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Nearly 5 decades after he was wrongfully convicted of rape in New York, new DNA testing exonerates 72-year-old man

By Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — Nearly five decades after he was wrongfully convicted of rape, a New York judge has overturned the conviction of Leonard Mack following new DNA testing that eliminated him as the perpetrator and identified a different man who has since confessed to the crime, prosecutors announced. Mack, 72, served more

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Russia is covering aircraft with car tires, potentially to protect them from Ukrainian drones

By Vasco Cotovio and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN (CNN) — Moscow’s forces have started covering some of their attack aircraft with car tires, in what experts say could be a makeshift attempt to protect them from Ukrainian drone strikes that have had increased recent success in targeting Russian military airports. Satellite imagery from Maxar of Engels

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The videos ISIS didn’t want you to see: How grainy security footage could help hold abusers to account

By Mick Krever and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN. Video by Oscar Featherstone (CNN) — The footage is mundane and revelatory all at once. The hallway, filmed from an unmoving closed-circuit camera, appears unremarkable. It’s the point in time, and the people in the former children’s hospital, that make the hours and hours of video from this

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The daughter of the woman killed by Pennsylvania prison escapee Danelo Cavalcante told police he said he was going ‘to do something bad’ to their lives

By Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — The prisoner who is now the subject of a massive manhunt after escaping from a Pennsylvania prison late last month had killed his ex-girlfriend in a brutal 2021 stabbing in front of her two young children, authorities say. Danelo Souza Cavalcante, a 34-year-old who was convicted in the killing

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Flamingo sightings are pouring in from states where the birds aren’t usually spotted. Hurricane Idalia may be the cause

By David Williams and Jared Formanek, CNN (CNN) — When you think of flamingos, the images that come to mind are probably of African water holes, the Caribbean, Florida – or almost anywhere else other than Waynesville, Ohio. So, when Jacob Roalef saw Facebook posts about flamingos at Ceasar Creek State Park, near Dayton, last

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Authorities searching for convicted murderer who escaped from a Pennsylvania prison say they know how he was able to get away

CNN, KYW, WPVI By Nouran Salahieh and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Investigators believe convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante escaped from the Chester County Prison in Pennsylvania last Thursday by climbing onto the roof and fleeing from there, a law enforcement source told CNN. About 200 law enforcement personnel searching for Cavalcante in eastern Pennsylvania are

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NY attorney general and civil liberties groups reach ‘landmark agreement’ with NYPD over protest responses during 2020 Black Lives Matter demonstrations

By Celina Tebor and Brynn Gingras, CNN (CNN) — The New York Attorney General, the Legal Aid Society, and the New York Civil Liberties Union announced what they called a “landmark agreement” with the New York Police Department that “significantly reforms” the department’s policing of protests to protect “the public and members of the press

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South Carolina attorney general asks for state investigation into Alex Murdaugh jury tampering allegations

By Shawn Nottingham, Dianne Gallagher, Eric Levenson and Alta Spells, CNN (CNN) — South Carolina’s attorney general has asked a state law enforcement agency to investigate claims of jury tampering during Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial this year, officials said Thursday. The request comes after attorneys for Murdaugh, the notorious South Carolina fraudster who was convicted

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Cuba says ‘human trafficking network’ is sending its nationals to fight for Russia in Ukraine

By Christian Edwards and Patrick Oppmann, CNN (CNN) — Cuba says it has uncovered a human trafficking network operating from Russia that is recruiting Cubans to fight for their longstanding ally in Moscow’s war in Ukraine. Cubans living in Russia and “even some in Cuba” had been trafficked and “incorporated into the military forces taking

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2 school districts close as police expand hunt for escaped murderer after he was spotted outside the original search zone

CNN, KYW, WPVI By Lauren Mascarenhas and LJ Spaet, CNN (CNN) — The manhunt for Danelo Cavalcante has expanded and two school districts have closed after the escaped murderer was spotted outside the original search area, Pennsylvania police said Tuesday. Cavalcante escaped from Chester County Prison on Thursday and authorities began by scouring a heavily

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