By Jamiel Lynch and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A stepfather in Florida has been convicted of child abuse after a restaurant employee last year noticed concerning signs and used a surreptitious note to ask a boy if he needed help, the Orange County State Attorney’s Office announced Monday. A jury found Timothy Lee Wilson, 36, guilty
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By Steven Jiang and CNN’s Beijing bureau A Chinese military plane crashed in a residential area in central China on Thursday, killing at least one person, China’s state-run national broadcaster CCTV said. The plane, a People’s Liberation Army Air Force J-7 aircraft, was on a training mission in Hubei province when it crashed, damaging several
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By Simone McCarthy, CNN Officials from China and Cambodia broke ground on a controversial, Chinese-funded upgrade of a naval base in southern Cambodia on Wednesday, with Beijing’s envoy in the country calling military cooperation part of the countries’ “iron-clad partnership.” The launch of the project at the Ream Naval Base, which Cambodian officials said will
Continue Reading By Kocha Olarn and Heather Chen, CNN Thailand on Thursday became the first country in Asia to decriminalize cannabis — but tough penalties will still apply to those who use the drug to get high, according to the minister who spearheaded the change. Speaking to CNN in an interview ahead of the move, Thai Health
Continue Reading By Sanyo Fylyppov and Ivana Kottasová, CNN When Ukrainian forces regained control of Katyuzhanka, a village north of Kyiv that had been under Russian occupation for more than a month in March, they found the local school wrecked. Any equipment that hadn’t been stolen was smashed, there was a makeshift cemetery in the school yard
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By Elizabeth Wolfe and Andy Rose, CNN Three Texas families have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s investigations into parents who provide their transgender children with gender-affirming healthcare procedures, according to attorneys on their behalf. The investigations, carried out by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, came after state Attorney General Ken Paxton
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By Nectar Gan and Shawn Deng, CNN Torrential rains in southern China have killed at least 32 people, impacted millions of residents and caused billions of yuan in economic losses, as the country grapples with increasingly devastating flood seasons fueled by climate change. In recent weeks, heavy rainfall has triggered severe flooding and landslides in
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By Ed Lavandera and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN New details have emerged revealing how convicted murderer Gonzalo Lopez escaped a prisoner bus in Texas and what he did before killing a family of five, police say. Lopez’s escape last month triggered one of the largest inmate search efforts in state history as hundreds of officers scoured
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By Rob Frehse, CNN Federal prosecutors in New York recommended that disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly be sentenced to more than 25 years in prison, citing his “decades of crime” and a “callous disregard for the very real effects that his crimes had on his victims,” according to a sentencing memorandum filed Wednesday. They also
Continue Reading By Sanyo Fylyppov and Ivana Kottasová, CNN When Ukrainian forces regained control of Katyuzhanka, a village north of Kyiv that had been under Russian occupation for more than a month in March, they found the local school wrecked. Any equipment that hadn’t been stolen was smashed, there was a makeshift cemetery in the school yard
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy, CNN An Arizona man is suing American Airlines, claiming the airline’s negligence led to him spending 17 days in jail after he was misidentified to police investigating a burglary at a duty-free shop in Dallas Fort Worth International Airport in 2020, according to court documents. The 26-page lawsuit, filed Monday in a
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By Tina Burnside and Caroll Alvarado, CNN Two metro Atlanta preschool teachers are facing child cruelty charges after authorities say a live camera feed inside the school captured them abusing children. A Roswell Police Department news release said Zeina Alostwani, 40, and Soriana Briceno, 19, were taken into custody on Monday after a concerned parent
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By Laura Ly and Brian Vitagliano, CNN US federal prosecutors are suing a New York town, alleging gender discrimination and sexual harassment against a former firefighter, according to a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York In the lawsuit filed Wednesday, prosecutors allege that the Town of Harrison
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By Jennifer Henderson, Danielle Sills and Christina Maxouris, CNN An Arizona inmate convicted of killing an 8-year-old girl nearly 38 years ago was executed by lethal injection Wednesday morning, the state’s attorney general announced in a news release. Frank Atwood’s execution took place at the Arizona State Prison Complex just after 10:15 a.m. local time,
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The US Department of Justice has named the team who will lead a federal review of the response to the deadly rampage at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas — where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers and remained in the school for more than an hour while police waited nearby.
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN One of the 18 golden segments of the James Webb Space Telescope’s giant mirror was hit by a micrometeoroid in May, according to an update from NASA. But don’t worry — the space observatory is still on track to share its first high-resolution, full-color images on July 12. A micrometeoroid is
Continue Reading By Peter Nickeas, CNN The Michigan prosecutor reviewing the shooting death of Patrick Lyoya, who was killed by a Grand Rapids police officer in April, will announce a decision on whether he plans to file criminal charges against the officer Thursday afternoon, the prosecutor’s office announced Wednesday. Lyoya was shot to death by an officer
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By Jeremy Harlan, Rebekah Riess and Zoe Sottile, CNN Two adults and their dog were injured after being charged by a moose near Boulder, Colorado, on Wednesday morning, according to a release from the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office. Just before 8:00 a.m. local time, the Boulder County Communications Center received a call about someone who
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN Beaming in her team headshot, Justine Lindsay is every bit the ideal cheerleader. With a lifetime of performing under her belt, she’s earned a coveted spot to cheer on the NFL’s Carolina Panthers in the upcoming season. And she’s already made history ahead of her regular-season debut: Lindsay is the first
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