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By Omar Jimenez, CNN Chicago (CNN) — Cedric Hawkins doesn’t take his age lightly. At 44, he’s had nine relatives killed by gun violence. “Only one of my family members made it to be in his 40s,” Hawkins said. After growing up around gangs in Chicago and having served time in prison, Hawkins now works

By Andy Rose, CNN Cambridge, Massachusetts (CNN) — Summer break is over, and Harvard Yard is waking up again. The nation’s oldest and wealthiest university – where red brick buildings went up before there even was a United States – buzzes with crisscrossing orientation groups. New students learn where to eat, where to study and

CNN, ONSCENE, KHOU By Karina Tsui, Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — An 11-year-old has died after he was shot while playing a doorbell ditch prank in Houston, police said, the latest tragic example of a TikTok trend authorities have been warning parents about in a case that could yield a murder charge. The boy and

By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Weston Halsne knew immediately that something had hit him during the shocking mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis last week. “I think I got gunpowder on my neck,” Halsne told reporters minutes after the attack at Annunciation Catholic Church that killed two young students and injured more

KCNC By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — One person was killed and three others injured after two small planes collided in midair by the Fort Morgan Municipal Airport in northeast Colorado, authorities said. A Cessna 172 and an Extra Flugzeugbau EA300 collided while both pilots were attempting to land on Sunday morning, the Federal Aviation

By Karina Tsui, Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — An 11-year-old has died after he was shot while playing a doorbell ditch prank in Houston, police said, the latest tragic example of a TikTok trend authorities have been warning parents about in a case that could yield a murder charge. The boy and his friends were

CNN By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Weston Halsne knew immediately that something had hit him during the shocking mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis last week. “I think I got gunpowder on my neck,” Halsne told reporters minutes after the attack at Annunciation Catholic Church that killed two young students and injured

By Emma Tucker, Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — Father Dennis Zehren struggled to hold back tears as he addressed his Minneapolis congregation, drawing on Jesus’ parable of humility to reflect the community’s grief after last week’s deadly shooting. “Jesus says … sit with me in this low place,” the Annunciation Catholic Church pastor told the

By Lauren del Valle, Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors in Florida on Friday rested the state’s case against a woman charged with orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot to kill her former son-in-law who was tied up in a messy custody dispute with her daughter in 2014. The trial of Donna Adelson comes more than a

By Alicia Wallace, Dalia Faheid, Arit John, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — On late-August mornings in the Windom neighborhood, the soundscape is usually familiar and comforting. Cicadas buzz, sparrows dart between yards, neighbors trade easy greetings across tidy sidewalks and the Annunciation Catholic Church’s bells peal across southwest Minneapolis, calling parishioners to Mass as they have

By Audrey Ash, Curt Devine, CNN (CNN) — The month before a shooter opened fire on children gathered in a Minnesota church this week, the Trump administration cut funding in the state for efforts to identify potential mass shooters and head off their violence. The grants were ended as part of $18.5 million in cuts

By Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — The Greenwich Village apartment building of New York Times Executive Editor Joseph Kahn was defaced with red paint and graffiti in the early hours of Friday morning. The paint covered the walls and front steps to the apartment building, and writing at the base of the steps read, “Joe