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By Eliott C. McLaughlin and Rebekah Riess, CNN Sara Nir and her two children were in their ground-floor condo at Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, moments before it partially collapsed. She was checking emails when they heard knocking sounds, she said. The knocking grew louder before she heard a “smash,” as if a wall

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN The board of trustees at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill voted Wednesday to grant tenure to award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones after facing backlash from Black students and faculty who said the board’s initial failure to do so reflected a history of systemic racism at the school. The board’s 9-4

By Christina Carrega, CNN Zerious Meadows was 16 when a Michigan judge sentenced him to life without the possibility of parole for participating in a felony murder. Now, at 67, Meadows is free. During 20 of the 47 years Meadows was in prison, he said, he earned an associate degree in business accounting and participated

By Sonia Moghe, CNN Allison Mack, former “Smallville” actress and high-ranking member of the cult-like group Nxivm was sentenced to 3 years in prison Wednesday. Mack is also required to have 3 years of supervised release after serving prison term, plus a has to pay a $20,000 fine. Mack apologized to people she hurt during

By Jason Hanna, CNN Dan Gannon wouldn’t mind a full summer break. The Bronx high school history teacher is as drained as anyone by teaching remotely during the pandemic. He sympathizes with any educator taking the summer off. Many worked more hours than usual to adapt lessons and relearn how to instruct — and carried

By Madeline Holcombe and Adrienne Broaddus, CNN More than 80 teens and adult staffers from a Central Illinois summer camp tested positive for Covid-19 in an outbreak that has impacted people across three states, officials said. The Crossing Camp in Schuyler County held in mid-June did not check vaccination status for campers or staffers, and

In dispatch audio obtained by CNN from Broadcastify, a first responder describes the scene after a condo building collapsed in Surfside, Florida.

By Madeline Holcombe and Holly Yan, CNN [Breaking news update, published at 6:52 p.m. ET] Rescue and search crews found the bodies of a 10-year-old child and a 4-year-old child, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said at a Wednesday afternoon news conference. That brings the death toll from the Surfside building collapse to 18