6-year-old girl killed and 5 adults injured in a shooting in Washington, DC
By Melissa Alonso, Sonnet Swire and Aaron Pellish, CNN A 6-year-old girl was killed and five adults were injured in a drive-by shooting in…
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Black tech entrepreneurs get $1 million boost from Pharrell Williams
By Adrienne Broaddus, CNN Entrepreneur Justin Turk knew his start-up was special, but a $1 million prize from Grammy award-winning singer and…
Continue Reading‘Hollywood Ripper’ serial killer sentenced to death for the murders of 2 women and attempted murder of another
By Alexandra Meeks and Aya Elamroussi, CNN The man known as the “Hollywood Ripper” was sentenced to death on Friday in the murders of two…
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Meet Truffles, the special kitty who wears glasses to help kids feel better about wearing theirs
By Alaa Elassar, CNN Nearly four years ago, Danielle Crull rescued a stray kitten from a forest in Pennsylvania. Now, that spunky kitty is changing…
Continue ReadingInvestigators extract DNA tied to 2 cases as part of a re-investigation of the decades-old Atlanta child murders
By Rebekah Riess and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Investigators in Atlanta were able to extract DNA from two child murder cases for additional analysis as…
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Video of NYPD tasing a man on a subway draws scrutiny from local leaders and the community
By Kristina Sgueglia, Mirna Alsharif and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Video circulating of a man who was tased by police after they say he helped another…
Continue ReadingVideo of NYPD tasing a man on a subway draws scrutiny from local leaders and the community
NYPD officers tased a man on the subway after he was seen allegedly letting someone through a gate to skip the…
Continue ReadingCause of California’s single largest wildfire ever is undetermined, fire officials say
By Brisa Colon, CNN Despite an “exhaustive investigation,” the US Forest Service announced Friday the cause of the largest single fire in…
Continue ReadingSingapore and the UK are both planning to ‘live with Covid.’ They are worlds apart on how to do that
By Tara John and Nectar Gan, CNN More than a year and a half into the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s rich nations are beginning to accept…
Continue ReadingCannabis may have originated in northwest China, study suggests
By Jessie Yeung, CNN Cannabis’ earliest roots may have stemmed from northwestern China — not South Asia as commonly believed, according…
Continue ReadingVirginia deputy indicted in shooting of unarmed man
By Dakin Andone, CNN A grand jury has indicted a Virginia’s sheriff’s deputy in connection with the April shooting of Isiah Brown, who…
Continue ReadingFederal judge blocks new DACA applications and says program is illegal
By Priscilla Alvarez, Tierney Sneed and Rachel Janfaza, CNN A federal judge in Texas on Friday ruled that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the…
Continue Reading2 former Maine police officers accused of beating porcupines to death will spend time in jail
By Amanda Watts and Alaa Elassar, CNN Two former police officers in Maine have pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges stemming from an incident in…
Continue Reading3 facing charges in deadly 2018 duck boat sinking near Branson, Missouri
17 people died in a duck boat accident on Table Rock Lake near Branson, Missouri, according to Southern Stone County Fire Protection spokesman Eric…
Continue ReadingRichard Sherman says he is remorseful for actions that led to his arrest, pleads not guilty to misdemeanors
By Kevin Dotson and Andy Rose, CNN NFL star Richard Sherman, who was arrested this week in King County, Washington, said Friday he is remorseful for…
Continue Reading3 facing charges in deadly 2018 duck boat sinking near Branson, Missouri
By Carma Hassan, CNN Three men linked to a deadly duck boat sinking near Branson, Missouri, in July 2018 are facing a total of 63 charges related to…
Continue ReadingArizona governor says schools can’t force unvaccinated students to quarantine if they’re exposed to Covid-19
By Mallory Simon, CNN Arizona’s governor has told two school districts that requiring unvaccinated students exposed to Covid-19 to quarantine…
Continue ReadingEuropean officials say ‘climate change has arrived’ as deadly floods engulf entire towns
By Angela Dewan, Nadine Schmidt and Ulrike Dehmel, CNN European officials have said climate change contributed to this week’s extreme flooding,…
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Generation Apollo: Coming of age inside America’s space race
By Samantha Bresnahan, CNN They are the names written in history books: Armstrong, Aldrin, Lovell, Chaffee, Bean, Cernan, Anders, Griffin, Carr.…
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Generation Apollo, Part 2: Men on the moon, their children back on Earth
By Samantha Bresnahan, CNN They are the names written in history books: Armstrong, Aldrin, Lovell, Chaffee, Bean, Cernan, Anders, Griffin, Carr.…
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