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By Maria Cartaya and Dakin Andone, CNN A Florida jury acquitted retired Florida police captain Curtis Reeves in the shooting death of a man in a movie theater eight years ago. Reeves was accused of second-degree murder and aggravated battery in the 2014 killing of 43-year-old Chad Oulson, who was on a movie date with

By Sonia Moghe, CNN A man who posted videos threatening to kill Sen. Joe Manchin and Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham and Greg Gutfeld was convicted Thursday of threatening a federal official and making interstate threats. The man, Rickey Johnson, was convicted by a jury after a weeklong trial in Manhattan federal court, according to

By Laura Ly, Holly Yan and Amir Vera, CNN The parents of Michigan school shooting suspect Ethan Crumbley will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter, a judge ruled Thursday. “After hearing extensive testimony, as well as evidence, and reviewing and viewing extensive exhibits, the court finds that the deaths of the four victims could have been

By Ryan Bergeron, CNN Amid the harrowing accounts of tragedy in Ukraine, CNN’s audience has contributed more than $8 million to the humanitarian relief work, according to Public Good, the online donation platform partnering with CNN. The help is desperately needed and greatly appreciated as aid groups scramble to care for millions of displaced Ukrainians.

By Amy Simonson, CNN After hundreds of Catholic baptisms performed in Michigan between 1986 and 1999 were deemed invalid because of the language used during the ritual, the Archdiocese of Detroit is still trying to remedy the situation. The case mirrors a recent predicament for the Catholic Church in Arizona, where it was discovered that

By Jennifer Henderson, CNN A desperate note sent from a mother with her child to her elementary school has led police in the Las Vegas area to a toddler’s remains. The note sent Tuesday morning with the child was a cry for help, with her mother writing that she was being held captive by her

By Julia Jones and Christina Maxouris, CNN Former Minneapolis police officers Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane were found guilty of violating George Floyd’s civil rights by a federal jury in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Thursday. The 12 jurors — four men and eight women — found Lane, Kueng and Thao guilty of

By Amir Vera and Ashley Killough, CNN In a stunning legal opinion released publicly this week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton declared gender-affirming surgical procedures in children and prescribing drugs that affect puberty to be considered “child abuse,” a claim seen by many as an attack on transgender children. “There is no doubt that these

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN Amid a nationwide rise in homicides, a new study has found that “stand your ground” laws — which allow people to respond to threats with potentially lethal force without fear of criminal prosecution — are linked to increased homicide rates, amounting to hundreds of additional deaths per year. States saw an