By Ray Sanchez and Paul Vercammen, CNN More than six years after a crime documentary triggered a murder charge against real estate scion Robert Durst, a jury in Los Angeles on Tuesday began deliberating the fate of the eccentric Manhattan millionaire. Durst is charged with the first-degree murder of his close friend and confidante, Susan
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By Omar Jimenez and Brad Parks, CNN Four former Minneapolis police officers pleaded not guilty in federal court Tuesday to charges they violated George Floyd’s civil rights during his arrest when he was killed in May 2020. The former officers — Derek Chauvin, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane — were arraigned before
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By Christina Carrega, CNN The US Justice Department on Tuesday announced a statewide investigation into prisons in Georgia, focusing on prisoner-on-prisoner violence and sexual abuse of gay, lesbian and transgender prisoners by prisoners and staff. Kristen Clarke, who leads the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, said the investigation will look into possible civil rights violations. Clarke
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By Gregory Lemos, CNN The Clermont Police Department in Florida announced Monday that a mother has been reunited with her daughter, who was just 6 years old when she was abducted from her home in 2007. According to a news release, the Clermont Police Detective Division said it received a call on September 2 from
Continue Reading By Gregory Lemos, CNN The Clermont Police Department in Florida announced Monday that a mother has been reunited with her daughter, who was just 6 years old when she was abducted from her home in 2007. According to a news release, the Clermont Police Detective Division said it received a call on September 2 from
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By Sandi Sidhu, Julia Hollingsworth, Anna Coren, Abdul Basir Bina and Ahmet Mengli, CNN To the United States military, he was an ISIS-K facilitator they feared was involved in a plot to attack Kabul’s international airport. To his family and colleagues at a US nonprofit, 43-year-old Zamarai Ahmadi was an aid worker applying for a
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Despite efforts from President Joe Biden to turn the United States into a global climate leader, most people in the advanced world don’t think the US is doing a good job on the issue, and China is doing even worse, a new poll by the Pew Research Center published Tuesday shows.
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By Tim Lister, CNN The Taliban’s leaders are rarely seen at public events and do not readily grant interviews or hold news conferences. Many of them move in the shadows, their whereabouts unknown, inevitably generating rumors about their health and about possible internal disagreements. Those rumors gained so much traction in recent days that the
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By Melissa Alonso and Raja Razek, CNN Des Moines Public Schools officials will reinstate the district’s mask mandate Wednesday following a ruling that places the state’s mandate ban on hold. US District Court Judge Robert W. Pratt issued a temporary restraining order Monday that will, for the time being, allow Iowa school districts to mandate
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By Randi Kaye, Danelle Garcia and Theresa Waldrop, CNN The Texas law barring abortions at six weeks of pregnancy has women’s rights advocates up in arms for a number of reasons, not least because it makes no exceptions for cases of rape or incest. For Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, that’s not a big issue, since
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By Lauren del Valle and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Prince Andrew’s legal team said Tuesday that a civil lawsuit alleging the senior British royal sexually abused Virginia Roberts Giuffre when she was 17 is baseless, and argued that legal papers in the case weren’t served properly. Los Angeles attorney Andrew Brettler, who appeared virtually during a
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By AJ Willingham, CNN Hurricane Nicholas made landfall along the Texas coast this morning. It’s now a tropical storm, and the biggest worries are storm surge and heavy rain — possibly up to 18 inches in some spots. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN Hurricane Nicholas made landfall along the Texas coast this morning. It’s now a tropical storm, and the biggest worries are storm surge and heavy rain — possibly up to 18 inches in some spots. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN Hurricane Nicholas made landfall along the Texas coast this morning. It’s now a tropical storm, and the biggest worries are storm surge and heavy rain — possibly up to 18 inches in some spots. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN Hurricane Nicholas made landfall along the Texas coast this morning. It’s now a tropical storm, and the biggest worries are storm surge and heavy rain — possibly up to 18 inches in some spots. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN Hurricane Nicholas made landfall along the Texas coast this morning. It’s now a tropical storm, and the biggest worries are storm surge and heavy rain — possibly up to 18 inches in some spots. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN Hurricane Nicholas made landfall along the Texas coast this morning. It’s now a tropical storm, and the biggest worries are storm surge and heavy rain — possibly up to 18 inches in some spots. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You
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By Ivana Kottasová and Anna Chernova, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin is quarantining after several people in his inner circle tested positive for Covid-19, the Kremlin said Tuesday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin has tested negative for coronavirus and is “absolutely healthy.” Peskov told journalists in a conference call that as “several people” in
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By Nectar Gan, CNN Chinese authorities are rushing to contain a widening Delta variant outbreak in the southern province of Fujian ahead of a major upcoming national holiday, when hundreds of millions of people are expected to travel across the country — creating a window for the highly infectious variant to spread far and wide.
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By Artemis Moshtaghian, Madeline Holcombe and Amir Vera, CNN A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday temporarily suspending New York state from enforcing its vaccine mandate if health care workers claim a religious exemption. The order bars the New York State Department of Health from requiring employers to deny or revoke religious exemptions
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