National-World

By Rebekah Riess, Brad Parks and Zoe Sottile, CNN A Chicago police officer who had just completed a shift was shot and killed in the city’s South Side Avalon Park neighborhood early Saturday morning, according to the Chicago Police Department. Police received a call of shots fired at around 1:42 a.m. local time, interim Chicago

By Melissa Alonso and Paradise Afshar, CNN A National Park Service employee was killed Thursday after setting off an avalanche while backcountry skiing, according to the Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Denali National Park and Preserve staff member Eric Walter was backcountry skiing on a north-facing slope, the park and preserve in Interior

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN A once homeless California woman went to a Walmart Supercenter for an oil change. With the scratch of a lottery ticket worth millions, her luck — and life — changed, too. Lucia Forseth won $5 million in a Scratchers game after buying a ticket at the store in Pittsburg, about

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Amid mounting pressures to charge the man who restrained Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on a New York City subway train car this week, the man’s attorneys contend he didn’t foresee the “awful tragedy,” which has sparked protests and further accentuated the city’s struggles with homelessness and mental illness. Daniel

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN On May 6, 1882, President Chester Arthur signed a law that reshaped America. More than a century later, Congress formally apologized for it. The Chinese Exclusion Act blocked Chinese workers from coming legally to the country, and blocked Chinese immigrants who were already living here from becoming US citizens. The

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A species that conservationists once saved from the brink of extinction is now facing a new powerful threat: avian flu. In a little more than a month, 21 critically endangered California condors have died of avian flu, according to a Friday news release from the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The

By Taylor Romine, CNN Attorneys for brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez, who were convicted of the 1989 murder of their parents, say new evidence shows the convictions and life sentences should be overturned, according to court documents filed Wednesday. At their high-profile trials decades ago, the brothers did not deny killing Jose and Kitty Menendez,

By Gloria Pazmino and Samantha Beech, CNN New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday the city will ship willing migrants to other neighboring New York communities ahead of a surge of migrants expected to arrive in the city following the expiration of Title 42 next week. Adams said the new program “will provide up

By Zenebou Sylla, CNN Three former Pennsylvania police officers were sentenced Friday to probation in connection with the 2021 shooting death of an 8-year-old girl as she left a high school football game with her family in a Philadelphia suburb, prosecutors said. Brian Devaney, Sean Dolan and Devon Smith were sentenced to five years of

By Laura Studley, CNN A University of California Berkeley associate professor issued an apology Monday for claiming to be Native American after she revealed she had been White her “whole life.” Elizabeth Hoover was hired at the university in 2020, her LinkedIn profile states, researching Native American food systems, food sovereignty, Native American environmental health

By Wes Bruer, CNN Attorneys for Brett Favre on Friday filed a lengthy denial of allegations he used misappropriated state funds in Mississippi meant for needy families for the construction of a state-of-the-art volleyball facility at the University of Southern Mississippi where his daughter played. Eric Hirschmann, an attorney for the Hall of Fame quarterback,

By Emma Tucker and Taylor Romine, CNN A former student at the University of California, Davis, pleaded not guilty as he was arraigned in court Friday in connection with three stabbings near the campus within the span of five days, leaving two people dead and the community in fear. Carlos Dominguez, 21, entered not guilty

By Ray Sanchez, CNN A video of a man experiencing homelessness who later died after being held in a chokehold on the New York City subway has drawn national attention. Jordan Neely, 30, shouted at passengers that he was hungry, thirsty and tired of having nothing before he was grabbed from behind in a chokehold

By Adrienne Vogt, CNN Pasta is for many people a sacred food — and it’s accorded a particular reverence among people in New Jersey, where Census data shows over 1 million residents can trace their roots back to Italy (including the fictional Tony Soprano). So why would somebody dump hundreds of pounds of pasta in

By Nicole Chavez, CNN Nearly a year since the nation’s first alert system for missing Indigenous people launched in Washington, the push to address the crisis of unsolved cases continues spreading in the state and beyond its borders. The system, known as MIPA, was launched last July. As of this week, authorities have issued 56

By Chandelis Duster, CNN Dennis “Maliq” Barnes, the New Orleans high school senior who was accepted at over 185 colleges and received more than $10 million in scholarship offers, announced Friday that he will attend Cornell University in the fall. Barnes made the announcement from his school, International High School of New Orleans. “I have

By Sara Smart and Rebekah Riess, CNN Casey White, the inmate who famously escaped from an Alabama jail with corrections officer Vicky White, reached a plea deal in which he will not be tried in his lover’s death. The inmate pleaded guilty to first-degree escape in exchange for no prosecution for felony murder, according to

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Two small tornadoes briefly hit Los Angeles County, the National Weather Service there said, pushing California to its average annual tornado count. The first touched down Thursday at 8:45 a.m. in Carson and lasted a minute, with estimated peak winds of 75 mph, the agency said. Minor damage to vehicles, trees

By Jean Casarez, CNN Chemical tests for blood were done on over 60 reddish brown stains at Bryan Kohberger’s apartment in Pullman, Washington, on December 30, hours after he was arrested in northeastern Pennsylvania, according to newly released legal documents. Documents show a reddish/brown stain on an “uncased pillow ” as well as a “brown

By Elizabeth Joseph, CNN The University of California, Santa Cruz, is condemning recent antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ incidents reported on and near the campus, including a group of students who allegedly gathered to celebrate Adolf Hitler’s birthday. “They sang happy birthday and ate cakes adorned with hateful and horrific symbols,” UC Santa Cruz Vice Chancellor for