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By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — After NASA decided to keep them in space until 2025, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will now cast their votes in the November elections more than 200 miles above their nearest polling place. They will perform their civic duty by voting absentee from low-Earth orbit, joining multiple other

By Thomas Lake, CNN (CNN) — Outside the US Capitol, he wore a red coat and held a gun. It was January 6, 2021, and the gunman stood on a scaffold above the west plaza as a flag-waving mob pressed against a police line. He raised the .38 revolver toward the gray-white sky and pulled

By Chelsea Bailey, Meridith Edwards and Omar Jimenez, CNN Springfield, Ohio (CNN) — From his small apartment here, Vilbrun Dorsainvil makes video calls to Haiti to spend time with his fiancée and their daughter, whom he never had a chance to meet. Three years ago, Dorsainvil said he was faced with an impossible choice: risk his

By Dalia Faheid, Cindy Von Quednow, Artemis Moshtaghian and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Investigators are trying to determine why a Kentucky sheriff allegedly shot and killed a district judge after they argued inside the judge’s chambers, according to Kentucky State Police. District Judge Kevin Mullins, 54, was found around 3 p.m. Thursday with gunshot

By Emma Tucker and Ryan Young, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation into the sheriff’s department in Mississippi’s Rankin County after several of its deputies – including some who were in a self-styled “Goon Squad” – abused and tortured two Black men in a racially charged home raid last

By Cindy Von Quednow and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — A Kentucky sheriff has been arrested Thursday in connection with the fatal shooting of a district judge inside a courthouse, Kentucky State Police said. District Judge Kevin Mullins, 54, was found with multiple gunshots and he was pronounced dead at the scene, state police said.

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By Alaa Elassar and Graham Hurley, CNN (CNN) — A former OceanGate scientific director said the Titan submersible suffered a malfunction six days before imploding in June 2023, killing all five people on board. Steven Ross, a marine scientist and crew member of Dive 87 on the Titan’s fourth mission in 2023, testified at a hearing Thursday on the

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at Supreme Court nominations. Under Article II of the Constitution, the President nominates justices to the Supreme Court, with the “advice and consent of the Senate.” If a vacancy occurs when Congress is not in session, a recess appointment allows an appointee to serve without Senate approval

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — Described as “disgusting” with “horrifying” conditions, the detention center music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs now calls home is a far cry from the Miami and Los Angeles mansions he once lived in. “When he wakes up, he’s staring at cinder block painted white walls, as opposed to whatever the

By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Human remains have been recovered from an SUV that crashed into a liquid natural gas pipeline this week and caused an explosion and dayslong fire, police said Thursday – the day that the fire would eventually be extinguished. “The Deer Park Police Department was able to access the site

By Chelsea Bailey and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — The mayor of Springfield, Ohio, issued a proclamation Thursday claiming temporary emergency powers “to mitigate public safety concerns” as false claims about Haitian immigrants continue to stoke bomb threats and the specter of violence in the community. The proclamation grants Mayor Rob Rue temporary emergency powers