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By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN College campuses have fewer students on them, and it’s not just because of remote learning. There are about 1 million fewer college students enrolled since before the pandemic began, according to a report released Thursday. Undergraduate enrollment declined by 3.1% or more than 465,000 students between fall 2020 and fall 2021,

By Jake Tapper and Cheri Mossburg, CNN California Gov. Gavin Newsom has denied parole for Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, a news release from the governor’s office said. Sirhan was recommended for parole in August, after spending 53 years in prison for the 1968 killing. Two of Kennedy’s sons,

By Tina Burnside, CNN A massive cleanup effort is underway after a pipeline ruptured, causing more than 300,000 gallons of low sulfur diesel fuel to spill just outside of New Orleans last month. The incident occurred on December 27 on a 16-inch diesel pipeline located at the Chalmette Refinery, just east of New Orleans, in

By Emma Tucker and Priya Krishnakumar, CNN Last year saw the highest number of law enforcement officers who were intentionally killed in the line of duty since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, an increase that comes as a rise in gun violence and homicides continues across the country. According to preliminary year-end data

By Jason Hanna and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN The spread of the highly transmissible Omicron coronavirus variant is forcing some US schools to halt in-person learning because of high case rates and teacher absences. The vast majority of schools are operating as normal. But at least 2,141 schools were not offering in-person learning as of Thursday,

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN New York firefighters battled a fire with “great volumes of smoke” nearly 36 years ago at the same Bronx apartment building that caught fire Sunday, leaving 17 dead — all from smoke inhalation, officials said. The March 1986 fire was documented in FDNY’s official training publication, WNYF, in which members of

By Sonia Moghe and Amir Vera, CNN A lawsuit filed on behalf of two survivors of the deadly Oxford High School shooting in Michigan accuses the school district and a number of its employees of not doing enough to prevent the attack that left four students dead, despite multiple red flags. The lawsuit alleges Ethan

By Andy Rose, CNN Two police officers who responded to a domestic violence call involving Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie last year in Moab, Utah, should be put on probation for what the city called “several unintentional mistakes” made during the encounter, according to an independent investigator. Petito and Laundrie were traveling through Moab on