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By Eric Levenson, Carma Hassan and Brad Parks, CNN Kyle Rittenhouse provoked the fatal shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year by pointing his AR-15-style weapon at Joseph Rosenbaum, prosecutors said Monday in closing arguments of his homicide trial. “That is what provokes this entire incident,” prosecutor Thomas Binger said. “When the defendant provokes this incident,

By Travis Caldwell and Joe Sutton, CNN With hospitals throughout Colorado facing increases in Covid-19 hospitalizations, state officials announced that attendees of large public indoor events in certain jurisdictions must be vaccinated in order to help curb the virus’ spread. Gatherings of more than 500 people in parts of metro Denver will require attendees to

By Elizabeth Joseph and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Police in Savage, Minnesota, are investigating a racist video shared widely on social media where a young girl is seen spewing hateful, racist slurs toward a Black high school student, encouraging her to take her own life. Nya Sigin, a Black student at Prior Lake High School, told

By Amir Vera, CNN The 9-year-old boy who was injured at the Astroworld Festival died Sunday, according to family attorney Ben Crump. The death toll from the chaotic concert now stands at 10. Funeral services for some of the victims began over the weekend as dozens of lawsuits have been filed over the tragedy. The

By Laura Studley and Amanda Watts, CNN A victim in a Michigan plane crash died while saving his eldest daughter’s life, a family friend and business partner said. Mike Perdue, one of four people who died in a light-commuter plane crash near Beaver Island Saturday, shielded his daughter during it, Ryan Wojan told CNN. “He

By Susannah Cullinane, CNN Federal agents conducting a marine operation in Florida unexpectedly found themselves involved in an air rescue, when they spotted a pilot climbing out of his sinking aircraft. The plane went in the water off Cedar Key, about a hundred miles north of Tampa along Florida’s Gulf Coast Tuesday. Photos provided by

By Theresa Waldrop, CNN A hog named Papa Pig kept York County, South Carolina, deputies busy one night last week. The sheriff’s office tweeted that two lanes of a road in the county were closed because of “a large pig blocking the road & causing onlooker delays” Thursday evening. Deputies stayed with the pig to

By David Williams, CNN Jerry and Mal Deener had always wondered what their dad Harry did in the Army during World War II. The New Jersey brothers, now in their 70s, knew he drove a Jeep in Europe and was badly wounded in combat, but that’s about it. “We knew very little because he wouldn’t

By Claudia Dominguez, Joe Sutton and Susannah Cullinane, CNN All five inmates who escaped from a south Georgia jail last week have been taken back into custody, authorities said. The last escapee on the run was captured by a US Marshals Service task force and police in Warner Robins, the latter agency said in a

By Leah Asmelash, CNN Hanif Abdurraqib only ever wanted to publish one book, a book of poems. That was it. Now, the poet (and writer, sneakerhead, failed musician and average baker) has written five books in just as many years. His latest, “A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance,” was published