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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Despite Juneteenth’s storied history, the holiday was largely overlooked by non-Black Americans until recent years. The momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement propelled Juneteenth into the national spotlight, building on a decades-long push by activists and leaders to get recognition for the landmark occasion. Last year, Juneteenth became the latest

By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Among those who love to chase trout with flies made of feathers, just the mention of a certain seven-mile stretch of Utah’s Green River can turn a hardened man rhapsodic. “I’ve guided in New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, Alaska,” said Gordon Tharrett, describing his 30-year career guiding elite fly

By Taylor Romine, CNN Three people suffered injuries Friday evening at San Francisco International Airport’s departure terminal after a man attacked them with an “edged weapon,” authorities said. The suspect drove to the airport around 6 p.m. local time and walked around the departure terminal before pulling out the weapon and assaulting three men, San

By Rob Frehse and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A woman who allegedly made anti-Asian remarks and pepper-sprayed four people in New York City last weekend was arrested, police said Friday. Madeline Barker, 47, faces two counts of assault as a hate crime, two counts of attempted assault as a hate crime and four counts of harassment

By Celeste Noraian and Alta Spells, CNN Inmates at a county jail in Florida are being commended for helping save a deputy who was attacked by another inmate last week, police said. Deputy Lillian Jimenez was attacked on June 7 at Hillsborough County Jail after she was lured to a restroom where the inmate said

By Rosa Flores, CNN Zavala County Sheriff Eusevio Salinas told CNN on Friday when he responded to the deadly shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, he didn’t hear anyone at the scene say they were in charge. Salinas said when he and Chief Deputy Ricardo Rios arrived at Robb Elementary School on May

By Jalen Beckford, CNN With the nationwide average price of gasoline hitting $5 a gallon, and prices expected to continue to rise, thefts of gasoline are being reported across the country, and according to police, it’s not just a few gallons being siphoned from vehicles. Now, thieves are pumping thousands of dollars’ worth of fuel

By Caroll Alvarado and Sara Smart, CNN A New York man who was caught on camera claiming to be an “off-duty trooper” while going on a racist road rage tirade has been charged with a hate crime, Sergeant Daniela Portillo with Newburgh police confirmed to CNN. Cellphone video of the incident taken on June 11

By Taylor Romine, CNN A man who killed one person and injured five others during a shooting at a church in Orange County, California, has had hate crime enhancements added to his charges, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday. David Wenwei Chou, 68, had hate crime enhancements added for each of the five

By Steve Almasy, Andy Rose and Jarrod Wardwell, CNN The city council in Texas’ capital approved a resolution to explore raising the age for purchasing AR-15-style rifles and other semi-automatic weapons from 18 to 21 during a meeting Thursday. The resolution directs Austin City Manager Spencer Cronk to “explore every option” to would allow the

By Ashley Killough, CNN A Dallas County judge granted a motion Friday to strike the Texas Attorney General’s intervention in a case where a doctor is fighting to continue providing gender-affirming care to transgender youth at Children’s Medical Center, a decision which essentially removes Ken Paxton’s office from the case. The decision was another victory

By Nicole Chavez, CNN There are hundreds of heat-related deaths in New York City each summer but the rate at which Black people die is twice as high compared to other racial and ethnic groups, the city’s health department says. As millions of people in over a dozen states are under some of type of

By Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN When the Covid-19 pandemic laid bare racial, health and economic disparities in cities across the United States, city officials in Oakland, California, knew they had to do something. More than two years into the pandemic, they’ve passed a resolution that racism is a public health crisis. “It reminds us that centuries

By Claire Colbert, CNN Earlier this week, TJ and Victoria Britton watched their home in Gardiner, Montana — along with its 16 years of memories — fall into the Yellowstone River after historic rainfall and flooding inundated waterways in the area. “It’s something I never in a million years thought was even possible. … It’s

By Sonia Moghe, CNN Michigan’s highest court has denied disgraced former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar’s request to hear his appeal for a lower state prison sentence. Nassar, 58, is serving a 60-year federal sentence, which he would have to finish serving before serving his 40- to 175-year state prison sentence, the opinion said. Nassar’s

By Jason Hanna, CNN A 70-year-old man who shot dead three senior citizens at an Alabama church group’s meeting Thursday evening was subdued by someone else at the event until police arrived, authorities said Friday. The suspect, who is in custody, shot dead Walter Rainey, 84, and Sarah Yeager, 75, during a small group’s potluck

By Ryan Bergeron, CNN Sandi Salas never had a formal coming out as a woman. She just simply began transitioning after college. “I never said anything,” Salas told CNN. “I just kept on with my transition because I was an adult, and I didn’t feel that I had to explain it to anybody.” But Salas’