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By Hannah Sarisohn and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A Los Angeles man is facing multiple charges after prosecutors allege he was part of a group of anti-abortion activists who targeted a women’s health clinic and stalked a doctor who provides abortion services, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday. Aaron Jonathan Hurley is accused of

By Paradise Afshar, CNN A Japanese mountain climber is presumed dead after falling into a crevasse in Alaska’s Denali National Park, officials said. The 43-year-old from Kanagawa, Japan — who was not named by officials — was un-roped from his teammates and “fell through a weak ice bridge near their camp at approximately 8,000 feet

By Omar Jimenez, CNN The University School of Milwaukee is pushing back on accusations of discrimination from Craig Robinson, Michelle Obama’s brother, and his wife, Kelly Robinson. The preparatory school filed a motion Thursday to dismiss a lawsuit the couple filed in April that alleged in part, “The School acted impermissibly to silence and to

By Mark Morales and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A law banning New York law enforcement from using either a chokehold or a move that compresses someone’s diaphragm during an arrest has been reinstated after a state Supreme Court appeals court ruling on Thursday. The court’s ruling reversed a June 2021 decision by the state Supreme Court

By Laura Ly, CNN Jennifer and James Crumbley, the parents of Michigan school shooting suspect Ethan Crumbley, have asked a judge to void the charges against them for their alleged roles in the November 30 shooting at Oxford High School that left four students dead. The parents have pleaded not guilty to four counts of

By Julia Jones and Kyung Lah, CNN Dr. Sarah Traxler’s “Sioux Falls day” starts early. On this day, as it has been twice a month for the last seven years, Traxler is the only abortion doctor in South Dakota. By 6:30 a.m., she’s at the airport in Minneapolis, headed to Sioux Falls. And by the

By Christina Maxouris, CNN A convicted murderer who was being transported in a Texas prison bus last Thursday allegedly cut through metal, attacked an officer and ran into woods nearby. He has not been seen since — prompting what officials say is one of the largest search efforts for an escaped inmate in the state’s

By Ryan Bergeron, CNN It might look like something from a galaxy far, far away but this “Star Wars” X-wing starfighter came from a very earthly garage. The out-of-this-world replica was the brainchild of Akaki Lekiachvili, who works as a physician at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. He spent about

By Mark Morales, Eric Levenson and Samantha Beech, CNN At least 15 people joined suspected Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron’s private account on the communications app Discord shortly before the shooting at the Tops Friendly Markets store, a person with knowledge of Discord’s internal investigation told CNN. A Discord spokesperson previously confirmed that Gendron had sent