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By Liam Reilly and Richard Roth, CNN A former United Nations communications specialist in Iraq, whom authorities say drugged 20 victims and sexually assaulted at least 13 of those victims over a nearly two-decade period, was sentenced Thursday in a Manhattan federal court to 15 years in prison. Karim Elkorany, 39, pleaded guilty on May

By Ray Sanchez, Samantha Beech and Nicki Brown, CNN A pair of experts at a pretrial hearing for the parents of Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley should be allowed to testify before a jury to dispel the myth mass shootings can’t be prevented, a prosecutor said Friday. Jennifer and James Crumbley have each been charged

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Gaps in fencing along the US-Mexico border can be a dramatic — and sometimes puzzling — sight. Miles of tall steel bollards end abruptly, giving way to open space or much smaller barriers that are designed to block vehicles from crossing, but not people. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey says he

By Claudia Dominguez, CNN A Miami Beach, Florida, condominium building was evacuated Thursday, with residents given just hours to leave following a structural inspection of the property, which sits less than two miles from site of last year’s deadly Surfside condo collapse. The evacuation order this week for the Port Royale building came during its

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN President Joe Biden predicts student loan borrowers will start receiving debt relief within weeks, despite the program being put on hold due to a court challenge brought by six Republican-led states. There’s also a slew of other hurdles the administration must overcome, including lawsuits from a state attorney general and conservative

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Raja Razek, CNN The gunman who killed two people and wounded several others in a school shooting in St. Louis, Missouri, on Monday was flagged by an FBI background check but was still able to purchase the AR-15-style rifle he used in the attack from a private seller, police said. When

By Alta Spells, Leyla Santiago and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN The University of Florida Faculty Senate approved a no-confidence resolution Thursday on the selection process to appoint US Sen. Ben Sasse as the next president, officials said. The 67 to 15 vote comes after Sasse, a Republican senator from Nebraska, became the only person considered for

By Raja Razek, CNN Police in Oklahoma are conducting a homicide investigation after eight people were found dead in a house fire. “It is a complex scene given the state of the house due to the fire damage,” the Broken Arrow Police Department said in a Facebook post Thursday evening. The circumstances behind the fire

By Laura Ly, CNN A suspect is in custody after allegedly hijacking a New York City bus Thursday morning with “what appeared to be a firearm,” police officials said. The 44-year-old man allegedly ran in front of the bus with what appeared to be a gun just after 7:30 a.m. in the St. Albans neighborhood

By Amir Vera, Melissa Alonso and Amy Simonson, CNN The sheriff of a suburban Atlanta county was found guilty Wednesday of six federal counts of violating the civil rights of incarcerated people, court documents show. Suspended Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill was found guilty on six of the seven counts against him related to incidents

By Chris Boyette and Emma Tucker, CNN The Colorado 8-year-old who set out this week to become the youngest person to climb El Capitan in California’s Yosemite National Park is over halfway to reaching the summit, his father — and climbing companion — said. Sam Adventure Baker and his father, Joe Baker, started their trek

By Amanda Watts and Holly Yan, CNN The man who gunned down the Houston area’s beloved first Sikh sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to death, according to court records. “We are extremely grateful that justice has been served,” Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez tweeted. “Sandeep changed our Sheriff’s Office family for the better, and we