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By Nicole Chavez and Laura Studley, CNN A panel in California considering reparations for Black Americans released its first report Wednesday detailing the “innumerable” harms of slavery in the state that “have snowballed over generations.” In a 500-page interim report, the California Reparations Task Force detailed California’s involvement in slavery and how it continues to

By Tina Burnside and Kate Conerly, CNN A man searching a Florida lake for Frisbees may have died as a result of a possible alligator attack, according to a news release from Largo Police Department. The victim, who authorities have identified as 47-year-old Sean McGuinness, was discovered along the shoreline of Taylor Lake in Largo,

By Tina Burnside and Melissa Alonso, CNN Severe weather is being blamed for a parasailing accident that claimed the life of an Illinois woman and injured two children in the Florida Keys on Memorial Day, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). The incident occurred on Monday near Pigeon Key in Monroe

By Amir Vera and Amanda Watts, CNN Baltimore has sued the nation’s largest maker of so-called “ghost guns” that are easy to assemble, untraceable and increasingly used in violent crime across the country. The city accuses Polymer80 of causing a “public health crisis,” according to a news release Wednesday. Officials also said the company “intentionally

By Natasha Chen and Dakin Andone, CNN Since 22-year-old soccer player Katie Meyer died by suicide in her Stanford University dorm room on March 1, her parents have experienced grief in tidal waves. Steve Meyer said he and his wife, Gina, cry every day, and they don’t know when the tears will come. It could

By Leah Asmelash, CNN The stereotype that Black people don’t swim is one oft repeated, but for Nathan Fluellen, it wasn’t one that was true. Fluellen grew up in a Black middle class neighborhood in Chicago, where everyone knew how to swim, he told CNN. What he never saw, though, was Black people surfing. “I

By Paradise Afshar and Melissa Alonso, CNN The families of two Utah teenagers have filed a lawsuit challenging a state law that bans transgender women and girls from participating in school sports. The suit asks the court to declare the ban unconstitutional and block its enforcement. It was filed Tuesday in the Third Judicial District

By Aaron Cooper, Shimon Prokupecz and Eric Levenson, CNN Pedro “Pete” Arredondo, the embattled Uvalde school police chief who led the flawed law enforcement response to last week’s school shooting and has remained out of the public eye since, spoke exclusively to CNN on Wednesday and declined to answer substantive questions about the massacre. According

By Paradise Afshar, CNN A 9-year-old girl is recovering at a hospital in Washington state after being attacked by a cougar while playing hide-and-seek outdoors with her friends, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. Lily Kryzhanivskyy was attacked Saturday as she jumped out to surprise her friends, the department said in a

By Devon M. Sayers, CNN One of America’s most prolific slave trading ports is to open as a museum after more than two decades of planning in Charleston, South Carolina. The International African American Museum will open the weekend of January 21, 2023, the museum announced Wednesday. The 150,000-square-foot facility will be at the former

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN On this day 42 years ago, CNN made its debut as the first 24-hour news channel. So much has changed over four decades, but one thing remains largely as it was on June 1, 1980 — those three, unmistakable red and white letters. If you’d like to experience a wave of

By Paradise Afshar and Kaylene Chassie, CNN An Ohio woman was gored by a bison after she got within 10 feet of the animal in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, officials said. The 25-year-old woman, whose name has not been released, suffered puncture wound and other injuries Monday after she approached a bison near a

By Taylor Romine, CNN One person was killed and another injured after two hikers were swept out to sea on the Lost Coast Trail near Shelter Cove, California, on Sunday, according to officials. Authorities received a call about two people in the water at around 2:45 p.m., according to the Shelter Cove Fire Department. One

By Aya Elamroussi and Andy Rose, CNN Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murder in George Floyd’s killing, is named in two new civil lawsuits alleging excessive use of force during separate encounters in 2017. The plaintiffs, Zoya Code and John Pope, both Black, say in their lawsuits that Chauvin restrained them