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By Amir Vera and Joe Sutton, CNN A noose was discovered at the Obama Presidential Center construction site in Chicago Thursday, prompting the group overseeing the project to suspend work at the site. Lakeside Alliance, a joint venture of multiple construction companies working on the center, issued a statement saying they reported the incident to

By Steve Almasy and Rebekah Riess, CNN The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday denied a petition for a hearing on new evidence in the case of death row inmate Richard Glossip, convicted of a 1997 murder committed by someone else. At trial, prosecutors said Glossip, a motel manager, ordered another employee to kill

By Rebekah Riess and Paradise Afshar, CNN After an independent report found an elementary school outside St. Louis had “unacceptable” levels of radioactive contamination, preliminary results of testing for radioactive materials by the US Army Corps of Engineers showed “no presence of radioactive material above the expected range of background levels,” the U.S. Army Corps

By Rebekah Riess, CNN A Texas woman convicted of killing a pregnant woman and then taking her unborn baby, who also died, has been sentenced to death, court records show. A Bowie County jury last month after about an hour of deliberations found Taylor Rene Parker guilty of capital murder in the deaths of Reagan

By Ray Sanchez and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN An 18-year-old New Jersey man was arrested Thursday after sending a manifesto online with threats to attack a synagogue and Jewish people, federal prosecutors say. Omar Alkattoul, a Sayreville resident, is charged with a count of transmitting a threat in interstate and foreign commerce earlier this month, according

By Raja Razek, Jennifer Henderson and Joe Sutton, CNN A man was arrested in connection with a series of arsons, including fires at two historically African American churches, early Tuesday in Jackson, Mississippi, authorities said. The suspect was identified as Devin McLaurin, 23, according to Capt. Crystal Houston of the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office. CNN

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Homes and buildings are collapsing into the ocean and authorities have issued warnings to evacuate some areas as Tropical Storm Nicole pushes a huge volume of ocean water onshore in southeast Florida. Video from Volusia County shows homes crumbling, reduced to wreckage, as Nicole’s waves erode the coastline. Separate video shows

By Michelle Watson and Amanda Musa, CNN The brother of two Black teenagers killed in Philadelphia’s 1985 MOVE bombings is suing the city and the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, claiming his sisters’ remains were mistreated and hidden away for more than three decades, court documents show. The civil complaint, filed Friday by attorneys

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Election officials cautiously went into the midterms this week bracing for the possibility of harassment and hostility at some polling places. Luckily, voting went smoothly across the US — even after two years that election-deniers bragged that they would flood the polls with observers to find fraud. Here’s what else you

By Nicquel Terry Ellis and Justin Gamble, CNN As lottery players across the nation accept that they didn’t win the historic $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot this week, experts are pointing to the flaws of a lottery system they say unfairly targets poor Black and brown communities. Lottery officials say the lone winning ticket holder of

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By Dakin Andone, CNN Pieper Lewis, the Iowa teen and sex trafficking victim who killed a man she said raped her multiple times, is back in custody following her escape from the residential corrections facility where she was serving probation, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. Lewis, 18, was arrested just days after she

By Kara Scannell A woman who was a victim of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has agreed to drop allegations against attorney Alan Dershowitz saying she “may have made a mistake” when she also accused him of sexual abuse. The accuser, Virginia Giuffre, said in a statement that she was young at the time she was