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By Jason Hanna, CNN After deliberating for a little more than two and a half hours, the jury in the federal hate crimes trial of the three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery was excused for the day Monday. Deliberation will resume at 9 a.m. Tuesday on whether the men committed the crime because of

By Christina Maxouris, CNN The federal hate crimes trial for the three White men convicted of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, featured testimony from more than 20 witnesses — several of whom spoke about racist messages used by the defendants. A former Coast Guard colleague told jurors Travis McMichael, who shot

By Laura Studley, CNN One man died and another was injured after they were struck by subway trains in different areas of New York City within hours of each other Saturday night, the New York Police Department (NYPD) said. In the first incident, a 35-year-old male was walking between train cars on the southbound J

By Claudia Dominguez, Tina Burnside and Emma Tucker, CNN An elementary school student in South Carolina brought a loaded handgun to his school because he wanted to “shoot zombies,” Detective J.C. Brewington from the Laurens Police Department said in a news conference on Friday. A staff member of the elementary school in Laurens found a

By Emma Tucker and Pooja Agrawal, CNN At least six people have been stabbed or slashed on the New York City subway since the unveiling of a new transit safety plan on Friday, the New York City Police Department said. Officials have vowed to combat crime and address homelessness in the city’s transit system as

By Tina Burnside and Taliah Miller, CNN A Florida woman has been charged with first-degree murder after police say she allegedly stabbed her husband more than 140 times. Joan Burke, 61, who is being held without bond, appeared before a Palm Beach County judge on Sunday via video conference, according to court documents obtained by

By Pooja Salhotra and Theresa Waldrop, CNN A 21-year-old female student at SUNY Potsdam was shot and killed near the upstate New York campus Friday night, state police and university officials said. The victim, identified as Elizabeth Howell, was found on College Park Road, state police said in a news release. She was pronounced dead

By Christina Maxouris, CNN Tasha Nelson’s 10-year-old son held back tears when he heard the news. The two were in the car when the announcement came through the radio: Virginia’s freshly sworn-in governor had signed an order attempting to ban mask mandates in schools. “My son looked up at me and he had tears in

By Laura Studley and Emma Tucker, CNN Three young brothers died in Michigan after the car they were in struck a curb and rolled into an iced-over retention pond in Holland, Ottawa County Sheriff’s Lt. Eric Westveer said. The mother of the three boys swerved her Chevy Tahoe into oncoming traffic on Thursday around 11a.m.,

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The world’s shortest international commercial flight is only eight minutes from takeoff to landing. Can you guess where? Hint: It’s tropical! Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart. The weekend that was • Ukraine says it recorded more than 100 truce violations in the east after

By Sara Sidner and Pamela Kirkland, CNN Photographs by Michelle Gustafson for CNN Two chance encounters at the same West Philadelphia street corner show the remarkable arc of Larry Miller’s life. The first, as a drunk and angry 16-year-old, ended with him murdering another teen. The second, 56 years later as a lauded business executive,