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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of talk-show host Larry King, who conducted more than 30,000 interviews, including with sitting US presidents from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama. Personal Birth date: November 19, 1933 Death date: January 23, 2021 Birth place: Brooklyn, New York Birth name: Lawrence Harvey Zeiger Father: Edward Zeiger,

By Tina Burnside, CNN Former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III was traveling more than 150 mph — his alcohol level more than twice the legal limit — before his car rear-ended another car, killing a 23-year-old woman, prosecutors said. The Raiders released Ruggs on Tuesday night after the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN A White high school teacher is on “home assignment” and under investigation after he showed up to teach in blackface, according to the school principal. A business teacher at Parkdale Collegiate Institute, a public high school in Parkdale, near Toronto, Ontario, joined other staff and students who were dressed up for

By Noah Sheidlower and Christina Zdanowicz, CNN The “Indians” sign atop the left field scoreboard at Progressive Field that Cleveland baseball fans have known since 1994 started to come down Tuesday. The city’s Major League Baseball team, which is in the process of changing its name and brand to the Guardians, said crews will spend

By Josh Campbell and Pete Muntean, CNN A Southwest Airlines pilot is accused of assaulting another crew member following a mask dispute last month in San Jose, California, according to information received from the airline and local law enforcement. The October 18 incident occurred at a Doubletree hotel bar and “involved a disagreement over mask

By Harmeet Kaur and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Diwali wasn’t a big part of Radha Patel’s childhood growing up in Maryland. Her parents, though Hindu, weren’t particularly observant, and while the family attended Diwali celebrations and pujas hosted by other relatives, they didn’t necessarily do anything special at home. Now that Patel has two kids of

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at Thanksgiving Day, celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. In 2022, Thanksgiving is on November 24. Facts The USDA projects that 212 million turkeys will be raised in the United States in 2022. The US president traditionally receives a turkey in a ceremony at

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of tennis champion and LGBTQ activist Billie Jean King. Personal Birth date: November 22, 1943 Birth place: Long Beach, California Birth name: Billie Jean Moffitt Father: Willard J. Moffitt, engineer for a fire department Mother: Betty Moffitt, Avon sales representative Marriage: Ilana Kloss (October 18,

By Peter Nickeas and Omar Jimenez, CNN Minneapolis residents on Tuesday rejected  a ballot measure to overhaul policing  drafted amid the national fury over George Floyd’s murder but that went to voters as concerns about rising gun violence drained energy from the protest movement that had launched it. More than 56 percent of the 143,000

By Leyla Santiago, Sara Weisfeldt and Jason Hanna, CNN Attorneys for three University of Florida professors will fight the school’s order that the instructors cannot be paid for any expert testimony they provide in a court case against the state, they said Tuesday. The university had denied the professors’ requests to testify for plaintiffs as

By Eric Levenson, Ashley Killough and Amir Vera, CNN New FBI infrared aerial surveillance video played in Kyle Rittenouse’s homicide trial Wednesday provides a unique angle into the final moments before the teenager fatally shot Joseph Rosenbaum during the unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last August. The infrared video, grainy and shot from 8,500 feet overhead,

By Gregory Lemos, CNN A 16-year-old high school student was in critical condition after being shot in the head by a fellow student Tuesday morning while waiting for a school bus, police in Gwinnett County, Georgia, said. According to Lawrenceville Police Department Lt. J. O. Parker, officers were dispatched to the Saddle Shoals neighborhood around