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By Zoe Sottile, CNN Close to 7 million records from the 1950 US census have been made public. The digital records were released on Friday and are available to the public free of charge at a dedicated website, allowing viewers to research their family histories and backgrounds. They include 6.57 million population schedules — many

By Alaa Elassar and Chuck Johnston, CNN Five people were injured Friday night in a shooting along a rural road in South Carolina. The Colleton County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call around 11:30 “regarding people shooting at each other” on Logan Farm Road, police said on Twitter. When they arrived to what was described

By Alaa Elassar and Tina Burnside, CNN Police are searching for people involved in a shooting at a Virginia mall that left one person dead and two others injured Saturday. Officers responded to calls at the MacArthur Center in Norfolk around 6 p.m., the Norfolk Police Department said on Twitter. Roosevelt A. McKinney, 33, was

By Alaa Elassar, CNN California is calling upon Native American tribes to bring back the once-prohibited practice of lighting controlled burns to help prevent devastating wildfires that have wreaked havoc on the state. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force has launched a new plan — “Strategic Plan for Expanding the Use of

By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN One person was killed and at least 10 others were wounded in a shooting at a Dallas concert Saturday night, the Dallas Police Department said. Police responded to a report of a shooting in the 5000 block of Cleveland Road shortly after 11:30 p.m. Saturday, a police statement said. When police

By Kiely Westhoff, CNN The New York Police Department Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating an incident in which an unidentified individual was captured on video shouting anti-gay slurs and attacking a 22-year-old on the subway, the NYPD announced this week. The victim was riding the A-train near 190th street in Manhattan on the afternoon

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Someone won’t be getting past the bouncer this weekend. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) intercepted a shipment of counterfeit driver’s licenses coming through the Cincinnati Port of Entry, the agency said in a statement on Tuesday. “Counterfeit driver’s licenses are used by young adults who have not yet reached the

By Yenny Sanchez, CNN Sometimes you don’t know what you have until it’s gone — or, in this case, thrown away. Mary Elliot of Buckingham County, Virginia, panicked after realizing she had won a state lottery game on February 24 but had already tossed the ticket in the trash. “When I saw I’d won, I

By Andrew Torgan, CNN Curious about cryptocurrencies but don’t know where to begin? Help is on the way. Some employers may soon offer you the option to invest in bitcoin and other digital currencies through your 401(k). Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart. The weekend that was • The

By Chuck Johnston and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Sacramento police are appealing for the public’s help to find multiple shooters who opened fire downtown early Sunday morning, killing six people and leaving the California city with “a broken heart,” according to the mayor. In addition to the six dead, another 12 people were wounded at the