While the true scope of the impact of police brutality is difficult to quantify, a new report indicates that more than 2,600 Latinos were killed by police or died while in custody in recent years. The report released Thursday by UnidosUS in partnership with a group of researchers, scholars, activists and family members of Latinos
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The heat is finally off for the southwestern US, which will cool down this week after a wave of record-breaking temperatures. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up
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As the United States continues on a path to near pre-pandemic normalcy, experts remain concerned over low vaccination rates and the spread of Covid -19 variants, which could potentially exacerbate a pandemic that has upended life for more than a year and inflicted a damaging toll on Americans and the world. New York and California,
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The regulations are being considered as a renewable energy company plans to build a wind farm in Howard and Boone counties.
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As Americans continue to come out of coronavirus isolation and states lift restrictions on gatherings, shootings continue to plague the nation, with nine mass shootings occurring in the US since Friday night. Six people were killed and at least 42 were injured in mass shootings across nine states this weekend, according to the Gun Violence
Continue Reading Editor’s note: CNN has today launched the Meanwhile in China newsletter, a three-times-a-week update exploring what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. Sign up here. When it comes to the intensifying rivalry between the United States and China, the sky is by no means the limit. As
Continue Reading Ethiopians will head to the polls on Monday amid widespread nationwide unrest, famine, and a raging humanitarian crisis in the country’s Tigray region. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed readies for his first real test at the ballot, in what will be Ethiopia’s first multi-party election in 16 years. With the polls initially planned for August last
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Severe thunderstorms moved through Mid-Missouri around 10:00 PM Sunday night, leaving a swath of damage across Audrain, Boone, and Callaway counties. As of 11:30 PM, more than 2,000 Boone Electric customers were without power, and more than 1,000 were without power in the City of Columbia. Several reports of trees and downed power lines came
Continue Reading At least 20 people were injured when a tornado carved a 22-mile path through southern Alabama Saturday morning, officials said. The tornado struck as Tropical Storm Claudette was passing over the area, the National Weather Service said in a storm damage survey. Much of the damage was reported in Escambia County, AL, but it continued
Continue Reading The body of a 7-year-old boy was found Sunday, four days after a group of tubers went over a dam on the Dan River in North Carolina, officials said. A 911 call alerted emergency responders to the body, which was recovered from the river near Draper Landing in Eden, according to a statement from the
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The ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team has issued a Weather Alert Day for the potential of severe thunderstorms Sunday evening into very early Monday. SETUP: The big question in today’s severe weather forecast will be how the morning storms to our north impact the possibility of more development later tonight. As storms clear out, the
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A volunteer working with New York mayoral candidate Eric Adams’ campaign was stabbed in the Bronx on Sunday, Adams tweeted Sunday evening. “This violence must stop,” he wrote, adding police are investigating the situation. The victim, a 42-year-old male, was stabbed “multiple times” at 149th and Morris Avenue, New York Police Department spokesperson Edward Riley
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Columbia Parks and Recreation hosted the first of many scheduled concerts at Stephens Lake Park in Columbia Sunday.
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Authorities say the incident in which two pedestrians were hit by a truck at a Pride parade near Miami Saturday — leaving one dead and the other injured — was a “tragic accident” and not an intentional act. The 77-year-old driver of the truck “accelerated unexpectedly” before the parade began in Wilton Manors, Fort Lauderdale
Continue Reading Jon Rahm won the 121st US Open at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, California, on Sunday. This is Rahm’s first-ever win at a major championship. The victory also makes Rahm the first Spaniard ever to win at the US Open. Rahm, the third-ranked player in the world, put up back-to-back birdies on the
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Nine children and one adult were killed in an accident involving multiple vehicles on Interstate 65 in Butler County, Alabama, on Saturday, according to Butler County Coroner Wayne Garlock. Eight of the children killed, ranging in age from 4 to 17, were in a vehicle from the Tallapoosa County Girls Ranch, Garlock said. The youth
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A suspect has been arrested and charged with murder in Russia after the death of Catherine Serou, an American student who vanished last week in the country’s Nizhny Novgorod region, a local court told CNN Sunday. The Gorodetsky City Court in the region said the suspect, identified by the court only as P., has been
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A suspect has been arrested and charged with murder in Russia after the death of Catherine Serou, an American student who vanished in the country’s Nizhny Novgorod region, a local court told CNN. CNN’s Camila Bernal has the details.
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The Benton County Sheriff’s Office located a body after originally receiving a notification about a possible missing person in the area.
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One person was killed and at least six others were wounded in a shooting Saturday evening near Lake Merritt in Oakland, California, according to police. When the shooting occurred around 6:20 p.m., resources from the Oakland Police Department (OPD) were already in the area, near the 2200 block of Lakeshore Avenue, the department said. Officers
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