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CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of General (ret.) Jim Jones, former National Security Adviser to President Barack Obama. Personal Birth date: December 19, 1943 Birth place: Kansas City, Missouri Birth name: James Logan Jones Jr. Father: James L. Jones Sr. Mother: Charlotte Ann (Ground) Jones Marriage: Diane (Johnson)

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of activist and award-winning actress Jane Fonda. Personal Birth date: December 21, 1937 Birth place: New York, New York Birth name: Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda Father: Henry Fonda, actor Mother: Frances Ford Seymour (Brokaw) Fonda, socialite Marriages: Ted Turner (December 21, 1991-May 22, 2001,

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of award-winning actress, singer and dancer Rita Moreno. Personal Birth date: December 11, 1931 Birth place: Humacao, Puerto Rico; raised in New York, New York Birth name: Rosita Dolores Alverio Father: Paco Alverio, a farmer Mother: Rosa Maria Alverio, a garment worker Marriage: Leonard

By Sara Smart and Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — A dead longhorn cow was found on the lawn of an Oklahoma State University fraternity house Friday morning, a day before a championship game between the school and the Texas Longhorns football team. The longhorn carcass was found around 6:39 a.m. in the front

By Jamiel Lynch and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — The inmate accused of attacking Derek Chauvin, the former police officer convicted in George Floyd’s killing, stabbed him approximately 22 times with an improvised knife in an attack the Arizona inmate had been contemplating for around a month, according to court documents. According to the federal

By Rafael Romo, Jaide Timm-Garcia and Shawn Nottingham, CNN (CNN) — A person was in critical condition Friday after setting themselves on fire outside the Israeli consulate in what Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said was “likely an extreme act of political protest.” The incident happened around noon outside the Consulate General of Israel, according to

Sarah Dewberry, Sara Smart and Taliah Miller (CNN) — Orange fingernail polish helped investigators identify a missing 17-year-old whose remains were found Tuesday in the backyard of her neighbor’s home in Indiana, authorities said. Valerie Tindall’s family reported her missing on June 8, more than five months earlier, the Rush County Sheriff’s Department said in a

By Alaa Elassar and Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN (CNN) — The Philadelphia City Council passed a bill Thursday that bans the use of ski masks in parks, schools, public transit or other city-owned buildings, a move they say will help law enforcement solve crimes but that civil rights advocates believe will criminalize people of color. The bill, passed

By Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — Black Americans living in Southeastern states are more likely to be impacted by extreme heat, hurricanes and flooding than the overall population, according to a new analysis released Thursday by the consulting firm McKinsey & Company. Researchers compared the location of some Black communities with analyses showing climate hazards, like wildfires, extreme heat, hurricanes and flooding.

By Paradise Afshar and Jay Croft, CNN (CNN) — Penguin Random House, one of the country’s largest publishers, filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging an Iowa state law that bans books in schools and limits what can be taught on sexual orientation and gender identity. Four bestselling authors – including John Green and Jodi Picoult – who

By Brad Parks, Bill Kirkos and Whitney Wild, CNN (CNN) — An Illinois appeals court on Friday affirmed “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett’s disorderly conduct convictions for making false reports to the Chicago Police Department in 2019 that he was a victim of a hate crime. Smollett can appeal the decision to the Illinois Supreme Court. A

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court. Personal Birth date: March 26, 1930 Death date: December 1, 2023 Birth place: El Paso, Texas Birth name: Sandra Day Father: Harry A. Day, rancher Mother: Ada Mae (Wilkey) Day, rancher

By Rikki Klaus, CNN (CNN) — On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a city bus after work in Montgomery, Alabama, and sat down. As the bus filled with passengers, the driver demanded the 42-year-old seamstress move further back into the segregated Black section of the bus so a White man could have her seat. Parks famously refused.

CNN Opinion by Hani Almadhoun (CNN) — Was this real? My nephew’s voice broke. Although he was calling me from Greece, I couldn’t tell if his words were coming from 5,000 miles away, from my ears, or from my own racing, panicked heart. It took a few seconds for the reality of what he was

By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Many colleges and universities have struggled in recent weeks to balance free speech on the Israel-Hamas war while maintaining a healthy atmosphere. Harvard was recently added to the list of schools facing a federal probe over allegations of antisemitism and Islamophobia. And in California, over 150 professors are pushing

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Many colleges and universities have struggled in recent weeks to balance free speech on the Israel-Hamas war while maintaining a healthy atmosphere. Harvard was recently added to the list of schools facing a federal probe over allegations of antisemitism and Islamophobia. And in California, over 150 professors are

Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — Over 26 years after a woman’s body was discovered buried beneath a pile of rocks in rural Nevada, authorities have announced her identity. On Friday, the Washoe County Regional Medical Examiner’s Office said 41-year-old Lorena Gayle Mosley was the woman whose body was found by rock climbers on June 9,