Colorado Theater Shooting Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the July 20, 2012, movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado. Twelve people were killed and…
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Taylor Swift, Austin Butler, Keke Palmer and Ke Huy Quan invited to join Film Academy
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Continue Reading Man charged in sexual assaults of 4 women after his DNA was pulled from a drinking glass gets indicted on new rape charges
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Continue Reading As dust settles after Wagner mutiny, Russia’s military leaders face tough questions
By Tim Lister and Katharina Krebs, CNN (CNN) — The Kremlin has gone to great lengths to reassert President Vladimir Putin’s authority, with…
Continue Reading As dust settles after Wagner mutiny, Russia’s military leaders face tough questions
By Tim Lister and Katharina Krebs, CNN (CNN) — The Kremlin has gone to great lengths to reassert President Vladimir Putin’s authority, with…
Continue Reading As dust settles after Wagner mutiny, Russia’s military leaders face tough questions
By Tim Lister and Katharina Krebs, CNN (CNN) — The Kremlin has gone to great lengths to reassert President Vladimir Putin’s authority, with…
Continue Reading As dust settles after Wagner mutiny, Russia’s military leaders face tough questions
By Tim Lister and Katharina Krebs, CNN (CNN) — The Kremlin has gone to great lengths to reassert President Vladimir Putin’s authority, with…
Continue Reading Police release body camera footage of officer who fatally shot Texas outlet mall shooter
By Amy Simonson and Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — A Texas police officer tells two children with their mom in a mall parking lot to be good and to…
Continue Reading Warming causes more extreme rain, not snow, over mountains. Scientists say that’s a problem
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Continue Reading Assailants attack police station in Mexico as search continues for 16 abducted police employees
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CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Grammy-winning singer Linda Ronstadt. Personal Birth date: July 15, 1946 Birth…
Continue Reading Former Connecticut Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., maverick senator during Watergate, dies at 92
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15 notorious celebrity lawsuits
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Continue Reading New York cracks down on unlicensed pot shops, but closing them might take time
By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York started new inspections this month at the unlicensed pot shops that are troubling the…
Continue Reading Tennessee State ready to make history as the 1st HBCU to add ice hockey
By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee State announced it will become the first historically Black college and…
Continue Reading Man convicted of driving into fundraiser crowd, then killing mother gets 2 life terms
BLOOMSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man convicted of driving into a fundraiser crowd in Pennsylvania last summer, killing one and injuring 19 others, then…
Continue Reading President touts ‘Bidenomics’ though new poll shows just 34% approve his handling of the economy
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Continue Reading Adrian becomes hurricane off Mexico’s Pacific coast
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Adrian has become the first hurricane of the eastern Pacific hurricane season off Mexico’s western Pacific coast. The U.S.…
Continue Reading Wall Street Journal: Wagner boss planned to capture top Russian defense chiefs
By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin planned to seize two top Russian military officials when he launched a short-lived…
Continue Reading Wall Street Journal: Wagner boss planned to capture top Russian defense chiefs
By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin planned to seize two top Russian military officials when he launched a short-lived…
Continue Reading Fed’s stress test results show banks’ strength in light of the recent crisis
By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — The largest US banks have sufficient safeguards in place to weather a severe recession while…
Continue Reading Scientists spot a planet that shouldn’t exist
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Continue Reading Fed Chair Powell: Not ruling out back-to-back rate hikes
By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell doubled down Wednesday on the hawkish view that the central bank…
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Continue Reading Jury says health clinic in Montana Superfund town submitted 337 false asbestos claims
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Continue Reading Ex-Philadelphia police officer is charged with dozens more sex crimes in 19 new cases
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Continue Reading Hungary postpones vote on Sweden’s NATO accession bid ahead of summit
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Continue Reading Charter school lost case over skirts rule for girls, but debate over charter autonomy isn’t over
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Continue Reading Man fleeing Ohio police with an abducted infant crashes into a home, killing the child
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Continue Reading Delta passengers exit flight using jet slide after plane lands without front gear extended
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Continue Reading Gymnastics star Simone Biles returning to competition in August in first meet since 2020 Olympics
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Continue Reading Your DoorDash driver? He’s the company’s co-founder
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Continue Reading Janitor heard ‘annoying alarms’ and turned off freezer, ruining 20 years of school research worth $1 million, lawsuit says
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Continue Reading Thousands more prisoners across the US will get free college paid for by the government
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Continue Reading Multiple deputies fired after 2 Black men file lawsuit alleging torture and attempted sexual assault in Mississippi
By Shawn Nottingham and Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — The Rankin County Sheriff’s Office in Mississippi has fired multiple deputies after two…
Continue Reading Mushroom farms that employed Half Moon Bay mass shooting suspect cited for ‘serious’ health and safety violations
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Continue Reading Mbappé and France teammates Maignan, Koundé express criticism after police kill teenager
PARIS (AP) — Kylian Mbappé and other prominent French soccer players have expressed their indignation after a 17-year-old delivery driver was shot…
Continue Reading Maltese lawmakers vote to legalize abortion, but only where the mother is at risk of death
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Continue Reading Who wants to be a game show host? These days, you already have to be famous
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Continue Reading UConn introduces Siberian husky pup Jonathan XV as the school’s next mascot
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Continue Reading Steep rise in numbers of Sudanese refugees fleeing violence
By Ingrid Formanek, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 2.8 million people have fled the war in Sudan, latest data from the United Nations International…
Continue Reading Steep rise in numbers of Sudanese refugees fleeing violence
By Ingrid Formanek, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 2.8 million people have fled the war in Sudan, latest data from the United Nations International…
Continue Reading A Helsinki deputy mayor is under fire after being caught red-handed spray-painting graffiti
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Continue Reading Daniel Penny pleads not guilty after being indicted in NYC subway chokehold death
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Continue Reading MAP: Track the air quality across the US
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Continue Reading Wall Street Journal: Wagner boss planned to capture top Russian defense chiefs
By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin planned to seize two top Russian military officials when he launched a short-lived…
Continue Reading Wall Street Journal: Wagner boss planned to capture top Russian defense chiefs
By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin planned to seize two top Russian military officials when he launched a short-lived…
Continue Reading USA Today resumes its bestseller list for books after monthslong hiatus
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — USA Today’s weekly list of bestselling books returned Wednesday, ending a monthslong hiatus.…
Continue Reading Man who tried to have his child-porn victim killed is headed to prison
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Continue Reading Space Disco Cowboy? Couples ditch traditional wedding dress codes in favor of out-there themes
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Continue Reading Tour de France riders won’t face automatic exclusion in case of COVID-19 positive test
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Continue Reading Daniel Penny pleads not guilty to revised charges in chokehold death of Jordan Neely on NYC subway
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Continue Reading Judge grants request to delay trial in extortion case against Joran van der Sloot
By Tina Burnside, CNN (CNN) — A judge has granted a motion to delay the trial date in the case against Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch national…
Continue Reading Iranian-Western talks have resumed. Here’s what that means
By Abbas Al Lawati and Mohammed Abdelbary, CNN Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN) — A flurry of diplomatic activity between Iran and Western nations has…
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Continue Reading Kramatorsk restaurant strike shows that in Ukraine, death can come any time, anywhere
By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — It was dinner time and the restaurant – a popular pizza joint in the center of Kramatorsk – was crammed…
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Crews have successfully dug a containment line around a brush fire in northern Scottsdale that has burned 3.9 square miles…
Continue Reading Countdown to 250th anniversary begins in the US with planners hoping it can unify a divided country
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Continue Reading 5 takeaways from AP’s reporting on Pell Grants for prisoners getting college degrees
By AARON MORRISON AP National Writer Thousands of prisoners throughout the United States get their college degrees behind bars, most of them paid for…
Continue Reading Flight delays are easing on a busy travel day. One airline has by far the most cancellations
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Continue Reading German police warn of ‘Blue Punisher’ ecstasy pills after 2 teenage girls die
BERLIN (AP) — German police have warned of a potentially lethal “Blue Punisher” variety of ecstasy in circulation after the death of two…
Continue Reading Oak Flat: a tract in Arizona sacred to some Native Americans but proposed as a giant copper mine
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Continue Reading Arizona’s Oak Flat is sacred land to some Native Americans, but it’s endangered by a plan for a mine
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Continue Reading Pedro Pascal and World Bank’s Ajay Banga among those named to Carnegie’s 2023 Great Immigrants list
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Continue Reading Jury ends 3rd day of deliberations over ex-Parkland school resource officer’s fate in a rare trial over police conduct in a mass shooting
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Continue Reading More than half a million left Germany’s Catholic Church last year as abuse scandal swirls
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — More than half a million people formally left the Catholic Church in Germany last year,…
Continue Reading Dozens of Israeli air force vets threaten not to serve after Netanyahu resumes judicial overhaul
By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Dozens of Israeli air force reservists say they won’t show up for duty if the…
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By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — South Koreans became a year or two younger overnight as the nation scrapped its traditional way of counting age…
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By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — South Koreans became a year or two younger overnight as the nation scrapped its traditional way of counting age…
Continue Reading Turkey condemns Quran burning protest in Stockholm as a ‘heinous act’
By Lindsay Isaac, CNN (CNN) — Turkey condemned a decision by Swedish authorities to approve a small Quran-burning demonstration outside a…
Continue Reading Turkey condemns Quran burning protest in Stockholm as a ‘heinous act’
By Lindsay Isaac, CNN (CNN) — Turkey condemned a decision by Swedish authorities to approve a small Quran-burning demonstration outside a…
Continue Reading Is it a ‘richcession’? Or a ‘rolling recession’? Or maybe no recession at all?
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Continue Reading Iga Swiatek is No. 1 and owns 4 Grand Slam titles at age 22. Can she win Wimbledon, too?
By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer Iga Swiatek is coming off her third title in the past four years on the French Open’s red clay. She also won a…
Continue Reading National Women’s Soccer League experiencing youth movement as teenagers take the field
By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer There’s a youth movement going on in the National Women’s Soccer League. Eighteen-year-old Alyssa…
Continue Reading Cyprus battles disease-carrying mosquitoes by breeding them with irradiated, sterilized ones
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus is battling an influx of disease-carrying mosquitoes by bringing in hundreds of thousands of the insects after being…
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Protests flare near Paris after 17-year-old shot dead during police traffic stop
By Saskya Vandoorne, Alex Stambaugh, Oliver Briscoe, Helen Regan and Xiaofei Xu, CNN Paris (CNN) — France was bracing for further unrest on…
Continue Reading Protests flare near Paris after 17-year-old shot dead during police traffic stop
By Saskya Vandoorne, Alex Stambaugh, Oliver Briscoe, Helen Regan and Xiaofei Xu, CNN Paris (CNN) — France was bracing for further unrest on…
Continue Reading Some Dutch people seeking euthanasia cite autism or intellectual disabilities, researchers say
By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Several people with autism and intellectual disabilities have been legally euthanized in the…
Continue Reading Muslims at Hajj brave intense heat to cast stones at pillars representing the devil
By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims on Wednesday braved intense heat to perform the…
Continue Reading Norway approves 19 oil and gas projects, saying the resulting investments are worth over $19 billion
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Continue Reading French police, protesters clash after Macron calls police fatal shooting of teen ‘inexcusable’
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By Saskya Vandoorne, Alex Stambaugh, Oliver Briscoe, Helen Regan and Xiaofei Xu, CNN Paris (CNN) — France was bracing for further unrest on…
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Continue Reading New migrant tragedy at sea changes little as EU leaders forge ahead with tougher borders plans
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders will push ahead this week with plans to beef up the bloc’s borders and…
Continue Reading They faced life in prison for blocking the Queen’s motorcade. But these Thai protesters just got acquitted
By Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — A Thai court on Wednesday acquitted five activists accused of obstructing the…
Continue Reading They faced life in prison for blocking the Queen’s motorcade. But these Thai protesters just got acquitted
By Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — A Thai court on Wednesday acquitted five activists accused of obstructing the…
Continue Reading Russian missile kills 11 in a pizza parlor and Ukraine arrests man accused of directing the strike
By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities on Wednesday arrested a man they accused of helping Russia direct a…
Continue Reading Recruitment of children by armed groups in Syria is on the rise, even as fighting subsides
By HOGIR ABDO and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — A 13-year-old Kurdish girl went missing on her way home from a school exam…
Continue Reading Teacher who killed his wife found guilty of sexually abusing student he started new life with
By Angus Watson, CNN Sydney (CNN) — An Australian physical education teacher who murdered his wife so he could start a new life with a teenage…
Continue Reading Teacher who killed his wife found guilty of sexually abusing student he started new life with
By Angus Watson, CNN Sydney (CNN) — An Australian physical education teacher who murdered his wife so he could start a new life with a teenage…
Continue Reading Threatened by shortages, electric car makers race for supplies of lithium for batteries
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to…
Continue Reading As a lengthy legal battle ends, a Palestinian family braces for eviction from Jerusalem home
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Few places in Jerusalem speak of the larger conflict being waged over the city more than the…
Continue Reading Stock market today: Asian shares are lower after central bankers say interest rates must stay high
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday after leaders of major central banks said they need to…
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