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By Zenebou Sylla, Liam Reilly and Rob Frehse, CNN A Purdue University student who was arrested Wednesday after his roommate was found dead in their dormitory told police he fatally stabbed him, Indiana prosecutors said Friday. Ji Min Sha, 22, said he used a knife to kill his roommate, Varun Manish Chheda, 20, according to

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Oklahoma City Zoo has welcomed four new residents: a litter of tiny newborn lion cubs. The cubs were born September 26, according to a news release from the zoo. The first-time mother Dunia, a 7-year-old African lion, went into labor around 7:15 a.m., the release noted. Three of the cubs

By Rob Frehse and Zenebou Sylla, CNN Nearly 150 women who reported sexual abuse or misconduct by a former gynecologist reached a $165 million settlement with the hospital system that employed him, Columbia University announced Friday. Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital reached the settlement with 147 women who were patients of

By Paradise Afshar, CNN A man arrested in connection with a series of fatal stabbings on the Las Vegas Strip made an initial court appearance Friday. Yoni Barrios, 32, is accused of carrying out attacks in which two people were killed and six others injured, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. The suspect’s

By Rosa Flores, CNN A 4-year-old girl wipes her mother’s tears inside a migrant respite center in El Paso, Texas. An act of love this mom says her daughter has made more times than she can remember since they left their native Nicaragua. “She would tell me, ‘Mom, don’t cry.’” Yensel Castro says. Castro wipes

By Amy Simonson, CNN Volusia County on the Atlantic coast of Florida faces the continued threat of flooding more than a week after Hurricane Ian ripped through the state. Gov. Ron DeSantis, who toured the county Friday, said inland areas still have a lot of standing water that doesn’t have anywhere to go. Officials are

By Athena Jones, CNN A Pennsylvania school district is under fire for allegedly discriminating against LGBTQ students. After a months-long investigation, the Pennsylvania American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint Thursday with the US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division on behalf of seven transgender and non-binary

By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Kent Carter, vice president of the NAACP’s Arlington, Virginia, branch, was shot and killed Sunday while vacationing in Turks & Caicos to celebrate his 40th birthday, according to statements from the NAACP and the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force. Two people were murdered in a targeted attack on their

By Stephanie Becker, CNN The terrifying kidnapping and murder in Merced, California, of 8-month old Aroohi Dheri, her mother and father, Jasleen Kaur and Jasdeep Singh, and his older brother, Amandeep Singh, have horrified and left heartbroken the relatives in this tight knit Sikh family. A grieving close relative of the brothers told CNN, “You

By Jalen Brown and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Philadelphia has apologized for experiments conducted on mostly Black men incarcerated in the city’s now-inactive Holmesburg Prison, which exposed subjects to herpes, skin blistering chemicals, radioactive isotopes, and poisonous chemicals used during the Vietnam war. In the city’s statement Thursday, Mayor Jim Kenney said the “historical impact and

Josh Campbell, CNN A San Antonio Police Department officer has been fired after shooting a 17-year-old boy who was eating a meal in a McDonald’s parking lot Sunday, the department said. The unnamed officer, described by the department as a probationary officer with seven months’ experience, was fired for violating the department’s “tactics, training, and

By Shimon Prokupecz, CNN The superintendent of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District has told staff of his intention to retire, in the wake of CNN’s reporting on the district’s actions after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. In an email obtained by CNN, Superintendent Hal Harrell told district staff Monday’s school board meeting

By Emma Tucker and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN A 20-year-old Black man was experiencing a mental health crisis when he was killed this week after five Detroit police officers fired 38 shots at him in roughly three seconds, according to police. Porter Burks, who is diagnosed with schizophrenia, was experiencing a psychotic break on Sunday morning

By Matt J. Friedman and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District said Friday it had suspended its school police force, less than five months after the attack that left 19 children and two teachers dead. “The District has made the decision to suspend all activities of the Uvalde CISD Police Department for

By Lizete Dos Santos, Matt Foster and Amanda Davies, CNN At least three new cases of misconduct have emerged since the release of a report alleging systemic abuse within women’s professional soccer, US Soccer Federation president Cindy Parlow Cone said Friday. “One of the great things to come out of this report is that it