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Primetime Emmys Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the Primetime Emmy Awards, which recognize television programs and performers. September 18, 2023 – The 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony is scheduled to take place. September 12, 2022 – The 74th annual Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony takes place with Kenan Thompson as host. Facts Emmys

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A Florida wildlife center says it lost ‘nearly all’ of its animals in a fire: ‘We are devastated’

By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — A Florida wildlife center was badly damaged and “nearly all” of its animals were killed in an overnight fire, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office and the wildlife center said. Over 250 animals “including lizards, small mammals, amphibians, turtles and tortoises, fresh and saltwater marine life, and of course ….

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Empire State Building Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the Empire State Building. Facts Located on Fifth Avenue between 33rd and 34th streets in Manhattan. It is 103 stories tall (1,250 feet to top floor, excluding height of antennae, which is 204 feet). Took only one year and 45 days to build, or more than

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Justice Department launches civil rights investigation into dilapidated and unsanitary conditions at Georgia’s Fulton County Jail

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department announced Thursday a civil rights investigation into dilapidated and unsanitary conditions at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, as well as violence against detainees. The department will look into the conditions in which inmates are held, their access to mental and physical health

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New Jersey man pleads guilty to sending manifesto threatening to attack a synagogue, which prompted a statewide alert

By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN (CNN) — Federal prosecutors say a New Jersey man pleaded guilty in connection with sending a manifesto via social media that threatened to attack a synagogue and Jewish people – an act that prompted a statewide alert. Omar Alkattoul, 19, pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday “to an information charging him

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Former Louisiana priest sentenced to 25 years after pleading guilty to drugging, molesting men he met in New Orleans

By Rebekah Riess and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — A former Catholic priest in Louisiana has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to drugging and molesting 17 men he had met in New Orleans’ French Quarter, according to prosecutors. Stephen Sauer, 61, admitted to targeting men who appeared to be “intoxicated,

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Corrections officer watching surveillance video sounded the alarm as a Pennsylvania inmate escaped in seconds, official says

By Steve Almasy and Rob Frehse, CNN (CNN) — Surveillance cameras caught inmate Michael Burham’s escape from a jail in northwestern Pennsylvania last week, Warren County Commissioner Jeff Eggleston said in a news conference Wednesday. Burham was in the recreation yard – a 40 feet by 40 feet space on the top floor – of

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Some Allegiant Air passengers and crew are injured in a turbulent Florida-bound flight, officials say

By Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — Four people on a Florida-bound Allegiant Air flight were being examined for injuries after the flight encountered severe turbulence Wednesday afternoon, the airline said. Allegiant Air Flight 227, which had taken off from Asheville, North Carolina, “experienced severe turbulence before landing” at St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport, airline spokesperson Andrew

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Colorado authorities are working to identify the bodies of 3 people found in a national forest but do not suspect foul play

By Andi Babineau, CNN (CNN) — Authorities are working to identify three bodies found decomposing in a remote Colorado campsite, Gunnison County Undersheriff Josh Ashe told CNN. A hiker found the first body Sunday in a remote area of the Gunnison National Forest, near Gold Creek Campground, Ashe said. The forest is roughly 100 miles

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