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By Taylor Romine, Paradise Afshar and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed a drug possession bill into law Tuesday following a special legislative session that was held to prevent the possible legalization of all drug possession in the state. The state had been on the brink of decriminalizing possession of drugs

By Andy Rose and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — A controversial emergency rule to ban gender-affirming care for minors and most adults in the state of Missouri was withdrawn Tuesday by the attorney general who first proposed it, days after state lawmakers passed their own ban. “The legislature has now passed a ban that exceeds

By Steve Almasy and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A 98-year-old woman and her 73-year-old daughter were among the three people killed by an 18-year-old high school student who roamed through his neighborhood Monday firing indiscriminately at homes and passersby in their vehicles, according to authorities in the northwestern New Mexico town of Farmington. In

By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Criminal charges in Minnesota against R&B singer R. Kelly were dropped Tuesday, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Kelly was charged in 2019 by Hennepin County prosecutors with two counts of engaging in prostitution with a person under the age of 18. “We believed then and continue to believe the victim survivor

By Faith Karimi and Sabrina Souza, CNN (CNN) — Mona Faiz Montrage portrays a lavish lifestyle of designer outfits, shopping trips and overseas travel on social media. To her 4.2 million Instagram followers, she’s a musician and a mogul who jet sets between the Ghanaian capital of Accra and London. But a federal indictment unsealed

By Nicquel Terry Ellis (CNN) — State supreme court justices are disproportionately White and don’t reflect the diverse populations they serve, a new report has found. According to statistics released by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, only 20% of justices are people of color despite Black, Latino,

By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — A teacher in Missouri who was initially placed on administrative leave after a video circulating on social media showed them using the n-word at least twice in class “is no longer employed,” the Springfield Public Schools district said in a statement to CNN on Tuesday. On May 9, the

By Rebekah Riess and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — After spending 29 years in prison for the rape of his stepdaughter, a New Orleans man is free thanks to the help of the local district attorney’s office and testimony from the victim herself, who has insisted for 20 years that he is not the man

By Holly Yan, Tina Burnside, Caroll Alvarado, Chris Boyette, Justin Lear and LJ Spaet, CNN (CNN) — A breathless hunt for a killer amid famed American retail stores can be heard in emergency dispatches recorded during the outlet mall massacre in Allen, Texas. “We got shots fired at the outlet mall,” an officer tells a

By Holly Yan, Steve Almasy, Josh Campbell, Sara Smart and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Allen, Texas (CNN) — The weapons brought to the attack on random shoppers at the outlet mall in Allen, Texas, were all legally obtained, Texas Department of Public Safety Regional Director Hank Sibley told reporters at a Tuesday news conference. He said

By Nouran Salahieh and Tina Burnside, CNN (CNN) — Panicked 911 calls from an Allen, Texas, outlet mall captured moments of chaos and terror as the nation’s second-deadliest mass shooting so far this year unfolded, with eight killed and others wounded within minutes. As gunfire erupted on May 6, calls poured in from distraught shoppers,

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — For six years, loved ones – with the public’s help – searched for Kayla Unbehaun after she allegedly was abducted by her non-custodial mother in Illinois. Now 15 years old, she has been found safe – over 600 miles away in North Carolina – and is now reunited with

By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — A 12-year-old boy is accused of shooting and killing an employee at a Sonic Drive-In restaurant in Texas after an argument in the parking lot, authorities said. Matthew Davis, 32, was working at the Sonic Drive-In on Saturday night and confronted Angel Gomez, 20, because he was “being disorderly

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — The US Postal Service is honoring Chief Standing Bear, the celebrated Ponca leader who successfully argued for Native Americans to be recognized as people in the eyes of the law, on a Forever stamp. The stamp, which features a portrait of Chief Standing Bear by illustrator Thomas Blackshear II,

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — Caden Cox made history in 2021 during his time as a student athlete at Hocking College as the first known player with Down syndrome to play in and score during a college football game. Two years later, the 23-year-old is suing his alma mater for alleged discrimination, assault and

By Veronica Miracle, Cheri Mossburg, Taylor Romine and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — The security guard who shot and killed a suspected shoplifter at a Walgreens in downtown San Francisco last month will not face criminal charges, the district attorney’s office announced Monday, saying the shooter acted in self-defense. The district attorney’s office under Brooke

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — Face masks have largely disappeared from places like grocery stores and schools in the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic — but they remain quite popular in medical offices. A study published this week says masking in health care settings might still be a good idea, even after the

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — A driver in Colorado tried to avoid a DUI arrest by swapping seats with his dog after being pulled over, police said. The man was stopped by police around 11:30 p.m. Saturday for allegedly driving 52 mph in a 30-mph zone, the Springfield Police Department said in a post

By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — The St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office has filed a motion asking a Missouri court to set aside the conviction of a man who prosecutors say has served more than 30 years of a life sentence for a murder he didn’t commit. Christopher Dunn, now 52, was convicted in 1991

By Nouran Salahieh, Polo Sandoval, Rosa Flores, Andrea Cambron and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — Despite warnings of a potential crush of migrants that sent thousands of federal personnel to the southern border and US cities scrambling to prepare, the days after the expiration of Title 42 saw a much narrower influx of migrants than