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By Hannah Sarisohn and Theresa Waldrop, CNN One person is dead and seven others are wounded after a shooting at a graduation party in Clarendon County, South Carolina, the sheriff’s office there said. “At least 60-70 rounds” were fired after two cars approached the lawn party, with one of them driving onto the lawn, where

By Jacob Lev and Amir Vera, CNN Quin Snyder has stepped down as Utah Jazz head coach after eight seasons, the team announced Sunday. “After eight years, I just feel it is time to move onward. I needed to take time to detach after the season and make sure this was the right decision,” Snyder

By Tina Burnside, CNN Three people were killed and at least 14 others were injured after gunshots rang out in Chattanooga, Tennessee, early Sunday, with some victims struck by bullets and others by fleeing vehicles, according to local police. Police responded to reports of a shooting at a nightclub just before 2:45 a.m., Jeremy Eames,

By Eric Levenson and Boris Sanchez, CNN Days after a former Wisconsin judge was killed in his home, a federal judge whose son was killed in a similar targeted attack nearly two years ago reiterated her push to better protect the judiciary. “My reaction is heartache. My heart is broken. Another family is going to

By Rebekah Riess, Katia Hetter and Zoe Sottile, CNN A 48-year-old climber from New Jersey died during a Denali summit attempt Friday evening, according to a news release from the National Park Service. The man, identified as Fernando Birman, collapsed at 19,700 feet of elevation on Denali, the highest mountain peak in North America. His

By Andrew Torgan, CNN If you’re sipping a cup of coffee as you read today’s 5 Things, we have some good news for you: Drinking either sweetened or unsweetened coffee is associated with a lower death risk compared with not drinking the beverage, according to a new study published recently in the journal Annals of

By Liam Reilly, CNN A 30-year-old Queens man was indicted Friday for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl he connected with on Snapchat, according to a news release from the Suffolk County, New York, District Attorney’s Office. Andrew Ramsaroop has been charged with two counts of second-degree rape, one count of promoting a sexual performance by

By Catherine E. Shoichet, Rosa Flores and Rosalina Nieves, CNN The sudden chirping of a cell phone sent Joel bolting out of his seat. He rushed to a purple backpack sitting behind him and opened the front pocket. An alarm was sounding on the phone US immigration authorities had given him, and he knew he

By Andy Rose, Holly Yan, Samantha Beech and Emma Tucker, CNN A bustling entertainment district turned into a scene of carnage when multiple shooters opened fire in the South Street area of Philadelphia, killing at least three people and wounding 11 others, police said. Officers patrolling the South Street area heard gunfire and observed “several

By Aya Elamroussi, Haley Brink and Judson Jones, CNN Tropical Storm Alex formed early Sunday after bringing heavy rain and flooding to South Florida a day prior, becoming the first named storm of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season. Alex was moving away from the Bahamas and toward Bermuda Sunday morning with sustained winds of 50

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Jacklyn Cazares’ father used to tell the 9-year-old who loved making TikTok videos with her friends not to be loud in the house. Now, he wishes he could hear her voice filling their home again after she was killed by a gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, last month.

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Photographs by Ryan Christopher Jones for CNN Gary Biggs’ family hasn’t had water coming out of their private well for over a decade, after a multi-year drought and overpumping by agriculture and industry. Now, the eight-acre farm in West Goshen, California, which Biggs passed down to his son, Ryan, in the

By Leah Asmelash, CNN The idea of waiving college tuition falls in and out of vogue. Last year, President Joe Biden’s plan to make tuition free at community colleges was cut from the Build Back Better plan, once again placing the concept of a nationwide tuition-free college program just out of reach. Before that effort,

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) will update its manatee critical habitat protections for the first time since 1976, due to a settlement reached on Wednesday between several nonprofits and the service. The Center for Biological Diversity, along with the Save the Manatee Club and Defenders of Wildlife, has been