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Nearly $1.5 million settlement approved for correctional officers of color who were barred from guarding Derek Chauvin

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

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Hundreds of tips helped police identify and charge ‘primary suspect’ in killings of Muslim men, police say. Now they’re searching for motive

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

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Gabby Petito’s family seeks $50 million from Utah police department for inadequate response to Brian Laundrie’s abuse

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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‘A monumental loss to Nigeria’s film industry,’ director Biyi Bandele passes away at 54

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

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Conservatives have pushed infant safe haven laws as an alternative to abortion. But few American women use them

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,

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Three Palestinians killed as Israel launches new raid against suspected militants in the West Bank

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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Kenyans have cast their ballots for a new leader in a fiercely-contested race that’s too close to call

By Nimi Princewill, Stephanie Busari and Bethlehem Feleke, CNN Polling has officially closed in Kenya’s crucial general elections as outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta prepares to hand over power to a new leader. About 22 million Kenyans registered to vote, the country’s electoral body (IEBC) said, and polls opened from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. local

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