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By Liam Reilly, CNN A Bronx man was indicted for hate crimes Tuesday after he allegedly assaulted a woman and yelled anti-Hispanic slurs at her, according to prosecutors. The victim, a 72-year-old woman, was allegedly assaulted while speaking in Spanish and English on the phone on January 18, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office said. The

By Sara Smart, CNN If someone said they’d pay you $1,800 to stay off social media for six years, would you do it? Could you? Sivert Klefsaas did just that. “I thought it was awesome,” Sivert told CNN Tuesday, “I thought, ‘Ah what’s 6 more years?’” In 2016, Lorna Goldstrand Klefsaas challenged her 12-year-old son

By Sara Smart, CNN You may know him as Hank the Tank, but the California Department of Fish and Wildlife knows him as a threat to a Lake Tahoe neighborhood. For months now, the 500-pound black bear has been roaming the streets in the Tahoe Keys area of South Lake Tahoe, about 100 miles east

By Nicole Chavez, CNN Nearly two years after a botched police raid led to Breonna Taylor‘s death, the only officer facing criminal charges for his actions on that day is standing trial in Kentucky. Brett Hankison, a former Louisville Metro Police Department officer, is facing three counts of felony wanton endangerment in the March 2020

By Michelle Watson, CNN Two Utah National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters were involved in a training accident Tuesday morning, crashing near a popular ski resort, the Utah National Guard said. No crew members or skiers at the Snowbird ski resort were injured, according to Jared Jones, chief warrant officer 5 with the Utah National

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, Amir Vera, Omar Jimenez and Julia Jones, CNN Jury deliberations will begin Wednesday in the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd’s 2020 killing, US District Court Judge Paul Magnuson said Tuesday. Magnuson said the chief judge made the decision to close the courthouse early Tuesday

By Theresa Waldrop, CNN A former police detective who was involved in the raid that led to the shooting death of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, in March 2020 was found not guilty Thursday of charges related to the 10 bullets he fired that morning. Brett Hankison was the only officer from the raid who

By Eric Levenson, CNN Lia Thomas stood tall and smiled wide atop the championship podium, her nearly 6-foot-4 frame pushing her head past the top of the Ivy League’s green photo backdrop. With one hand she held a placard reading “Ivy 2022 Champion,” and with the other she stuck up two fingers in that classic

By Travis Caldwell, CNN A man who was bitten by a shark while fishing near Bimini, Bahamas, was rescued via helicopter, the US Coast Guard said in a news release. Coast Guard Sector Miami watchstanders received word midday Monday the 51-year-old was bitten while aboard a vessel and a tourniquet was applied to the man’s

By Jason Hanna and Travis Caldwell, CNN A jury has found the three White men who killed Ahmaud Arbery in 2020 guilty of all charges in their federal hate crimes trial, backing prosecutors’ case that the men chased the 25-year-old through the streets of a Georgia neighborhood because he was Black. Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael