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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN A Florida man and his grandson couldn’t believe their eyes when they reeled in more than just some scrap metal and bottle caps during a magnet fishing weekend trip. Duane Smith and his 11-year-old grandson, Allen Cadwalader, were out on a magnet fishing trip on January 30 in Homestead, a suburb

By Giselle Rhoden and Dalila Paul, CNN After 73 Confederate monuments were removed or renamed in 2021, there are now 723 left in the US, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The findings were announced Tuesday during the group’s news briefing on the release of the third edition of “Whose Heritage?” The report is

By Michelle Watson, CNN Prosecutors are suing an Illinois-based Covid-19 testing company over allegedly storing tests in garbage bags, operating without licensure in some locations and improperly collecting customers’ insurance information. Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed the lawsuit Monday against the Center for COVID Control (CCC), its testing lab and two of its

By Amanda Watts, CNN Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow Wednesday, meaning that if you believe in a groundhog’s ability to predict the weather — we’re in for six more weeks of winter. Phil and his friends at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, have been predicting the seasons since 1887, according to his website. Though Phil

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN It’s Groundhog Day, and according to tradition, we’ll get six more weeks of winter if furry Phil sees his shadow. Shadow or not, forecasts are showing a powerful storm brewing that threatens to bring a potentially crippling combination of snow and ice across much of the US. More than 90 million

By Chris Boyette and Aya Elamroussi, CNN An off-duty New York Police Department officer was shot Tuesday night during an attempted robbery after he got out of his car when two men tapped on its window with a gun, police officials said. Two suspects were arrested in connection to the shooting, NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell

By Travis Caldwell and Jenn Selva, CNN The man accused in the Tuesday shooting deaths of two police officers at Bridgewater College in Virginia was a former student-athlete, according to the school. Alexander Wyatt Campbell, 27, attended Bridgewater College from 2013-2017 and was member of the track and cross-country teams, Logan Bogert, a communications coordinator

Amanda Musa, CNN The University of Utah has suspended all social activities at fraternities and sororities after two reports of sexual assault that allegedly occurred at two different fraternity houses, according to a letter from the university. “All social activity at the University of Utah’s fraternity and sorority chapters has been suspended for two weeks,”

By Sara Smart, CNN After a Tennessee school board banned a graphic novel about the Holocaust from local middle schools, comic book store owners from near and far pledged to send students the book for free. The Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel “Maus” was banned on January 10 after a unanimous vote by the McMinn County,

By Elizabeth Joseph, CNN Native American tribes, who have “suffered some of the worst consequences of the opioid epidemic of any population in the United States,” have reached a settlement in principle with Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals and three drug distributors, attorneys representing the tribes said Tuesday. The settlement — which has been