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Body camera video shows a Columbus, Ohio, police officer fatally shooting an unarmed 20-year-old Black man in bed

By Amanda Musa, Dakin Andone and Michelle Watson, CNN Police in Columbus, Ohio, have released body camera video that shows a police officer serving a felony warrant fatally shooting an unarmed Black man in bed. Donovan Lewis, 20, died Tuesday after being shot by Police Officer Ricky Anderson, a 30-year veteran with the Columbus Division

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Jackson, Mississippi, residents told to shower with mouths closed as water treatment plant repairs continue on Day 4 of water shortage

By Nouran Salahieh, Jason Hanna and Amir Vera, CNN As Mississippi’s capital city entered a fourth day on Thursday with little or no water flowing from faucets, authorities were scrambling to get a failing water treatment plant plagued by decades of deferred maintenance back online. The problem — which comes on top of a boil-water

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A Louisville corrections officer is terminated after mocking the city police department’s 2020 killing of Breonna Taylor

By Nicki Brown, CNN A Louisville, Kentucky, corrections officer has been terminated after “disparaging” the Louisville Metro Police Department and referencing the death of Breonna Taylor in a video, the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections said in a statement. The officer, Turhan Knight, was terminated August 25 after the department’s director, Jerry Collins, viewed the

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University of North Dakota to return more than 250 boxes of Native American remains and artifacts, school president says

By Andy Rose, CNN The University of North Dakota is working to repatriate human remains and sacred artifacts taken from Indigenous communities, UND President Andrew Armacost said Wednesday at a news conference. More than 250 boxes of items were discovered in March, but university officials have not publicized the find until now at the request

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This California school district punished Black students more severely, feds say. Now they have agreed to make changes.

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN A California school district is vowing to reform its discipline practices after a federal investigation revealed it was giving harsher punishment to Black students compared to White students who displayed similar behavior. Officials from the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights say the Victor Valley Union High School District

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Atlanta-area prosecutor cites rap lyrics as evidence, which hip-hop has long decried as a double standard

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Atlanta-area District Attorney Fani Willis is unabashed in using rap lyrics to help prosecute her cases, repeatedly defending the practice in recent months. It’s a tactic hip-hop artists have decried as a racist double standard for years. In May, following the arrests of Atlanta’s Young Thug and Gunna, a 56-count

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Jackson, Mississippi, mayor says he hopes water service can be restored this week, as residents endure lines for bottles

By Amir Vera, Jason Hanna and Nouran Salahieh, CNN As Mississippi’s capital faces a third day without reliable water service Wednesday — pushing some residents to stand in long lines for bottled water and keeping schools and businesses closed — the mayor says he hopes water service can be restored this week. The problem came

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Skeletal remains of child dubbed ‘Baby Girl’ by investigators have been identified as a missing Indiana girl. But her death is still a mystery

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Amanda Musa, CNN For decades, investigators in Tennessee affectionately referred to an unidentified girl whose remains were found in 1985 as “Baby Girl” while they worked to find her true identity, according to state authorities. But now, 37 years after her remains were discovered, they are able to call her by

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Jackson, Mississippi, mayor says he hopes water service can be restored this week, as residents endure lines for bottles

By Amir Vera, Jason Hanna and Nouran Salahieh, CNN As Mississippi’s capital faces a third day without reliable water service Wednesday — pushing some residents to stand in long lines for bottled water and keeping schools and businesses closed — the mayor says he hopes water service can be restored this week. The problem came

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Suspect arrested in Indianapolis shooting that killed 1 Dutch soldier and injured 2 others, police say

By Andi Babineau and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A man has been arrested in connection with the shooting of three Dutch soldiers outside an Indianapolis hotel Saturday that left one soldier dead and two others wounded, police said. Shamar Duncan, 22, was taken into custody by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Tuesday afternoon, the department said

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