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By Stella Chan and Joe Sutton, CNN At least 18 people broke into a high-end department store in Los Angeles and stole thousands of dollars in merchandise Monday night, the city’s police chief said, in one of the country’s latest store burglaries involving sizable groups of thieves. The group used a sledgehammer and an electric

By Eliott C. McLaughlin and Devon M. Sayers, CNN The prosecutor in the trial of three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery sought Tuesday to simplify the events that led to the 25-year-old’s death, taking the podium the day after defense teams spent closing arguments trying to criminalize Arbery, alleging he brought his death on

By Kelly McCleary and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Days after a gunshot set off a panic inside Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, police are still looking for the man they say brought the weapon through a security checkpoint and then managed to slip away in the ensuing chaos, firearm in hand. Kenny Wells, 42, is wanted on

By Kelly McCleary and Joe Sutton, CNN Stewart “Stu” Rasmussen, America’s first openly transgender mayor, has died, according to the current mayor of Silverton, Oregon, Kyle Palmer. Rasmussen died Wednesday “after a number of weeks under home hospice care for metastatic prostate cancer,” Palmer said in a Facebook post. “His longtime love Victoria (Sage) noted

By Joe Sutton, CNN A daughter of slain Black civil rights activist Malcolm X, Malikah Shabazz, died Monday, the New York Police Department told CNN. Shabazz, 56, was found unconscious by her daughter at her home in Brooklyn, according to the NYPD. Police said the death appeared to be due to natural causes. The “cause

By Kay Jones, Claudia Dominguez, Holly Yan, Travis Caldwell and Amir Vera, CNN A child has died after a man allegedly rammed his SUV through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, bringing the death toll to six, according to prosecutors Tuesday. The child was one of 16 children admitted to the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin,

By Claudia Dominguez, Keith Allen and Kay Jones, CNN An Atlanta-area man accused of stabbing a police officer during an attempted burglary last week has also been charged with murder in connection with the deaths of a firefighter and his wife, officials say. Matthew Scott Lanz, 22, was arrested Friday in Sandy Springs, Georgia, after

By Mark Morales and Steve Almasy, CNN A jury has awarded more than $26 million in damages after finding the White nationalists who organized and participated in a violent 2017 rally here liable on a state conspiracy claim and other claims. But the jury in the federal civil trial said Tuesday it could not reach

By Jenn Selva, CNN Elijah Lewis, a 5-year-old found dead in a Massachusetts state park after being missing for more than a month, died by homicide, officials said Monday. An autopsy found the boy’s cause of death “was determined to be violence and neglect, including facial and scalp injuries, acute fentanyl intoxication, malnourishment and pressure

By Theresa Waldrop, CNN A sentence uttered by a defense attorney in the trial of those accused in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery brought an audible gasp from people in the courtroom Monday — and elicited outrage from his family and legal experts. The defense attorneys for Gregory and Travis McMichael, who on Wednesday were