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By Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN (CNN) — Matthew Graham owes his new career path to his fraternity brothers and Thurgood Marshall, the late Supreme Court justice. Marshall, also a member of the Black fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha, was a civil rights leader who became the first Black justice on the Supreme Court. Marshall’s story convinced Graham

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Fire threats and environmental concerns have prompted some US cities to forego traditional Fourth of July fireworks in favor of spectacular drone light shows this year. Salt Lake City, Utah, tried out the alternative way of celebrating Independence Day on Saturday with its first-ever drone show. The city’s

By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — A week after a train derailment and bridge collapse sent rail cars into the Yellowstone River, authorities say only two rail cars carrying molten sulfur and scrap metal remain in the water as cleanup continues near Columbus, Montana. Seventeen Montana Rail Link train cars derailed last Saturday morning in

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Two Delta Air Lines pilots say they visited 48 US states in under 48 hours, potentially breaking a world record, the Atlanta-based carrier reported. Captains Barry Behnfeldt and Aaron Wilson completed their goal of stopping in all 48 contiguous states in less time than they expected – accomplishing

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — US Customs and Border Protection officers in California say they stopped the attempted smuggling of fentanyl pills with an estimated street value of more than $2.5 million. The bust happened at the cargo facility at the Otay Mesa border crossing in San Diego after authorities noticed “anomalies” within

By Claudia Dominguez, CNN (CNN) — Atlanta police say “incendiary devices” were found after an overnight fire that burned several motorcycles at the department’s training academy early Saturday morning. Emergency crews responded to a fire on a parking deck at the Atlanta Police Training Academy around 2 a.m. ET and found several motorcycles on fire,

By Michelle Watson, Norma Galeana, Sarah Moon, Sara Weisfeldt, Rosa Flores and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — A bus carrying 41 migrants from Brownsville, Texas, arrived in Southern California on Saturday – the second such shipment from the region in two weeks. The Texas-funded bus arrived at Union Station at 12:40 p.m. Intake of

By Claudia Dominguez and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — A rabid bobcat attacked a children’s camp leader as he slept in a hammock at a state park, according to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. The man was guiding an overnight youth camping expedition at Selden Neck State Park in Lyme at

By Jay Croft and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — Carowinds amusement park in North Carolina closed a roller coaster Friday after discovering a crack in a support pillar, park officials said. The park says the Fury 325 is one of the tallest and longest rides in the massive park that straddles the North and South

By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors could seek the death penalty against a Mexican national charged with fatally shooting five people in a Texas home, after a grand jury indicted him for capital murder, the district attorney told CNN on Friday. Francisco Oropesa, 38, was charged in May for the killings in the town

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — Suzanne Wheeler doesn’t want to symbolize a movement. She just wants to live as a trans woman in Kansas as she has for the past eight years: unapologetically herself – and with the official documents to prove it. But now Wheeler wonders if that’s even possible, given a new

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — If you’ve made it to your 40th birthday without tying the knot, you’re not alone, according to a recent report from the Pew Research Center. A look at 2021 US Census Bureau data found a quarter of 40-year-olds in the United States had never been married, the research

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — A Maryland woman who’d played the same lottery numbers for a year won big after getting some inspiration from a previous winner, she told lottery officials. The unidentified woman from Forestville, which is about 10 miles east of Washington, DC, won $50,000 in a Pick 5 game, according

By Nick Valencia and Pamela Kirkland, CNN (CNN) — A Nicaraguan national who died last week in federal immigration custody had spent more than one year in detention. Despite having been recommended for release more than seven months ago, he continued to be held in immigration custody, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Ernesto

By Andy Rose and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — An Oklahoma sheriff who allegedly participated in a secretly recorded conversation that included racist remarks about lynching Black people and comments about killing journalists will not face criminal charges and cannot be removed from office, the state’s attorney general announced Friday. In a letter to Oklahoma

By Elizabeth Joseph, CNN (CNN) — A California woman has been sentenced to 90 days in jail after lying to authorities that a couple was attempting to kidnap her children, according to the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office. Kathleen Sorensen, 31, was sentenced to jail Thursday on a single count of knowingly making a false

By Sara Smart and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — E. coli contamination from a sewage discharge has prompted the closure of a six-mile stretch of the Chattahoochee River in Roswell, Georgia, ahead of the July 4th holiday weekend. The river is closed from the Chattahoochee Nature Center to Johnson Ferry Road, according to a tweet

By Nic F. Anderson and Samantha Beech, CNN (CNN) — A Philadelphia towing company has been accused of running an organized criminal enterprise which purchased millions of dollars’ worth of stolen catalytic converters from thieves to sell at a profit, according to prosecutors. Prosecutors said TDI Towing purchased $8.2 million dollars’ worth of stolen catalytic