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By Dakin Andone, CNN Paterson, New Jersey (CNN) — Yusra Matari was eating lunch across Main Street from the apartment where she spent part of her childhood when an elderly woman two tables over asked where she was from. “Me? Palestine,” Matari said. “Beit Anan,” she added – her family’s village in the West Bank.

Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — On September 25, 2000, Kevin Hines climbed over the rail of the Golden Gate Bridge. White fog hung below the gray skies that day. He recalled looking down at the rough, green waters below moments before he did the unthinkable: He jumped. “My hands left the rail and I had

By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — If you haven’t shopped for your Thanksgiving feast yet, we’ve got good and bad news. The good? The overall cost of a meal for 10 people is down nearly 5% this year, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. The bad? That’s still a whopping 25% higher

By Paradise Afshar and Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — A manhunt is over for the man suspected of fatally shooting four family members, including a 13-year-old girl, in Memphis, Tennessee, after police say he was found dead on Sunday from what appears to be a “self-inflicted gunshot wound.” The suspect, Mavis Christian Jr., 52, was

Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — The North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church voted Saturday to accept the decision of 261 congregations to leave the denomination over a divide on LGBTQ issues. “I realize how sad this time is for many, including myself,” said Bishop Robin Dease, the leader of the conference. “I just

By Maxime Tamsett, CNN (CNN) — A grieving father says he wants to know what led to the death of his 22-year-old son on the day he was supposed to be released from an Alabama correctional facility. Daniel Terry Williams died November 9 after his family took him off life support following what the Alabama

By Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — The last of four inmates who escaped from a central Georgia county jail last month has been taken back into custody, according to a news release from the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office. Joey Fournier, 52, of Macon was “apprehended near Stockbridge, Georgia just before noon on Saturday,” the news release read. Later today, the

By Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — New Hampshire officials have identified 33-year-old John Madore as the gunman who killed a security guard at a New Hampshire psychiatric hospital Friday. A state police trooper assigned to the facility shot and killed Madore after the gunman killed a member of hospital security at New Hampshire Hospital in

By Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN (CNN) — A man who was wrongfully convicted in the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X and exonerated in 2021 has filed a lawsuit against the federal government alleging the FBI concealed evidence that would have proved his innocence at the time of the trial. Muhammad Aziz, one of three men convicted in 1966 of first-degree murder in Malcolm X’s killing, filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking $40 million in compensation for the “immense and irreparable” damage

CNN, KHNL, KGMB By Mike Valerio and Amber Sumpter, CNN (CNN) — One hundred days after the reverberating roar of wildfire moved through West Maui and destroyed centuries of stories in Lahaina, Maui officials confirmed four people are still considered missing from the disaster – an unfinished and plaintive chapter in paradise. A former NASA engineer, a

By Mike Valerio and Amber Sumpter, CNN (CNN) — One hundred days after the reverberating roar of wildfire moved through West Maui and destroyed centuries of stories in Lahaina, Maui officials confirmed four people are still considered missing from the disaster – an unfinished and plaintive chapter in paradise. A former NASA engineer, a published author, a

By Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — A 25-year-old hiker who had been missing since November 9 in Big Bend National Park in Texas has been rescued, the National Park Service said in a news release. The hiker, Christy Perry, “was found awake and talking approximately 1/4 mile below the summit of the Lost Mine Trail”

By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN (CNN) — Nicole was walking through an affluent part of Alexandria, Virginia, with a friend last month, when a man approached her and began screaming. He railed about the hijab she wore, saying she looked Muslim, and made comments about Hamas raping Israeli women, she said. Her friend corroborated the account. It

By Nicquel Terry Ellis CNN, CNN (CNN) — Melissa Franklin has always decorated her home for Hanukkah – proudly hanging a Star of David on her porch and placing her family’s menorah in the front window. This year, however, will be different. “I just can’t see us doing it because I don’t want retaliation,” Franklin

Jeremy Harlan, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Florence was targeting Campbell Coxe’s farm. Days earlier, the 2018 storm had rapidly intensified in the Atlantic, and now Darlington County, South Carolina, was in the path. Coxe had to make a quick decision: Which of his family’s crops was he going to save? “When you only have 24

By Dianne Gallagher, Wesley Bruer and Alta Spells, CNN (CNN) — Police in North Carolina confirmed an officer who was involved in an initial encounter with a woman, who was later seen on video getting struck 17 times by a second officer, hit her in the face but claimed the woman assaulted him first. In

By Sarah Dewberry and Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — A 52-year-old man was shot outside a mosque while selling goods in Providence on Friday, according to Rhode Island officials. Patricia Socarras, the city’s director of communications, told CNN the shooting happened at the Islamic Center of Rhode Island. She added the victim appeared to have

By Rob Frehse and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — A security guard working at a New Hampshire psychiatric hospital was fatally shot Friday and a suspect was shot dead by a state police trooper assigned to the facility, authorities say. The incident happened at the New Hampshire Hospital in Concord Friday afternoon, the New Hampshire

By Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — Kaitlin Armstrong was sentenced by a jury Friday to 90 years in prison after being found guilty of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 25-year-old professional cyclist Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson in Texas in May 2022. Armstrong’s case drew national attention after she traveled to Costa Rica and

By Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, already serving two life sentences for the murder of his wife and son, entered a guilty plea Friday to nearly two dozen state financial charges against him, including money laundering, breach of trust, conspiracy, forgery and tax evasion, as part of a plea