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By Shimon Prokupecz and Matthew J. Friedman, CNN Every day, 9-year-old AJ Martinez tells his mom he wishes he could have saved his friends from a gunman. With a child’s powerful, if fanciful, belief in his own abilities, he tells her he wishes he could have run outside to get help or to rescue his

By Stella Chan and Susannah Cullinane, CNN A Team USA Olympic medal winner says a man attacked her outside a Los Angeles restaurant, hurling a metal object at her and fracturing her eye socket. Kim Glass, a 2008 volleyball silver medalist, posted a video to social media describing her ordeal. The footage shows her right

By Sonia Moghe, CNN A growing chorus of voices is urging Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to drop a murder charge against a bodega clerk who fatally stabbed a man who had gone behind the counter and pushed him. The bodega clerk, Jose Alba, 61, was working at the Blue Moon Convenient Store in Upper

By Claudia Dominguez and Steve Almasy, CNN The Tops Friendly Markets store in Buffalo, New York, where 10 people were shot and killed in May will “quietly and respectfully” reopen Friday morning, company officials said Monday. The day before the official reopening, the store will hold a gathering in the afternoon to remember the victims

By Susannah Cullinane, CNN A World War II landing craft is emerging from Lake Mead as water levels at the United States’ largest man-made water reservoir continue to drop in extreme drought conditions. The prolonged megadrought in the Southwest has seen the lake — a water source for around 25 million people — reach an

By Eric Levenson, CNN Brandy Bottone was driving in the HOV lane meant for at least two people per vehicle in Dallas, Texas, two weeks ago when she was pulled over by police. The officer noted there didn’t seem to be anyone else in the car, but Bottone had a retort — she was 34

By Eric Levenson, CNN Photographs by Taylor Glascock and Kristan Lieb for CNN A stroll through Central Avenue’s tree-lined, cobblestone sidewalks shows the appeal of suburban Highland Park. The boutique stores that dot the street and the banana pancakes at Walker Bros. call out to the casual pedestrian, as does the shaded playground of Sunset

By Andrew Torgan, CNN A wildfire in California’s Yosemite National Park is threatening the famed Mariposa Grove of giant sequoia trees, but so far none of the trees have suffered significant damage. The 1,591-acre Washburn Fire began on July 7 and doubled in size from Saturday to Sunday, park officials said. Fire crews removed undergrowth

By Dakin Andone, CNN A Texas death row inmate who’d asked for his execution to be delayed so he can donate a kidney was granted a stay of execution Monday on an unrelated appeal over allegedly false testimony during the penalty phase of his trial. Ramiro Gonzales, 39, who was to be executed Wednesday, had

By Sonnet Swire, CNN Three churches located on the same road in Maryland, just outside Washington, DC, were vandalized over the weekend, and authorities are investigating fires set at two of the churches as arson. “These churches are within a few mile radius of each other,” said Pete Piringer, spokesperson for the Montgomery County Fire