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By Caroll Alvarado and Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — The Texas National Guard Thursday denied claims from an immigration activist that it ignored a migrant calling out for help as she struggled to cross the Rio Grande with a child in her arms. Video footage obtained by CNN shows a woman holding a crying baby

By Cheri Mossburg and Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — Chance Comanche, a former player with the NBA G League’s Stockton Kings, confessed to kidnapping and killing a Washington state woman with his ex-girlfriend in Las Vegas earlier this month, according to police. Comanche, 27, and Sakari Harnden, 19, were arrested last week and charged

By Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — Police in western Massachusetts apologized Thursday after an officer was sent to a middle school to search for a copy of “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe, following a complaint. On December 8, a plainclothes officer was escorted into a classroom at W.E.B. Dubois Regional Middle School toward the end

By Veronica Miracle, Eric Levenson and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — A jury found Tacoma police officers Christopher Burbank, Matthew Collins and Timothy Rankine not guilty on all charges Thursday in the 2020 death of Manuel “Manny” Ellis, a Black man who died in custody after saying he couldn’t breathe. After a monthslong trial, Burbank

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — Three police officers and two paramedics have faced juries on charges of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide stemming from the 2019 death of Elijah McClain in Aurora, Colorado. But the path to court was anything but straightforward. McClain, a 23-year-old massage therapist, was confronted by police officers on August

By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — An Oklahoma judge on Tuesday declared innocent a man who spent 48 years in prison for a murder he did not commit – believed to be the longest amount of time served by anyone wrongfully convicted in the United States. “This is a day we’ve been waiting on for

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Porter Goss, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director and Florida congressman. Personal Birth date: November 26, 1938 Birth place: Waterbury, Connecticut Birth name: Porter Johnston Goss Father: Richard Goss, manager at a manufacturing company Mother: Virginia (Johnson) Goss Marriage: Mariel (Robinson) Goss