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By Choire Sicha, CNN (CNN) — “Our goddess,” wrote a poster last week on the Reddit board devoted to being childfree, “has passed.” Dolly Parton, one of the greatest benefactors to children in world history while also being a role model to those who were without them, had died at 80. This week, Gloria Steinem,

CNN By Zoe Sottile, Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Gloria Steinem, the American journalist and political activist who became the face of second-wave feminism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, has died at age 92, according to her verified Instagram account. Steinem died Wednesday in New York City, “surrounded by some of the many

By Zoe Sottile, Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Gloria Steinem, the American journalist and political activist who became the face of second-wave feminism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, has died at age 92, according to her verified Instagram account. Steinem died Wednesday in New York City, “surrounded by some of the many who

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — About two weeks ago, US authorities took Cubans, Venezuelans and other Latin Americans from detention centers and placed them on a flight to Liberia. When they landed, having spent the entire flight in shackles, some of the men refused to get off the plane, according to the Miami Herald.

By David Mack, CNN (CNN) — Adaeze Onejeme, a 28-year-old ad sales worker in Los Angeles, was visiting a night market in Hollywood with her sister in late August when she noticed something curious. Stall after stall, hawking loaded French fries or taquitos or smoothies, featured menus with pictures that at first seemed real —

CNN By Amanda Musa, Eric Levenson, and Nicki Brown The jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial was sent home for the day at about 4 p.m. Wednesday and will return Thursday morning at 9 a.m. to continue deliberations. “I know it’s been a long day,” Judge William F. Sullivan said. The 12-person jury has deliberated

By Cindy Von Quednow, Dalia Faheid, Julianna Bragg, Taylor Galgano, Rob Kuznia, CNN (CNN) — Officers confronted a barrage of gunfire, their vision clouded by a haze, as they responded to a shooting at a Minneapolis apartment building Wednesday that left at least two people dead and injured multiple others, officials said. Police opened fire

By Eric Levenson, Nicki Brown, Jean Casarez, CNN Plymouth, Massachusetts (CNN) — One by one, the 12 deliberating jurors and six alternate jurors in Lindsay Clancy’s trial approached the judge’s bench Wednesday morning. The clerk swore in each juror, and one at a time they listened to the judge speak, while the prosecution and defense

By Amanda Musa, Eric Levenson, and Nicki Brown The jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial was sent home for the day at about 4 p.m. Wednesday and will return Thursday morning at 9 a.m. to continue deliberations. “I know it’s been a long day,” Judge William F. Sullivan said. The 12-person jury has deliberated for

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — Pierre Damas Bel was an avid soccer player at his high school in Springfield, Ohio. He loved being part of JROTC, the US military-sponsored program that provides training to students. And friends and family say he headed to college planning to study neuroscience and excited about the future.

By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — Far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has told TV interviewer Piers Morgan that he was “really, really terrified” after being detained by US immigration officials. Speaking to Morgan during an interview released on YouTube on Tuesday, British national Yiannopoulos, 41, recounted how his hands and feet were chained together with

By Ray Sanchez, Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — A foreboding sky rises high over a selfie taken by a smiling John Giusti before the jagged, staircase-like ridges of the Grand Canyon on the first day of a dream hiking trip with two buddies. Standing before the canyon’s sheer cliffs, plunging up to a mile down,

By Andi Babineau, Emma Tucker, CNN Provo, Utah (CNN) — Seated only two rows apart, the widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and the mother of his accused killer, Tyler Robinson, were both visibly emotional as a judge ruled the case can move to trial. Family members of both Kirk and Robinson shifted between leaning

By Andi Babineau, Kristen Holmes and Elise Hammond (CNN) – The case against Tyler Robinson, the man accused of fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah, can move to trial, a judge ruled Tuesday, citing sufficient probable cause. The ruling follows a multiday preliminary hearing that began in July. Judge Tony Graf ruled that

By Nicki Brown, Jean Casarez, Sarah Boxer, CNN Plymouth, Massachusetts (CNN) — Over the last six weeks, Lindsay Clancy’s triple-murder trial has transformed this courthouse – a lofty building flanked by fields and farmland – into a chaotic scene bustling with swarms of journalists, true crime fanatics and outspoken spectators. Now there’s nothing left for

By Sarah Moon, CNN (CNN) — A deadly shooting in the parking lot of a gay bar near downtown Tucson, Arizona, early Monday morning was “a targeted attack motivated by hate toward the LGBTQIA+ community,” police said. Two people, Vincent Anthony Siqueiros, 42, and Cameron Davis Capara, 33, were killed in the shooting outside of