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By Liam Reilly, CNN Disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly is appealing one of his two federal convictions — his September 2021 guilty verdicts on sex trafficking and racketeering charges in New York — and is seeking a reversal of that conviction or a new trial, court documents show. In a brief filed Wednesday, the singer’s

By Holly Yan, CNN When Klint Ludwig learned his grandfather, a White homeowner in Kansas City, had shot a Black teenager who rang his doorbell, Ludwig was repulsed — but not entirely surprised. “The warning signs were there. I wasn’t shocked when I heard the news,” Ludwig told CNN on Thursday. “I believe he held

By Brynn Gingras, Linh Tran and Emma Tucker, CNN Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip on Thursday was denied another appeal to vacate his murder conviction in the death of his boss in 1997 and still faces execution in May. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals decision comes two weeks after a special counsel report

By Gregory Wallace Roadway deaths leveled off last year after spiking during the pandemic, according to federal estimates released Thursday. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated 42,795 people were killed on US roads in 2022. It’s a dip of fewer than 150 deaths from highs reached in 2021, when the agency recorded the largest

By Alisha Ebrahimji and Andi Babineau, CNN The woman who found the bodies of four people who were murdered at a home in Maine told police she saw “several firearms laying out” and “bullet holes everywhere,” according to a probable cause affidavit for the case. Lisa Shea, who was visiting Maine for the Easter holiday

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Billy Joel. Personal Birth date: May 9, 1949 Birth place: Bronx, New York Birth name: William Martin Joel Father: Howard Joel, engineer and pianist Mother: Rosalind (Nyman) Joel, homemaker Marriages: Alexis Roderick (2015-present); Katie Lee (2004-2009, divorced); Christie Brinkley (1985-1994,

By Ella Nilsen, CNN After years of punishing drought, a historic winter snowpack is bringing a reprieve to the Colorado River Basin and the nation’s largest reservoirs. The US Bureau of Reclamation announced Thursday that this winter’s rain and the projected runoff from above-normal snowfall is expected to boost its water releases this year from

By Cheri Mossburg, CNN Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, who served two terms in the 1990s and saw the city through the 1994 Northridge earthquake, died Wednesday evening, his family announced. He was 92. Calling Riordan their “beloved husband, father, grandfather and uncle,” the family said he “passed peacefully this evening at his home

By Nicole Chavez, CNN Book bans in public schools kept rising during the first half of the 2022-23 school year, and nearly a third of them were the direct result of newly enacted state laws, a new PEN America report says. PEN America, a literary and free expression advocacy organization, released Thursday its latest analysis

By Gili Remen and Celina Tebor, CNN New York state education officials voted unanimously this week to prohibit public schools from using or displaying Indigenous team names, logos, or mascots to represent the school. Throughout the state, boards of education must commit through a resolution to eliminating the use of all Indigenous imagery by the

By Stephanie Elam, CNN After one of the wettest winters on record, California hillsides are exploding with color. Swaths of yellow and streaks of orange, blue and purple paint the landscape this month as the state enjoys its extraordinary flurry of flowers. It’s the superbloom. Springtime road trips on California’s highways bring plenty of “oohs”

By Dianne Gallagher, Eric Levenson and Jamiel Lynch, CNN Robert Louis Singletary, the suspect accused of shooting a 6-year-old neighbor and her parents in North Carolina after a basketball rolled into his yard, was apprehended and is in custody in Hillsborough County, Florida, according to Gaston County, North Carolina, spokesperson Adam J. Gaub. Jail records

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The US government is tracking more than 650 potential UFO cases, according to the Pentagon. Lawmakers on Wednesday viewed this declassified video from an unresolved case showing a small orb moving through the sky in the Middle East. This type of footage of so-called “unidentified aerial phenomena” often fuels speculation, but

By Taylor Romine, CNN The US Coast Guard is suspending its search for three missing Americans last heard from on April 4 near Mazatlán, Mexico, according to a Coast Guard news release. The search was suspended “pending further developments” after Mexican Navy and US Coast Guard responders “conducted 281 cumulative search hours covering approximately 200,057

By Lauren del Valle, Laura Dolan and Celina Tebor, CNN The Boy Scouts of America will begin to distribute compensation to thousands of victims of sexual abuse after emerging from bankruptcy Wednesday, the organization announced. As part of a settlement with more than 82,000 survivors of abuse, the BSA will pay out $2.4 billion from

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Ashley Killough, Ed Lavandera and Rosa Flores, CNN The most seriously injured of two teenage cheerleaders shot in a Texas parking lot this week — an incident in which one said she’d opened the wrong vehicle door — is recovering from surgery as her team prepares to compete in a world championship

By Nicole Norman, CNN A synagogue in Seattle was vandalized with anti-Israel messaging on Sunday, the eve of Holocaust Remembrance day, the Seattle Police said in a release Wednesday. “This was a coordinated and focused attack,” said Senior Rabbi Daniel Weiner, of Temple De Hirsch Sinai on Capitol Hill, who believes the timing of the

By Steve Almasy and Sara Smart, CNN A 34-year-old man who had recently been released from prison shot and killed his parents and two others Tuesday morning at a home in Bowdoin, Maine, and then wounded three other people as he drove on an interstate highway, authorities said Wednesday. Joseph Eaton was released from prison

By Mark Morales and Brynn Gingras, CNN The man who fatally shot 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis, who was in a car that mistakenly turned into his driveway, will remain in jail after a judge remanded him back to police custody at a bail hearing Wednesday. Gillis was one of several passengers in a vehicle, along with

By Rosa Flores, CNN An Oklahoma county commissioner allegedly heard on a recording of local officials that included remarks about lynching Black people and killing journalists has resigned. Jennings said his resignation is “effective immediately,” according to a handwritten letter signed by Jennings and dated Wednesday. The resignation of Mark Jennings, a commissioner in McCurtain