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By Isabel Rosales, Holly Yan, Nick Valencia and David Close, CNN University of Georgia star defensive lineman Jalen Carter — projected as a top pick in the NFL draft next month — faces charges of reckless driving and racing in connection with a crash that killed teammate Devin Willock and team employee Chandler LeCroy, Athens-Clarke

By Athena Jones and Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN — Photographs by Laura Oliverio and Xueying Chang, CNN Tracie Yorke grew concerned about the quality of education her son was receiving after his school moved to remote learning during the pandemic in 2020. Yorke, of Hyattsville, Maryland, described her fourth grader’s Zoom classes as chaotic —

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN At least two commercial flights this week made unscheduled loops in the sky to give passengers a view of the northern lights. Some pilots were praised for shifting course to showcase the natural phenomenon as passengers welcomed the diversion to take pictures out the window. Here’s what else you need to

By Sara Smart, CNN More than a decade after 31-year-old Todd Lampley was fatally shot in a Massachusetts home, authorities have arrested and charged a suspect who was identified with the help of DNA found on a sweet potato found at the scene, court records show. Devarus Hampton, 40, pleaded not guilty Monday to charges

By Christina Maxouris, Nouran Salahieh and Celina Tebor, CNN Norfolk Southern is expected to attend a public meeting with East Palestine, Ohio, residents Thursday at the request and order of the US Environmental Protection Agency, EPA regional administrator Debra Shore said in a Wednesday news conference. The meeting comes nearly a month since the February

By Tina Burnside and Andy Rose, CNN Authorities say an hourslong standoff at a Missouri home that followed the shooting of three officers is over and a woman found in the house was taken into custody. A deceased man was also found in the home, according to state authorities. The three Kansas City, Missouri, police

By Lauren del Valle, CNN Attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell have asked a federal appellate court to vacate her 2021 sex trafficking conviction and dismiss the indictment, arguing prosecutors treated Maxwell as a proxy for her longtime associate Jeffrey Epstein to satisfy public outrage, according to a new court filing. Maxwell’s attorneys first filed notice of

By Christina Maxouris, CNN The group of jurors who on Thursday convicted Alex Murdaugh of killing his wife and son had a day earlier visited the sprawling Islandton, South Carolina, property where the 2021 murders took place. The massive estate, known as Moselle, was at the heart of the trial — and played a big

By Nick Watt, CNN Every room has its own bathroom and a little kitchen area. Downstairs there’s a common room with a TV, a pool table and a baby grand piano. And every resident is a previously homeless veteran. This once crumbling building on a vast Department of Veterans Affairs campus in a lovely, leafy

By Wayne Sterling and Nadia Kounang, CNN Irv Cross, a former NFL star and broadcasting pioneer who died two years ago at the age of 81, had stage 4 chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the Boston University CTE Center said Tuesday. “Mr. Cross was diagnosed during life with mild cognitive impairment and was found at autopsy to

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN It’s one of the most well-known public service announcements in American history. A Native American man in buckskin and braids canoes through a polluted river, past smoke-emitting factories and onto a littered shore. Trash hurled from the window of a passing car lands at the man’s feet. As the camera closes

By Greg Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN The nation’s railroads are facing federal pressure to take a closer look at how they use the detectors that investigators say may have been able to prevent the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this month. The Federal Railroad Administration is issuing a safety advisory Tuesday

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN On this hellscape that we call the internet, you’ve probably witnessed a particularly blatant instance of rage farming. Maybe you’ve rolled your eyes at the pinkwashing that abounds during Pride Month. Perhaps you’ve felt violated when a Zoom call fell prey to cyberflashing. In a sign of our Extremely Online times,

By Holly Yan, Jen Christensen and Celina Tebor, CNN The aftermath of the toxic train wreck in Ohio keeps spreading to more states as scientists say tests in East Palestine show unusually high levels of some chemicals. Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb is the latest out-of-state official to say he was stunned to learn hazardous waste

By Sabrina Clay and Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN The New College of Florida’s reshaped board of trustees voted Tuesday to abolish diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the school after a heated public comment session — events that follow Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to move the college in a conservative direction. The vote will

By Eric Levenson, Alta Spells, Dianne Gallagher and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN State prosecutors rested their rebuttal case Tuesday after calling six witnesses to contradict parts of Alex Murdaugh’s defense as the disgraced attorney’s double murder trial neared its end. Kenneth Kinsey, a crime scene forensics expert, was the final rebuttal witness and criticized the methodology

By Sara Smart and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Ohio investigators were trying to identify human remains found decades ago when a tip led them to identify the remains of another person found dead almost 200 miles away, officials said Monday. Investigators now believe they’ve identified both sets of remains, officials said. “Old-fashioned detective work, modern DNA

By Eric Levenson, Alta Spells and Dianne Gallagher, CNN Alex Murdaugh’s defense in his double murder trial rested its case Monday after calling up 14 witnesses over about two weeks of testimony. Monday’s testimony was headlined by an expert in crime scene reconstruction and blood spatter analysis who testified that the evidence suggests two shooters

By Casey Tolan, CNN In the parking lot of New Jerusalem Church in Jackson, Mississippi, volunteers handed out free cases of bottled water to a line of arriving cars last week — a new normal in a state capital that has struggled with the fallout of a failing water system. But inside the church, a

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The US is one of only seven countries in the world without some form of universal paid family and medical leave — but two congresswomen are trying to change that. Both mothers with daughters, this bipartisan duo is collaborating across the aisle in hopes to make progress on the issue. Here’s

By Nouran Salahieh, Artemis Moshtaghian and Holly Yan, CNN After a brief pause, shipments of contaminated liquid and soil from the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, have resumed after cross-country concerns about where the hazardous waste is going. Officials with the Environmental Protection Agency previously said they have approved the shipment of contaminated

By Ella Nilsen and Renée Rigdon, CNN As the planet warms, hurricanes are changing — they are getting stronger faster, bringing more flooding rain, pushing farther inland after they make landfall and tracking farther north in general. Those changes are exposing more people and properties to hurricanes’ damaging winds, according to a new report from

By Raja Razek, CNN Arizona authorities targeting the Sinaloa drug cartel have seized narcotics estimated to be worth more than $13 million, including more than 4.5 million fentanyl pills, 3,100 pounds of methamphetamine and large quantities of heroin, cocaine and fentanyl powder, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. In a news release, the agency said

By Nouran Salahieh and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN The Environmental Protection Agency has approved resuming shipments of contaminated liquid and soil out of East Palestine, Ohio, where a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed earlier this month. The EPA on Friday ordered the train’s operator, Norfolk Southern, to halt the shipments so that it could review the

By Zoe Sottile, CNN If you’re an AirPod Max owner in New York, you’ll want to hold on tight to your headphones. Since January, the New York City Police Department has recorded 21 incidents in which thieves riding mopeds stole Apple AirPod Max headphones off their victims’ heads. The popular headphones retail for $549 on

By Polo Sandoval and Nicole Grether, CNN Yeva Hrytsak, a ballet student at the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in New York City, remembers the “unthinkable” phone call she received on February 24, 2022, from her family in Ukraine four days after arriving in Switzerland, where she was temporarily studying at Zurich Dance

By Chris Boyette and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN A man who drove a pickup into a group of bicyclists over the weekend, killing two and injuring 17 others, was arrested on manslaughter and assault charges, police in Arizona said. Pedro Quintana-Lujan drove a truck that crashed into a group of cyclists Saturday on the Cotton Lane

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The alligator rescued from a New York City park last week had swallowed a bathtub stopper, according to an update from zoo officials. The wayward gator was discovered in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Lake by workers for the New York Department of Parks and Recreation last Sunday. Since then, the reptile, found

By Chris Boyette, CNN Attorney Benjamin Crump has been at the forefront of some of the highest-profile cases involving civil rights and racial injustice — but acknowledges there’s much more work to be done. While accepting the Social Justice Impact Award at the NAACP Image Awards on Saturday night, Crump vowed “never to stop fighting

By Andrew Torgan, CNN Are you reading today’s edition of 5 Things on your phone? That’s good! However, if you find yourself looking at your phone nearly all the time, that’s definitely not good … particularly if your frequent trips down the digital rabbit hole are taking a physical and mental toll. Here’s what else

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Raul Rodriguez says he’ll never forget the moment he realized his life was built on a lie. He was so shaken that he felt the blood rushing to his feet. In a matter of seconds, a family secret had shattered the way he saw the world and his place in

By Rebekah Riess, CNN Two people have been arrested in the shooting that wounded nine children at a Columbus, Georgia, gas station earlier this month, police announced Friday. The suspects were identified as 35-year-old D’Angelo Robinson, Sr., and an unnamed 15-year-old male, who were both taken into custody on aggravated assault charges, according to a

By Lucy Kafanov, CNN For four days this week, home for Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was a pitch-black room. There were no phones, no television, no lights or distractions. Just Rodgers, alone with his thoughts, in a cabin built specifically for prolonged isolation in the dark. When the four-time NFL MVP announced plans

By Paradise Afshar and Christina Maxouris, CNN Lorenzo “Lo” Jelks, Atlanta’s first Black television news reporter, has died at 83, according to the Atlanta Press Club and CNN affiliate WSB. After graduating from Clark College (now known as Clark Atlanta University), Jelks was hired in 1967 by WSB-TV, where he stayed for nearly a decade,

By Paradise Afshar and Rebekah Riess, CNN A Florida high school student has been arrested after a video showed him attacking a school employee after she took away his Nintendo Switch device, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office. The Matanzas High School student has been charged with felony aggravated battery with bodily harm, the

By Emma Tucker, CNN The US Marshals Service is teaming up with a Native American tribe based in Northern California for a new push aimed at addressing cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people, a growing crisis that tribes say has not received enough attention. The Yurok Tribe was chosen as the first pilot location

By Zoe Sottile and Amanda Watts, CNN A new bill in Florida might mean no more joyrides for Fido. A bill moving through the Florida legislature would forbid dogs from sticking their head out of car windows, in addition to a host of other measures. The proposed measure is part of Senate Bill 932, a

By Mallika Kallingal and Raja Razek, CNN Eight people were injured, including two critically, after a stabbing incident in Oklahoma City, according to the Oklahoma City Police Department. Police say a “large fight” broke out at a nightclub in the early hours of Saturday morning in the city’s Bricktown district. “Several police officers were posted

By Gabe Cohen, CNN A failing, flaming wheel bearing doomed the rail car that derailed and created a catastrophe in East Palestine earlier this month, but researchers have offered a solution to the faulty detectors that experts say could have averted the disaster unfolding in the small Ohio town. These wayside hot box detectors, stationed

By Andy Rose and Rebekah Riess, CNN An 81-year-old man died after being attacked by two dogs in San Antonio, Texas, and a suspect has been arrested in the incident, police say. The man and a female companion, 74, were attacked Friday afternoon when they got out of their car in front of a relative’s

By Rebekah Riess, Tina Burnside and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN The five people who were killed Friday after a medical services airplane crashed in Western Nevada have been identified, according to GoFundMe fundraisers that the company verified to CNN. The plane, which was bound for Salt Lake City, Utah, left Reno around 9:45 p.m. and was

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Tucked among the thousands of iconic Yoshino cherry trees at the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC, is the “indicator tree,” which erupts into full bloom as much as 10 days earlier than its neighbors and gives officials at the National Park Service a good idea when the rest of them might

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall for more than a million candles sold at Walmart after the agency received reports of the candles’ glass cracking, causing burns and cuts. The agency issued the recall on Thursday for over 1.2 million “Mainstays Three-Wicked Candles” with autumnal and Halloween-themed

By Nicki Brown, Sara Smart and Ralph Ellis, CNN The federal Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Norfolk Southern to stop its shipments of hazardous waste from the site of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, so that it can review the company’s plans for disposal. Officials in Texas and Michigan are complaining they didn’t

By Eva McKend and Andy Rose, CNN Close relatives of former US President Jimmy Carter are remaining by his side as he receives hospice care at his home in Georgia, a family member told CNN Friday. “It’s his kids and grandkids up there,” LeAnne Smith, a niece of Carter’s wife, Rosalynn, told CNN. Carter, who

By Emma Tucker and Raja Razek, CNN Alabama will resume the executions of death row inmates, the governor said Friday, three months after multiple failed lethal injections prompted an internal review of the state’s capital punishment system. In a letter to state Attorney General Steve Marshall, Gov. Kay Ivey called for the state’s execution proceedings

By Mallika Kallingal and Veronica Miracle, CNN The Idaho house where four college students were killed in November will be demolished as a “healing step,” the University of Idaho said in a statement Friday. Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20, were each stabbed multiple times in

By Mallika Kallingal and Rebekah Riess, CNN An Andean bear at the Saint Louis Zoo is back in his enclosure after escaping his habitat for a second time this month. The bear, named Ben, broke out of his outdoor habitat Thursday afternoon, according to a statement from the zoo. But he was not outside for

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN If you’ve looked at flights lately, you may have been taken aback by current ticket prices. The busy travel season is heating up, which means heightened demand and more expensive airfares. But if you time things right and target the “Goldilocks Window,” there’s a good chance you’ll snag a deal —

By Sara Smart, CNN Philadelphia 76ers star James Harden spoke via video call Wednesday with John Hao, a fan of Harden’s and one of the Michigan State University students wounded in a mass shooting on campus last week. A video shared with CNN by Harden’s management team shows the NBA star giving words of encouragement

By Aya Elamroussi and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN After federal officials released an initial report concluding that this month’s toxic train wreck in Ohio was completely preventable, investigators will begin examining procedures, practices and design prior to the derailment that has sparked long-term concerns among hundreds of frustrated residents. The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday

By Paradise Afshar and Jason Hanna, CNN A man serving life sentences for three 2005 Las Vegas-area murders has now been charged in a 2004 killing there, authorities said Thursday. Investigators determined Norman Flowers, 48, is a suspect in the 2004 death of Keysha Brown after they asked for more forensic testing during a July

By Travis Caldwell, Ray Sanchez and Emma Tucker, CNN After two days on the stand, Alex Murdaugh completed testimony Friday in the murder trial over the killings of his wife and son. After about six hours of testimony Friday — which included a prosecutor grilling the former disgraced South Carolina attorney over lies, drug use

By Emma Tucker, CNN After weeks of testimony, a South Carolina court finally heard this week from Alex Murdaugh, who is facing two counts of murder in the deaths of his wife and son. The disgraced former attorney pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and two weapons charges in the killings of his

By Treasure Welle and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Ellen Gilland, a 76-year old Florida woman who allegedly shot and killed her terminally ill husband last month in a failed murder-suicide agreement at a Daytona Beach hospital, was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday, according to online Volusia County court records. Gilland was charged Wednesday with one

By Andy Rose, CNN A suspect accused of killing five people in a shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs can stand trial, a judge ruled Thursday, determining prosecutors demonstrated in a preliminary hearing they had enough probable cause to proceed. Anderson Lee Aldrich, charged with more than 300 counts in connection with the

By Melissa Alonso and Devon M. Sayers, CNN Prosecutors have dropped all charges against a Black man who was beaten by multiple sheriff’s office employees while he was in custody at a Georgia jail in September 2022, according to a new court filing. Attorneys for the man, Jarrett Hobbs, also reached a “significant settlement agreement”

By Nick Valencia and Pamela Kirkland, CNN The inaction of two Memphis Fire Department first responders fired after the deadly police beating of Tyre Nichols may have contributed to his death, according to a state emergency medical services board. Advanced Emergency Medical Technician JaMichael Sandridge and EMT Robert Long “failed to provide any basic or

By AJ Willingham, CNN When Marguerite Richards made a TikTok bragging about her father’s decade-old thriller novel, she was hoping to rouse a little interest. A few dozen new readers, maybe. As the first few positive comments started rolling in, she was pleased to have done something nice for a dad who definitely deserved it.

By Ryan Young and Devon M. Sayers, CNN The Shreveport, Louisiana, police officer charged in the shooting of an unarmed Black man earlier this month had twice been suspended from the department without pay, records show. Officer Alexander Tyler, 23, served a combined 30 days on suspension in 21 months with the Shreveport Police Department,

By Faith Karimi, CNN Brenda Partridge-Brown knew for years that her mother served overseas during World War II. But she didn’t know the whole story. Willie Belle Irvin-Partridge had regaled her six children in suburban Atlanta with stories of her time in the Women’s Army Corps, stationed in Europe. She shared memories of the friendships

By Dakin Andone, Dianne Gallagher, Randi Kaye and Alta Spells, CNN Alex Murdaugh testified in his double murder trial Thursday, admitting he lied to investigators when he said he was not at the scene of his wife and son’s killings before they were fatally shot in June 2021. Within moments of taking the stand, Murdaugh

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN In the milk section of your grocery store, there are likely shelves of plant-based dairy alternatives: oat, almond, soy, cashew, coconut, flaxseed, hazelnut, hemp seed, macadamia nut, oat, pea, peanut, pecan, quinoa — and the list goes on. To help streamline the confusing array of products, the FDA issued new guidance

By Rachel Ramirez, Laura Paddison and Brandon Miller, CNN As parts of the West and Northern US face a winter storm with blizzard conditions and significant snowfall, much of the rest of the country is experiencing a summer-like heat that has never been felt before during the month of February. More than 130 cities from