Police chief retires after putting ‘KKK’ sign on Black officer’s desk
An Ohio police chief retires after video shows him putting a “Ku Klux Klan” sign on a Black officer’s desk. CNN’s Laura Jarrett reports.
Continue ReadingAn Ohio police chief retires after video shows him putting a “Ku Klux Klan” sign on a Black officer’s desk. CNN’s Laura Jarrett reports.
Continue ReadingBy Laura Jarrett, CNN An Ohio police chief has retired from his post after an apparent racist incident was caught on surveillance, CNN affiliates report. Sheffield Lake Police Chief Anthony Campo has now left the force after more than 30 years on the job following what appears to be a racist prank on a fellow
Continue ReadingPulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones tells Amanpour about the “collective grieving for the desecration of black lives” following the death of George Floyd.
Continue ReadingBy Leah Asmelash, CNN Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones declined the University of North Carolina’s offer of tenure and a teaching position with the school and has instead accepted a faculty role at Howard University. She made the announcement on “CBS This Morning” with Gayle King on Tuesday. Hannah-Jones will be joined by Ta-Nehisi Coates,
Continue ReadingBy Jason Hanna and Gregory Lemos, CNN Investigators believe golf pro Gene Siller — one of three men found fatally shot on an Atlanta-area golf course Saturday — was killed “because he witnessed an active crime taking place,” police said Tuesday. Police didn’t specify what that crime was, but have said that the two other
Continue ReadingBy Evan Simko-Bednarski, Taylor Romine, Jean Casarez and Hollie Silverman, CNN Newly released video obtained by CNN shows correctional officers allegedly abusing inmates at a soon-to-be shuttered women’s correctional facility in New Jersey. The edited footage shows correctional officers extracting inmates from their cells, physically restraining inmates, punching inmates, and deploying pepper spray into cells
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN Florida is battening down the hatches today as Tropical Storm Elsa approaches, bringing with it possibly deadly storm surge. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily.
Continue ReadingHurricane warnings have been issued for parts of the west coast of Florida as Elsa gains strength. CNN Meteorologist Tom Sater has the latest.
Continue ReadingMatthew McConaughey posted a message to America in celebration of Independence Day, likening issues the country is facing “as basically going through puberty.”
Continue ReadingBy Keith Allen and Hollie Silverman, CNN Law enforcement officers in Texas fatally shot a man during a standoff after he allegedly fired a weapon at his family members and the news media at the scene of a burned down house Monday. The man, who authorities have not yet named, was digging through debris from
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, Eric Levenson and Amanda Watts, CNN Search and rescue teams in Surfside, Florida, recovered four more bodies Tuesday, bringing the Champlain Towers South condo collapse death toll to 36, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said at an evening news conference. There are 109 “reports of people who are potentially unaccounted for,” she
Continue ReadingQuestions are being raised about the Bay Area Millennium Tower’s structural integrity amid the deadly collapse of the Champlain Towers South more than 3,000 miles away in Surfside, Florida. CNN’s Dan Simon reports.
Continue ReadingBy Dan Simon, Julia Jones and Ray Sanchez, CNN San Francisco’s lavish Millennium Tower, with soaring panoramic views and world-class amenities, opened to great fanfare in 2009. A dozen years later, it’s still promoted “Your city within the city,” a 58-story monolith with more than 400 multimillion-dollar units in San Francisco’s tallest residential building. “It
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Search and rescue crews have recovered another victim from the rubble of the collapsed Champlain Towers South building, bringing the death toll to 28, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said in a Monday evening news conference. That means 117 people are still unaccounted for, she said. Earlier
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City. Personal Birth date: May 28, 1944 Birth place: Brooklyn, New York Birth name: Rudolph William Louis Giuliani Father: Harold Giuliani, tavern owner Mother: Helen (D’Avanzo) Giuliani, secretary Marriages: Judith Nathan (May 24, 2003-2019, divorced); Donna Hanover
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth and a former US senator. Personal Birth date: July 18, 1921 Death date: December 8, 2016 Birth place: Cambridge, Ohio Birth name: John Herschel Glenn Jr. Father: John Glenn Sr., a plumber Mother: Clara (Sproat)
Continue ReadingBy Emma Tucker, Omar Jimenez and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN At least 233 people were killed and 618 people were injured by gun violence in more than 500 shootings across the country during the Fourth of July weekend, a 26% drop from last year’s holiday weekend, according to the latest data compiled by the Gun Violence
Continue ReadingBy Ralph Ellis, Pamela Kirkland, Gregory Lemos and David Close, CNN Gene Siller, the Georgia country club golf pro shot to death on the course where he worked, always tried to help people, friends said Monday. “Gene was a man of compassion. He loved everybody,” said Rand Eberhard, a pastor who lives in a neighborhood
Continue ReadingBy Ralph Ellis, Alaa Elassar and Claudia Dominguez, CNN Police are trying to find out who killed three men — including golf pro Gene Siller — whose bodies were found on the grounds of an Atlanta-area country club. Cobb County police responded to a report of a person shot around 2:20 p.m. Saturday and found
Continue ReadingPolice are trying to find out who killed three men — including golf pro Gene Siller — whose bodies were found on the grounds of an Atlanta-area country club. CNN’s Ryan Young reports.
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