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By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Bridgett Floyd said she could barely find the words to describe her disappointment in lawmakers for failing to pass sweeping police reform legislation that bears her brother George Floyd’s name. “I’m past upset, I’m past angry,” she told CNN this week. The Floyd family, she said, waited more than a

By Casey Tolan, CNN The assessment was dire: Horacio Estrada-Elias had “less than 18 months” left to live, his prison doctor wrote last year in a document submitted with the 90-year-old inmate’s request for compassionate release. Estrada-Elias, who is serving a life sentence in federal prison for a nonviolent marijuana trafficking crime, suffers from congestive

By Andy Rose and Joe Sutton, CNN Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano began erupting Wednesday afternoon for the first time since May, spewing lava at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Officials note that while there is no present danger to nearby residents on Hawaii’s Big Island, the situation will be monitored for further escalation. The US Geological Survey’s

By Melissa Alonso, CNN Former Boston Ballet star Dusty Button and her husband, Mitchell Taylor Button, are accused of sexually abusing several dancers, including a minor, according to a federal lawsuit. Taylor Button was accused over the summer but an updated complaint filed on Thursday also named his wife. Dusty Button was a ballerina for

By Jacob Lev, CNN Milwaukee Brewers star relief pitcher Devin Williams will likely miss the postseason because of a fractured hand after the player says he struck a wall in frustration. Williams told reporters on Wednesday that he had too much to drink and got “frustrated and upset” over something on his way home after

By Eric Levenson, CNN Mandates that require employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19 have spurred workers to get vaccinated in recent weeks — yet some holdouts have been suspended or lost their jobs, and workplaces are scrambling to cover potential shortages. The tradeoff — a disrupted workplace in the short term in exchange for widespread

By Kay Jones, CNN Police in Fort Worth, Texas, arrested a man on Monday for allegedly killing and dismembering three people and then putting their bodies in a dumpster and setting it on fire. Police said Jason Alan Thornburg, 41, admitted to killing a man and two women in a hotel room over the course

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Meridith Edwards, CNN Robin Steenman pulled her daughter out of public school over a mask mandate last year. She’s now in private school and misses public school. But Steenman is keeping her out not because of masks, but because of lesson plans she says make students feel bad about their race.