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By Emma Tucker, Taylor Romine and CNN Staff Minneapolis (CNN) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem traveled to Minneapolis Wednesday after an ICE agent fatally shot a woman in the city earlier in the day. Noem defended the agent’s actions, saying the woman had attempted to run an agent over in an act of “domestic

CNN By Emma Tucker, Taylor Romine and CNN Staff Minneapolis (CNN) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem traveled to Minneapolis Wednesday after an ICE agent fatally shot a woman in the city earlier in the day. Noem defended the agent’s actions, saying the woman had attempted to run an agent over in an act of

By Danya Gainor, CNN Washington (CNN) — At a swiftly scheduled House Oversight Committee hearing in the US Capitol Wednesday, Republican Minnesota state lawmakers testified that tax dollars intended for child care aid in their state are being absconded by criminals to purchase luxury homes and cars, property in Turkey and apartment buildings in Kenya

By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! New US dietary guidelines flip the food pyramid — putting meat, cheese and vegetables at the top. Some praised the changes, while others worry they put too much emphasis on red meat and dairy products. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Personal Birth date: January 15, 1929 Death date: April 4, 1968 Birth place: Atlanta, Georgia Birth name: Michael King Jr. Father: Martin Luther King Sr., Baptist minister Mother: Alberta (Williams) King Marriage: Coretta Scott King

By Brynn Gingras, Mark Morales, Alisha Ebrahimji, Sarah Boxer, CNN (CNN) — They went from the palace to the big house. Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, can reasonably expect two things to happen as they get accustomed to their new day-to-day life at the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York: They

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of the “Queen of Soul,” Aretha Franklin. Personal Birth date: March 25, 1942 Death date: August 16, 2018 Birth place: Memphis, Tennessee Birth name: Aretha Louise Franklin Father: Rev. C. L. (Clarence LaVaughn) Franklin, minister and gospel singer Mother: Barbara (Siggers) Franklin, gospel singer

By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman, Rachel Clarke, CNN Corpus Christi, Texas (CNN) — The judge overseeing the trial of a former Uvalde school district police officer rejected a defense motion to declare a mistrial on Wednesday afternoon. Judge Sid Harle ruled the prosecution had not intentionally withheld material mentioned by a witness during the

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — When Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah first learned over the weekend that US forces had struck Venezuela and abducted its leader, he wanted answers. Without the approval of Congress, he wondered, what justified this attack inside another country? Two hours later, he got an answer from Secretary of

By Holly Yan, Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — More than a week after a Columbus, Ohio, couple was shot dead in their home – the same place they exchanged wedding vows and were raising their young family – their killer is still at large and police have released few details about their investigation. Spencer and

By Alexandra Banner, CNN The Justice Department says it has released less than 1% of its Jeffrey Epstein-related files and is still reviewing more than 2 million documents. Sorting through the files is painstaking, with each one carefully checked to shield victims’ identities, as required by law. Here’s what else you need to know to

By Taylor Romine, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — Parched soil crunched under Jessica Rogers’ boots as she crossed the empty lot overlooking Palisades’ Stadium By the Sea. She sprayed her hose toward a cluster of leafy bushes growing at the base of a blackened tree. The home that once stood on the plot of land

KCAL, KCBS, ELIZABETH LAM, CNN By Taylor Romine, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — Parched soil crunched under Jessica Rogers’ boots as she crossed the empty lot overlooking Palisades’ Stadium By the Sea. She sprayed her hose toward a cluster of leafy bushes growing at the base of a blackened tree. The home that once stood

By Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — One of the most notorious spies in United States history, responsible for the arrest and eventual execution of numerous Soviet and Russian officials secretly working on behalf of the US intelligence community, has died at the age of 84. Aldrich Ames, a former CIA case officer arrested by the

WOAI, CNN By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman, Rachel Clarke, CNN Corpus Christi, Texas (CNN) — The judge overseeing the trial of a former Uvalde school district police officer rejected a defense motion to declare a mistrial on Wednesday afternoon. Judge Sid Harle ruled the prosecution had not intentionally withheld material mentioned by a witness

By Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — The suspect in last month’s mass shooting at Brown University and subsequent killing of an MIT professor admitted to the attacks in a series of short videos authorities recovered from an electronic device, the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts said Tuesday. The office released transcripts of