By Sophia Saifi, Azaz Syed and Rhea Mogul, CNN A Pakistan man has been found guilty of murdering the daughter of a distinguished diplomat in a brutal beheading case that sparked renewed calls for better protection of domestic violence victims. An Islamabad judge sentenced Zahir Jaffer to death Thursday for killing Noor Mukadam, 27, last
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By Jennifer Henderson, CNN A desperate note sent from a mother with her child to her elementary school has led police in the Las Vegas area to a toddler’s remains. The note sent Tuesday morning with the child was a cry for help, with her mother writing that she was being held captive by her
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By Julia Jones and Christina Maxouris, CNN Former Minneapolis police officers Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane were found guilty of violating George Floyd’s civil rights by a federal jury in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Thursday. The 12 jurors — four men and eight women — found Lane, Kueng and Thao guilty of
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By Nathan Hodge, Tim Lister, Ivana Kottasová and Helen Regan, CNN Russian forces have begun an attack on Ukraine, with reports of troops crossing the border to the north and south, explosions in multiple cities including the capital Kyiv and warnings from Russian President Vladimir Putin of bloodshed unless Ukrainian forces lay down their arms.
Continue Reading By Nathan Hodge, Tim Lister, Ivana Kottasová and Helen Regan, CNN Russian forces have begun an attack on Ukraine, with reports of troops crossing the border to the north and south, explosions in multiple cities including the capital Kyiv and warnings from Russian President Vladimir Putin of bloodshed unless Ukrainian forces lay down their arms.
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By Amir Vera and Ashley Killough, CNN In a stunning legal opinion released publicly this week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton declared gender-affirming surgical procedures in children and prescribing drugs that affect puberty to be considered “child abuse,” a claim seen by many as an attack on transgender children. “There is no doubt that these
Continue Reading By Nathan Hodge, Tim Lister, Ivana Kottasová and Helen Regan, CNN Russian forces have begun an attack on Ukraine, with reports of troops crossing the border to the north and south, explosions in multiple cities including the capital Kyiv and warnings from Russian President Vladimir Putin of bloodshed unless Ukrainian forces lay down their arms.
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By Kristie Lu Stout, Jadyn Sham, Rhea Mogul, Teele Rebane and Lizzy Yee, CNN Fighting back tears, Laura and Nick struggle to comfort their sobbing 11-month-old daughter, Ava, through a phone screen. “Bubba, we love you…we’re going to come and get you darling. We will,” Laura says, in a video of a phone call with
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By Kaanita Iyer, CNN Amid a nationwide rise in homicides, a new study has found that “stand your ground” laws — which allow people to respond to threats with potentially lethal force without fear of criminal prosecution — are linked to increased homicide rates, amounting to hundreds of additional deaths per year. States saw an
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By Andy Rose, CNN A 21-year-old Texas man pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges after he brutally attacked and blamed an Asian family whom he believed to be Chinese for the Covid-19 pandemic, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Jose Gomez III saw a Burmese family with three young children enter a Sam’s Club in Midland, Texas,
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By Sara Smart, CNN Alabama’s governor is demanding answers after a high school basketball team say they were forced to choose between their faith or a game. Oakwood Adventist Academy is a Seventh-Day Adventist school in Huntsville, located 100 miles north of Birmingham. Their men’s basketball team had advanced to the semifinals of the state
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By Giselle Rhoden and Nicole Chavez, CNN Black male immigrants are less likely to be approved for United States citizenship than White immigrants, a new study released this week shows. Researchers at the University of Southern California analyzed more than 2 million citizenship applications filed by US permanent residents between October 2014 and March 2018,
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By Aaron Cooper, Eric Levenson and Steve Almasy, CNN The former Louisville Metro Police detective who was part of the botched raid of Breonna Taylor’s apartment in March 2020 testified through tears at his trial Wednesday as he defended his decision to open fire into the home. Former Detective Brett Hankison testified that when a
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Key Ukrainian government websites were down early Thursday morning local time following a day in which Ukrainian agencies dealt with multiple cyberattacks and as concerns mounted over Russian troop movements into Ukraine‘s separatist regions. The websites of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers, and those of the ministries of foreign affairs, infrastructure,
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By Jamiel Lynch, CNN Two Louisiana deputies have been arrested on manslaughter charges following the fatal shooting of a man last week, authorities said. The two deputies were among officers who responded to a disturbance call at a known crack house in Marrero on February 16 around 2:15 a.m., Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto said
Continue Reading By Stella Chan, CNN A California woman was headed for a trip to Mexico but instead spent 13 days in a Los Angeles jail after police mistook her for another person with the same name, according to allegations in a lawsuit filed Tuesday. Bethany K. Farber filed the wrongful arrest lawsuit against the City of
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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Two years ago people around the world pledged to jog, walk or run 2.23 miles, symbolic of the day Georgia man, Ahmaud Arbery was gunned down while running February 23, 2020. Today, many of those are doing it again under the hashtag #IStillRunWithMaud, to honor Arbery’s life and advocate for racial
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By Katie Bo Lillis, Jim Sciutto, Jeremy Herb, Matthew Chance and Kylie Atwood, CNN The US has issued a warning to the Ukrainian government that the latest intelligence points to Russia imminently launching a full-scale invasion, according to Ukrainian, US and western officials familiar with the matter. The US intelligence assessment comes as foreign leaders
Continue Reading By Katie Bo Lillis, Jim Sciutto, Jeremy Herb, Matthew Chance and Kylie Atwood, CNN The US has issued a warning to the Ukrainian government that the latest intelligence points to Russia imminently launching a full-scale invasion, according to Ukrainian, US and western officials familiar with the matter. The US intelligence assessment comes as foreign leaders
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By Tim Lister, Ivana Kottasová, Nada Bashir and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN A state of emergency is to be introduced across all parts of Ukraine under government control, officials said Wednesday, while President Volodymyr Zelensky said reservists would be called up as Russian forces remain massed along Ukraine’s borders, as fears of an incursion mount. Ukrainian,
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