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Five years after a tragic DC 911 misfire, America’s emergency dispatch systems are still overwhelmed and underfunded

By Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — Billie Shepperd was planning her daughter Sheila’s 60th birthday party in June 2020 when the phone rang. She had been imagining family members traveling from Washington, DC, to celebrate at the beach with crab legs and potato salad, when she picked up to hear Maria Shepperd, her granddaughter and

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As Trump administration unleashes federal show of force in DC, other US cities on president’s radar push back

By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — As the Trump administration escalates its deployment of troops in the nation’s capital and vows similar moves elsewhere, leaders of largely Democratic cities across the country are pushing back. From Boston to Los Angeles, President Donald Trump’s portrayal of the District of Columbia as a lawless wasteland to justify

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ICE officers form a barrier June 6 to block protesters after a raid in Los Angeles.

Experts explain your rights – as an immigrant or a bystander – if you’re caught up in an ICE raid

By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — As the Trump administration ramps up efforts to detain and deport undocumented people, dramatic videos of immigration arrests from California to New York have sparked reactions from applause to backlash across the nation’s broad political spectrum. The Department of Homeland Security received over 100,000 applications in recent weeks “from

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Erik Menendez appears virtually for his parole board hearing from the RJ Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.

Lyle Menendez denied parole a day after his brother’s bid was rejected. Here’s what’s next for the brothers

CNN By Taylor Romine, Elizabeth Wolfe, Matthew J. Friedman, CNN (CNN) — A California parole board has denied parole for Lyle Menendez, who was convicted alongside his brother of murdering their parents in 1989. The parole board also denied Erik Menendez parole Thursday. The decisions are a crippling blow to both brothers after a yearslong

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The air traffic control tower at Reagan National Airport in Arlington

Close call with passenger jet happened after Army helicopter tried to land without clearance, preliminary report confirms

By Alexandra Skores, Pete Muntean, CNN Washington (CNN) — A Pentagon-bound Army helicopter that got less than half a mile from a commercial flight landing at nearby Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in May did not have the proper clearance from Pentagon air traffic controllers, a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board said

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An Italian Facebook page where men shared intimate images of women

Italian Facebook page where men shared intimate images of partners without consent closed after police probe

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — An Italian Facebook page where thousands of men posted intimate images of their female partners, sisters and unknown women – many of them without their consent, has been closed down following public outrage and multiple complaints to police. Since it was launched in 2019, hundreds of thousands of

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