By Steve Almasy, Raja Razek and Brad Parks, CNN Illinois prosecutors will not file charges against the Chicago police officers who fatally shot Adam Toledo and Anthony Alvarez on separate occasions in 2021, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx announced during a Tuesday news conference. The case files were also sent to the Illinois State’s
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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN What hit Hong Lee so hard about the killing of Christina Yuna Lee was how easily it could have been her. Late one night in February, Christina took a car back to her New York Chinatown apartment, where a man followed her up six flights of stairs and forced himself into
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Future allergy seasons will start more than a month earlier and be far more intense because of the climate crisis, new research shows. The study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, found by the end of the century, pollen season could begin as much as 40 days earlier than it
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By Jamiel Lynch, CNN A North Carolina school board voted unanimously Monday to approve an action plan after reported racial bullying in the district, including a student-organized mock auction of Black students. A group of parents and community members had called on the Chatham County School District to make changes after several reported racial bullying
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Hank Paulson, former US Treasury secretary and CEO of Goldman Sachs. Personal Birth date: March 28, 1946 Birth place: Palm Beach, Florida Birth name: Henry Merritt Paulson Jr. Father: Henry Merritt Paulson, wholesale jeweler Mother: Marianna (Gallauer) Paulson Marriage: Wendy Judge (September 1969-present) Children:
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By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just “make more rain” to combat the drought? Well, some parts of the US are doing exactly that. Scientists are flying planes into clouds and injecting them with silver iodide to make more rain and snow. Some call the process necessary, but others say
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just “make more rain” to combat the drought? Well, some parts of the US are doing exactly that. Scientists are flying planes into clouds and injecting them with silver iodide to make more rain and snow. Some call the process necessary, but others say
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just “make more rain” to combat the drought? Well, some parts of the US are doing exactly that. Scientists are flying planes into clouds and injecting them with silver iodide to make more rain and snow. Some call the process necessary, but others say
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By Geneva Sands, CNN A group of 122 migrants arrived in the US by boat Monday, landing about 20 miles north of Key West, Florida, officials said. The migrants’ arrival was a “maritime smuggling event,” according to US Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar. There is a “coordinated response with our state, federal
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By Amir Vera, Holly Yan and Christina Maxouris, CNN The man arrested in connection with five separate shootings of homeless men in New York City and Washington, DC, was identified by DC authorities as Gerald Brevard. Brevard, 30, from DC, has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon (gun), assault with intent to kill
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By Liam Reilly, CNN A New York woman was punched more than 125 times in the head and face and stomped on seven times by a man who had allegedly called her an “Asian b*tch,” the Yonkers Police Department said in a news release Monday. The victim, a 67-year-old Asian woman, was returning home Friday
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By Joe Sutton, CNN Former wrestler and World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Famer Scott Hall, who reached stardom as “Razor Ramon” during the heyday of his career in the 1990s, has died, according to the WWE. “WWE is saddened to learn that two-time WWE Hall of Famer Scott Hall has passed away. WWE extends its
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By Amy Simonson, CNN Four Houston Police Department officers who were indefinitely suspended in September 2020 in the deadly shooting of Nicolas Chavez will be reinstated, according to the department’s police chief. One sergeant and three officers had appealed the suspension that followed the shooting of an apparently emotionally disturbed man who was on the
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By Theresa Waldrop, Amanda Watts and Amanda Musa, CNN Workers on Monday removed what is thought to be the last public Confederate statue in Maryland other than those on battlefields or in cemeteries. The 13-foot tall copper statue of a boy holding a Confederate flag stood on the lawn of the Talbot County courthouse in
Continue Reading By Amir Vera, Holly Yan and Christina Maxouris, CNN The man arrested in connection with five separate shootings of homeless men in New York City and Washington, DC, was identified by DC authorities as Gerald Brevard. Brevard, 30, from DC, has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon (gun), assault with intent to kill
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of comedian Billy Crystal. Personal Birth date: March 14, 1947 Birth place: Long Beach, New York Birth name: William Edward Crystal Father: Jack, concert promoter and record store manager Mother: Helen (Gabler) Crystal Marriage: Janice (Goldfinger) Crystal (1970-present) Children: Jennifer and Lindsay Education: New York University,
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By Mark Morales, CNN A controversial unit within the New York Police Department that was revived to battle rising gun violence in the city is finally hitting the streets on Monday, promising significant training, and even new uniforms, to prevent aggressive and abusive policing tactics that had plagued its predecessor. The so-called Neighborhood Safety Teams,
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Let’s face it… the chances of you traveling to space are slim. But thanks to NASA, maybe your name can go. The agency is currently collecting a list of names to be put on a flash drive that will be sent on the Orion spacecraft launch later this year. Why not
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Let’s face it… the chances of you traveling to space are slim. But thanks to NASA, maybe your name can go. The agency is currently collecting a list of names to be put on a flash drive that will be sent on the Orion spacecraft launch later this year. Why not
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Let’s face it… the chances of you traveling to space are slim. But thanks to NASA, maybe your name can go. The agency is currently collecting a list of names to be put on a flash drive that will be sent on the Orion spacecraft launch later this year. Why not
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