National-World

By Shawn Nottingham and Macie Goldfarb, CNN Small business owners in Nashville are stepping up after a high school student was turned away from their senior prom for wearing a suit. B. Hayes, 18 — who uses they/he pronouns, according to their Instagram account — said they weren’t “allowed in the doors” because they were

By Sara Smart, CNN Five students at a west Philadelphia school were taken to the hospital Wednesday morning after drinking an unknown substance, the school district said. Philadelphia School District spokesperson Marissa Orbanek told CNN that at least 11 students, aged 14 to 16, drank the substance at Crossroads Accelerated Academy around 11:30 a.m. She

By Alisha Ebrahimji, Kyung Lah and Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN Kharri has moved from state to state, running from politics and family, to get the medical gender-affirming care he needs to be his most authentic self without anyone’s intervention. Kharri, 19, is ready to move again, out of Missouri to neighboring Kansas, after Missouri’s attorney general

By Sara Smart, CNN Taylor Swift fans have rallied in support of a fellow fan who was killed early Saturday after leaving Swift’s Houston concert. Jacob Lewis, 20, was hit and killed by a drunken driver after The Eras Tour show at NRG Stadium in Houston on Friday night. A GoFundMe was created for Lewis

By Michelle Watson, CNN Three teens were arrested in the death of a 20-year-old Colorado woman who was killed when a large rock thrown at her car went through the windshield, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Wednesday. Alexa Bartell was killed April 19 after a series of cars were hit

By Greg Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN The Federal Aviation Administration is establishing an independent safety review team following several near-collisions of commercial aircraft at US airports in recent months. The FAA National Airspace System Safety Review Team will be tasked with examining the air traffic system and delivering recommendations on how to enhance safety,

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Harry Belafonte, who died Tuesday at the age of 96, was an activist long before he became an artist, he once said. His political consciousness was shaped early on by the experience of growing up poor, the son of a Jamaican mother who worked as a domestic servant. During the civil

Throughout an acclaimed career spanning more than six decades, entertainer Harry Belafonte leveraged his passion and talents to champion the arts, spotlight humanitarian issues and advance justice. Born in 1927 Harlem, he moved to his mother’s native island, Jamaica. There, he embraced Caribbean culture and witnessed the impact of British colonization on the island. In

By Amy Simonson and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN An accused MS-13 gang member has been arrested in Holiday, Florida, and charged in what the sheriff described as a “demonic” murder of an Uber Eats delivery driver whose remains were found dismembered at the suspect’s home last week, according to investigators. Oscar Solis, 30, a resident of

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Darren Williams, a teacher at McLain High School of Science and Technology in Tulsa, Oklahoma, pointed a wooden ruler at one of four questions in red on the dry-erase board in his classroom. “Question number three, somebody read it,” he said. “What is the Schomburg Center for Research in Black

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Gummies sold for sleep may have significantly more melatonin or CBD than what is actually listed on the product’s label, a new study finds. Researchers are calling on the FDA to investigate the alarming number of improperly labeled supplements on store shelves, as some companies skirt laws to boost sales. Here’s

By Nouran Salahieh, Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN The United States suffered more casualties from “active shooter” incidents in 2022 than it did in the four years prior, according to an FBI report released Wednesday. The report tallied 50 active shooter incidents in 2022 that left 313 casualties, including 100 people killed, not including

By Sara Smart, Amy Simonson and Holly Yan, CNN One of four Mississippi jail escapees who police believe fired at a law enforcement officer from a home Wednesday has been found dead after a fire in that residence, the Hinds County sheriff said. Dylan Arrington, one of four people who authorities said escaped the Raymond

By Brynn Gingras, Linh Tran and Dakin Andone, CNN Oklahoma’s Pardon and Parole Board on Wednesday denied clemency in the case of Richard Glossip, a death row inmate who has long insisted he is innocent of the 1997 murder for which he’s scheduled to be executed this month. The board voted 2-2, resulting in a

By David Close, CNN Minneapolis police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a possible suspect linked to separate fires at area mosques on Sunday and Monday. The police department posted pictures of the person along with the plea for assistance on Facebook. Surveillance video and pictures of the possible suspect were released after

By Omar Jimenez and Devon M. Sayers, CNN A pair of new laws in Mississippi is leaving Jackson divided, with some hoping they will save a capital city wracked by a rise in homicides while others see an echo of a racist past. As part of the laws, the state of Mississippi will expand its

By Celina Tebor, Gili Remen and Nouran Salahieh, CNN A Michigan man is facing felony charges after DNA from a coffee cup linked him to two rapes in different states from more than 20 years ago, a prosecutor said. Kurt Alan Rillema, 51, was arrested last week and arraigned in Michigan on charges of first-

By Cheri Mossburg and Jean Casarez, CNN One of the surviving roommates in a stabbing attack that left four University of Idaho students dead is being asked by suspect Bryan Kohberger’s attorneys to testify in his upcoming preliminary hearing — a demand she is resisting, according to new court documents. Kohberger’s attorneys are asking a