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By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Three former athletes at the University of Pennsylvania women’s swimming program sued the school, the Ivy League Council of Presidents and athletics organizations Tuesday, claiming they violated federal law to allow transgender athlete Lia Thomas to compete against them. The lawsuit comes amid a flurry of efforts attempting to

By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — California utility company Southern California Edison on Thursday said its equipment “may be associated with” the ignition of the Hurst Fire, which burned alongside the Eaton and Palisades fires during January’s Los Angeles firestorms. The admission came amid a required filing with the state’s utility regulators. Last month, the

By Rebekah Riess and Danny Freeman, CNN (CNN) — A father who was inside his car when a medevac jet crashed in a Philadelphia neighborhood last week was among seven killed in the incident, a medical examiner’s office says, meaning those seven have now been publicly identified. And his young son who was also in

By Hanna Park, Lauren Mascarenhas and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — The man accused of killing two people in a mass shooting at an Ohio warehouse Tuesday night said in court Thursday he did not resist arrest and was ordered held on a $20 million bond. Bruce Reginald Foster III, 28, was arrested at a

By Rebekah Riess and Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has called for criminal charges to be filed and arrests to be made after an autopsy report determined Black inmate Robert Brooks’ fatal beating at the hands of correctional officers in December to be a homicide. Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old man

By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — The National Weather Service, which is suffering its lowest staffing in decades, is staring down further cuts and the nomination of an agency leader its employees are wary of. A former agency official has warned that more staff reductions could decrease the number of life-saving weather warnings sent to

By Alexandra Skores, Hanna Park, Andy Rose and Holly Yan, CNN Washington (CNN) — Investigators trying to determine what caused last week’s deadly midair collision between a US military Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines plane near Washington, DC, briefed lawmakers Thursday on what they’ve learned after combing through data from both aircraft and

By Rachel Wilson, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship in the US, a nearly 160-year-old practice guaranteed by the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which grants citizenship to anyone born on American soil. But realizing this controversial order will be challenging as it is already facing major legal hurdles.