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By Amir Vera, Carma Hassan and Michelle Watson CNN Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo, whose tenure will be remembered for his handling of the George Floyd murder investigation, announced Monday that he will retire in mid-January. “After much personal reflection and thoughtful discussions with my family and Mayor Frey, I have made the decision that

By Omar Jimenez and Eric Levenson, CNN Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett took the stand in his criminal trial Monday in a high-stakes attempt to rebut charges that he staged a fake hate crime and lied to Chicago Police about it in January 2019. Last week, brothers “Bola” and “Ola” Osundairo testified that Smollett, who

By AJ Willingham, CNN The Biden administration is expected to announce a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics this week. The move would send a strong message to China while still allowing American athletes to compete. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can

By Travis Caldwell, Artemis Moshtaghian, Ralph Ellis and Amir Vera, CNN Authorities executed a search warrant Monday at the home of the man who helped Ethan Crumbley’s parents before they were arrested, Oakland County Undersheriff Michael G. McCabe told CNN. Andrzej Sikora, 65, and his attorney, Clarence Dass, voluntarily went into the Oakland County Sheriff’s

By Amir Vera and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN The final piece of the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Virginia, will be removed starting this week, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Sunday. The state reached a deal with the city to remove the 40-foot granite pedestal the Lee statue sat on for more than a century. The

By Sonia Moghe, Elizabeth Joseph and Susannah Cullinane, CNN A 65-year-old man has publicly identified himself as the person law enforcement says helped the fugitive parents of the alleged Michigan school shooter into the building where they were later arrested. James and Jennifer Crumbley are each charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection

By Alaa Elassar, CNN As millions of Jewish people across the country celebrate Hanukkah, police say vandals painted anti-Semitic messages and symbols in tunnels near Idaho’s Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial on Friday. Law enforcement officials are looking for whoever is responsible for the vandalism along the Greenbelt in Boise, the Boise Police Department (BPD)

By Amir Vera, CNN Negro League baseball players Buck O’Neil and Bud Fowler were elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday. They were two of seven Negro League and pre-Negro League players who were being considered Sunday for induction into the Hall of Fame. O’Neil and Fowler join four other candidates —