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Prisoner Review Board member resigns after paroled offender accused of killing 11-year-old boy, stabbing the child’s mother

By Andy Rose and Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — The Illinois governor announced the resignation of a member of the state’s prisoner review board on Monday, 10 days after a man who was released on parole was charged with attacking a former girlfriend and killing her 11-year-old son. LeAnn Miller recommended the release of 37-year-old Crosetti Brand

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PowerPoint parties are still bringing friends together, one hyper-specific subject at a time

By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — For McCall Mirabella’s 21st birthday party last month, she asked guests to bring only one gift: A PowerPoint presentation. Mirabella, a TikTok and YouTube personality with over 1.3 million followers across both platforms, assembled her closest friends and asked them to present a slideshow on anything they could think

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Former Senegalese PM concedes defeat to opposition candidate day after presidential vote

By Niamh Kennedy, Larry Madowo, Xiaofei Xu and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Former Senegalese Prime Minister Amadou Ba has conceded defeat to leading opposition figure Bassirou Diomaye Faye in the western African country’s presidential elections. “With regard to the provisional results and awaiting the official proclamation, I congratulate President Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye for

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Shohei Ohtani says he never participated in any sports gambling and accuses interpreter of ‘stealing money’

By Raja Razek, Homero De la Fuente, Steve Almasy, Dalia Faheid and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Faced with growing attention over a theft and gambling scandal, baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani on Monday adamantly denied betting on any sport or paying a bookie and placed the blame for the improprieties squarely on his former interpreter

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