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By Andrew Torgan, CNN Even if you’re not a football fan, you’ve probably heard about Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin suffering cardiac arrest during a game last week. Would you know what to do if you suspected someone near you had gone into cardiac arrest? Here are some simple steps you could take right away

By Tina Burnside, CNN Search and rescue crews recovered the body of a missing snowmobiler buried in the Colorado mountains after an avalanche Saturday that had already claimed the life of another person, authorities said. The body of the 52-year-old man was transported Sunday morning to the Grand County Coroner’s Office, which will determine the

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Bring in the toast. A fire at a dairy plant in Wisconsin left storm drains and a historic canal clogged with butter. The fire took place at an Associated Milk Producers facility in Portage on Monday, according to a news release from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Approximately 20 gallons

By Josh Campbell, CNN Ana Montes, an American citizen convicted of spying for Cuba, has been released from US federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas, according to Federal Bureau of Prison online records. Cuba recruited Montes for spying in the 1980s and she was employed by the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency as an analyst from

By Isa Kaufman Geballe and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN After earlier announcing that Colorado would help asylum-seeking migrants leave the state for their intended destinations, Gov. Jared Polis said the state would not be sending additional buses of migrants to New York City and Chicago following “a very productive conversation” with the mayors of both cities,

By Ray Sanchez, CNN In the weeks after four University of Idaho students were found stabbed to death in a home near campus, police faced mounting criticism from the public as the investigation appeared to be at a standstill. In fact, court documents show, a team of local and state law enforcement officers, along with

By Nicole Chavez, CNN In the years after World War I, Black people were thriving in the central Florida town of Rosewood when a White mob driven by racial animosity decimated the entire community within days. Rosewood became the site of a horrific massacre 100 years ago, during the first week of January in 1923.

By Yenny Sanchez, CNN US Customs and Border Protection officers seized 877 pounds of cocaine on board the San Juan-Santo Domingo Ferry at the Pan American Dock in Puerto Rico last month. The drugs, which have an estimated value of $9.1 million, were spotted on December 26 during a routine cargo inspection. Officers removed a

By Kiely Westhoff, CNN Authorities in Massachusetts are “working around the clock” to search for a mother of three young children missing since New Year’s Day, police said. Ana Walshe was last seen by a family member at her home in Cohasset around 4:05 a.m., January 1, Cohasset Police Chief William Quigley said at a

By Rebekah Riess, CNN A Houston area man has been charged with aggravated kidnapping after holding a woman he met on a dating app captive for five days around Christmas and physically assaulting her before she escaped, according to charging documents. The victim agreed to go to 21-year-old Zachary Kent Mills’ apartment complex on December

By Tina Burnside, CNN The Phoenix Police Department has taken into custody a suspect who fled after allegedly shooting and wounding a Scottsdale detective during a special assignment Friday night. Kenneth Hearne, 37, the “armed and dangerous” suspect who police said fled from a two-story balcony after firing on officers, was apprehended Saturday night, according

By Isa Kaufman Geballe and Tavleen Tarrant, CNN Authorities in New York seized record-breaking amounts of fentanyl powder and fake prescription pills laced with the potent opioid in 2022, according to two drug enforcement agencies. The Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New York Division seized 1.9 million fentanyl-laced pills and 1,958 pounds of fentanyl across the

By Cheri Mossburg, CNN A Los Angeles County traffic stop in which a local rapper was approached by a deputy who threatened that the man would “take one to the chest” if he failed to comply with exiting his parked vehicle is now under investigation, according to police. Rapper Feezy Lebron was detained by two

By Faith Karimi, CNN Gabby Beckford’s plan to visit the British Virgin Islands started with a flurry of searches on what to wear, eat and do in between exploring the islands’ pristine beaches and sapphire waters. But instead of using Google or other search engines, she turned to TikTok. “On TikTok, I can search what

By Elizabeth Wolfe, John Miller and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Following the stabbing deaths of four students in November, the tight-knit University of Idaho community was shaken for weeks, but the recent arrest of a suspect may allow the campus to regain a sense of security as students return to classes this week. “I think I

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN The Mega Millions jackpot has jumped to more than $1 billion after Friday night’s drawing ended without an overall winner. This marks the fourth time in a little over four years that the top prize has exceeded $1 billion, Mega Millions said in a release Friday. Friday’s drawing ended with numbers

By Andy Rose, CNN An Iowa woman who was believed to be the oldest person in the US died this week, according to a funeral home. Bessie Hendricks died Tuesday at the age of 115 in Lake City, Iowa, the Lampe and Powers Funeral Home said. Hendricks was born as Bessie Laurena near Auburn, Iowa,

By Mark Morales, CNN Trevor Bickford, the 19-year-old accused of attacking New York Police Department officers with a machete on New Year’s Eve, was indicted Friday on more than a dozen charges, including several terrorism charges, prosecutors announced. Bickford now faces three counts of attempted murder in the first degree, as well as three counts

By Emma Tucker, CNN The largest and oldest nationwide group advocating for the rights of blind people was sued Friday for allegedly failing to protect its students, including minors, from known sexual abusers employed by the organization in a culture the lawsuit claims enabled the abuse to continue for years. The lawsuit against the National

By Shimon Prokupecz, CNN The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is moving to terminate a member of the elite Texas Rangers unit who had been suspended over the actions he failed to take during the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, according to a source familiar with the process. The source

By Amanda Musa, Jennifer Feldman, Christina Maxouris and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN A 6-year-old boy was taken into police custody after he shot a teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, Friday afternoon, Police Chief Steve Drew said in a news conference. “The individual is a 6-year-old student,” Drew said. “We have been in

By Alaa Elassar, Paradise Afshar and Ed Lavandera, CNN Federal, state and local officials in Albuquerque, New Mexico, are investigating a fifth shooting that may be connected to a string of shootings involving the homes and offices of local Democratic elected leaders as targets. The New Mexico Attorney General, two state senators, a current county

By Laura Ly, CNN A former athletics official at the University of Southern California was sentenced Friday to six months in prison after pleading guilty in an admissions scandal for allegedly helping students cheat their way into acceptances at the prestigious college. Donna Heinel, who was USC’s senior associate athletic director, had pleaded guilty in

By John Miller and Aya Elamroussi, CNN The man accused of murdering four University of Idaho students in November had thoroughly cleaned the interior and exterior of his car and was also seen wearing surgical gloves multiple times before being apprehended, a law enforcement source tells CNN. Bryan Kohberger, 28, is currently the sole suspect

By Joe Sutton, CNN Weeks after Hawaii’s Mauna Loa erupted for the first time in decades, neighboring volcano Kilauea is showing activity again after a brief pause, according to officials. Kilauea — which had stopped erupting last month for the first time since September 2021 amid Mauna Loa’s own lava eruption and subsequent slowdown —

By Rebekah Riess, CNN A 21-year-old sexual assault suspect accused of kidnapping three children over the span of two days was taken into custody Thursday, police in Wichita, Kansas, said. All three children have been located and are safe, Wichita Police Department spokesperson Chad Ditch told reporters during a Thursday news conference. A teenage girl

By Laura Ly, CNN One of the first things you can hear is the sound of someone moaning. The camera is shaky, but in the video, you can see blood on the ground and on the seats. The smoke begins to clear and then, the confusion sets in. “I don’t know — someone’s bleeding,” a

By Ray Sanchez, CNN DNA allegedly found on a knife sheath recovered at the murder scene. A roommate described a masked figure with “bushy eyebrows.” Phone records showed the suspect was near the victims’ residence numerous times in the months before the killings. Nearly two months after the killings of four University of Idaho students

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Hakeem Jeffries, the US House minority leader. He is the first Black lawmaker to lead a party in Congress. Personal Birth date: August 4, 1970 Birth place: Brooklyn, New York Birth name: Hakeem Sekou Jeffries Father: Marland Jeffries, counselor Mother: Laneda (Gomes) Jeffries, social worker

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Many people are growing to trust autonomous cars and delivery robots that navigate sidewalks in major cities. Now, that same self-driving technology is coming to strollers — yes, strollers. Understandably, some parents are not ready to put their baby in a mechanism with a mind of its own. Still, the company

By Ed Lavandera, Ashley Killough, Rosa Flores and Alaa Elassar, CNN A man accused of harassing migrants while brandishing a gun on New Year’s Eve has been arrested and charged with felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, El Paso, Texas, police said. Charges against Steven Mathew Driscoll, 27, were upgraded to include a federal

By Michelle Watson, CNN A Virginia judge applied the state’s statutory punitive damages cap to decrease the amount of punitive damages owed by White Nationalists who organized and participated in the 2017 Unite the Right rally from $24 million to $350,000, court records show. A total of $26 million was awarded by a jury in

By Paradise Afshar and Rebekah Riess, CNN Two funeral home operators in Colorado were sentenced Wednesday for illegally selling bodies and body parts without the families’ consent, the US Attorney’s Office said. Megan Hess was sentenced to 20 years in prison and her mother, Shirley Koch, received 15 years for their involvement in the scheme

By Rikki Klaus and Nicole Chavez, CNN After community members searched for Wanbli Vigil in knee-deep snow and brush in Denver, authorities activated a statewide alert system on Tuesday to help find the missing 27-year-old Lakota man. Vigil’s disappearance is the first case to activate Colorado’s new Missing Indigenous Person Alert (MIPA). The system was

By Mark Morales, CNN Trevor Bickford, the 19-year-old accused of attacking New York Police Department officers with a machete on New Year’s Eve, traveled to the city “in order to kill people and carry out jihad,” prosecutors say. Bickford allegedly went to the Times Square checkpoint just after 10 p.m., authorities have said. At the

By AJ Willingham, CNN The death of a pope is a unique circumstance in the Catholic Church. The death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the first pope in modern history to resign his position before his passing, is even more so. As Catholics around the world prepare for his funeral and burial, Catholics in the

By Lauren del Valle and Jean Casarez, CNN Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November, has arrived back in Idaho after waiving extradition from his home state of Pennsylvania. Law enforcement escorted Kohberger to the Latah County Jail on Wednesday night. He was booked on four counts of

By Michelle Watson, CNN A New Year’s Day police check on a stolen car report ended when the car plunged over 20 feet and landed on a house and another vehicle in North Caldwell, New Jersey, authorities said in a Facebook post. Officers were at the scene after responding to a report of a stationary

By Eric Levenson, CNN For many players, Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s on-field medical emergency on Monday was the first time they had ever witnessed such a serious health incident. Yet the history of professional football is no stranger to such crises. Since its earliest days, football has been a dangerous sport. From 1900 to

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Some passengers who were recently affected by Southwest Airlines’ holiday travel meltdown are receiving thousands of frequent flier miles as a “gesture of goodwill” for enduring such turbulent times. Meanwhile, lots of luggage remains in limbo — and it could be several days to weeks until some passengers are reunited with

By Eric Levenson and Lauren del Valle, CNN William “Rick” Singer, the mastermind of the sprawling college admissions scam aptly known as Operation Varsity Blues, was sentenced Wednesday to 3.5 years in federal prison, the longest sentence in a case that has rattled America’s higher education system. Singer was the central figure in the scam

By Taylor Romine, Aya Elamroussi, Stella Chan and Holly Yan, CNN A 41-year-old California man faces multiple charges after he allegedly drove off a cliff on the Pacific Coast Highway with his wife and two children, authorities said. All four occupants of the Tesla survived the crash Monday after the car plunged 250 to 300

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Parts of drought-plagued California are facing an onslaught of powerful storms to start the new year, bringing flooding rainfall and even mud and debris flows to the state. The latest in the series of storms are expected to reach the coast Wednesday morning, and while the entire state will see impacts

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By Amanda Musa and Melissa Alonso, CNN A Louisiana police officer was charged with negligent homicide after he crashed into a vehicle carrying three teenagers while in pursuit of a suspect in a different vehicle during a high-speed chase, according to the District Attorney for the 18th Judicial District of Louisiana. Addis Police Department Officer,

By Celina Tebor, CNN New York Mayor Eric Adams was hit with new fines over a rat infestation at one of his properties in Brooklyn, just one day after a different rodent infestation ticket at the same property was dismissed. According to two summonses from the New York Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH)

By David Close and Ray Sanchez, CNN Minutes into Monday night’s nationally televised NFL game, Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin took a shot to the head and chest area while making a tackle following a completed pass. Hamlin, 24, quickly bounced on his feet, took a couple of steps and fell backward in a shocking

By Justin Gamble and Nicole Chavez, CNN Bruce’s Beach, an oceanfront property in Southern California that was taken from Black owners in the Jim Crow era and returned to their descendants last year, will be sold back to Los Angeles County for nearly $20 million, county officials said Tuesday. Family members of the original landowners,

By Brandon Griggs and Faith Karimi, CNN Two adults and two children somehow escaped serious injuries after their Tesla plunged off a cliff along California’s Pacific Coast Highway and crashed on a rocky beach some 250 feet below. The incident occurred Monday morning at an area called Devil’s Slide, some 20 miles south of San

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN U.S. News & World Report is changing the formula used to determine its list of best law schools after several prestigious institutions decided to bow out of the famed rankings. In a letter to law school deans published Monday, the publication announced that it would place less importance on surveys that

By Melissa Alonso, CNN A worker who died in an accident at the Montgomery Regional Airport Saturday “was ingested into the engine” of an aircraft, according to a statement from the National Transportation Safety Board. The aircraft, an Embraer 170 operated by regional carrier Envoy Air, “parked at the gate with the parking brake set

By Amanda Musa and Holly Yan, CNN A police chief who ran after a fleeing suspect Monday was shot in the head and “made the ultimate sacrifice,” Pennsylvania officials said. Brackenridge Police Chief Justin McIntire was killed while chasing a man wanted on a weapons-related probation violation, police said. Pennsylvania State Police initially encountered the

By Dakin Andone and Amir Vera, CNN Missouri carried out the first known US execution of an openly transgender person Tuesday when Amber McLaughlin, who was convicted of a 2003 murder and unsuccessfully sought clemency from the governor, was put to death by lethal injection. “McLaughlin was pronounced dead at 6:51 p.m.,” the Missouri Department

By Theresa Waldrop and Lauren del Valle, CNN The suspect in the November slaying of four University of Idaho students waived extradition from his home state of Pennsylvania to face murder charges in the state of Idaho. Bryan Kohberger arrived at Pennsylvania’s Monroe County Courthouse Tuesday by prison transport van, cuffed and in a prison

By Chris Boyette and Nouran Salahieh, CNN An online toy drive fundraiser started by Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin topped $3 million in donations in the hours after the NFL star collapsed on the field during a game Monday night. The 24-year-old is in critical condition after suffering a cardiac arrest following a tackle during

By Chris Boyette and Nouran Salahieh, CNN An online toy drive fundraiser started by Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin topped $3 million in donations in the hours after the NFL star collapsed on the field during a game Monday night. The 24-year-old is in critical condition after suffering a cardiac arrest following a tackle during

By Theresa Waldrop, Lauren del Valle and Mark Morales, CNN The man who opened fire on a crowded New York City subway train last April and wounded 10 people pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to terrorism charges, admitting his intention “was to cause serious bodily injury to the people on the train.” After initially

By Dakin Andone, CNN Three days after the arrest of a suspect in the fatal stabbing of four University of Idaho students, authorities have yet to release key details in the case, from whether the suspect knew the victims to what his alleged motive might have been and what finally prompted his arrest. The arrest

By Melissa Alonso, CNN Three people were killed, and two others injured after a scaffolding collapse at a construction site in Charlotte, North Carolina, Monday, according to tweets from Charlotte Fire Rescue. “Currently Charlotte Fire is securing the area,” in the 700 block of East Morehead Street said the agency. “A family reunification area has been

By Celina Tebor, Eric Levenson and John Miller, CNN The 19-year-old suspect accused of attacking New York police officers with a machete near Times Square on New Year’s Eve has been arrested and faces charges of attempted murder of a police officer. Police are recommending the suspect, Trevor Bickford, be charged with two counts of

By Amir Vera, Chris Boyette and Susannah Cullinane, CNN Northern California officials are back in clean-up mode after the second earthquake in two weeks struck the region Sunday morning, cracking walls and roads. The 5.4 magnitude earthquake was shallow, striking at a depth of about 19 miles, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. It was

By John Miller, CNN The 19-year-old being held by New York City police as the suspect in a New Year’s Eve machete attack against three police officers just outside a Times Square security screening zone carried a handwritten diary that expressed his desire to join the Taliban in Afghanistan and die as a martyr, law