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French pilot sentenced after accidentally killing skydiver with plane’s wing during jump

By Xiaofei Xu, Maya Szaniecki and Claudia Colliva, CNN Paris (CNN) — A 64-year-old French pilot has been given a one-year suspended prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter after being found guilty of killing a skydiver with his plane’s wing during a jump, a criminal court in Montauban, southern France, confirmed to CNN Thursday. The incident

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Advocates push for more permanent legal change after 1-year window closes for new suits under New York’s Adult Survivors Act

By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Sexual assault survivor advocates are pushing for an extension or a more permanent way to seek legal accountability for abusers after more than 2,500 lawsuits were filed under the New York Adult Survivors Act before its one-year window to sue closed Thursday. The law, which Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul

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Violent clashes erupt in Dublin after stabbing of 5 people, as police blame ‘far-right ideology’

By Niamh Kennedy, Amy Cassidy and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Violent clashes broke out between police and “far-right” protesters in the central part of Dublin, Ireland, on Thursday after a knife attack in the capital city earlier in the day left three children and two adults injured. Irish police said they arrested 34 people after the riots. Speaking

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Father says it was ‘one of the worst days of my life’ after seeing body camera video of son who died after police tased him

By Chris Youd, CNN (CNN) — After “fighting for months” for access to the footage, the family of a Black man who died after being tased by an Alabama police officer in July was finally able to view body camera video from the incident Wednesday. “This is one of the worst videos of a police killing that I have ever witnessed,” family attorney Harry Daniels told reporters at a news conference following the viewing. “And I’ll put it right up there with George

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‘This is collective punishment:’ West Bank Palestinians under curfew say they are being punished for something they did not do

By Tara John, CNN Hebron, West Bank (CNN) — Palestinian educator Tarik Betar has known only a life of repression and indignity, he told CNN, with longstanding restrictions, checkpoints and curfews, put in place by the Israeli military in the 1990s, meaning he is unable to walk across his street in the West Bank city of Hebron. Betar,

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For migrants still coping with traumatic journeys to America, Thanksgiving will be a day like any other

By Ray Sanchez, CNN New York (CNN) — When Americans sit down for Thanksgiving dinner, 7-year-old Jean Luis Hernandez will be in the single room he shares with his family in a once-elegant Manhattan hotel, missing his beloved grandparents in Venezuela. “He thinks about them all the time,” said Lucelys Garcia, 27, the boy’s mother.

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Residents can return home after fire extinguished at site of Kentucky derailment and chemical spill, train operator says

By Raja Razek, Aya Elamroussi and Caroll Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Kentucky residents who evacuated after more than a dozen freight train cars derailed, spilling molten sulfur, can now return home safely as the fire has been extinguished and the air monitored, train operator CSX said Thursday. At least 16 cars were involved in the

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Authorities identify husband and wife killed in a car explosion at US-Canadian border. Here’s what we know about the case

By John Miller, Elizabeth Wolfe and Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — Investigators have identified the married couple killed Wednesday in a fiery explosion near the US-Canadian border that prompted a massive law enforcement response. Kurt P. Villani and his wife Monica Villani, both 53, died in the car crash on the US side of the

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