldwide, city officials said Friday. The Robb School Memorial Fund was established to help those affected by last month’s mass shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers.
Continue Reading By Josh Pennington, Irene Nasser and Jorge Engels, CNN Russian forces are now in control of most of Severodonetsk, the epicenter of the bloody battle for Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. Street fighting continued to rage on Saturday in the eastern city, where Russian soldiers and Ukrainian troops are still locked in battle. “The situation remains
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi, CNN A fund created for the victims of the massacre at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school has garnered more than $11 million from donations worldwide, city officials said Friday. The Robb School Memorial Fund was established to help those affected by last month’s mass shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers.
Continue Reading By CNN’s Jorge Engels, Jake Kwon, Jeevan Ravindran and Reuters France’s defense minister said Saturday that the country aimed to rebuild its relationship with Australia, following a failed submarine deal that led to a breakdown of relations between the two countries. The comments by Sebastien Lecornu come after Australia said they will pay French defense
Continue Reading By Eliott C. McLaughlin and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Josh Tello shouldn’t be raising Rosalina as a single parent. Alongside him should be Laura Buendia, his sweetheart of nine years. They began dating as teens, after he showed up at her Saginaw, Michigan, home with flowers, making her blush. They lay on the trampoline for hours,
Continue Reading By Yoonjung Seo, Jake Kwon and Kathleen Magramo, CNN North Korea has named a top nuclear negotiator as the nation’s first female foreign minister, state media reported Saturday, amid warnings from the US that Pyongyang is preparing to conduct a nuclear test. Career diplomat Choe Son Hui was appointed at a plenary meeting of the
Continue Reading By Amanda Musa, CNN Local and federal authorities are searching for a suspect who they believe intentionally set fire to an abortion clinic set to open in Casper, Wyoming, later this month. The suspected arson took place in the early morning hours of May 25, according to a news release from the Casper Police Department.
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon and Oren Liebermann, CNN US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called out China on Saturday for a series of coercive, aggressive and dangerous actions that threaten stability around Asia and vowed the United States would stand by partners to resist any pressure. “Indo-Pacific countries shouldn’t face political intimidation, economic coercion, or harassment by
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon and Oren Liebermann, CNN US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called out China on Saturday for a series of coercive, aggressive and dangerous actions that threaten stability around Asia and vowed the United States would stand by partners to resist any pressure. “Indo-Pacific countries shouldn’t face political intimidation, economic coercion, or harassment by
Continue Reading By Omar Jimenez and Theresa Waldrop, CNN The parents of a 10-year-old victim of the massacre at a Uvalde elementary school last month say they miss their son — even though he is one of the survivors. Gilbert Mata was in one of the classrooms at Robb Elementary School, where the gunman killed 19 children
Continue Reading By Amy Simonson, CNN With hopes of identifying the female victim of a 1975 homicide, Connecticut authorities exhumed a body in a Hamden cemetery Wednesday, only to find the remains of someone else. When East Haven police officers discovered the human remains inside the casket were those of a man, they knew it was not
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, CNN Four days after a federal court ruled against death row inmates arguing Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocol is cruel and unusual, the state’s attorney general asked for more than two dozen executions to be scheduled. Executions in Oklahoma are scheduled by the state Court of Criminal Appeals. The motion from Attorney General
Continue Reading By Omar Jimenez and Theresa Waldrop, CNN The parents of a 10-year-old victim of the massacre at a Uvalde elementary school last month say they miss their son — even though he is one of the survivors. Gilbert Mata was in one of the classrooms at Robb Elementary School, where the gunman killed 19 children
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar and Jamiel Lynch, CNN A police officer in Mississippi was killed Thursday responding to a domestic disturbance call that left a woman dead, according to Meridian police Chief Deborah Young. Officer Kennis Croom, who was working on a day off, was the first emergency responder to arrive at the scene and soon
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, CNN A district court judge in Texas has ordered the state to suspend child abuse investigations against three families with transgender children who sued Gov. Greg Abbott earlier this week. The temporary restraining order also applies to any families who are members of the LGBTQ organization PFLAG. The judge said the investigations
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN When a small female tortoise was spotted in 2019 on the inaccessible volcanic island of Fernandina in the Galapagos, researchers were shocked. Previously, only one other tortoise, a large male loner, had been found there in 1906 by explorer Rollo Beck. Scientists had thought this animal was the last of the
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi and Andy Rose, CNN A woman who was turned over to officials at an Arizona church as a baby more than four decades ago has been identified through DNA as the daughter of a Florida couple whose murdered bodies were found in Texas in 1981, officials said Thursday. Investigators are still working
Continue Reading By Jason Hanna, Elizabeth Wolfe and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN In his first extensive public comments about his actions during last month’s Texas school massacre, the Uvalde school police chief has contradicted previous narratives about his role, telling the Texas Tribune he didn’t consider himself the incident commander and did not instruct officers to refrain from
Continue Reading By Peter Nickeas and Ray Sanchez and Laura Ly, CNN A police officer was “justified in his use of force” and not guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Patrick Lyoya, the officer’s lawyer said at an arraignment Friday. Lyoya, a Black man, was shot to death on April 4 by Christopher Schurr, a
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