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By Kiely Westhoff, Mark Morales, Laura Ly, Eric Levenson and Amir Vera, CNN The suspect in the fatal shooting on a New York City subway over the weekend is in custody, according to a tweet from the New York Police Department. Andrew Abdullah is being charged with murder in the second degree and criminal possession

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN As Roe v. Wade looks likely to be overturned, tribal lands have come up in conversations on social media and elsewhere as potential safe havens for those seeking abortions. In Oklahoma, which has enacted some of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws, Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt recently warned Indigenous tribes against

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN For Tito Anchondo, the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, reopens wounds that never completely healed. Anchondo lost his brother and sister-in-law to the 2019 mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. The Latino couple was victimized by the same racist-fueled gun violence that left 10 people

By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Marty Odlin just wanted to go fishing. As a kid growing up on the Gulf of Maine, he’d jump from boat to boat on Portland docks humming with the kind of energy that once hauled hundreds of thousands of pounds of cod into port each day. “People were

By Zoe Sottile, CNN New York’s highest court is set to determine whether Happy, a 47-year-old Asian elephant living at the Bronx Zoo, is being unlawfully imprisoned. Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), a nonprofit civil rights organization advocating for the legal personhood of great apes, elephants, dolphins and whales, filed its first petition against the zoo

By Alaa Elassar, CNN Early Voting won the 147th Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. The horse, with odds of 5-1, put on a strong finish, passing runner ups Epicenter and Creative Minister down the stretch. The victory at the Preakness Stakes is the first for jockey José Ortiz. “It is

By Emmy Abbassi, CNN A rare copy of Detective Comics #27 — the issue that introduced the world to Batman in 1939 — is set to fetch more than $1 million at auction this weekend and could flirt with a record for that edition. The copy, up for auction for more than two weeks at

By Ray Sanchez, CNN Mac Jaehnert said he put 1,000 miles on his car in the last week looking for a specialty nutritional formula for daughter MacKenzie and other premature babies in his southeastern Washington state community. “It’s been a frustrating, heartbreaking, unnecessary challenge for a kid who has already overcome so much,” Jaehnert told

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A Texas mother learned an important lesson about leaving her phone unlocked after her 2-year-old son accidentally ordered 31 McDonald’s cheeseburgers from DoorDash. On Monday, Kelsey Golden, who works in media marketing for a school, was working on the school’s annual yearbook on her computer at home. She was transferring photos

By Omar Jimenez, Andy Rose and Ray Sanchez, CNN Explosive allegations that Minneapolis police used covert social media accounts to spy on Black organizations and elected officials can’t be substantiated by prosecutors, the deputy city attorney said in a letter Friday. Erik Nilsson wrote to Mayor Jacob Frey and other city leaders that a review

By Rebekah Riess, CNN A man was killed and three other people injured in a shooting in New Orleans’ Holy Cross neighborhood overnight, police said Saturday. Officers responded to a call of a shooting and found four people shot, the New Orleans Police Department said. A 43-year-old man was dead on the scene. A 29-year-old

By Zoe Sottile, CNN California is set to establish its first new state park in 13 years. The 2,500-acre property, known as Dos Rios Ranch, will likely be donated to the California state park system by River Partners, a non-profit that has worked to rehabilitate and rewild the land after years of use as farmland.

By Liam Reilly and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A second teen allegedly involved in the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old girl in New York’s Bronx neighborhood last week was arrested Monday after turning himself in, the New York Police Department said. Omar Bojang, 18, is believed to have been driving the moped from which his passenger,