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Major Ferry/Ship Sinkings Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at major ferry and ship sinking disasters throughout history. This timeline is not-all inclusive; various incidents with at least 1,000 fatalities are listed. Death tolls vary by source. Timeline April 27, 1865 – The Mississippi River steamer Sultana explodes and sinks near Memphis, Tennessee, killing between 1,450 and 1,700

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Loretta Lynch Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of former United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Personal Birth date: May 21, 1959 Birth place: Greensboro, North Carolina Birth name: Loretta Elizabeth Lynch Father: Lorenzo Lynch, Baptist minister Mother: Lorine (Harris) Lynch, school librarian Marriage: Stephen Hargrove (2007-present) Education: Harvard College, A.B., 1981; Harvard

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Police said the secret location underneath the stairs to the basement appeared to have been built to hide the girl.

Authorities found 6-year-old girl missing since 2019 after receiving a tip different from any other information they had

By Travis Caldwell, CNN Authorities had been searching more than two years for Paislee Shultis, a 4-year-old reported missing from her legal guardian in Cayuga Heights in upstate New York, without any luck. But a new piece of information turned the entire investigation around, police said, leading them straight to a place they long suspected

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Students in Minnesota participate in a state-wide walkout demanding justice for Amir Locke.

Family and friends mourn Amir Locke at Minneapolis funeral after he was killed by police executing a no-knock warrant

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Members of the Minneapolis community gathered Thursday to honor the life of Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black man whose killing at the hands of police during the execution of a no-knock warrant has reignited debate around the controversial practice. Locke’s mother, Karen Wells, reiterated her family’s request to pass a law

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Russia says its units are going home after exercises near Ukraine. Evidence suggests otherwise

By Tim Lister, Paul P. Murphy, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Katie Polglase, CNN Don’t Trust — Do Verify: That’s the unofficial mantra from Western officials in response to Russia’s declarations that some of their units that have been encircling Ukraine are now returning to base. Russia appears keen to prove those declarations to the world through

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A Eurocopter Tiger helicopter is seen at a French military base in Gao

French-led western forces to withdraw from Mali

By Xiaofei Xu and Anaëlle Jonah, CNN France and Western countries involved in French-led anti-terrorist operations in West Africa will begin their withdraw from Mali, French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday. “We cannot remain militarily engaged alongside de facto authorities whose strategy and hidden objectives we do not share,” Macron told reporters. “The fight against

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Jonathan Aledda's conviction was overturned February 16. A South Florida appeals court February 16 overturned the conviction of a former North Miami Police Department officer who was found guilty of negligence for shooting an autistic man's caretaker in 2016

Florida appeals court overturns conviction of Miami police officer who shot autistic man’s caretaker

By Amanda Musa, CNN A South Florida appeals court Wednesday overturned the conviction of a former North Miami Police Department officer who was found guilty of negligence for shooting an autistic man’s caretaker in 2016, court documents show. Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal overturned a “conviction for misdemeanor culpable negligence” for Jonathan Aledda after

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Here's what police found in the hiding spot where Paislee was discovered.

Authorities are piecing together what happened to Paislee Shultis, who was found alive under a staircase. Here’s what we know

By Mark Morales and Christina Maxouris, CNN Paislee Joann Shultis, the young girl who was reported missing two years ago, was found hidden with her mother under the staircase of a New York home. Throughout their yearslong investigation and search for the child, detectives had visited the house several times, but it wasn’t until a

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Two of the men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery used racist slurs in messages, a witness testifies at their federal hate crime trial

By Jason Hanna, Pamela Kirkland and Alta Spells, CNN Texts and social media messages from two of the White men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery included racist insults about African Americans, an FBI intelligence analyst testified Wednesday in their federal hate crime trial in Georgia. FBI analyst Amy Vaughan testified about several text messages between

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The attack targeted the websites of Ukrainian defense agencies and banks.

Ukraine cyberattack is largest of its kind in country’s history, says official

By Sean Lyngaas, Anastasia Graham-Yooll, Tim Lister and Matthew Chance, CNN A high-volume cyberattack that temporarily blocked access to the websites of Ukrainian defense agencies and banks on Tuesday was “the largest [such attack] in the history of Ukraine,” according to a government minister. Speaking at a press conference Wednesday, Ukrainian Minister of Digital Transformation

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