CNN – National

By Mallika Kallingal, CNN As the Omicron variant sweeps the country — pressing many hospitals into crisis mode — data from New York is offering a glimmer of hope. The state is “turning the corner on the winter surge,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday. After a peak positivity rate of 23% on January 3, it’s

By Mallika Kallingal, Melissa Alonso and Laura Ly, CNN Firefighters battled a massive, 11-alarm fire Friday night at a chlorine manufacturing plant in New Jersey that could be seen from miles away and led to warnings about air quality in the region. One firefighter was injured by debris and taken to a hospital, Passaic Fire

By Andy Rose, CNN The Portland Police Bureau is conducting an internal investigation into a training presentation for dealing with mass protests that included a meme describing violence against protesters that begins, “And the Lord said… Woe be unto you, dirty hippy.” “I am disgusted that this offensive content was added to a training presentation

By Caroll Alvarado, CNN Dramatic video released Thursday by the New Jersey Office of Attorney General shows the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man when police officers tried to stop him as he was driving a construction backhoe into cars and homes in the city of Vineland last month. On December 18 at about 5

By Mallika Kallingal and Brian Vitagliano, CNN Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell will be sentenced in June after being found guilty last month on five federal charges. Judge Alison Nathan set a tentative date of June 28. Maxwell, 60, was found guilty of sex trafficking of a minor, transporting a minor with the intent to

By Omar Jimenez and Emma Tucker, CNN A new report from the Chicago Inspector General found the city government failed to respond appropriately to the victim of a wrongful police raid, was not transparent in its operations, and “prioritized communications and public relations concerns over the higher mission of City government.” In February 2019, Chicago

By Sara Smart and Paradise Afshar, CNN A Tennessee woman who was wrongfully convicted of murdering her great-niece and spent 27 years in prison, was exonerated this week. On June 26, 1987, Joyce Watkins, now 74, and her boyfriend at the time, Charlie Dunn, went to pick up Watkins four-year-old great-niece, Brandi, in Kentucky, according

By Jason Hanna, CNN Labor shortages could mean North Carolina road crews won’t be able to clear roads of snow and ice as fast as usual if a winter storm hits the state this weekend, the governor’s office said. The storm is expected to drop a mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain across parts

By Dakin Andone, CNN Authorities in Fresno County, California, have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering his missing girlfriend, whose body has still not been found more than a month after she was last seen. Ramon Jimenez, 41, is being held in the Fresno County Jail on charges of murder and domestic violence after

By Amanda Watts and Jennifer Henderson, CNN As a massive winter storm takes aim starting Friday at much of the eastern US, officials from the Southeast to New England are preparing for what could be crippling ice and heavy snow. More than 50 million people from the Midwest eastward are under winter weather alerts as

By Carma Hassan, CNN A judge has determined that Darrell Brooks, the man accused of careening his SUV into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on November 21, 2021, killing six people and injuring more than 60 others, should face trial at a preliminary hearing Friday. There is “ample evidence on all fronts” that the

By Paul P. Murphy, CNN Two Oklahoma death row inmates are set to be executed by lethal injection in the coming weeks after a federal court denied their request for a preliminary injunction to stop a lethal injection execution and be executed by firing squad. In a ruling filed Friday morning, Judge Stephen Friot wrote

By Melissa Alonso, CNN Choomba, “one of the founding members of the gorilla population at Zoo Atlanta,” was euthanized Thursday at 59, the zoo announced on its website. Veterinary staff “had been monitoring Choomba closely in recent days following a marked decline in her physical condition due to advanced arthritis and other age-related complications,” said