By Jamiel Lynch and Devon M. Sayers, CNN The estate of Andrew Brown, Jr. has settled its lawsuit against a North Carolina county sheriff’s office over his shooting death during an arrest last year, according to an attorney for the estate. Brown’s family settled with Pasquotank County for $3 million, according to attorney Bakari Sellers,
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe, Amanda Musa and Raja Razek, CNN Oklahoma’s use of a three-drug lethal injection method is constitutional, a federal judge ruled Monday following a lawsuit from nearly 30 people on death row challenging the protocol. The suit, brought on behalf of 28 death row prisoners, named officials with multiple Oklahoma corrections agencies and
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Continue Reading By Sonia Moghe, CNN Kevin Spacey must face a federal lawsuit accusing him of sexual abuse in a New York federal court, a judge ruled Monday. The lawsuit, filed by actor Anthony Rapp, accuses Spacey of assault, battery and intentionally inflicting emotional distress. The suit accuses Spacey of groping Rapp’s buttocks in 1986, when Rapp
Continue Reading By Heather Chen, CNN Singapore says it is facing a dengue “emergency” as it grapples with an outbreak of the seasonal disease that has come unusually early this year. The Southeast Asian city-state has already exceeded 11,000 cases — far beyond the 5,258 it reported throughout 2021 — and that was before June 1, when
Continue Reading By Amir Vera, Nadia Romero, Maria Cartaya, Jennifer Henderson and Raja Razek, CNN Douglas K. Uhde, the man accused of shooting and killing former Juneau County Circuit Court Judge John Roemer, died Tuesday after being in critical condition for four days, according to a news release from the Wisconsin Department of Justice. Uhde, 56, was
Continue Reading By Harmeet Kaur, CNN A new quarter released on Monday celebrates a legendary figure who spent her life advocating for Indigenous people. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, is the third woman to be honored as part of the US Mint’s “American Women Quarters Program.” The “tails” side of the
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN NASA will launch a mission that will both fly by Venus and descend through its harsh atmosphere in 2029. Called DAVINCI, the Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry and Imaging mission will be the first to study Venus through both flybys and descent. The spacecraft is expected to explore
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette and Holly Yan, CNN They were at places that seemed safe — but few spaces in America are guaranteed safe anymore. More than a dozen people were killed and more than 70 injured in at least 13 mass shootings this weekend in the United States. Some were at graduation parties, a nightclub,
Continue Reading By Brad Parks The upcoming state trial for former Minneapolis police officers Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng for their alleged role in George Floyd’s killing has been moved to January 2023, Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill ruled Monday. Jury selection in the trial for Thao and Kueng, charged with aiding and abetting second-degree unintentional
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN Just a couple of weeks after the Ingenuity helicopter celebrated a year of flying on Mars, things got quiet. For the first time, the Ingenuity team on Earth lost contact with Ingenuity on sols 427 and 428, or Martian days that correspond with May 3 and May 4. The little chopper’s
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN A fishy ruling from California: A California court has ruled bees can legally be considered fish under specific circumstances. The ruling, released May 31, reversed an earlier judgment which found bumblebees could not be considered “fish” under the California Endangered Species Act. “The issue presented here is whether the bumblebee, a
Continue Reading By Nadeen Ebrahim, Abbas Al Lawati and Swati Gupta, CNN It took India less than 24 hours to discipline two politicians after a controversy that had been brewing at home for over a week caught the attention of its Arab trade partners. India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday suspended a spokesperson and expelled
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Humans’ historical greenhouse gas emissions have caused the climate crisis the world is in today. But it’s the amount emitted now and in coming years that will determine whether humanity can avert catastrophic climate changes. That’s the main finding of a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The amount of money needed to aid communities in the face of extreme weather-related emergencies has increased by more than 800% in the past two decades as the climate crisis also rapidly accelerated, new research shows. The report, released Tuesday by Oxfam, found not only is the need for extreme weather-related
Continue Reading By David McKenzie, CNN South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has hit back at allegations of improper conduct over large amounts of cash stolen from his wildlife farm in 2020. “Some are casting aspersions about me and money. I want to assure you that all this was money from proceeds from selling animals. I have never
Continue Reading By Emmy Abbassi, CNN A one-off LeBron James Triple Logoman trading card is going up for auction this week and could break a record for the most expensive sports card ever sold, according to Goldin Auctions. “The card is a one-of-one, is completely unique and experts think it could challenge the all-time record paid for
Continue Reading By Emmy Abbassi, CNN A one-off LeBron James Triple Logoman trading card is going up for auction this week and could break a record for the most expensive sports card ever sold, according to Goldin Auctions. “The card is a one-of-one, is completely unique and experts think it could challenge the all-time record paid for
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