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By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — Emergency room physician John Forsyth sent a text to his fiancée in the early morning hours of May 21. He’d just finished his overnight shift at the hospital, he told her, and would see her in a little bit. Then he abruptly stopped responding to messages, said his brother,

By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — An 85-year-old man and a passerby in a New Jersey neighborhood are being hailed for their quick action after spotting smoke coming from a home and alerting the sleeping family inside of the danger. Santo Livio, a longtime early-riser, was checking his front yard around 5:30 a.m. Wednesday when

By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — This year’s Pride Month comes at an arduous time for many people, as restrictions on drag performances, transgender health care and other LGBTQ rights take center stage in many states. Still, the month is a time for celebration and, of course, pride. To commemorate the month, CNN is highlighting

By Rob Frehse, CNN (CNN) — A New York City woman was indicted on seven felony hate crime charges in connection with a string of anti-Asian attacks on the city’s Upper West Side, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said Wednesday. Camila Rodriguez, 29, was charged in two New York State Supreme Court indictments with assault

By Tina Burnside, CNN (CNN) — A train carrying hazardous materials derailed in northwestern Minnesota just south of the Canadian border Wednesday, leaving no immediate signs of leaks but forcing a highway closure, officials said. The Canadian Pacific train of 25 cars, including some tank cars carrying an unspecified flammable liquid, derailed in Lancaster while

By Paradise Afshar and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A former GOP candidate in New Mexico has been indicted on federal charges in connection to a spate of shootings at Democratic officials’ homes after he lost his 2022 midterm election bid, court documents show. Solomon Peña, 40, is charged with conspiracy, interference with federally protected

By Rebekah Riess and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday signed a bill barring transgender athletes at public colleges and universities from competing in sports that align with their gender identities, as GOP-controlled assemblies across the US continue their pursuit of legislation placing limits on transgender people. In a statement

By Eric Levenson, Danny Freeman and Sabrina Souza, CNN (CNN) — A powerful image of a Jewish prayer book damaged with a bullet hole was released as evidence Wednesday in the death penalty trial of the man accused of killing 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018. The photo was entered into evidence Tuesday

By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — After police found a body in a black steamer trunk in a wooded area in Florida 53 years ago, the mystery of the “trunk lady” became a cold case that captured the attention of the public for decades. Using DNA evidence, police have now identified the victim as Sylvia

By Natasha Chen, CNN (CNN) — Jaslene Lai heard a classmate joke about her having the “kung flu” this school year, when she was under the weather, wearing a mask. These racist jokes persist, two years after Lai and a group of friends were horrified by Covid-era anti-Asian hate, and the lack of Asian American

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — For years, the world has been focusing on a key climate change threshold: limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. But even at that threshold – which could begin to be breached within the next five years – millions of people will still face “significant harm,”

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — Some of the nation’s brightest young minds are putting their knowledge of the English language to the test at the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee. The 95th Scripps National Spelling Bee kicked off on Tuesday in National Harbor, Maryland, with 231 students from around the country and other parts

By Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — A California Appeals Court has paved the way for Leslie Van Houten, a former Charles Manson follower and convicted murderer, to be granted parole – but a lengthy legal battle likely lies ahead. The court’s ruling reverses a 2020 decision from California Gov. Gavin Newsom denying Van Houten’s release,

By Annette Choi, CNN (CNN) — Most educators leaving the field aren’t retiring or being laid off — they’re quitting. Nearly half of the public education employees — working in elementary, secondary and postsecondary institutions — who left the profession in March resigned, according to preliminary numbers released in May by the US Bureau of

By Rebekah Riess and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — A South Carolina convenience store owner has been charged with murder after allegedly chasing a 14-year-old boy and shooting him in the back after suspecting the boy of shoplifting, authorities said. The child, Cyrus Carmack-Belton, had gone into the store in Columbia around 8 p.m. Sunday

By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Jury selection is scheduled to begin Wednesday in the trial of the former school resource officer who remained outside a Parkland, Florida, high school as a gunman massacred 17 people, marking the rare prosecution of a law enforcement officer over his response to a mass shooting. Scot Peterson –

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Officials in Davenport, Iowa, say they’re carefully assessing whether rescuers can further search a partially collapsed apartment building – which they say can topple at any moment – for missing residents before they order the structure demolished. Five people are unaccounted for after the back portion of the six-story