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By Omar Jimenez, CNN Even as the bombs began to fall, Yevhenia Khomenko didn’t want to leave her home in Kyiv, Ukraine. “I would rather die there,” the 94-year-old said. But eventually, it became too much, and her daughter convinced her to leave the home she had known her entire life. When Khomenko was a

By Dakin Andone, CNN A charge against a West Virginia University student previously accused of making terroristic threats was dismissed without prejudice in 2021, according to court documents obtained by CNN. The then-21-year-old freshman student was arrested in May 2019 after authorities said they learned he had threatened to carry out a “shooting spree,” university

By AJ Willingham, CNN Housing prices are continuing to inflate wildly in the US. While that doesn’t always mean a housing bubble is brewing, unfortunately in this case, some economists fear it does. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can get “5 Things You

By Jaide Timm-Garcia, CNN A Florida judge approved an $83 million settlement Wednesday for former condo owners and heirs of those killed last year when the Champlain Towers South residential building in Surfside partially collapsed. The compromise settlement was originally agreed upon in February, the Miami Herald reported. Nearly $50 million of the settlement would

By Paradise Afshar, CNN The body of Naomi Irion, a Nevada woman missing for more than two weeks, has been discovered, authorities said Wednesday. Investigators were called to a remote part of Churchill County on Tuesday after receiving a tip connected to the disappearance of Irion, according to a news release from the Churchill County

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN In a motion filed Wednesday, the parents of Brian Laundrie asked a Florida court to dismiss a civil lawsuit brought by Gabby Petito’s parents earlier this month. In their lawsuit, Petito’s parents alleged the Laundries knew that their son killed Petito and were working to help him flee the country. Their

By Virginia Langmaid and Nick Valencia, CNN A former Louisiana State Police officer, who on body camera video can be heard saying that he “beat the ever-living f**k out of” dead Black motorist Ronald Greene, told investigators during an interview 16 months after the incident that he was “scared” and portrayed himself as a victim,

By Laura Studley, Eric Levenson and Caroll Alvarado, CNN The massive pileup caused by a sudden snow squall on a Pennsylvania highway Monday left six people dead and involved 80 vehicles, state police wrote in a crash report Wednesday. According to final numbers in the report, there were 39 commercial vehicles and 41 passenger vehicles

By AJ Willingham, CNN A new set of European tech rules meant to boost competition in online services will change the way people interact with major tech companies like Apple, Google and the like — and the effects could be seen far outside of Europe. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to

By Jean Casarez and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Families suing Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist who hosts the right-wing commentary website Infowars, rejected his offer Tuesday to settle a defamation lawsuit filed in response to his claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax. Attorneys for Jones offered $120,000 each to 13 plaintiffs

By Raja Razek, CNN After an Oregon physician filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the residency requirement in Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act, the ​state, along with the Oregon Medical Board and the Oregon Health Authority, agreed they would no longer apply or enforce the requirement​ — thus allowing non-Oregon residents to access medical

By Amir Vera and Amanda Musa, CNN A Florida grand jury has formally indicted an Orlando man accused of killing a Daytona Beach couple earlier this month in what officials are calling a random attack. Jean R. Macean, 32, is charged with two counts of first-degree premeditated murder in connection with the deaths of Terry

By Theresa Waldrop, Jenn Selva and Amanda Watts, CNN A Kentucky grand jury has indicted Quintez Brown, the man accused of shooting at a Louisville mayoral candidate, on charges of attempted murder and first-degree wanton endangerment. Brown allegedly entered the office Craig Greenberg, a Democratic candidate, and fired a gun at him on February 14.

By Jason Hanna and Chris Boyette, CNN A Chicago police officer’s ankle was crushed, another officer was shot in the hand, and a suspect was shot and seriously wounded Monday night in a traffic stop and subsequent shootout, city authorities said. The officers’ injuries were non-life-threatening; the suspect was taken to a hospital in serious

By Maya Brown, CNN The tug of war between a majority-Black town in Tennessee and state officials is intensifying as the state comptroller’s office has given the town an ultimatum: Fix the town’s financial troubles or the county will take over. The state’s comptroller has pledged to restructure the town’s financial supervision and pushed officials

By Eric Levenson, CNN The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced it will once again require applicants to take the SAT or ACT, reversing a Covid-era policy that made the standardized tests optional and rejecting the idea that the tests hurt diversity. “Our research shows standardized tests help us better assess the academic preparedness of all

By Jason Hanna and Jamiel Lynch, CNN The estate of a woman who fell to her death when a Florida drawbridge opened while she was walking across it has sued a bridge attendant and the company that operates the span. Carol Wright’s estate filed the lawsuit Monday against the bridge operator on duty at the

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Bill Gross, founder of PIMCO, Pacific Investment Management Company. Personal Birth date: April 13, 1944 Birth place: Middleton, Ohio Birth name: William Hunt Gross Father: Sewell “Dutch” Gross, a steel company sales executive Mother: Shirley Gross Marriages: Sue (Frank) Gross (1985-2017, divorced); Pamela Roberts Gross

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of former late-night talk show host David Letterman. Personal Birth date: April 12, 1947 Birth place: Indianapolis, Indiana Birth name: David Michael Letterman Father: Harry Letterman, a florist Mother: Dorothy (Hofert) Letterman Mengering Marriages: Regina Lasko (March 19, 2009-present); Michelle Cook (divorced) Children: with Regina

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of former Texas Congressman Tom DeLay. Personal Birth date: April 8, 1947 Birth place: Laredo, Texas Birth name: Thomas Dale DeLay Father: Charles Ray DeLay Mother: Maxine (Wimbish) DeLay Marriage: Christine (Furrh) DeLay (1967-present) Children: Danielle Education: Attended Baylor University, 1965-1967; University of Houston, B.S., 1970

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By Jamiel Lynch, Leyla Santiago and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN The seat of a teen who fell to his death from an amusement park ride in Florida last week was still locked, according to an accident report from the state. Tyre Sampson, 14, fell last Thursday from the FreeFall drop tower at ICON Park in Orlando,

By Paradise Afshar, Claudia Dominguez and Melissa Alonso, CNN The FBI is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the location of Naomi Irion, an 18-year-old Nevada woman who has been missing for weeks. Authorities on Friday arrested 41-year-old Troy Driver of Fallon, Nevada, holding him on a kidnapping charge, according

By Nick Watt, CNN In 2014, the mayor of Los Angeles made a bold promise: to end veteran homelessness in this city by the end of 2015. He didn’t. There are, by latest count, still more than 3,600 homeless veterans here, down just a few hundred in five years There are more homeless vets in

By Theresa Waldrop and Shawn Nottingham, CNN Firefighters are making progress against a wildfire at Fort Hood that has scorched about 33,206 acres, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. The Crittenberg Complex fire in Coryell County, about 120 miles south of Fort Worth, is made up of three fires that have burned together. It

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN At the young age of 14, Tyre Sampson mapped out his future: play professional football and buy his mom a house, according to his father Yarnell Sampson. Those aspirations were cut short Thursday when Sampson died after falling from the FreeFall drop tower ride at ICON Park in Orlando, Florida. The

By Stella Chan and Eric Levenson, CNN A 70-year-old man imprisoned for the 1976 kidnapping of a bus full of children has been approved for parole, according to spokesperson Joe Orlando of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Frederick Newhall Woods, 70, was one of three men who kidnapped 26 children and their

By Pooja Salhotra, Caroll Alvarado and Eric Levenson, CNN At least three people have died after a snow squall led to a multi-vehicle crash on a Pennsylvania highway on Monday, state coroner’s office spokesman John Mika confirmed to CNN. Heavy fog and precipitation from the squall caused a mass pileup of about 40 vehicles on

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the RMS Titanic. April 10, 1912 – The Titanic sets sail on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York. April 14-15, 1912 – The luxury liner hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic around midnight and sinks in less than three hours. 1,517 people died and

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. Facts The White House Easter Egg Roll is held the Monday after Easter on the South Lawn. For the egg roll race, kids push the eggs through the grass with spoons. The event is open to children 13 and younger, and

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the Masters, one of golf’s four major tournaments, along with the US Open, the British Open and the PGA Championship. It is held annually at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. April 6-9, 2023 – The 87th Masters tournament takes place. Jon Rahm wins, claiming his

By AJ Willingham, CNN About 150 law enforcement agencies in the US and Canada have taken the 30×30 Pledge, making the commitment to increase the representation of women in their ranks to 30% by 2030. Currently, women make up just 12% of sworn law enforcement positions in the US. Here’s what you need to know

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN Dollywood is temporarily closing its drop tower attraction after a boy fell to his death from a similar type of ride by the same manufacturer at a park in Orlando, a spokesman for Dolly Parton’s Tennessee theme park said. “We were deeply saddened to hear of the heartbreaking accident at ICON

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A Georgia high school senior has received acceptance letters from 49 colleges and over $1 million in scholarship offers. Makenzie Thompson, 18, didn’t originally plan to apply to over 50 universities. But after attending college fairs and receiving fee waivers, she ended up applying to 51 schools. So far, she has

By Hannah Sarisohn and Holly Yan, CNN Just one day after a wildfire spurred evacuation orders for 19,000 people in Colorado, the blaze is 35% contained as it nears the 24-hour mark, emergency management officials said Sunday afternoon. Saturday night’s evacuation order will be updated on Sunday evening, according to a spokesperson from Colorado’s Office

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A 500-pound black bear prowling around a Tennessee university has been captured and relocated, according to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. The bear was living near the Tusculum University campus in Greeneville. In a Facebook post, the agency said the bear “had become habituated to human and unnatural foods.” The large

By Melissa Alonso, CNN A structure fire at an ExxonMobil refinery in Montana burned for more than three hours, officials said Sunday. “Last night, our Billings Refinery personnel responded to a fire at one of our units at approximately 9:50 p.m. The fire was reported out at about 1:15 a.m.,” ExxonMobil Operations Media Manager Julie

By Dakin Andone, CNN A woman died in Grand Canyon National Park on Thursday after falling into rapids on the Colorado River, according to the National Park Service. The woman — identified as 68-year-old Mary Kelley of Steamboat Springs, Colorado — was on the ninth day of a private boating trip when she “entered the

By Zoe Sottile, CNN After waiting more than 80 years, Merrill Pittman Cooper finally received his high school diploma. Cooper, 101, attended Storer College in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, from 1934 to 1938, but dropped out during his senior year when his family relocated to Philadelphia for financial reasons, Jefferson County Schools said in a

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Florida’s got yet another spring breaker in town: Scot, a massive great white shark, has been recorded swimming off the Gulf Coast. Scot, an adult male, measures just over 12-feet long and weighs 1,600 pounds, according to OCEARCH, the non-profit marine group that spotted the big fish Thursday. Scot is the

By Leah Asmelash, CNN College students across the country are facing a crisis. It’s not just the basic cost of attending college, which has steadily been climbing. And it’s not the stress of getting into a post-secondary program. The problem is housing. For many college students across the country, especially those who are low-income or

By Yenny Sanchez, CNN If you think the PS5 is expensive, get a load of Atari’s “Home Pong” prototype. The original 1975, hand-carved wood mock-up of the Pong system recently sold for $270,910 at auction, according to seller RR Auction. The one-off system features paddle control knobs, a bright red “start game” button, a metal

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN A construction worker died Saturday after suffering a “substantial” fall while apparently inside a crane at a Boston parking garage that partially collapsed while it was being demolished, officials said. The collapse was reported to first responders around 5:40 p.m., Boston Fire Commissioner Jack Dempsey said during a news conference. When

By Mark Morales and Emma Tucker, CNN New York City is executing a plan to clear out encampments across the city where homeless people are known to live and connect those individuals with social services over the next two weeks, according to an official with Mayor Eric Adams’ office. City officials will work to eradicate

By Andy Rose, CNN A wildfire near Boulder, Colorado, prompted an evacuation warning for nearly 20,000 people Saturday evening. “Evacuation areas include 19,000 people and 8,000 homes,” the Boulder Office of Emergency Management tweeted. The NCAR Fire broke out Saturday afternoon. It was just 123 acres by Saturday evening, but not contained at all, officials

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A California man has been charged with smuggling more than a thousand reptiles, some endangered, into the United States. Jose Manuel Perez, 30, of Oxnard, also known as “Julio Rodriguez,” was charged with one count of conspiracy, nine counts of smuggling goods into the United States and two counts of wildlife

By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN A man who was allegedly manufacturing fentanyl in his New Jersey apartment faces almost 30 charges after his 12-year-old nephew died following exposure to paraphernalia containing the substance, the Camden County prosecutor’s office said. On March 21, prosecutors charged Troy Nokes, 35, of Blackwood, New Jersey, with first-degree aggravated manslaughter and

By Emma Tucker, CNN The Memphis Police Department and the New York State Police took a pledge this week to increase the representation of women in their ranks to 30%, joining a total of 150 law enforcement agencies in the US and Canada that have made the commitment in the past year. The 30×30 Initiative

By Sara Smart, CNN On Tuesday, a 9-year-old girl set up her drum kit outside of the Foo Fighters’ hotel in Paraguay, hoping to impress the band. Surrounded by other fans who cheered her on, her skills soon caught the ears of the late Taylor Hawkins, who came down to see the young drummer. Emma

By Ray Sanchez and Mark Morales, CNN The New York Police Department is cracking down on offenses that have become part of daily life in some neighborhoods: public consumption of alcohol, open-air marijuana sales and public urination. The goal is to combat relatively minor infractions that the nation’s largest police department maintains lower the quality

By Jay Croft, CNN The parents of a teen who fell to his death from a Florida amusement park ride have hired attorneys, who are seeking witnesses of the incident. Tyre Sampson, 14, of St. Louis, Missouri, died Thursday night after he fell from the FreeFall drop tower ride at ICON Park in Orlando. Sheriff’s

By Melissa Alonso, CNN A 41-year-old man was arrested Friday in connection with the disappearance of Naomi Irion, 18, who has been missing for two weeks, the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office said. Troy Driver of Fallon, Nevada, “is being held on charges of Kidnapping,” the office said in a news release. “Naomi has still not

By Aya Elamroussi and Andy Rose, CNN A federal jury Friday awarded $14 million in compensatory and punitive damages to 12 people who were injured by Denver police officers while protesting the death of George Floyd in 2020, according to court documents. After deliberating for nearly five hours, the jury decided that Denver police response

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A mother duck found the perfect place to hatch her 10 ducklings: a Florida maternity ward. Baptist Medical Center Beaches in Jacksonville Beach shared a video on Wednesday of the proud mother carefully leading her newborns through the halls of the labor and delivery atrium. The adorable footage has reached over

By Emmy Abbassi, CNN In a bid to catch all the Pokémon, someone just paid $420,000 at auction for a Charizard card. The rare 1999 Pokémon Base Set Shadowless 1st Edition Holo Charizard card was sold last week in the PWCC March Premier Auction. “The sale sets the all-time record for a base set Charizard

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A rare copy of Marvel’s first-ever comic book has netted more than $2.4 million at auction. Marvel Comics No. 1 was published in 1939 and features such characters as The Human Torch, The Angel, Submariner and Masked Raider. “This is the beginning. Without this, there would be no Marvel Universe, no

By Laura Studley, CNN A March 19 shooting in Norfolk, Virginia, that left two dead, including a Virginian-Pilot reporter and former CNN news assistant, followed an argument over a spilled drink, Norfolk Police Sgt. William D. Pickering Jr., told CNN Friday. Pickering said the shooting has brought an increase in patrols downtown on Thursday, Friday,

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A Florida man has died after crashing his car into an 11-foot alligator. The crash occurred after midnight on Thursday, according to a statement from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. John Hopkins, 59, was driving east on County Road 672 in LIthia, about two miles west of County Road 39, when

By Jamiel Lynch and Christina Maxouris, CNN For more than 33 years, investigators in Norton Shores, Michigan, tried to figure out what happened to Stacey Lyn Chahorski, a young woman who left home to travel the country and last spoke to her mother in September 1988. At the same time, Georgia detectives worked to identify

By Andy Rose and Rebekah Riess, CNN Jurors in a federal civil trial awarded $10.37 million to the family of Gilbert Flores, who was shot and killed outside his home by Bexar County, Texas, sheriff’s deputies in 2015. On Thursday, the jury found that officers Robert Sanchez and Greg Vasquez violated Flores’ civil rights by

By Paradise Afshar, CNN A hiker who had been reported missing in Montana earlier this week was found dead Friday after a suspected encounter with a grizzly bear. Sheriff Brad Bichler of the Park County Sheriff’s Office told CNN Craig Clouatre, 40, was hiking with a friend Wednesday in the Six Mile Creek area, which

By Sonia Moghe, CNN Federal prosecutors have accused a Maine teen of plotting to attack a Chicago-area mosque and charged him with possession of a destructive device. According to court documents unsealed on Friday, Xavier Pelkey, who was 18 years old when he was arrested on February 11, was charged by criminal complaint in Maine

By Laura Studley and Kiely Westhoff, CNN The woman who allegedly pushed an 87-year-old Broadway vocal coach to the ground outside her apartment building has been released on bail, her attorney confirmed to CNN. Lauren Pazienza, 26, was arraigned Tuesday afternoon on one count of first-degree manslaughter and two counts of second-degree assault. Judge Michael

By Nicole Chavez and Tiffany Anthony, CNN A hotel in South Dakota is accused of refusing to rent a room to at least two Indigenous women after its owner reportedly threatened to ban all Native Americans from the property. The NDN Collective, an Indigenous rights group in South Dakota, and Sunny Red Bear, the group’s

By Rebekah Riess, CNN The 16-year-old driver of the pickup truck seen in a viral video getting blown over and tossed around in high winds from a reported tornado near Elgin, Texas, earlier this week, says he is blessed to be alive. Riley Leon, a Junior at a charter school in Austin, was on his

By Jay Croft and Rebekah Riess, CNN Minneapolis Public Schools reached a tentative deal with teachers Friday, ending a strike that officially started on March 8 and canceled school for 30,000 students, said Superintendent Ed Graff. “It has been very challenging, very difficult. But at the end of the day, we were all able to

By Aya Elamroussi and Joe Sutton, CNN Vanessa Bryant has reached a new deal with Nike which will create apparel honoring the legacy of her late basketball legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Nike announced Thursday. The first sneakers to be released under the partnership will be the Kobe 6 Protro “Mambacita Sweet 16,” which

By Taylor Romine, CNN The Los Angeles County Civilian Oversight Commission (COC) is launching an investigation into “deputy gangs” or groups participating in gang-like activity at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department, the Commission said Thursday. The investigation, which will be conducted by pro bono attorneys and is expected to last up to six months,

By Taylor Romine, CNN The family of Edward Bronstein, a 38-year-old man who died while in custody of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in March 2020, called on Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón to charge the officers allegedly involved in his death. “What they did is sickening, really bad. Everybody wants justice, and