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By Rebekah Riess, CNN Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre has withdrawn his lawsuit filed earlier this year against sports commentator and former NFL punter Pat McAfee, according to statements from the two on Thursday. Favre had alleged that McAfee defamed him on his popular podcast, when McAfee called the former quarterback a

By Laura Studley and Jason Hanna, CNN A man accused of killing one person and injuring five others in a 2022 shooting at a church in California’s Orange County has been indicted by a grand jury on federal charges, including those alleging hate crimes and obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs. The 98-count indictment

By Ashley R. Williams and Danny Freeman, CNN Two people face felony charges after authorities accused them this week of helping two inmates escape a Philadelphia correctional facility — one of whom was captured Thursday night. Philadelphia police arrested and charged Xianni Stalling Wednesday with criminal conspiracy, escape, hindering apprehension and criminal use of a

By Christina Maxouris, CNN A 29-year-old YouTuber will plead guilty to a federal charge after he destroyed the wreckage of a plane he purposefully crashed to gain views, Justice Department officials announced Thursday. Trevor Daniel Jacob admitted to authorities he planned to crash his plane in a video he made to promote a wallet. He

By Ashley R. Williams, Konstantin Toropin and Steve Almasy, CNN Jurors began deliberating Thursday after closing arguments in the trial of Lori Vallow Daybell, the Idaho mother accused of killing her two children and conspiring in the murder of her husband’s first wife, according to CNN affiliate East Idaho News. Vallow Daybell, who has pleaded

By John Miller and Kara Scannell, CNN Daniel Penny, the US Marine veteran who held Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold aboard a New York subway train earlier this month, will be arrested on a charge of second-degree manslaughter, a spokesperson for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said Thursday. “We cannot provide any additional information

By Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN Fort Benning, a massive US Army training base near Columbus, Georgia, was renamed Fort Moore on Thursday to honor the late Lt. Gen. Harold “Hal” Moore and his wife Julia, who both made “meaningful and lasting contributions” to the Army, officials said. Moore served in the Army between 1945 and 1977,

By Tina Burnside, CNN Two parents who were found guilty in connection with the sprawling college admissions cheating scheme known as “Operation Varsity Blues” had their convictions vacated by an appeals court judge on Wednesday. John Wilson and Gamal Abdelaziz were found guilty in 2021 on several counts, including conspiracy to commit mail and wire

By Travis Caldwell and Shawn Nottingham, CNN The father of a University of Georgia football player killed in a car crash has filed a lawsuit against the university’s athletic association and others, including first-round NFL draft pick and former teammate Jalen Carter. The lawsuit from Dave Willock Sr., the father of Devin Willock, was filed

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The most popular search engine in the world will soon look a little different. The next evolution of Google’s homepage will feature an AI-powered chatbot to answer questions “you never thought Search could answer,” the company said this week. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed

By Dakin Andone and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The expiration of a pandemic-era public health restriction that will significantly alter several years of US immigration policy has arrived, threatening chaos as an estimated tens of thousands of migrants mass near the US-Mexico border in anticipation. Issued during the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Title 42 allowed

By Amy Simonson and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Two Michigan school districts have banned students from bringing backpacks to campus, with one of the districts citing several recent incidents of students bringing guns to school. Grand Rapids Public Schools announced Wednesday it is banning backpacks after a loaded handgun was discovered in a third-grader’s bag —

By Nouran Salahieh and Rosa Flores, CNN Along border fences from California to Texas, crowds of undocumented migrants shelter in tents or queue in lines to be processed. Many made long journeys on foot or boarded freight trains in hopes of reaching the other side of the border and applying for asylum. “Can we make

By Taylor Romine, CNN The family of Edward Bronstein, who died while in custody of law enforcement in 2020, reached a $24 million settlement in a lawsuit against the state of California, the California Highway Patrol and other parties, attorneys announced in a news conference Wednesday. Bronstein, 38, was initially pulled over in Los Angeles

By Dianne Gallagher, Pamela Kirland and Wes Bruer A South Carolina man, who survived being shot nine times by York County sheriff’s deputies responding to a “wellness check” call about him being suicidal two years ago, claims in a recent lawsuit that he was talking with his mother in his pickup truck when officers approached

By Chandelis Duster, Carlos Suarez and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN Florida rejected nearly 35% of social studies textbooks submitted by publishers for approval, including those that referenced social justice and “other information that was not aligned with Florida Law,” the state’s Department of Education announced Tuesday. Regarding K-12 social studies instructional materials, 66 of 101 submitted

By Cheri Mossburg, CNN The active search for those aboard a small plane that crashed off the Southern California coast is being suspended, the US Coast Guard announced Thursday. Coast Guard, Navy and US Customs and Border Protection crews covered approximately 334 square miles, locating a debris field, but none of the three people believed

By Scottie Andrew, CNN Heather Armstrong, an influential writer whose blog Dooce helped popularize mommy blogging, has died, her partner, Pete Ashdown, confirmed to CNN. She was 47. Ashdown told the Associated Press that Armstrong, who also used her maiden name, Hamilton, died by suicide. “Heather B. Hamilton (Armstrong) was a brilliant, funny, compassionate writer

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN The death following the chokehold of a street performer who was unsheltered and facing mental health challenges “is a tragedy that never should have happened,” New York’s mayor said Wednesday as he called for mental health care reform in the nation’s largest city and beyond. While his “severe mental illness …