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By Jay Croft, CNN New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy pointedly played a practical joke Friday with a fake April Fools’ Day proclamation of a new state bird: the Middle Finger. Murphy wrote a mock executive order, complete with multiple fancy-pants uses of “whereas,” that stated, “It is important for State symbols to reflect New Jersey’s

By Holly Yan, CNN After Fred Woods and two accomplices kidnapped dozens of California children from a school bus in 1976 and trapped them underground, they were sentenced to up to 27 life sentences without the possibility of parole. Fast forward 46 years, and Woods is now on the brink of getting paroled. Depending on

By Amir Vera, CNN Questions always arise when tragedy strikes. So when a 14-year-old boy fell to his death on March 24 on an amusement park ride in Orlando, Florida, there were questions about who should be held responsible and how the incident happened in the first place. Tyre Sampson fell from the Orlando FreeFall

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Annie Rose, a therapy dog from Ohio, has been named the 2022 Cadbury Bunny. The winning canine is an English Doodle — a cross between a poodle and an English cream golden retriever — from Cincinnati, according to a statement from Cadbury. And she loves “doing therapy work to make nursing

By Liam Reilly and Christina Maxouris, CNN Dominic Taddeo — a Rochester, New York, mobster who fatally shot three people and attempted to kill two others — escaped federal custody this week, less than a year before he was set to be released. Taddeo, 64, was transferred in February from a medium-security prison in Sumter

By Maya Brown, CNN The NAACP is representing a majority-Black town in Tennessee and helped it file a lawsuit on Friday alleging that the state comptroller exceeded his authority and racially discriminated against the town in its financial dealings. Mason Mayor Emmit Gooden, the Board of Aldermen and the town are accusing Jason Mumpower, Tennessee’s

By Amy Simonson and Emma Tucker, CNN Former US women’s soccer goalkeeper Hope Solo was arrested in North Carolina on Friday on charges of misdemeanor child abuse, resisting arrest and impaired driving, police said. The Winston-Salem Police Department said in a statement that officers arrested Hope Amelia Stevens, or Hope Solo, on Thursday in the

Giselle Rhoden, CNN Kristina Hayashi was a teacher’s assistant in a US history class when she saw a picture of her great uncle for the first time in 2013. During a lesson on WWII, she noticed a LA Times article about Henry Kondo in a textbook. Throughout the years, she’d heard stories about her relative

By Eric Levenson, CNN A federal judge upheld Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction on sex trafficking charges Friday, ruling that a juror’s misstatements on a pretrial questionnaire should not cause a mistrial. Judge Alison Nathan issued the ruling nearly a month after the juror testified in court he made an “inadvertent” mistake when he indicated in the