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By Michelle Watson, CNN Two Utah National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters were involved in a training accident Tuesday morning, crashing near a popular ski resort, the Utah National Guard said. No crew members or skiers at the Snowbird ski resort were injured, according to Jared Jones, chief warrant officer 5 with the Utah National
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By Liam Reilly, CNN A Bronx man was indicted for hate crimes Tuesday after he allegedly assaulted a woman and yelled anti-Hispanic slurs at her, according to prosecutors. The victim, a 72-year-old woman, was allegedly assaulted while speaking in Spanish and English on the phone on January 18, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office said. The
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By Sara Smart, CNN If someone said they’d pay you $1,800 to stay off social media for six years, would you do it? Could you? Sivert Klefsaas did just that. “I thought it was awesome,” Sivert told CNN Tuesday, “I thought, ‘Ah what’s 6 more years?’” In 2016, Lorna Goldstrand Klefsaas challenged her 12-year-old son
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By Katie Polglase, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Tim Lister, CNN In the course of a day, when Russia carefully choreographed its justification for sending troops into eastern Ukraine, two strange videos popped up on social media. One video allegedly showed the Monday shelling of a Russian border post in the Rostov region, which runs along Ukraine’s
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By Sara Smart, CNN You may know him as Hank the Tank, but the California Department of Fish and Wildlife knows him as a threat to a Lake Tahoe neighborhood. For months now, the 500-pound black bear has been roaming the streets in the Tahoe Keys area of South Lake Tahoe, about 100 miles east
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By Nicole Chavez, CNN Nearly two years after a botched police raid led to Breonna Taylor‘s death, the only officer facing criminal charges for his actions on that day is standing trial in Kentucky. Brett Hankison, a former Louisville Metro Police Department officer, is facing three counts of felony wanton endangerment in the March 2020
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By Nimi Princewill, CNN Uganda has proposed steep penalties for anti-vaxxers in a new bill being studied by parliament, as the country doubles down on its Covid-19 vaccine mandate. A parliamentary health committee said Tuesday it was considering proposed legislation to fine or imprison unvaccinated people in the East African country of around 45 million
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By Ashley Killough, Kacey Cherry, Lucy Kafanov, Rosalina Nieves and Amir Vera, CNN Nineteen Austin police officers have been indicted for their actions during the 2020 George Floyd protests and riots, according to documents publicly released Tuesday. The 19 officers were indicted on two counts of aggravated assault by a public servant that “intentionally, knowingly,
Continue Reading By Michelle Watson, CNN Two Utah National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters were involved in a training accident Tuesday morning, crashing near a popular ski resort, the Utah National Guard said. No crew members or skiers at the Snowbird ski resort were injured, according to Jared Jones, chief warrant officer 5 with the Utah National
Continue Reading By Isabelle Jani-Friend, CNN The ice sheet covering Greenland is melting rapidly at its base and is injecting far more water and ice into the ocean than previously understood, according to new research, which could have serious ramifications for global sea level rise. “Unprecedented” rates of melting have been observed at the bottom of the
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By Tara John, Tamara Qiblawi and Nada Bashir, CNN Western leaders announced a tranche of sanctions against Moscow after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into separatist-held parts of eastern Ukraine, a move that the United States called the start of Russia’s invasion of the country. It comes as diplomatic efforts to avoid an escalation
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By Christina Maxouris, Alta Spells and Maximillian Boudreaux, CNN Wanda Cooper-Jones said she wanted guilty verdicts in the federal trial for her son’s killers by the time she marked two years since Ahmaud Arbery was gunned down during a jog. They came a day earlier. Jurors found Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and their neighbor William
Continue Reading By Amir Vera, CNN The trial of a Columbus, Ohio, doctor accused of overprescribing pain medication to multiple patients near death began Tuesday. Dr. William Husel was initially indicted on 25 counts of murder in 2019. He is now facing 14 counts after Franklin County Judge Michael Holbrook granted the prosecution’s motion to dismiss 11
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By Megan Marples, CNN Good things come in twos. At least this Tuesday it does. The date is February 22, 2022. When you write it, 2/22/22, it’s a palindrome, meaning it reads the same forward and backward. It also falls on a Tuesday, which is now referred to as Twosday. It’s the most exceptional date
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By Danya Gainor and Angela Fritz, CNN There are few places on Earth that humans haven’t mucked up with the waste and pollution that comes from our gas-guzzling cars, the coal-fired electricity we power our homes with and the dust and soot that falls from the wildfires we’ve made worse. Now even Antarctica — the
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By Eliott C. McLaughlin, Amir Vera, Omar Jimenez and Julia Jones, CNN Jury deliberations will begin Wednesday in the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd’s 2020 killing, US District Court Judge Paul Magnuson said Tuesday. Magnuson said the chief judge made the decision to close the courthouse early Tuesday
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By Ivana Kottasová, CNN The morning after Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that Ukraine had no right to exist as an independent state, many in the country’s capital, Kyiv, appeared glad to see the world waking up to a reality they’ve been living for years. “It’s been like this for 15 years. He has always
Continue Reading By Amir Vera, CNN The trial of a Columbus, Ohio, doctor accused of overprescribing pain medication to multiple patients near death began Tuesday. Dr. William Husel was initially indicted on 25 counts of murder in 2019. He is now facing 14 counts after Franklin County Judge Michael Holbrook granted the prosecution’s motion to dismiss 11
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By Theresa Waldrop, CNN A former police detective who was involved in the raid that led to the shooting death of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, in March 2020 was found not guilty Thursday of charges related to the 10 bullets he fired that morning. Brett Hankison was the only officer from the raid who
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