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By Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — Most people aren’t lucky enough to win a $50,000 lottery prize, but a Pennsylvania man did it twice in a matter of weeks. Both wins were in Maryland, where he purchased $20 scratch-offs while doing construction work, the state’s lottery said in a news release. “I buy a ticket

By Nicki Brown and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Seven years ago, the chance to walk at graduation was stripped from Khalil Watson, a Virginia man who was paralyzed from the neck down after being shot weeks before finishing high school. But with help from physical therapists and a robotic exoskeleton, Watson, 25, rose

By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — New York state education officials have released new guidance about recently enacted regulations that prohibit public schools from using Indigenous team names, logos or mascots. “Although rebranding might not be easy for communities, the harm that the continued use of team names, mascots, or logos connected to Indigenous peoples

By Paradise Afshar and Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — An inmate in Louisville, Kentucky, is back in custody after escaping from a police vehicle, according to the Louisville Metro Police Department. The inmate was being transported on Thursday when he kicked out the back window and jumped out on foot, according to a Facebook post

By Elle Reeve and Samantha Guff, CNN Colorado Springs, Colorado (CNN) — Members of the conservative parental rights group Moms for Liberty are known for making impassioned and sometimes spicy speeches to school boards to complain that teachers are supposedly indoctrinating students. This can include mothers, often in the group’s trademark tee, standing at a

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — The North Carolina Zoo has welcomed two litters of red wolf pups, bringing in nine new members of the world’s most endangered wolf species. The wolves were born as part of the zoo’s contribution to the American Red Wolf SAFE Program, it said on Instagram. “The first litter, born

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — Dr. Scott Atlas, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, was met with a flurry of boos, jeers and chants as he delivered a keynote speech during the graduation ceremony for the New College of Florida Friday night, amid a contentious conservative government takeover of the

By Eddie Sun and Jeffrey Kopp, CNN San Francisco (CNN) — D’Arcy Drollinger, a veteran of San Francisco’s vibrant drag scene, has been named the city’s first-ever Drag Laureate and will become an ambassador for San Francisco’s drag and LGBTQ+ community for an 18-month term, Mayor London Breed’s office announced Thursday. The position is the

By Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — Claims that homeless veterans were pushed out of a Newburgh, New York, hotel to make room for migrants are false, according to two homeless men who told CNN they were part of a group of 15 who were offered money to pose as veterans. The men allege they were

By Rosa Flores and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — The Texas National Guard member who shot a migrant during a struggle in January unholstered his pistol, then switched the pistol from his right hand to his left before the firearm went off, striking the migrant in the shoulder, according to his sworn statement. In a

By Jamiel Lynch and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — An appeals court has ruled the state of Alabama cannot execute man with an intellectual disability who was sentenced to death for murdering a man in 1997, upholding a lower court’s decision. The US Eleventh Court of Appeals’ decision on Friday means that 53-year-old Joseph Clifton

By Rebekah Riess and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Nearly four years after an abandoned newborn girl was found alive in a plastic bag left in a wooded area of northern Georgia, authorities have identified and arrested the child’s mother. Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Karima Jiwani, 40, Thursday on charges of criminal

By Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — Jordan Neely, the homeless street artist who was the victim of a fatal chokehold on a New York City subway, was remembered at his funeral Friday as a “well known and loved” performer. Neely, 30, known for his Michael Jackson impersonations, was restrained in a chokehold May 1 on

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of activist, actor and Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown. He played his entire career with the Cleveland Browns. Personal Birth date: February 17, 1936 Death date: May 18, 2023 Birth place: St. Simons Island, Georgia Birth name: James Nathaniel Brown

By Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — Famed evangelical minister Timothy Keller died Friday morning after a battle with pancreatic cancer, a tweet from his account announced on Twitter. He was 72. “Dad waited until he was alone with Mom. She kissed him on the forehead and he breathed his last breath,” the tweet read. “We

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at one of the most successful golfers in history, Tiger Woods. Personal Birth date: December 30, 1975 Birth place: Cypress, California Birth name: Eldrick Tont Woods Father: Earl Woods Mother: Kultilda (Punsawad) Woods Marriage: Elin Nordegren (October 5, 2004-August 23, 2010, divorced) Children: Charlie Axel and Sam

By Rosa Flores and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — The Honduran Foreign Ministry has identified the 8-year-old girl who died in US Customs and Border Protection custody in Harlingen, Texas, as Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez. Reyes died Wednesday at a Harlingen hospital and her family is receiving consular services from the Honduran consulate in McAllen,

By Sabrina Souza and Mallika Kallingal, CNN (CNN) — A Michigan teen who used a slingshot to ward off a kidnapper from his sister told CNN he “grabbed anything I could get” to save her. “It just felt like I was scared, and I had like something to do, cause if I didn’t (grab) it,

By Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — A California man accused of purposefully driving himself, his wife and two children off a cliff on a coastal highway told police he pulled off to the side of the road to check on the car’s tire pressure, according to court documents exclusively obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle.