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By Jamiel Lynch and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — A popular restaurant in Orlando that hosts drag brunches filed a lawsuit Monday against Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, claiming it lost business because of a new law signed last week that has been widely interpreted by LGBTQ advocates as a crackdown on drag shows. The

By Cheri Mossburg, Veronica Miracle and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of stabbing four Idaho college students to death, sat wordlessly in court during his arraignment on Monday as a judge read aloud the murder and burglary charges against him and asked whether the suspect was prepared to announce his

By Jessica Jordan and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — The Los Angeles Dodgers have apologized and extended a new invitation to a drag group after earlier disinviting them from the team’s upcoming Pride Night at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers had initially intended to honor the Los Angeles Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a drag group that

By Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — The Denver Nuggets rallied from a 15-point halftime deficit to complete a four-game sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers with a 113-111 victory on Monday night to advance to the NBA Finals for the first time in the franchise’s 47-year history. Center Nikola Jokic scored 30 points

By Taylor Romine and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — An 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old brother died after they were swept away by a central California river they were traveling in with their mother during what authorities call extraordinarily dangerous conditions. The two children were swept by the rushing waters of the Kings River Sunday

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — A 23-year-old man has lost his arm after he was attacked by an alligator near a pond behind a bar in southwest Florida early Sunday morning, officials say. “The responding crew treated a male patient who had an above the elbow amputation of his upper right extremity. Bystanders applied

By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — About 155 resident physicians went on strike Monday at a New York hospital once called “the epicenter of the epicenter” of the nation’s coronavirus pandemic, according to the residents’ union. The resident physicians at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens don’t receive the same pay and benefits as their non-union

By Kevin Dotson, CNN (CNN) — Maryland’s governor is condemning a man who says he was protesting gun control laws by openly carrying an assault rifle near school bus stops in Anne Arundel County. Law enforcement says the man was not breaking any laws. The man said he was “just showing people it’s legal.” A

By Nick Valencia, CNN (CNN) — The man who died inside a Georgia county jail last year had been living in conditions akin to a “torture chamber” before ultimately dying of complications stemming from severe neglect to his mental and physical health, according to the man’s family attorneys and an independent medical review. The independent

By Aya Elamroussi and Omar Jimenez, CNN (CNN) — The Marine veteran who held an unhoused Black man in a deadly chokehold aboard a New York City subway train earlier this month defended his actions and said in an interview with the New York Post the killing “had nothing to do with race.” Daniel Penny,

By John Miller and Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — Two boys who were reported missing last week and found dead in different rivers in Manhattan may have been last seen playing together at the water’s edge, according to a law enforcement source. Alfa Barrie, 11, and Garrett Warren, 13, were seen together in Harlem between

By Alaa Elassar, Eric Levenson and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — The killings of four University of Idaho students in an off-campus home in Moscow in November 2022 were as brutal as they were perplexing. The group of friends had gone out in the college town and returned to their shared home late. The next

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Three Southwest states announced Monday they have struck a historic deal to cut billions of gallons of Colorado River water usage over the next four years, about half of which would be completed by next year, in an effort to stave off a crisis at the nation’s largest reservoirs.

By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman and Rachel Clarke, CNN Uvalde, Texas (CNN) — Each morning, Felix Rubio helps his wife Kim get their younger kids ready for school. Clothes, breakfast, check on the dog. Normal family life. Then, every day, he visits the child he can’t help anymore – the daughter slaughtered by a

By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — A North Carolina man is planning to use his $100,000 lottery prize to help build classrooms for children in his hometown in Mali. “I grew up in a tough way,” said Souleymane Sana, the 39-year-old dance instructor and New Bern resident. That’s part of what drove him to purchase

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — The FAA has received 670 reports of unruly passengers on flights this year, according to recent data from the US transportation agency. One of the latest travelers to receive a citation for erratic behavior struck a Frontier Airlines flight attendant with an intercom phone after becoming belligerent onboard, police

By Dakin Andone and Jason Kravarik, CNN (CNN) — An Idaho judge entered not guilty pleas on behalf of Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students last fall, during an arraignment in a Latah County Court on Monday. Judge John Judge read aloud Kohberger’s rights and each of the murder

By Tina Burnside and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — An 8-year-old migrant girl who died in the custody of US immigration authorities last week was treated for flu-like symptoms for several days prior to her death at a Texas hospital, according to authorities. The girl, Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, a citizen of Panama, died Wednesday

By Michelle Watson, Cara Lynn Clarkson and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — A weekend of rowdiness that authorities say included public drunkenness and disorderly conduct at an annual Jeep gathering in Texas led to about 230 arrests, authorities said. The Galveston County Sheriff’s Office said it had been preparing for three months ahead of