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By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Landmarks around the world were transformed Thursday to honor the passing of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. In France, the Eiffel Tower went dark; in Brazil, the Christ the Redeemer statue was illuminated in red, blue and white; and in New York, the Empire State Building lit up the city sky in

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Melissa Alonso, CNN Dewayne Tunstall had aspirations of running a food truck and planned to name it “EBE,” inspired by the phrase he lived his life by: “Everybody eats,” his friend Marcus Cash told CNN affiliate WMC. But in the early hours of Wednesday, Tunstall was shot and killed while visiting

By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman and Rachel Clarke, CNN Texas’ top cop Col. Steven McCraw vowed Thursday to fire any member of his Department of Public Safety who did not do their job the day a gunman massacred 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary in Uvalde. His pledge came after CNN tracked

By Amir Vera and Andi Babineau, CNN Eliza “Liza” Fletcher routinely ran 8.2 miles in the predawn hours. But her final run ended tragically unfinished. Fletcher, a 34-year-old wife, mother and teacher, was violently abducted last week in Memphis, Tennessee; her body was found Monday behind a vacant complex. A week to the day after

By Eric Levenson, CNN As a longtime reporter in Las Vegas, Jeff German often wrote about the who’s who of the underbelly in Sin City. He covered mobsters and murderers, crooked officials and corrupt government agencies. And in recent months, he wrote about claims of bullying and hostility in a little-known office run by an

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Chris Boyette and Shawn Nottingham, CNN Two suspects have been arrested after a pair of Cobb County, Georgia, sheriff’s deputies were shot and killed while serving a warrant Thursday night in what the sheriff described as an “ambush.” The two deputies were attempting to serve a warrant for failure to appear for

By Andy Rose, Shimon Prokupecz and Ashley Killough, CNN As dozens of kids played and people picnicked Thursday afternoon at Memorial Park in Uvalde, Texas, gunfire interrupted in what authorities believe was gang-related violence about a mile and a half from the now-shuttered elementary school where 21 people were killed in May by a teenage

By Rebekah Riess, CNN Yaqub Salik Talib, the brother of former NFL star Aqib Talib, was indicted for murder by a Dallas County grand jury Thursday in the shooting death of 43-year-old coach during a youth football game outside Dallas, court records show. Yaqub Talib, 39, pulled out a gun after the coaches for both

By Jamiel Lynch, Jason Hanna and Amir Vera, CNN The deadly Fairview Fire burning in Southern California has upended the lives of many Riverside County residents who said they felt blindsided by the flames that have been spreading rapidly since Monday. Norman Nielsen, 65, told CNN Thursday he and his wife were going to bed

By AJ Willingham, CNN Andrew Tate, the professional fighter-turned media personality who earned the ire and admiration of millions with his viral rants about male dominance, female submission and wealth, is everywhere these days. It doesn’t matter that the so-called “alpha-male” podcaster, who openly advocates violence against women, has been banned from every major social

Emily Smith, CNN Before he was found dead outside his Las Vegas home last weekend, veteran investigative journalist Jeff German had written a series of stories about former Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, including a piece he was writing about Telles at the time of his death. German’s reporting uncovered claims of bullying within

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN School is back in session across the US and many students are starting to notice some changes in their classrooms. New laws have restricted teaching about race, history and gender identity in more than a dozen states — and a growing number of books are being pulled from school library shelves.