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By Chuck Johnston, CNN Three people are dead and two others injured after a drag racing and drifting incident with nearly 100 active participants and spectators took over a southwest Chicago intersection, police said. Chicago Police Commander Don Jerome said police received a call about approximately 100 cars that had gained control of an intersection

By Raja Razek, CNN A skydiver has died after he landed on a football field prior to the start of a high school game in what Tennessee officials called a “tragic incident,” the Washington County Department of Education said in a statement. The male skydiver, whose identity has not been released, was injured on Friday

By Chuck Johnston and Zoe Sottile, CNN A Washington woman received “non-life-threatening injuries” after a black bear charged her while she was walking her dog on Saturday, police say. Fish and wildlife officials received a report about the incident at around 7 a.m. on Saturday, according to a news release from the Washington Department of

By Samantha Beech, Brian Vitagliano and Isa Kaufman Geballe, CNN Far-right talk show host Alex Jones is seeking a new trial after a Connecticut jury decided this month he should pay $965 million in compensatory damages to eight families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims and one first responder. After the 2012 massacre in

By Andrew Torgan, CNN The 2022 midterm elections are now just weeks away, and with control of both chambers of Congress and dozens of governorships, secretaries of state and attorneys general posts on the line, it’s important to know both how and when to vote in your state. To help you plan your vote, CNN

By AJ Willingham, CNN Life can change forever in the space between two heartbeats. It’s a fact Pati Navalta knows all too well. In 2014, her 23-year-old son Robby Poblete was looking forward to a new career, training to be a welder and planning his future in their hometown of Vallejo, California. Then a sudden

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Luke, the patriarch of the Smithsonian National Zoo’s pride of African lions, has died at age 17. The big cat was euthanized October 19, according to a news release from the zoo. He had experienced health problems for several years. “Luke was truly the ‘king’ of the Great Cats exhibit,” said

By Sonya Hamasaki, CNN Two employees were killed Saturday morning in a shooting at a Dallas hospital, the local health system said. Authorities responded to the Methodist Dallas Medical Center at roughly 11 a.m. local time on Saturday, according to a statement from the Methodist Health System. “The preliminary investigation determined a suspect shot and

By Emma Tucker and Mark Morales, CNN New York state and city officials are bolstering their efforts to combat crime and mental illness in New York City’s subway system with an increased police presence and new training for officers on engaging with homeless individuals. Gov. Kathy Hochul spoke at a news conference Saturday about the

By Melissa Alonso and Zoe Sottile, CNN A person walking their dog in rural Idaho was in for quite a surprise when they encountered an alligator, hundreds of miles from the coast where the reptiles are usually found. Fish and Game Officer Brian Marek received a call Thursday evening from a person who was walking

By Jason Hanna and Tina Burnside, CNN Two people have been arrested in connection with a shooting that injured 11 people early Friday at a fraternity house party near Louisiana’s Southern University, part of an investigation that is “very fluid,” police said. The shooting, coming as the university marked homecoming week, happened shortly before 2

By Eric Levenson and Dianne Gallagher, CNN In May 2020, Mississippi’s state auditor announced that the Department of Human Services had wasted tens of millions of dollars in federal money meant to be used to help needy families. Since then, the investigation into those misspent funds has expanded to include state officials, bureaucrats and celebrity

By Zoe Sottile, CNN In addition to a state dog (the Boston terrier) and a state bird (the chickadee), Massachusetts now has an official state dinosaur: the swift-footed lizard of Holyoke. On Wednesday, Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker, surrounded by a group of paleontologists and lawmakers, celebrated the law naming the swift-footed lizard, also known as

By Raja Razek and Sara Smart, CNN A single-engine airplane crashed into a home Friday evening near an airport in New Hampshire, killing both people on board, officials said. Although parts of the multifamily home where eight people lived erupted in flames following the crash, no fatalities were reported on the ground. “There were no

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Rusty, the red panda who made headlines in 2013 following his successful escape from the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, DC, has died. Rusty escaped his enclosure at the National Zoo in June of 2013, as CNN reported at the time. City residents spotted the small panda wandering through DC’s trendy

By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman, Rachel Clarke and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN Sgt. Juan Maldonado, a Texas state trooper who was among the first to respond to the Uvalde mass school shooting in May, has been fired from the state Department of Public Safety, spokesperson Ericka Miller told CNN on Friday. The public safety department

By Amanda Musa and Tina Burnside, CNN Authorities in western Michigan are searching for a family of four that “unexpectedly left their home” in Fremont on Sunday after a call to the police from the father that raised concern about the family’s welfare. Anthony Cirigliano, 51, and Suzette Cirigliano, 51, are missing, along with their