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By Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — A California man accused of purposefully driving himself, his wife and two children off a cliff on a coastal highway told police he pulled off to the side of the road to check on the car’s tire pressure, according to court documents exclusively obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle.

By Jay Croft and Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — A construction worker whose family says he pleaded for help on Facebook Live before he died in a construction site fire in Charlotte, North Carolina, is one of two bodies authorities recovered Friday, officials said. Two construction workers had been unaccounted for following the deadly blaze

By Ella Nilsen, CNN Orono, Maine (CNN) — The first, full-sized floating offshore wind turbine in the United States will tower 850 feet above the waves in the Gulf of Maine – roughly as tall as New York City’s famed 30 Rockefeller Plaza. The gigantic machine, with 774-foot diameter blades and tethered to the seabed

By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — A judge soon could decide if the writings of a shooter who killed three 9-year-olds and three adults in March at a Christian school in Nashville become public as parties with competing interests in the case – and the broader battle over US firearms access – have sparred in

By Melissa Alonso and Jackson Grigsby, CNN (CNN) — Less than a year after an attempt on his life, author Salman Rushdie made a rare public appearance at an awards ceremony Thursday to warn of the dangers of banning books and of related movements in the US to roll back freedoms of expression. “The attack

By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — When Patrick Brown walked out of a New Orleans courthouse last week a free man after spending 29 years in prison for a rape that even the victim says he didn’t commit, he raised his hands toward the sky – it was a moment of triumph. But as he

By Alisha Ebrahimji and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Aric Hutchinson is still trying to wrap his head around the idea that his wife is no longer here on Earth with him after the couple were involved in a car crash that proved fatal for her on their wedding night in South Carolina. Now, the

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — A Massachusetts man was arraigned Thursday on new charges in the death of a 5-year-old boy whose body was found in a suitcase near a highway in 2014, prosecutors announced. A grand jury indicted Alberto L. Sierra Jr., 32, on charges of murder and disinterring of a body

By Brad Parks and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has asked the state Supreme Court to review his murder conviction for the 2020 killing of George Floyd, a month after an appeals court denied his previous request for a new trial, court documents show. In the documents, filed Wednesday,

By Nicquel Terry Ellis (CNN) — Graduates at the New College of Florida held an alternative commencement ceremony Thursday evening in protest of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ conservative takeover of the college earlier this year. The alternative ceremony was a private event held at an undisclosed location in Sarasota, where the school is based, students said.

By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — The Los Angeles Dodgers are getting some high heat after uninviting a prominent local LGBTQ charity group from their upcoming Pride Night at Dodger Stadium on June 16. The MLB team originally intended to honor the Los Angeles Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a drag group that leads charity and

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — A liquor store clerk schemed, stole and tried to cash out a winning $3 million lottery ticket, a Massachusetts county prosecutor said, before investigators – helped by technology – launched a hunt for the rightful winner. Now, the clerk, Carly Nunes, 23, of Lakeville, Massachusetts, has been indicted by

By Eric Levenson, Veronica Miracle and Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN (CNN) — The man accused of fatally stabbing tech executive Bob Lee last month pleaded not guilty to murder in a San Francisco court Thursday. Nima Momeni, 38, will be held in custody without bail, the judge said. Assistant District Attorney Omid Talai argued Momeni presents

By Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — Three Black former employees of the homebuilding company PulteGroup are suing the company for allegedly violating their civil rights, citing several incidents that include a White executive bringing a noose to a meeting with employees. The suit was filed in Michigan’s Ingham County Circuit Court earlier this month by

By Sara Smart, Andy Rose, Jamiel Lynch and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — Police in Farmington, New Mexico, on Thursday released chilling video of the fatal shooting spree in which an 18-year-old gunman shot nine people, including people driving on the street in front of his home. Police Chief Steve Hebbe described a chaotic scene