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By Ray Sanchez, CNN A week after taking over the nation’s largest police department, Jessica Tisch found herself on Wednesday reassuring New Yorkers that investigators would “not rest until we identify and apprehend the shooter” who brazenly gunned down the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare outside a Manhattan hotel. The high-profile, high-tech manhunt for the masked

By James Legge, CNN (CNN) — Two Americans and a Canadian who went missing after they attempted to summit New Zealand’s highest mountain are presumed dead, local police said Friday, as they suspended search operations. Kurt Blair, 56, Carlos Romero, 50, and the Canadian national were reported overdue from their planned ascent of Mount Cook

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Tsunami warnings have been issued for nearly 5 million people along parts of the Northern California and Oregon coastlines after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the California coast. The earthquake hit at 10:44 a.m. PT about 60 miles southwest of Ferndale, California, the US Geological Survey said. Tsunami warnings

By Nick Valencia and Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — A scathing report from the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division found the Memphis Police Department engages in a pattern of discriminatory policing, including violence against the disabled, and regularly violates the constitutional rights of its residents, particularly Black people. Historically, similar reports by the

By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — A potent winter storm stretching from the Midwest to the Northeast is knocking out power and disrupting travel for many commuters. Meteorologists are also warning of dangerous snow squalls that can create blinding, whiteout conditions seemingly out of nowhere. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — A potent winter storm stretching from the Midwest to the Northeast is knocking out power and disrupting travel for many commuters. Meteorologists are also warning of dangerous snow squalls that can create blinding, whiteout conditions seemingly out of nowhere. Here’s what else you need to know to Get

By Karina Tsui, John Miller, Brynn Gingras and Mark Morales, CNN New York (CNN) — Words written on ammunition. A smiling surveillance photo. A discarded water bottle. A burner cell phone. These are among the key pieces of evidence providing clues for police more than 24 hours into a hunt for the man who gunned

By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — The world’s oldest known wild bird has sparked “special joy” among scientists after she laid an egg – her first in four years – at the age of 74. Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, was spotted with the egg and a new partner last week at Midway Atoll National Wildlife

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By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — Nearly a dozen children worked under strenuous and hazardous conditions at a pork processing plant in Iowa, the US Department of Labor announced following an investigation. The 11 children hired by a third-party Oklahoma-based sanitation contractor, Qvest, were allegedly employed to use corrosive products to “clean head splitters, jaw

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — The family of Hannah Kobayashi, the Hawaii woman who went missing in early November after arriving in Los Angeles on a flight from Maui, insists their search for Hannah is not over despite police saying she is a voluntary missing person. “My heart is still broken, and my worry

By Ray Sanchez, Pete Muntean and Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — At the largest terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on one of the busiest travel days of the year, security lapses enabled an unticketed passenger to board a plane to Paris in a shocking breach that one aviation expert said should