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By David Williams, CNN Right handed pitcher Jacob Steinmetz has a fastball in the 90-94 mph range, a wicked curve ball and a deeply-held religious faith. The Arizona Diamondbacks selected the 17-year-old on Monday in the third round with the 77th pick and say he’s the first known Orthodox Jewish player to ever be drafted

By Sara Sidner and Eric Levenson, CNN This is Dennis Smith’s 25th fire season with CalFire, so the Fire Captain is fully aware of how much fighting fires has changed in that time. The temperatures are hotter. The fire seasons are several months longer. The blazes are bigger, and there are more of them. “We

By Miguel Marquez, Laura Dolan and Eric Levenson, CNN For Dr. Frank Courmier, the latest Covid-19 surge hitting his Louisiana hospital is different from the three preceding waves — the people now getting sick are younger. “We’re getting people in their third and fourth decades, otherwise healthy with no real preexisting conditions coming in, unvaccinated

By Neelam Bohra and Radhika Marya, CNN Members of the Women’s Army Corps’ all-Black 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion had to fight racial discrimination, gender discrimination and the war itself during World War II. After traveling overseas in 1945, the unit, nicknamed “Six Triple Eight,” survived encounters with Nazi U-boats and a German rocket explosion

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Police officers conduct themselves differently during traffic stops with Black and White drivers, even down to the subtlest of details, new research suggests. A study from the American Psychological Association published Monday finds that police officers exhibit less warmth and respect in their voices when talking to Black drivers than they

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Higher unemployment rates, lower household incomes and lack of access to health care left Black Americans more vulnerable to the Covid-19 pandemic and there is an urgency to address these structural inequities, according to a new report on the state of Black America released Thursday by the National Urban League.

By Travis Caldwell, Andy Rose and Amir Vera, CNN Calls made to 911 before NFL player Richard Sherman’s early Wednesday arrest in King County, Washington, detail his wife’s efforts to protect Sherman from himself and police — and protect herself from Sherman. The 911 tapes, obtained by CNN, detail the conversations between 911 operators and

By Jay Croft, CNN Northern California’s Butte County, the site of the state’s deadliest and most destructive inferno ever in 2018, is now battling another blaze. The Dixie Fire has led county officials to issue evacuation warnings for residents. It started Tuesday and has grown to about 2,200 acres with no containment, Cal Fire says.

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Latinos in the US were hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic on a number of fronts. They experienced higher rates of virus deaths and hospitalizations. They had more trouble making ends meet than other demographic groups due to pay cuts and job losses. They faced barriers to vaccine access. Still, Latino

By Jay Croft and Rebekah Riess, CNN Two men who were found dead in a hotel room at the former Gianni Versace mansion in Miami Beach apparently died by suicide, police said Thursday. Versace was killed outside his home exactly 24 years ago — on July 15, 1997. Miami Beach police went to The Villa

By Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN Bob Baffert, the Hall of Fame horse trainer suspended from participating in multiple events following a winning horse’s positive drug test, has been granted a reprieve in court. A federal judge in Brooklyn ruled Wednesday that the New York Racing Association (NYRA) cannot enforce its ban on Baffert while Baffert’s suit