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By Tina Burnside, CNN (CNN) — A judge has granted a motion to delay the trial date in the case against Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch national accused in the alleged extortion of the mother of Natalee Holloway, the American teenager who disappeared during a high school graduation trip to Aruba in 2005. Van

By Denise Royal, Carlos Suarez and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Jurors concluded a third day of deliberations on Wednesday without reaching a verdict in the trial of the former school resource officer who stayed outside during the 2018 massacre at a Parkland, Florida, high school in a rare trial focused on law enforcement response

By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — South Koreans became a year or two younger overnight as the nation scrapped its traditional way of counting age and replaced it with the international method. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day 1. Russia Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin

By Nouran Salahieh, Joe Sutton and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — More than third of the US population is under air quality alerts, covering more than a dozen states from the Midwest to the East Coast, as smoke from Canadian wildfires sweeps across parts of the United States, prompting officials to call on the public

By Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — The parents and nephew of race car driver Jimmie Johnson’s wife, Chandra Janway Johnson, were killed Monday at a home in Muskogee, Oklahoma, according to a news release from the Muskogee Police Department. A police spokesperson told CNN it was a suspected murder-suicide. On Monday, police received a 911

By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Ralph Yarl, the Missouri teen who was shot in the head after ringing the wrong doorbell, has spoken out for the first time in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “I’m just a kid and not larger than life because this happened to me,” Ralph told Robin Roberts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at soldier on soldier attacks in the US military. 2009 Fort Hood Shooting November 5, 2009 – Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan kills 13 people and an unborn child and injures 32 more during a shooting rampage at Fort Hood military base (now Fort Cavazos)

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — Consider this a wake-up call: Earth’s axis is shifting and we only have ourselves to blame, according to a new study. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. 1. Trump CNN has obtained an audio recording of a 2021

By Denise Royal, Carlos Suarez and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Jurors concluded their second day of deliberations Tuesday evening in the trial of the former school resource officer who stayed outside during the 2018 mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school – the culmination of a rare prosecution of a law enforcement officer

By Amy Simonson and Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — Two escaped inmates in northwestern Tennessee have been captured after they broke out of jail through a skylight, law enforcement said. One of the inmates, Ronnie Sharp, was taken into custody after “a brief foot chase” in Union City Tennessee, the Henry County Sheriff’s Office said

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — John B. Goodenough, the Nobel Prize-winning engineer whose contributions to developing lithium-ion batteries revolutionized portable technology, has died. He was 100. He died Sunday, according to a release from the University of Texas at Austin, where Goodenough served as a faculty member for 37 years. His cause of death

By Taylor Romine and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — The man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students could be executed by firing squad if he’s convicted and sentenced to death – and if the state cannot obtain the drugs necessary for a lethal injection. Latah County prosecutors will seek the death penalty

By Shawn Nottingham and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A woman accused of fatally shooting her neighbor through a closed door earlier this month will not face murder charges, Florida officials said. The state will instead charge Susan Lorincz with one count of manslaughter with a firearm and one count of assault, State Attorney Bill

By Rob Frehse and Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — A man has been arrested and charged in connection with a triple homicide after three relatives were found dead inside a home in Newton, Massachusetts, on Sunday morning, including a couple celebrating their golden wedding anniversary, officials said. Newton resident Christopher Ferguson, 41, pleaded not guilty

By Sabrina Souza and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — The Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooter acted irrationally due to mental health problems and had a history of psychotic symptoms consistent with schizophrenia, his defense attorneys said in the punishment phase of his death penalty trial Monday. “The structure and the function of Mr. (Robert) Bowers’ brain

By Andi Babineau, Holly Yan and Christina Maxouris, CNN Colorado Springs, Colorado (CNN) — The suspect accused of using an AR-style rifle to terrorize a Colorado LGBTQ nightclub – killing five people and injuring 19 others – pleaded guilty to five counts of first-degree murder and 46 counts of attempted murder. Anderson Lee Aldrich, 23,

By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Federal jurors in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial will soon decide whether to sentence the convicted gunman to death or life in prison – two potential avenues for justice that in the years since the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history have found varying levels of support in an