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By Christina Maxouris, CNN The group of jurors who on Thursday convicted Alex Murdaugh of killing his wife and son had a day earlier visited the sprawling Islandton, South Carolina, property where the 2021 murders took place. The massive estate, known as Moselle, was at the heart of the trial — and played a big

By Paradise Afshar and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Vanessa Bryant has reached a nearly $29 million agreement with Los Angeles County to settle a lawsuit over photos that were taken at the helicopter crash that killed her husband, Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant, her daughter Gianna Bryant and seven others. The settlement caps several years

By Nick Watt, CNN Every room has its own bathroom and a little kitchen area. Downstairs there’s a common room with a TV, a pool table and a baby grand piano. And every resident is a previously homeless veteran. This once crumbling building on a vast Department of Veterans Affairs campus in a lovely, leafy

By Wayne Sterling and Nadia Kounang, CNN Irv Cross, a former NFL star and broadcasting pioneer who died two years ago at the age of 81, had stage 4 chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the Boston University CTE Center said Tuesday. “Mr. Cross was diagnosed during life with mild cognitive impairment and was found at autopsy to

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN It’s one of the most well-known public service announcements in American history. A Native American man in buckskin and braids canoes through a polluted river, past smoke-emitting factories and onto a littered shore. Trash hurled from the window of a passing car lands at the man’s feet. As the camera closes

By Greg Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN The nation’s railroads are facing federal pressure to take a closer look at how they use the detectors that investigators say may have been able to prevent the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this month. The Federal Railroad Administration is issuing a safety advisory Tuesday

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN On this hellscape that we call the internet, you’ve probably witnessed a particularly blatant instance of rage farming. Maybe you’ve rolled your eyes at the pinkwashing that abounds during Pride Month. Perhaps you’ve felt violated when a Zoom call fell prey to cyberflashing. In a sign of our Extremely Online times,

By Holly Yan, Jen Christensen and Celina Tebor, CNN The aftermath of the toxic train wreck in Ohio keeps spreading to more states as scientists say tests in East Palestine show unusually high levels of some chemicals. Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb is the latest out-of-state official to say he was stunned to learn hazardous waste

By Sabrina Clay and Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN The New College of Florida’s reshaped board of trustees voted Tuesday to abolish diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the school after a heated public comment session — events that follow Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to move the college in a conservative direction. The vote will

By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent In a bright-red county in a state allergic to regulations, there is a ban on growing grass outside new businesses. Only 8% of a home’s landscaping can have a grass lawn in this booming corner of Utah, about a hundred miles northeast of Las Vegas. And if any

By Eric Levenson, Alta Spells, Dianne Gallagher and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN State prosecutors rested their rebuttal case Tuesday after calling six witnesses to contradict parts of Alex Murdaugh’s defense as the disgraced attorney’s double murder trial neared its end. Kenneth Kinsey, a crime scene forensics expert, was the final rebuttal witness and criticized the methodology

By Sara Smart and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Ohio investigators were trying to identify human remains found decades ago when a tip led them to identify the remains of another person found dead almost 200 miles away, officials said Monday. Investigators now believe they’ve identified both sets of remains, officials said. “Old-fashioned detective work, modern DNA

By Eric Levenson, Alta Spells and Dianne Gallagher, CNN Alex Murdaugh’s defense in his double murder trial rested its case Monday after calling up 14 witnesses over about two weeks of testimony. Monday’s testimony was headlined by an expert in crime scene reconstruction and blood spatter analysis who testified that the evidence suggests two shooters

By Casey Tolan, CNN In the parking lot of New Jerusalem Church in Jackson, Mississippi, volunteers handed out free cases of bottled water to a line of arriving cars last week — a new normal in a state capital that has struggled with the fallout of a failing water system. But inside the church, a