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By Cheri Mossburg, CNN A shoe store owner aiming at would-be shoplifters opened fire in a California mall but struck a 9-year-old girl waiting in line to see the Easter Bunny, police said. The child was flown to Loma Linda Medical Center after the April 12 shooting in the Mall of Victor Valley and had

By Theresa Waldrop and Melissa Alonso, CNN After a harrowing 36 hours or so for staff at the Memphis Zoo, Honeybunch, a wallaby that went missing in a severe storm, is back with his fellow marsupials. Two-year-old Honeybunch was one of 23 marsupials — including 19 kangaroos — that were being evacuated from their enclosure

By Melissa Alonso and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Atlanta Police Chief Rodney Bryant will retire in June, just two years after the previous chief resigned in the aftermath of a fatal police shooting in the city. Bryant became interim chief in June 2020, when then-chief Erika Shields resigned a day after an Atlanta Police Department officer

AJ Willingham, graphics by Leah Abucayan The world has a lot of problems. Big problems, with big consequences that require big solutions. In the midst of all this “bigness,” the average person can end up feeling too small to offer anything of value. They can forget that, sometimes, the path to somewhere better starts small.

By Nicole Chavez, CNN Native American people in Maine have been excluded from protections guaranteed by federal law for more than 40 years but lawmakers could help change it. As the state Legislature’s second session reaches its final days, a proposed legislation to restore sovereignty to Maine’s tribes is being considered. Earlier this week, dozens

By Brynn Gingras, Mark Morales, Shimon Prokupecz, Laura Ly, Kristina Sgueglia, Sonia Moghe and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Five people will share a combined $50,000 reward for providing “critical information” that helped lead to the arrest of the Brooklyn subway shooting suspect, the NYPD announced Friday. The man authorities say was the shooter, Frank James, 62,

By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN A WWII-era naval destroyer, an exhibit at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park, is partially sinking into Lake Erie, according to the facility. A statement from the park says, “a serious hull breach” occurred Wednesday in the USS The Sullivans. Paul Marzello, the naval park’s president and CEO,

By Steve Almasy and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN Democratic donor Ed Buck, who in 2021 was convicted by a federal jury of nine felonies, including giving methamphetamine to two men who died at his West Hollywood apartment after being injected with the drug, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison, a spokesperson for the United

By Rebekah Riess and Ray Sanchez, CNN Missouri’s attorney general has refiled involuntary manslaughter charges against three tour boat employees involved in the 2018 duck boat sinking near Branson, Missouri, that left 17 people dead, court documents show. The move came two days after Circuit Court Judge Alan Blankenship dismissed all criminal charges, ruling that