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By Justin Gamble, CNN The National Urban League unveiled on Tuesday its annual report on the state of Black America, saying the nation is under attack from hate and extremism within the country. The report hopes to raise “the alarm around the explosive growth of far-right and domestic extremism and the threat it poses to

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN In two recent cases, two different people approached the wrong house and were both shot by the homeowner without exchanging a single word — one person lost their life from the encounter, another survived and is recovering from gunshot wounds to their head and arm. On April 13, Ralph Yarl, 16,

By Julian Cummings, Brynn Gingras, Laura Ly and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN A parking garage that collapsed Tuesday in lower Manhattan, killing one person and injuring five others, had six open building violations, three of which were classified as “hazardous,” New York City Department of Buildings records show. The garage, on Ann Street in the Financial

By Michelle Watson and Carma Hassan, CNN A 13-year-old in Ohio has died after “he took a bunch of Benadryl,” trying a dangerous TikTok challenge that’s circulating online, according to a CNN affiliate and a GoFundMe account from his family. Jacob Stevens was participating in a TikTok challenge with some friends at home when he

By Kelly McCleary, Melissa Alonso and Chris Youd, CNN Three officials at the Fulton County, Georgia, jail have stepped down amid an investigation into the death of an inmate whose family said was housed in a filthy, bug-infested cell that “was not fit for a diseased animal.” The Fulton County Jail’s chief jailer and two

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN It’s a surprising fact that’s often overlooked in the immigration debate. Undocumented immigrants pay billions of dollars in federal taxes annually, between tax returns filed and taxes deducted from paychecks, experts estimate. Here’s a look at why — and how — this is happening. Why some undocumented immigrants choose to

By Tina Burnside and Raja Razek, CNN The governor of Oklahoma is calling on four McCurtain County officials to resign after they allegedly participated in a secretly recorded conversation that included racist remarks about lynching Black people and talking about killing journalists. The McCurtain Gazette-News over the weekend published the audio it said was recorded

By Isabel Rosales, Elizabeth Wolfe, Kevin Conlon and Taka Yokoyama, CNN Before Alexis Dowdell headed to her Sweet 16 party, she sat on her big brother’s bed to tell him she was nervous for the event she had been planning for months — only to have him make her laugh and assure her that he

By Laura Ly and Brynn Gingras, CNN A 20-year-old woman was shot and killed Saturday after she and three others accidentally turned into the wrong driveway while looking for a friend’s house in rural upstate New York, authorities said. The woman, identified as Kaylin Gillis, was a passenger in a vehicle when a man, 65-year-old

By Nouran Salahieh, Taylor Romine and Holly Yan, CNN The 84-year-old White man accused of shooting a Black teenager who rang his doorbell in Kansas City turned himself in Tuesday and was later released on bail, authorities said. Andrew Lester, who faces two felony charges — assault in the first degree and armed criminal action

By Dakin Andone, Polo Sandoval, Christal Hayes and Celina Tebor, CNN The eight police officers who shot and killed Jayland Walker, a Black man in Akron, Ohio, will not face state criminal charges after a special grand jury came to its long-awaited decision Monday. The city has been bracing for a decision following Walker’s death

By Eric Levenson, Dakin Andone, Polo Sandoval, Theresa Waldrop and Laura Ly, CNN A special grand jury in Ohio declined to indict the Akron police officers who shot a 25-year-old Black man dozens of times, killing him, after a car chase and foot chase last year. The grand jury concluded the officers were legally justified

By Ella Nilsen, CNN Planet-warming methane pollution from the US oil and gas industry was 70% higher than the Environmental Protection Agency’s own estimates between 2010 and 2019, scientists reported Monday. The new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests the federal government’s current system for detecting methane leaks from

By Carlos Suarez, Zoe Sottile and Denise Royal, CNN A Florida man who served three decades behind bars for a murder he says he didn’t commit returned to prison Monday after spending the past two years building a life outside prison walls. Since his conditional release in 2021 amid appeals, Crosley Green, 65, had held

By Alisha Ebrahimji, Elizabeth Wolfe and Isabel Rosales, CNN As a room full of Sweet 16 attendees in Dadeville, Alabama, moved to the sounds of a DJ Saturday night, their party was abruptly ended by an eruption of gunfire that injured dozens and left four partygoers dead, at least two of whom were local high

By Rashard Rose A Tennessee Air National Guardsman is facing charges after applying to be a hitman on a spoof “rent-a-hitman” website, according to the Department of Justice. Josiah Ernesto Garcia, 21, was charged Thursday after submitting an employment inquiry to the website rentahitman.com, which is a parody site that includes “testimonials” from purportedly satisfied