By Joe Sutton, CNN Four people were killed Monday evening when an airplane crashed in the El Cajon area of Southern California, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The victims were aboard a Learjet 35 business aircraft which departed from John Wayne Airport in Orange County and was headed to Gillespie Field in San Diego,
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By Joe Sutton, Eric Levenson, Amir Vera and Caroll Alvarado, CNN A gunman killed five people and wounded several others, including a police officer, in a Denver metro area shooting spree that included a car chase and gunfights with law enforcement, authorities said. The suspect, who police killed following the Monday night shootings, was identified
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By Helen Regan, Adam Renton, Aditi Sangal, Melissa Macaya, Mike Hayes and Melissa Mahtani, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.
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By Katie Hunt, CNN Egyptian scientists have digitally unwrapped the mummified remains of the pharaoh Amenhotep I, revealing tantalizing details about the life and death of the Egyptian king for the first time since the mummy was discovered in 1881. Decorated with flower garlands and a beguiling wooden face mask, the mummy was so fragile
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By Sara Smart, CNN A second time capsule recently found buried beneath the pedestal of the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Virginia, was opened Tuesday. Items inside included an 1865 edition of Harper’s Weekly magazine with an clear image of a figure weeping over Abraham Lincoln’s grave; a Bible with a coin stuck to
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By Ray Sanchez, CNN Valentina Orellana-Peralta’s dream of becoming an American citizen and studying robotics ended days before Christmas on the dressing room floor of a Los Angeles clothing store, where she was fatally shot by police. A day after video released by the Los Angeles Police Department raised new questions about the fatal shooting
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By Nada Bashir, Hamdi Alkhshali and Jennifer Deaton, CNN Israel said on Sunday that it intends to double the population of the contested area of the Golan Heights in the coming years, drawing the ire of the Syrian government. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett made the announcement at a special Cabinet meeting held in the
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By Erwin M. Mascariñas and Rhea Mogul, CNN Usually, Jay Lacia wakes at midnight on Christmas Day to start the festivities — but this year, all he wished for was enough food to eat. “We always celebrated Christmas, but for now, it’s too hard,” the 27-year-old father of one said, as he sat among rubble
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By Sara Smart, CNN What started out as a promise of hot chocolate turned into a viral video for a Washington, DC, teacher. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, otherwise known as Ms. Fitz, decided to make a deal with her third-grade class at Holy Trinity School in Georgetown, a few blocks from the Potomac River. The deal was
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By Sharif Paget, CNN Two children were killed and four others were hospitalized Monday afternoon after a hit-and-run crash in Broward County, authorities in South Florida said. The ages of the children hospitalized range from 1 to 10, Stephen Gollan, battalion chief at Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue, said at a news conference. “There were four
Continue Reading By Ralph Ellis, Ashleigh Killough, Leslie Perrot and Lucy Kafanov , CNN A district court judge in Colorado has scheduled a hearing for January 13 to reconsider the 110-year sentence of Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, a truck driver who was convicted in an interstate wreck that killed four people. First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King said her
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By Amir Vera and Paul P. Murphy, CNN A second time capsule was found where the Robert E. Lee statue once stood in Richmond, Virginia, a Virginia Department of Historic Resources spokesperson said Monday. A copper box was found beneath the pedestal, “below grade in a very wet area,” said department director Julie Langan, adding
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By Hilary Whiteman, CNN An American teacher detained in Libya for more than six weeks has returned to the United States after the Libyan foreign minister personally intervened to expedite his release. Fernando Espinoza, 29, landed Monday afternoon at New York’s JFK International Airport to a welcoming party that included his mother, Sara Espinoza, and
Continue Reading By Ralph Ellis, Ashleigh Killough, Leslie Perrot and Lucy Kafanov , CNN A district court judge in Colorado has scheduled a hearing for January 13 to reconsider the 110-year sentence of Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, a truck driver who was convicted in an interstate wreck that killed four people. First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King said her
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By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN An 8-year-old sobs every night after her aunt puts her to bed. A 17-year-old wakes up clutching his pillow and calling out his little brother’s name. And hundreds of children who remain in US government custody keep asking questions no one knows how to answer. They’re among the roughly 1,450
Continue Reading By Ralph Ellis, Ashleigh Killough, Leslie Perrot and Lucy Kafanov , CNN A district court judge in Colorado has scheduled a hearing for January 13 to reconsider the 110-year sentence of Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, a truck driver who was convicted in an interstate wreck that killed four people. First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King said her
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By Ehsan Popalzai, CNN The Taliban said Monday it had dissolved Afghanistan’s election commission as well as its ministries for peace and parliamentary affairs, further eroding state institutions set up by the country’s previous Western-backed governments. The Independent Election Commission (IEC) was established in 2006 — five years after the Taliban was overthrown by a
Continue Reading By Ralph Ellis, Ashleigh Killough, Leslie Perrot and Lucy Kafanov , CNN A district court judge in Colorado has scheduled a hearing for January 13 to reconsider the 110-year sentence of Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, a truck driver who was convicted in an interstate wreck that killed four people. First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King said her
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By Joshua Berlinger, CNN On Monday, cathedral bells tolled at midday in Cape Town as South Africa began a week of mourning for the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died on Sunday. As his country marks Tutu’s life and death, people around the world are doing the same, including many from groups
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