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By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN A biology teacher at a Michigan private school for gifted students is on administrative leave after distributing an assignment worksheet last week in which a picture of former US President Barack Obama was included among pictures of several animals, including primates. The teacher’s choice to use the curriculum with the “disturbing

By Paradise Afshar and Christina Maxouris, CNN The US Forest Service is hitting a pause on prescribed fire operations in all the system’s lands across the country because of “extreme wildfire risk conditions,” Chief Randy Moore announced Friday. The move follows a meeting federal officials had earlier in the day with the governor of New

By Jennifer Henderson, CNN Two Florida deputies saved a 9-year-old boy’s life Thursday night, pulling him through the window of a burning home. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies arrived shortly after 11 p.m. ET at a home engulfed in flames and were told there was a child still in the house, according to a news

By Josh Campbell and Jason Kravarik, CNN Ryan Last received a message on a school night in February from someone he believed to be a girl. Within hours, the 17-year-old, straight-A student and Boy Scout had died by suicide. “Somebody reached out to him pretending to be a girl, and they started a conversation,” his

By Cheri Mossburg, CNN A man convicted of starting California’s Dolan Fire — which critically injured a firefighter, destroyed several homes and killed a dozen of endangered condors — was sentenced to 24 years in prison, prosecutors announced. Ivan Gomez, 31, was found guilty of 16 felony counts, including arson, cultivating marijuana, throwing rocks at

By Rebekah Riess and Steve Almasy, CNN Two people were killed and seven wounded Thursday night after a man fired into a crowd during a “personal conflict” between two arguing groups, according to Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown. Police patrolling the area saw two groups arguing and when officers tried to wade their way into

By Raja Razek, CNN A former deputy sheriff was sentenced to 18 years in prison for the drownings of two mental health patients in South Carolina after Hurricane Florence in 2018. Stephen Flood was found guilty in Marion County Thursday of two counts of involuntary manslaughter and two counts of reckless homicide. CNN previously reported

By Jason Hanna and Chuck Johnston, CNN An Alabama judge this week ordered recaptured murder suspect Casey White to provide a DNA sample in the investigation of the 11 days he spent as a fugitive with a jail official who authorities say freed him. White, 38, is charged with first-degree escape in connection with his

By Michelle Watson and Travis Caldwell, CNN The assistant office manager at the Tops Friendly Markets store in Buffalo, New York, had already survived one mass shooting. Nearly 12 years ago, Latisha Rogers and her brother, Danyell Mackin, were at City Grill restaurant in Buffalo when a man opened fire, killing Mackin and three others.

By Faith Karimi, CNN In recent years, mass shooters have increasingly targeted a range of venues — churches, synagogues, grocery stores, movie theaters — that have minimal security. That’s no surprise, experts who study violence and mass shootings say. These attackers, including the one last weekend in Buffalo, choose so-called “soft targets” where people are

By Hannah Sarisohn and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A Los Angeles man is facing multiple charges after prosecutors allege he was part of a group of anti-abortion activists who targeted a women’s health clinic and stalked a doctor who provides abortion services, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday. Aaron Jonathan Hurley is accused of

By Paradise Afshar, CNN A Japanese mountain climber is presumed dead after falling into a crevasse in Alaska’s Denali National Park, officials said. The 43-year-old from Kanagawa, Japan — who was not named by officials — was un-roped from his teammates and “fell through a weak ice bridge near their camp at approximately 8,000 feet

By Omar Jimenez, CNN The University School of Milwaukee is pushing back on accusations of discrimination from Craig Robinson, Michelle Obama’s brother, and his wife, Kelly Robinson. The preparatory school filed a motion Thursday to dismiss a lawsuit the couple filed in April that alleged in part, “The School acted impermissibly to silence and to

By Andi Babineau, CNN A Florida deputy and a suspect are facing charges in relation to a botched arrest earlier this year in which an explosion allegedly set off by a Taser left the suspect with burns over much of his body, Osceola County officials announced Thursday. As Osceola County deputies were attempting to arrest

By Rob Frehse and Christina Maxouris, CNN Philadelphia health leaders warned Thursday that in the past three weeks, reported Covid-19 infections have more than doubled and hospitalizations have nearly doubled as well. “The entire Philadelphia region is seeing COVID-19 cases rise dangerously,” Health Commissioner Dr. Cheryl Bettigole said in a statement, but added health officials

By Mark Morales and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A law banning New York law enforcement from using either a chokehold or a move that compresses someone’s diaphragm during an arrest has been reinstated after a state Supreme Court appeals court ruling on Thursday. The court’s ruling reversed a June 2021 decision by the state Supreme Court

By Laura Ly, CNN Jennifer and James Crumbley, the parents of Michigan school shooting suspect Ethan Crumbley, have asked a judge to void the charges against them for their alleged roles in the November 30 shooting at Oxford High School that left four students dead. The parents have pleaded not guilty to four counts of

By Julia Jones and Kyung Lah, CNN Dr. Sarah Traxler’s “Sioux Falls day” starts early. On this day, as it has been twice a month for the last seven years, Traxler is the only abortion doctor in South Dakota. By 6:30 a.m., she’s at the airport in Minneapolis, headed to Sioux Falls. And by the

By Kathleen Toner, CNN There’s a flurry of construction activity outside Luvinia Williams’ one-story home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Some workers measure and saw lumber while others drill it into place, building a ramp to the front door. The busy scene is unremarkable except for one detail: None of the people doing the work

By Christina Maxouris, CNN A convicted murderer who was being transported in a Texas prison bus last Thursday allegedly cut through metal, attacked an officer and ran into woods nearby. He has not been seen since — prompting what officials say is one of the largest search efforts for an escaped inmate in the state’s

By Tyler Mauldin, CNN Extreme temperatures and ongoing drought could cause the power grid to buckle across vast areas of the country this summer, potentially leading to electricity shortages and blackouts, a US power grid regulator said Wednesday. NERC, a regulating authority that oversees the health of the nation’s electrical infrastructure, says in its 2022

By Nicole Chavez, CNN As the last living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre continue their fight for reparations, a New York philanthropist gifted them $1 million hoping it begins to account for the wrongs they have faced. Ed Mitzen, co-founder of the New York-based nonprofit Business for Good, presented the donation to Viola

By Ryan Bergeron, CNN It might look like something from a galaxy far, far away but this “Star Wars” X-wing starfighter came from a very earthly garage. The out-of-this-world replica was the brainchild of Akaki Lekiachvili, who works as a physician at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. He spent about

By Mark Morales, Eric Levenson and Samantha Beech, CNN At least 15 people joined suspected Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron’s private account on the communications app Discord shortly before the shooting at the Tops Friendly Markets store, a person with knowledge of Discord’s internal investigation told CNN. A Discord spokesperson previously confirmed that Gendron had sent

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Many Americans say life has at least partially returned to a pre-pandemic normal, but experts warn that when it comes to Covid-19, the US is not out of the woods yet. A third of people in the US currently live in areas with high or medium community levels and should consider

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN When Jerome Bridges heard gunshots ring out Saturday in a Buffalo, New York, supermarket, he ran to lead some of his coworkers and customers to safety in the store’s break room and barricaded them inside with a heavy desk. “That’s all you heard was firing, constant firing — firing and firing

By David Williams, CNN The Martin County School District in Florida is investigating a photograph that shows a group of middle school students holding up what appears to be hand-made letters that spell out a racial slur, officials announced Wednesday. The photo, which has been widely circulated on social media, shows six students spelling the

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN The first time Kenya Martin got an abortion, she was a 19-year-old college student who felt she wasn’t old enough or mature enough to raise a child. The second time, Martin was a 26-year-old single mom making $12 an hour as a bank teller, could barely afford childcare or health

By Dakin Andone and Jennifer Henderson, CNN Federal officials are investigating a shooting that wounded three people at a Korean-owned salon in Dallas last week as a potential hate crime, as local authorities say they believe the attack is connected to two earlier attacks at other Asian-run businesses. The FBI’s field office in Dallas, the

By Brad Parks and Eric Levenson, CNN The former Minneapolis Police officer who held down George Floyd’s legs during his fatal restraint pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter Wednesday as part of a plea deal, attorneys said. Thomas Lane, 39, was one of three former officers to face charges of aiding and abetting

By Aya Elamroussi, Artemis Moshtaghian and Rob Frehse, CNN Thirty minutes before an 18-year-old White man allegedly carried out a racist mass shooting Saturday at a supermarket in a mostly Black enclave of Buffalo, New York, he revealed his monthslong plot to some on social media. Payton S. Gendron — suspected of killing 10 people

By Jenn Selva, CNN Casey White and Vicky White paid a man to help them book an Indiana hotel room during their time on the run after the inmate and corrections officer slipped away from an Alabama jail, setting off an 11-day manhunt. The fugitives paid him $100 to use his ID card to book

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN Five students at Coosa High School in Rome, Georgia, along with their mothers, filed a federal lawsuit against the Floyd County school district claiming continued racial discrimination at the school and continued violations of their First Amendment and equal protection rights. “The Plaintiffs, who are African-American, challenge Coosa High’s deliberate indifference

By Steve Almasy, CNN A recently discovered one-third of a mile-long tunnel under the US-Mexico border has a rail track system, electricity and a ventilation system, federal officials said Monday when they announced drug charges against six people in California. The passageway was discovered early Friday by a task force led by investigators from the

By Peter Nickeas, Casey Tolan and Virginia Langmaid, CNN The 18-year-old man accused of mass murder at a Buffalo supermarket legally obtained an AR-15 style rifle, believed to be the same weapon he described modifying in a lengthy, racist rant posted online before the attack. Law enforcement officials told CNN on Tuesday there appear to

By Eric Levenson and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN A California family and sports medicine doctor with a deep interest in building community was praised as a hero after he died confronting a gunman at a church service Sunday. Dr. John Cheng, 52, was the lone person killed in the mass shooting at the Geneva Presbyterian Church,

By Scottie Andrew, CNN In 2021, parents were tired. The pandemic was still raging. Babies couldn’t (and still can’t) get vaccinated for protection from Covid-19. Many new parents weren’t taking risks with their infants’ health — or, according to the US Social Security Administration, with their names. The federal agency’s list of the top baby

By Chris Boyette, Jamiel Lynch, Michelle Krupa and Jennifer Henderson, CNN A man has been charged with three counts of felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in a Dallas hair salon shooting last week that wounded three people, according to the probable cause affidavits obtained by CNN. On May 11, Jeremy Theron Smith, 36,

By Kiely Westhoff and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN An 11-year-old girl died Monday night after being struck by a stray bullet on the streets of the Bronx in New York City, the New York Police Department announced. The girl was shot in the abdomen when a man on a scooter attempted to shoot another person running

By Alaa Elassar, CNN Photographs by Lauren Petracca for CNN BUFFALO, New York — Phylicia Dove fails to fight back tears as she talks about the massacre that shattered her community’s haven in Buffalo’s Masten Park neighborhood. “Tops market was a place of community, a safe space for us to meet, to talk, to be

By Amir Vera and Jamiel Lynch, CNN The remains of a 17-year-old girl have been found in Georgetown County, South Carolina — 13 years after she went missing while visiting Myrtle Beach — and a suspect in her death is in custody, officials said Monday. Brittanee Drexel, from the Rochester, New York, area was last

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By Elizabeth Joseph, Eric Levenson and Theresa Waldrop, CNN The man accused of fatally shooting one man and wounding five others at a Taiwanese church service in Orange County, California, on Sunday will be charged with murder, attempted murder and possession of an explosive device, District Attorney Todd Spitzer said Tuesday. The murder count against

By Victor Blackwell, Amanda Watts, Eric Levenson and Travis Caldwell, CNN The 18-year-old White man accused of killing 10 people in a racist mass shooting Saturday at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, had visited the area in early March, police commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said Monday. “We found some things that show that he was

By Faith Karimi, CNN Dominique Calhoun and her daughters were picking up ice cream at the Tops Friendly Markets supermarket in Buffalo, New York, on a spring Saturday afternoon. They’d just pulled into the parking lot, ready to step out, when the horror began to unfold. “People started screaming and running out of the Tops

By Alisha Ebrahimji, Dakin Andone and Amir Vera, CNN A retired police lieutenant. A substitute teacher who was a “pillar of the community.” A beloved grandmother of six. A dedicated community activist. They were among the 10 people killed in a shooting at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket Saturday — a massacre authorities believe was

By Amir Vera, Jenn Selva and Raja Razek, CNN Atlanta-based rapper Lil Keed died Friday at the age of 24, according to a tweet Sunday from his record label Young Stoner Life (YSL). Lil Keed, whose real name is Rahqid Render, inked a deal with Young Thug’s YSL records via 300 Entertainment in 2018, according

By Joe Sutton, CNN A shooting at a flea market in Harris County, Texas, on Sunday left two dead and several people injured, according to a tweet from the sheriff. The “shooting may have stemmed from an altercation between two parties that turned violent,” Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said in a later tweet. “For

By Joe Sutton, CNN At least one person is dead and five wounded — including four who are critically injured — after a shooting Sunday at a church in Laguna Woods, California, the sheriff’s department said. “All victims are adults and are en route to the hospital,” the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said in a

By Emma Tucker and Sabrina Shulman, CNN Recorded emergency radio transmissions of first responders in Buffalo on Saturday afternoon reveal what they were dealing with in the chaotic first moments of reports of an active shooter at the Tops Friendly Markets store. Authorities now believe 18-year-old Payton Gendron allegedly wrote a White supremacist manifesto before

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at information and statistics concerning domestic (intimate partner) violence. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, intimate partner violence includes victimization by current and former spouses or current and former dating partners. Violence can include physical, sexual, emotional, and economic abuse, according to the Department of Justice’s

By Andrew Torgan, CNN Do you ever get a “case of the Mondays” — that feeling of dread brought on by the thought of having to go to work after a carefree weekend? Take a little advice on career happiness from Walter Orthmann, a 100-year-old man who’s worked at the same company for 84 years.

By Haley Brink and Dakin Andone, CNN More than 90 million people from the central Plains to the Ohio River Valley are under threat of severe storms Sunday before a cold front pushes the inclement weather to the east Monday. The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) issued a severe thunderstorm watch until 4 p.m. CT ahead

By Shimon Prokupecz, Christina Maxouris, Dakin Andone, Samantha Beech and Amir Vera, CNN The 18-year-old man who allegedly shot and killed 10 people Saturday afternoon in Buffalo, New York, was motivated by hate, authorities said, targeting a supermarket in the heart of a predominantly Black community. Eleven of the 13 people shot by the White

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN California is facing a crisis. Not only are its reservoirs already at critically low levels due to unrelenting drought, residents and businesses across the state are also using more water now than they have in seven years, despite Gov. Gavin Newsom’s efforts to encourage just the opposite. Newsom has pleaded with

By Emma Tucker, CNN A New Jersey county has agreed to pay a $10 million settlement to a Black man who was left paralyzed after an encounter with police eight years ago. The lawsuit, filed by 29-year-old Xavier Ingram, lists Camden County, the Camden County Police Department, then-Assistant Chief of Police Orlando Cuevas and then-Police

By Eric Levenson, Sarah Jorgensen, Polo Sandoval and Samantha Beech, CNN The 18-year-old suspected of opening fire at a Buffalo supermarket Saturday told authorities he was targeting the Black community, according to an official familiar with the investigation. The alleged gunman made disturbing statements describing his motive and state of mind following his arrest, the

By Ray Sanchez, CNN Photographs by Whitney Curtis for CNN On a winding road just off Interstate 64 in southern Illinois, past a Holiday Inn, an antiques mall and a TGI Fridays, the squat brick Planned Parenthood clinic is a window onto a post-Roe v. Wade America. The clinic’s call center — less than 20

By Zoe Sottile, CNN An apparently studious alligator had to be relocated after it was found wandering around an elementary school in Charleston, South Carolina. Concerned passersby called police after observing the alligator on Tuesday, according to Charleston’s Animal Control Supervisor, Courtney Bayles. The 6-foot reptile was spotted walking in roadways and through residents’ yards

By Christina Maxouris and Phil Gast, CNN Saturday’s massacre in Buffalo, New York, is the latest mass shooting in which authorities say the suspect was motivated by hate. The suspected shooter, an 18-year-old White man, shot and killed 10 people and injured three others at a supermarket in a predominantly Black area, authorities said. Eleven

By Christina Maxouris, Amir Vera, Chuck Johnston and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN Details continue to emerge about the May 14 shooting at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket and the 18-year-old who authorities say is responsible. Thirteen people — 11 of whom are African American — were shot, according to city officials, who have said the massacre