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By Emma Tucker A convicted sex offender this week fatally shot his wife and her three children in their Oklahoma home — as well as two teenage girls who there were for a sleepover — before killing himself, police said Wednesday, accounting for the bodies’ discovery days earlier. Authorities found the bodies Monday at a

By Michelle Watson, CNN A man has been charged with aiding and abetting extortion threats and conspiracy after he placed fireworks disguised as a bomb on the campus of Harvard University, according to a federal criminal complaint. William Giordani told authorities he had responded to an April 11 Craigslist ad from the parent of a

By Eric Levenson, CNN Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced plans Tuesday to call a special legislative session this month to pass a new drug possession law that, if not passed, could lead to the legalization of all drug possession in the state. “My office and I have been meeting with legislators from all four caucuses

By Alisha Ebrahimji and Rebekah Riess, CNN A man accused of killing a Florida mom and her three children was shot and killed by officers at a motel early Wednesday after an hours-long standoff with police, according to authorities. A manhunt for 38-year-old Al Joseph Stenson was issued after police responding to a medical call

By Dakin Andone, CNN An inmate’s sister has been charged in federal court in North Carolina with helping her brother escape from a Virginia jail over the weekend by paying $2,500 to arrange for the getaway car, court documents show. Adriana Marin-Sotelo faces a charge of conspiracy to instigate or assist escape, according to a

By Ryan Young, Rebekah Riess, Christina Maxouris and Dakin Andone, CNN After a nearly eight-hour, chaotic manhunt, authorities captured the man accused of opening fire in a Midtown Atlanta medical building Wednesday and killing a 38-year-old woman and wounding four others. The suspected gunman, 24-year-old Deion Patterson, went inside Northside Medical Midtown just before noon

By Sara Smart and Rebekah Riess, CNN A 15-year-old equestrian was killed during a competition in Florida after her horse fell on her head, officials say. The accident happened as Hannah Serfass was riding her 12-year-old horse in a hunter/jumper event Sunday at Fox Lea Farm in Venice, the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office said in

By Rebekah Riess, CNN Robert Findlay Smith, who was accused of shooting and killing three senior citizens at an Alabama church group’s meeting in June 2022, entered a guilty plea Tuesday for the intentional murder of Jane Pounds, Walter Rainey and Sarah Yeager, according to a news release from the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office.

By Zenebou Sylla, CNN A Maryland appellate court has denied Adnan Syed’s motion to reconsider the reinstatement of his murder conviction Tuesday, according to a court order signed by Chief Judge Gregory Wells. The brief order states it denied the motion “based on an argument not previously raised.” Syed’s attorney, Erica Suter, says they will

By Rachel Ramirez and Ella Nilsen, CNN New York is the first state in the country to ban natural gas and other fossil fuels in most new buildings — a major win for climate advocates, but a move that could spark pushback from fossil fuel interests. Facing mounting pressure from environmental advocates and climate-minded voters,

By Ella Nilsen, CNN Amid Arizona’s worsening groundwater crisis, the state’s new attorney general is vowing to crack down on foreign-owned farms that lease land from the state with the benefit of unlimited water pumping. State officials recently revoked two new well-drilling permits for a Saudi Arabian agriculture company that uses Arizona groundwater to grow

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Many airline employees have gone for years without pay raises, even after enduring difficult working conditions during the pandemic. Pilots for American Airlines voted to strike this week, and Southwest pilots plan to vote as well, but they won’t be walking off the job anytime soon — if at all —

By Ed Lavandera, Ashley Killough, Holly Yan, Josh Campbell and Mark Morales, CNN The longtime partner of a man accused of gunning down five people, including a 9-year-old, in a neighboring Texas home seemed to be cooperating with authorities — but was actually helping the suspect evade them during a dayslong manhunt, a prosecutor said

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Three brutal stabbings near the University of California at Davis in the span of five days have left two people dead and some students rattled and fearful as authorities dig for clues on who is responsible and whether the attacks were connected. The latest attack happened Monday night near campus and

By Sara Smart and Emma Tucker, CNN A man who escaped from a Mississippi jail last month with three others has been found dead in New Orleans, a sheriff said Tuesday, leaving just one of the four apparently still on the run. The body of Casey Grayson, 34, was found in a vehicle at a

By Jean Casarez, Rob Frehse and Christina Maxouris, CNN Ana Walshe, the Massachusetts mother of three who was last seen alive in January, was having an affair with a man in Washington, DC, before she went missing and had spent Thanksgiving with him in Ireland, new court documents say. That man told investigators he had

By Brian Todd, Michelle Watson, Artemis Moshtaghian and Ashley R. Williams, CNN Lawyers for the Virginia teacher shot by a 6-year-old student earlier this year are criticizing a motion to dismiss her lawsuit against the Newport News school board and administrators. Abigail Zwerner was shot by the first grader on January 6 at Richneck Elementary

By Nicole Chavez, CNN Authorities in Cleveland, Texas, placed large posters in Spanish around the city asking for help finding a man wanted for the killings of five people, but a lack of trust in law enforcement among some Latinos may be hindering those efforts, advocates say. There is fear among some Latinos, particularly immigrants,

By Eric Levenson and Brad Parks, CNN A Minnesota judge found former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao guilty of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter for his role keeping bystanders back in the May 2020 killing of George Floyd, according to court documents filed Monday. In a 177-page verdict, Judge Peter Cahill wrote that Thao “actively

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Hundreds of hazardous industrial sites that dot the California coastline — including oil and gas refineries and sewage-treatment plants — are at risk of severe flooding from rising sea level if the climate crisis worsens, new research shows. If planet-warming pollution continues to rise unabated, 129 industrial sites are estimated to

By John Blake, CNN I was about five years old when I was abducted. It was one of the most beautiful days of my childhood. A couple of strangers lured me away from my front porch that summer afternoon. I knew they were intruders, but they somehow felt familiar. I wasn’t afraid. They were white

By Tina Burnside, Cheri Mossburg and Dakin Andone, CNN Officials in Davis, California, have lifted an overnight shelter-in-place order after they were unable to find a suspect in a knife attack late Monday — the third such incident following two fatal stabbings in less than a week near the campus of the University of California,

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN You may recall a few months ago when officials warned that a giant blob of seaweed would reach the shores of Florida by summertime. Well, to many travelers’ dismay, the smelly brown sargassum is already starting to pile up along beaches in the Caribbean, Mexico and South Florida. Here’s what else

By Tina Burnside, Caroll Alvarado and Eric Levenson, CNN A convicted sex offender and two missing teenage girls were believed to be among seven bodies found at the man’s Oklahoma home on Monday, authorities said. Jesse L. McFadden, the 39-year-old offender, was found dead at his home in Henryetta, about 90 miles from Oklahoma City,

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Officials in Rochester, New York, said an investigation found no basis for criminal charges in a concert stampede in March that left three people dead. The announcement came after a months-long, multi-departmental investigation into the incident at Rochester’s Main Street Armory, the City of Rochester said in a statement. The probe

By Josh Campbell, Ed Lavandera and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A man accused of fatally shooting five people at a neighbor’s home in Texas last week, including a mother and her 9-year-old son, was arrested Tuesday evening after a dayslong manhunt, officials announced. The suspect, Francisco Oropesa, was found in a house just miles from the

By Christina Maxouris, Amy Simonson and Dianne Gallagher, CNN Federal and state law enforcement in Virginia and North Carolina are searching for two men who escaped from jail, one of whom was facing a murder charge in the death of a sheriff’s deputy. The two men escaped from a Farmville, Virginia, jail sometime over the

By Raja Razek and Zoe Sottile, CNN Seven bodies, including two that investigators believe belong to two missing teenage girls, were found Monday afternoon at an Oklahoma residence of a man who authorities were seeking in the teens’ disappearance, officials said. The bodies were found at a property in Henryetta, a city about 90 miles

By Jennifer Henderson and Zoe Sottile, CNN An 18-year-old Texas college baseball player was seriously injured after being struck by a stray bullet during a game on Saturday, according to police. Matthew Delaney, a student athlete at Texas A&M University-Texarkana, was standing in the bullpen area when he was hit, police said. He was hospitalized

By Joe Sutton, Rebekah Riess and Brad Parks, CNN An interstate in central Illinois reopened Tuesday, a day after at least seven people were killed as more than 70 vehicles crashed in a dust storm, officials said. The crashes along Interstate 55 happened shortly before 11 a.m. in Montgomery and Sangamon counties south of the

By Leyla Santiago, Zoe Sottile and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN Ginny Matts and her boyfriend were excited to celebrate her 60th birthday in Key West. But their vacation was spoiled by an unexpected guest: a record-breaking amount of smelly seaweed known as sargassum that is coating the iconic Florida island’s popular beaches. What Matts and her

By Cheri Mossburg and Dakin Andone, CNN A student at the University of California, Davis was stabbed to death at a local park Saturday evening, days after a similar attack, prompting the involvement of state authorities and the FBI as police search for a suspect. Authorities are still working to determine any possible connection between

By Jackie Wattles and Ella Nilsen, CNN Environmental groups are suing the Federal Aviation Administration in federal court over SpaceX’s launch of its massive Starship rocket last month. The groups argue that the agency failed to adequately investigate the potential harm the launch — or a mishap — could do to the surrounding environment. The

By Theresa Waldrop, Bill Kirkos and Adrienne Broaddus, CNN As a slow-moving crest works its way down the Mississippi River this week, flood-weary Iowans living along the water were doing their best to cope with the rising water. In Davenport on Sunday, River Drive lived up to its name: The street looked like a river,

By Michelle Watson and Eric Levenson, CNN A man accused of killing four people in random encounters in the Tampa, Florida, area of Seminole Heights in fall 2017 pleaded guilty to four counts of murder and was sentenced to life in prison Monday. Howell Donaldson III changed his plea from not guilty to guilty Monday

By Celina Tebor, CNN On the one-year anniversary of a New Jersey student’s death by suicide, the school he attended admitted it “fell tragically short” of protecting his safety and well-being. Jack Reid, 17, died by suicide on April 30, 2022, in a residential house at the Lawrenceville School, a boarding and preparatory school in

By Chris Boyette and Dakin Andone, CNN Authorities have arrested and charged with arson a man federal prosecutors said is responsible for setting fires at two Minneapolis mosques and separately spray-painting the district office door of a Muslim American member of Congress, according to a news release from the US Attorney’s Office for the District

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Headlines were bleak when results from the test known as the “Nation’s Report Card” came out last year. Local newspapers around the country documented their districts’ declining scores. Editorials warned that US schools had failed students during the pandemic. Officials described the exam as an alarming wake-up call. But one

By Artemis Moshtaghian and Melissa Alonso, CNN Up to 100 homes are damaged and a state of emergency is in place in Virginia Beach, Virginia, after an EF3 tornado hit the city, prompting the closure Monday of at least three schools, officials said, as a South Florida community also recovers from a weekend tornado. No

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Today is the start of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month — a commemorative time designated by Congress to celebrate the more than 24 million people in the US with roots in East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, Hawaii, Samoa, Guam, Fiji, Tonga, the Marshall Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and other

By Gabe Cohen, CNN Desperate to find educators amid a nationwide shortage, an Arizona school district is breaking ground on an unusual recruitment tool: tiny homes for teachers. Chino Valley Unified School District is using federal money to build 10 studio units, each 400 square feet, on a vacant lot behind an elementary school, where

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN At least fourteen people were injured and taken to nearby hospitals after a roof collapsed at a Columbus, Ohio, home near Ohio State University because too many people were standing atop the roof, according to officials. “It appears that the roof was overloaded with students, we’ve heard numbers between 15 and

By Ed Lavandera, Holly Yan, Elizabeth Wolfe and Rosa Flores, CNN The man wanted by law enforcement for the killings of five Texas neighbors — including a 9-year-old boy — had entered the US illegally and been deported by immigration officials at least four times, a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement source said. The suspect,

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Asian American. APA. APIDA. AAPI. AANHPI. There are a lot of terms and acronyms to describe this population of more than 24 million people with roots in East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, Hawaii, Samoa, Guam, Fiji, Tonga, Marshall Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and other Pacific islands. It comprises

By Liam Reilly, CNN Leaders of three Rutgers University unions approved a tentative agreement with the school Sunday evening, just weeks after going on a five-day strike — the first in the New Jersey university’s 257-year history. Elected officials from the three unions — Rutgers AAUP-AFT, the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union and the AAUP-BHSNJ —

By Nicole Grether and Samantha Beech, CNN An American woman who traveled from New York to Sudan to celebrate Ramadan with family there is now desperate to escape as fighting between rival military forces continues to worsen. Myadah Kaila, a 28-year-old Sudanese-born public health professional, left her home in Syracuse, New York in mid-March. Within

By Jacob Lev, CNN The 2-year-old daughter of Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Shaquil Barrett drowned in a swimming pool Sunday at the family’s Florida home, police said. Officers responded to a Beach Park home in Tampa at 9:30 a.m. after a child had fallen into a pool, the Tampa Police Department said. The child was

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Just weeks before stepping foot on Smith College’s campus, Avery finally came to understand something that cast doubt on whether the small women’s college in Northampton, Massachusetts, would be the perfect fit for the incoming first-year student after all. Avery realized he is a transgender man. And Smith — while it

By Claudia Dominguez, CNN Authorities have arrested and charged a 19-year-old for a shooting early Sunday morning that left two teenagers dead and left four others wounded, according to a news release from the police department of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Cameron Brand was initially arrested on six charges of aggravated assault after he was

By Liam Reilly, CNN Fleeing what she called the “dire condition” of life in Haiti, Dieuvena came to the US, hoping “she can at least get on her feet, find a job, and take care of her family.” For Dieuvena, 28, that family includes her husband Banel, 28, and their 4-year-old son, Matéo Sebastien. She

By Celina Tebor, CNN Three teenagers — including a 14-year-old — were killed and another was injured during a shooting in Philadelphia Friday afternoon, police said. Philadelphia police say officers responded to a report of a shooting around 3:30 p.m. Friday in the Lawncrest neighborhood northeast of downtown Philadelphia, where they found three victims. Police

By Phil Gast, CNN It wasn’t just bullets and slashing swords that Isaac C. Hart had to fear during the Civil War. As a White Army officer leading Black troops, Hart faced the possibility of being treated harshly if taken captive by the Confederacy. The men in his company, part of United States Colored Troops

Essay by John Blake, CNN I don’t remember what I said because I was too shocked to respond. But I remember where I stood when it happened. I was 17, just months away from leaving home for college, when my father called me into his bedroom one afternoon. He was sitting up in bed with

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A team of firefighters and wildlife officials in Nevada accomplished a “bear-y” important rescue mission Wednesday. A bear was “spooked up a tree in front of a home” Wednesday morning in Reno, according to a Facebook post from the Nevada Department of Wildlife. “Between the busy roads, people, and all the

By Celina Tebor, CNN Amid humanitarian and security crises in their home country, Haitian migrants arriving in Boston have been sleeping overnight at one of the city’s major hospitals. The dramatic increase of migrants arriving in recent weeks has stretched resources, the hospital told CNN. About 55 people, most from Haiti, spent Wednesday night in

By Priscilla Alvarez and Rosa Flores, CNN Detention facilities along the US-Mexico border have surpassed capacity as a growing number of migrants cross into the United States leading up to the May 11 expiration of a Covid-era border restriction known as Title 42, according to a Department of Homeland Security official. As of Saturday morning,

By Paradise Afshar and Zoe Sottile, CNN One Volkswagen employee died and two others were injured after being struck by a vehicle at the German automaker’s plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Saturday, according to local police. One employee died at the scene, a second sustained leg trauma and a third sustained non-life-threatening injuries, Chattanooga Police

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A rare reward poster seeking the capture of the men responsible for President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination has sold at auction for $166,375. The poster, printed on April 20, 1865, advertises a total of $100,000 in rewards for the capture of John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices. Booth fatally shot Lincoln on

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Pittsburgh Zoo has welcomed two adorable — and critically endangered — new bundles of joy. The zoo announced the birth of two delightful Amur leopard cubs in a Thursday news release. The babies were born March 18 to first-time mother Semba, according to the release. The cubs are still unnamed

By Jay Croft and Paradise Afshar, CNN The New Orleans Police Department said an employee of the popular Mandina’s Restaurant was the intended target of a fatal shooting Friday night near the annual Jazz Fest. Officers responded to a call of shots being fired in the 3800 block of Canal Street about 8:20 p.m., the

By AJ Willingham, CNN Mormonism is a religion practiced by millions around the world. And yet, many who are unfamiliar with it sometimes rely on vague stereotypes and pop culture references to define it. In reality, it’s a theologically complex religion with an unusual history. Here, we answer some of the most common questions about

By Taylor Romine, CNN A jury in California has convicted a woman of lying to authorities about a couple attempting to kidnap her children at a Bay Area Michaels craft store in 2020. Kathleen Sorensen, 31, could serve up to six months in jail after the jury returned a guilty verdict on one count of

By Faith Karimi, CNN Jennifer DeStefano’s phone rang one afternoon as she climbed out of her car outside the dance studio where her younger daughter Aubrey had a rehearsal. The caller showed up as unknown, and she briefly contemplated not picking up. But her older daughter, 15-year-old Brianna, was away training for a ski race

By Andy Rose and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A Texas man who was allegedly scammed of $40 in parking fees while on a date shot and killed the man who posed as the lot’s attendant — and then “nonchalantly” walked away to proceed with his dinner plans, court records show. Erick Aguirre, 29, appeared in court

By Raja Razek, Andy Rose and Ray Sanchez, CNN A gunman is still at large after allegedly fatally shooting five people, including a child, in a Cleveland, Texas home after a Friday night rampage that started with a noise complaint about gunfire, according to the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office. The suspect, identified as Francisco

By Steve Almasy and Laura Studley, CNN Democrats in the Oregon House of Representatives have introduced a bill that would decriminalize homeless encampments in public places and allow homeless people to sue for $1,000 if harassed or told to leave. The bill, HB 3501, would allow unhoused people to use public spaces “without discrimination and

By Matt Foster, CNN Phoenix Suns star forward Kevin Durant signed a lifetime contract with Nike on Friday, according to Boardroom, the media entity he co-owns. Durant becomes the third basketball star to sign such a contract, behind all-time greats Michael Jordan and LeBron James. Soccer phenomenon Cristiano Ronaldo signed a similar deal in 2016.

By Ray Sanchez, CNN In a front line state in the escalating US culture war over transgender rights, a son made an unsuccessful plea to his powerful father on behalf of the LGBTQ community. David Gianforte, 32, who uses he and they pronouns and identifies as nonbinary, is the son of Montana Republican Gov. Greg