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By Christina Maxouris and Raja Razek, CNN The Texas Senate passed a bill Thursday requiring each public school classroom to display a copy of the Ten Commandments, a move that drew backlash from civil liberty advocates who say lawmakers should not dictate what religious materials students are exposed to. The legislation, which passed the state

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A poodle named Toodles in Pennsylvania was revived with Narcan after suffering an apparent drug overdose, according to a local shelter. The dog was rushed to Blue Pearl Emergency Hospital on Monday, according to a Facebook post from the Pennsylvania SPCA. The pup was discovered in the Philadelphia neighborhood of Kensington

By Ray Sanchez, Miguel Marquez and Sarah Boxer, CNN The two professionals and colleagues, still in work attire, were part of the afternoon rush at the South Shore Shooting Range. Muffled rapid-fire gunshots could be heard in the parking lot outside Thursday on a quiet street shrouded by giant oaks and dotted with houses with

By Rebekah Riess and Zoe Sottile, CNN It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a … meteor flashing through the Indiana night sky. Residents of Hamilton County, Indiana, had the out-of-this-world opportunity to witness a meteor Friday night. Residents reported what they thought might have been an explosion due to the loud sound and flashing

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN The head of early childhood education in Alabama has been ousted after Gov. Kay Ivey learned of “woke concepts” in a resource book for pre-K teachers, officials said. Barbara Cooper, secretary of the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education (ADECE), resigned after Ivey asked her to stop the use of the

By Laura Studley and Zoe Sottile, CNN Around 250,000 gallons of sewage was spilled into the Los Angeles River on Thursday, causing the closure of seven miles of public beaches, according to local authorities. The massive spill was caused by a malfunction in equipment used by sanitation maintenance crews on Thursday morning, according to a

By Paradise Afshar and Zoe Sottile, CNN There’s an adorable new monk seal pup on Hawaii’s Kaimana Beach — and authorities are taking every step to make sure mother and baby are both unbothered by humans. Authorities have erected a “temporary fence” around the beach to protect the mother and pup, according to a Facebook

By Rebekah Riess and Sara Smart, CNN The home of a Utah state senator was vandalized in possible retaliation for a bill to ban gender-affirming surgery for minors, police say. Lone Peak officers were called around 7:30 a.m. Friday about vandalism at the home of state Sen. Mike Kennedy, a Republican. “The suspects appear to

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN Three people have been arrested after allegedly making online threats against the Volusia County Sheriff over comments he made against a neo-Nazi hate group. Earlier this year, Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood addressed a spike in antisemitic fliers and messages on literature and banners, including at the Daytona International Speedway during

By Rebekah Riess and Jennifer Feldman, CNN The federal government has agreed to pay $5 million to the family of a man who died after he left the scene of a minor traffic accident and was shot in his vehicle by officers in Virginia in 2017, according to court documents. According to an amended complaint

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A teenage boy provided a cautionary tale for anyone who has ever wanted to sneak their way into some free prizes. The unnamed 13-year-old climbed into a claw machine, called the “Cosmic XL Bonus Game,” at Carowinds amusement park at around 2 p.m. on April 16 and became stuck, according to

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A Maryland man has found his lucky numbers — and used them to win the lottery not just once but three times. The anonymous winner won his third $50,000 lottery prize in 11 months on April 13, according to a news release from the Maryland Lottery. Previously, the 52-year-old won two

By Rebekah Riess, CNN Eight people, including a 12-year-old girl, were injured in two back-to-back shootings in Washington, DC on Friday night — incidents that police are investigating as being connected. Around 10:00 p.m. ET, Metropolitan Police Department officers responded to sounds of gunshots in the district’s southwestern quadrant, officials said. When they arrived, police

By Paradise Afshar, Travis Caldwell and Holly Yan, CNN Depending on who you ask, the late-night shooting that killed Robert Dotson was either a “justified” use of force by New Mexico police or a “murderous” act by officers who responded to the wrong house. Attorneys for both sides have given dueling narratives of what happened

By Cheri Mossburg, CNN The estate of Stephen Paddock, the gambler who carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, has been sold off by court order and the proceeds will be evenly divided among the loved ones of the victims he killed in Las Vegas in 2017, an attorney for the victims

By Christina Maxouris and Liam Reilly, CNN Ohio’s govenor said Friday evening that he wants Norfolk Southern to pay East Palestine residents for the long-term impacts the February 3 toxic train derailment may have caused on the community. The rail operator should pay residents selling their house the difference of what their home value used

By Andy Rose and Treasure Welle, CNN An Illinois correctional officer accused of beating a man in custody has been charged with aggravated battery and official misconduct, authorities said. The Cook County Sheriff’s Office this week released surveillance video of the September 2022 incident, which shows a man speaking to the officer and another guard

By Rebekah Riess, Jamiel Lynch and Melissa Alonso, CNN Residents of a South Florida condo building have been ordered to evacuate by Tuesday after the building was deemed unsafe during its 60-year building recertification. During an inspection on April 14, a building engineer found the Majestic Isle condominium building in North Bay Village had sagging floors and

By Mitchell McCluskey, CNN An Indiana woman has been indicted on a federal hate crime count in a racially motivated attack on an Indiana University student of Chinese descent, the US Justice Department said Thursday. Federal prosecutors said the indictment from the federal grand jury in Evansville, Indiana, alleges Billie Davis, 56, attacked the victim

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A judge denied bond Friday to a man accused in the 2017 White supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, citing allegations the man continued to participate in antisemitic incidents after the infamous event at the University of Virginia. Albemarle County Circuit Court Judge Claude Worrell said he “can’t believe” the defendant, Tyler

By Kristina Sgueglia and Omar Jimenez, CNN A candidate for superintendent of a Massachusetts school district says he had his contract rescinded after he used the word “ladies” in an email — and another candidate pulled out of consideration after controversial Facebook posts about women’s sports surfaced. Vito Perrone tells CNN that he sent an

By Rebekah Riess, Michelle Watson and Joe Sutton, CNN An American Airlines employee died Thursday at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas, was operating a ground service vehicle that struck a jet bridge, authorities said. Police and Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services called to the airport found the employee with “obvious signs of trauma” to

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT have shown they can be remarkably adept at everything from generating student essays to writing wedding vows and even composing sermons for pastors and rabbis. Now, one city is turning to the AI chatbot for something else: helping to run the government. Here’s what else you

By Kia Fatahi and Sara Smart, CNN A transgender woman has sued Maryland’s corrections department in federal court, alleging she was improperly housed with male inmates while jailed for three months in 2021 and 2022 — and was sexually assaulted and denied hormone treatment during that time. The suit also alleges the plaintiff, Chelsea Gilliam,

By Veronica Miracle, Anna-Maja Rappard and Kevin Flower, CNN A federal lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that members of a Bay Area police department in California “engaged in a repeated pattern and practice of civil rights violations and other misconduct” against residents. The complaint, which names the City of Antioch, nine current and former Antioch Police

By Rebekah Riess and Jamiel Lynch, CNN Tennessee House Representative Scotty Campbell resigned from his seat Thursday following a report that he violated the General Assembly policy on workplace discrimination and harassment, according to a subcommittee’s memorandum and a copy of the Republican’s resignation letter. “Based on the completed staff investigation, the Ethics Subcommittee finds

By John Miller and Steve Almasy, CNN The shooter who killed five co-workers at a Louisville, Kentucky, bank this month left two very extensive notes — one in his home and one found on him after police killed him in a shootout, according to two law enforcement sources. The notes reveal that part of the

By Liam Reilly, CNN Disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly is appealing one of his two federal convictions — his September 2021 guilty verdicts on sex trafficking and racketeering charges in New York — and is seeking a reversal of that conviction or a new trial, court documents show. In a brief filed Wednesday, the singer’s

By Brynn Gingras, Linh Tran and Emma Tucker, CNN Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip on Thursday was denied another appeal to vacate his murder conviction in the death of his boss in 1997 and still faces execution in May. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals decision comes two weeks after a special counsel report

By Gregory Wallace Roadway deaths leveled off last year after spiking during the pandemic, according to federal estimates released Thursday. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated 42,795 people were killed on US roads in 2022. It’s a dip of fewer than 150 deaths from highs reached in 2021, when the agency recorded the largest

By Alisha Ebrahimji and Andi Babineau, CNN The woman who found the bodies of four people who were murdered at a home in Maine told police she saw “several firearms laying out” and “bullet holes everywhere,” according to a probable cause affidavit for the case. Lisa Shea, who was visiting Maine for the Easter holiday

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Billy Joel. Personal Birth date: May 9, 1949 Birth place: Bronx, New York Birth name: William Martin Joel Father: Howard Joel, engineer and pianist Mother: Rosalind (Nyman) Joel, homemaker Marriages: Alexis Roderick (2015-present); Katie Lee (2004-2009, divorced); Christie Brinkley (1985-1994,

By Cheri Mossburg, CNN Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, who served two terms in the 1990s and saw the city through the 1994 Northridge earthquake, died Wednesday evening, his family announced. He was 92. Calling Riordan their “beloved husband, father, grandfather and uncle,” the family said he “passed peacefully this evening at his home

By Nicole Chavez, CNN Book bans in public schools kept rising during the first half of the 2022-23 school year, and nearly a third of them were the direct result of newly enacted state laws, a new PEN America report says. PEN America, a literary and free expression advocacy organization, released Thursday its latest analysis

By Gili Remen and Celina Tebor, CNN New York state education officials voted unanimously this week to prohibit public schools from using or displaying Indigenous team names, logos, or mascots to represent the school. Throughout the state, boards of education must commit through a resolution to eliminating the use of all Indigenous imagery by the

By Stephanie Elam, CNN After one of the wettest winters on record, California hillsides are exploding with color. Swaths of yellow and streaks of orange, blue and purple paint the landscape this month as the state enjoys its extraordinary flurry of flowers. It’s the superbloom. Springtime road trips on California’s highways bring plenty of “oohs”

By Dianne Gallagher, Eric Levenson and Jamiel Lynch, CNN Robert Louis Singletary, the suspect accused of shooting a 6-year-old neighbor and her parents in North Carolina after a basketball rolled into his yard, was apprehended and is in custody in Hillsborough County, Florida, according to Gaston County, North Carolina, spokesperson Adam J. Gaub. Jail records

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The US government is tracking more than 650 potential UFO cases, according to the Pentagon. Lawmakers on Wednesday viewed this declassified video from an unresolved case showing a small orb moving through the sky in the Middle East. This type of footage of so-called “unidentified aerial phenomena” often fuels speculation, but

By Taylor Romine, CNN The US Coast Guard is suspending its search for three missing Americans last heard from on April 4 near Mazatlán, Mexico, according to a Coast Guard news release. The search was suspended “pending further developments” after Mexican Navy and US Coast Guard responders “conducted 281 cumulative search hours covering approximately 200,057

By Lauren del Valle, Laura Dolan and Celina Tebor, CNN The Boy Scouts of America will begin to distribute compensation to thousands of victims of sexual abuse after emerging from bankruptcy Wednesday, the organization announced. As part of a settlement with more than 82,000 survivors of abuse, the BSA will pay out $2.4 billion from

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Ashley Killough, Ed Lavandera and Rosa Flores, CNN The most seriously injured of two teenage cheerleaders shot in a Texas parking lot this week — an incident in which one said she’d opened the wrong vehicle door — is recovering from surgery as her team prepares to compete in a world championship

By Nicole Norman, CNN A synagogue in Seattle was vandalized with anti-Israel messaging on Sunday, the eve of Holocaust Remembrance day, the Seattle Police said in a release Wednesday. “This was a coordinated and focused attack,” said Senior Rabbi Daniel Weiner, of Temple De Hirsch Sinai on Capitol Hill, who believes the timing of the

By Steve Almasy and Sara Smart, CNN A 34-year-old man who had recently been released from prison shot and killed his parents and two others Tuesday morning at a home in Bowdoin, Maine, and then wounded three other people as he drove on an interstate highway, authorities said Wednesday. Joseph Eaton was released from prison

By Mark Morales and Brynn Gingras, CNN The man who fatally shot 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis, who was in a car that mistakenly turned into his driveway, will remain in jail after a judge remanded him back to police custody at a bail hearing Wednesday. Gillis was one of several passengers in a vehicle, along with

By Rosa Flores, CNN An Oklahoma county commissioner allegedly heard on a recording of local officials that included remarks about lynching Black people and killing journalists has resigned. Jennings said his resignation is “effective immediately,” according to a handwritten letter signed by Jennings and dated Wednesday. The resignation of Mark Jennings, a commissioner in McCurtain

By Veronica Miracle, Taylor Romine and Paradise Afshar, CNN Protesters gathered outside the Antioch, California, Police Department Tuesday after a report revealed racist text messages sent among some officers and members of the public. The report from the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office named 17 police officers in the Antioch department who it said

By Nick Valencia, Ray Sanchez, Pamela Kirkland and Maxime Tamsett, CNN The family of Tyre Nichols filed a federal $550 million lawsuit Wednesday against the city of Memphis, its police department and what the suit said were “unqualified, untrained, and unsupervised” officers assigned to a special unit who brutally beat the 29-year-old Black man after

By Alisha Ebrahimji and Tina Burnside, CNN Two teenage cheerleaders were shot after one said she mistook the suspect’s vehicle for her own in a supermarket parking lot near Texas’ capital — one of at least four incidents this week in which young people who’d made an apparent mistake were met with gunfire. Pedro Tello

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN A toddler crawled through a White House fence on Tuesday, prompting a swift Secret Service response. Photos of the breach show the tiny intruder being caught by officers before being quickly reunited with his parents. While security alerts were rapidly lifted, it remains unclear if the infiltration resulted in a timeout.

By Nouran Salahieh, Virginia Langmaid and Eric Levenson, CNN A Black teenager who authorities say was shot in the head by an 84-year-old White homeowner after going to the wrong Kansas City address received a positive prognosis but still faces a long road to recovery, according to his attorneys. In a new photo, 16-year-old Ralph

By Isabel Rosales, Holly Yan and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Six people — including four teenagers — have been arrested and now face murder charges in connection with the deadly rampage at a weekend Sweet 16 birthday party in Dadeville, Alabama, authorities say. Willie George Brown Jr., 19, was arrested Thursday and charged with four counts

By Celina Tebor, CNN Five men were indicted in connection with more than a dozen robberies at bars and nightclubs in New York City, including three of whom are also charged with murder, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday. The five men were indicted for “robbing individuals outside bars and nightclubs by drugging them

By Justin Gamble, CNN The National Urban League unveiled on Tuesday its annual report on the state of Black America, saying the nation is under attack from hate and extremism within the country. The report hopes to raise “the alarm around the explosive growth of far-right and domestic extremism and the threat it poses to

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN In two recent cases, two different people approached the wrong house and were both shot by the homeowner without exchanging a single word — one person lost their life from the encounter, another survived and is recovering from gunshot wounds to their head and arm. On April 13, Ralph Yarl, 16,

By Julian Cummings, Brynn Gingras, Laura Ly and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN A parking garage that collapsed Tuesday in lower Manhattan, killing one person and injuring five others, had six open building violations, three of which were classified as “hazardous,” New York City Department of Buildings records show. The garage, on Ann Street in the Financial

By Michelle Watson and Christina Maxouris, CNN A 34-year-old man was arrested Tuesday evening in connection with the killings of four people who were found dead earlier in the day at a Bowdoin, Maine, home, authorities said. The killings appeared to be connected to a series of nearby highway shootings that left three drivers injured

By Kelly McCleary, Melissa Alonso and Chris Youd, CNN Three officials at the Fulton County, Georgia, jail have stepped down amid an investigation into the death of an inmate whose family said was housed in a filthy, bug-infested cell that “was not fit for a diseased animal.” The Fulton County Jail’s chief jailer and two

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN It’s a surprising fact that’s often overlooked in the immigration debate. Undocumented immigrants pay billions of dollars in federal taxes annually, between tax returns filed and taxes deducted from paychecks, experts estimate. Here’s a look at why — and how — this is happening. Why some undocumented immigrants choose to

By Tina Burnside and Raja Razek, CNN The governor of Oklahoma is calling on four McCurtain County officials to resign after they allegedly participated in a secretly recorded conversation that included racist remarks about lynching Black people and talking about killing journalists. The McCurtain Gazette-News over the weekend published the audio it said was recorded

By Isabel Rosales, Elizabeth Wolfe, Kevin Conlon and Taka Yokoyama, CNN Before Alexis Dowdell headed to her Sweet 16 party, she sat on her big brother’s bed to tell him she was nervous for the event she had been planning for months — only to have him make her laugh and assure her that he

By Laura Ly and Brynn Gingras, CNN A 20-year-old woman was shot and killed Saturday after she and three others accidentally turned into the wrong driveway while looking for a friend’s house in rural upstate New York, authorities said. The woman, identified as Kaylin Gillis, was a passenger in a vehicle when a man, 65-year-old

By Nouran Salahieh, Taylor Romine and Holly Yan, CNN The 84-year-old White man accused of shooting a Black teenager who rang his doorbell in Kansas City turned himself in Tuesday and was later released on bail, authorities said. Andrew Lester, who faces two felony charges — assault in the first degree and armed criminal action

By Rashard Rose and Theresa Waldrop, CNN A grand jury has declined to indict a Virginia police officer who shot and killed an unarmed shoplifting suspect, according to the county prosecutor. Former Fairfax County Police Sergeant Wesley Shifflett was fired and faced a criminal investigation after the shooting death of Timothy Johnson in February. Officers

By Eric Levenson, Dakin Andone, Polo Sandoval, Theresa Waldrop and Laura Ly, CNN A special grand jury in Ohio declined to indict the Akron police officers who shot a 25-year-old Black man dozens of times, killing him, after a car chase and foot chase last year. The grand jury concluded the officers were legally justified