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By Josh Campbell, Cheri Mossburg, Taylor Romine and Christina Maxouris, CNN Six people were injured in a Wednesday shooting at an East Oakland, California, school campus, and authorities are looking for those responsible, police said Wednesday. Officers responded to reports of a shooting just after 12:45 p.m. local time at a school campus that houses

By Caroll Alvarado and Christina Maxouris, CNN In Naples, Florida, on Wednesday afternoon, Lauren Barlow watched as water crept in through her home’s door and began rising across the first floor. “Cars are floating down our street,” Barlow, who was sheltering on the upper level of the house, told CNN. “Our garage completely flooded, frying

By Justin Gamble and Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Six students at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University have filed a federal lawsuit against the state and the Board of Governors for the state’s university system that claims the historically Black college has been underfunded for decades is in violation of Title VI and the 14th amendment.

By Cheri Mossburg, CNN One person was killed in a shooting at a hospital in the suburbs of Little Rock, Arkansas, on Wednesday, according to the Sherwood Police Department. One individual is in custody, the department said in a news release shared on its Facebook page, following what police earlier described as an “active shooter”

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN She’s dodged protesters in Greece, met the pope at the Vatican and posed beside the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Now a 12-foot-tall puppet is bringing her message to the United States as she walks the streets of New York City. Artists created Little Amal, whose name means hope in Arabic,

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The world’s first all-electric passenger aircraft has successfully taken to the sky with battery technology similar to that of an electric car or a cell phone. The zero-emission plane — named Alice — traveled at an altitude of 3,500 feet for eight minutes during its inaugural flight on Tuesday. Now, the

By Maria Cartaya, CNN The penalty trial for Parkland massacre gunman Nikolas Cruz will be delayed for three days in anticipation of Hurricane Ian’s landfall in Florida this week, the trial judge announced Tuesday. The Broward County Courthouse where Cruz’s trial is being held will be closed Wednesday and Thursday due to potential impacts of

By David Culver and Jason Kravarik, CNN Several times a week you can hear gunfire echoing from Brandi Joseph’s scenic Southern California property. A licensed firearms instructor and dealer, Joseph decided to open Fortune Firearms in December to serve a growing and rapidly changing clientele. “There is a huge uptick in female owners,” Joseph said.

By Amir Vera and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN A federal civil suit was filed in the US District Court of Connecticut Tuesday on behalf of Randy Cox, who is now partially paralyzed after an injury in the back of a New Haven police van, according to civil rights attorney Ben Crump and Scot X. Esdaile, the

By Nicki Brown and Rob Frehse, CNN A drive-by shooting behind a Philadelphia high school Tuesday afternoon left a 14-year-old dead and four other victims wounded, police said. Players were walking off the field after a football scrimmage behind Roxborough High School at about 4:41 p.m. when a car drove up and multiple shots were

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN The calls to quickly fix Jackson, Mississippi’s water system are growing louder, with the US Justice Department and NAACP demanding not just answers from the state and its capital city, but solutions. Days after the NAACP wrote Gov. Tate Reeves directly, the civil rights organization submitted a 25-page complaint to

By Liam Reilly, CNN The Prince George’s County school system in Maryland will change how it trains staff and administrators after it settled a lawsuit with a transgender teacher who says she suffered years of abuse and harassment in the district. The settlement includes monetary compensation and requires policy and training changes that will protect

By AJ Willingham, CNN Thirteen-year-old April Ajoy had a sense something wasn’t right. It was quiet in her Dallas house. Too quiet. Her brothers were gone. Her parents were gone. On her parents’ bed, a pile of her mother’s clothes signaled something terrifying. Ajoy’s mind began churning, trying to remember, trying to make plans. When