Month: June 2021

By Kelly Murray and Deanna Hackney, CNN Police in Anchorage, Alaska, are investigating after five people were shot, one of whom later died. On Saturday at 2:43 a.m., Anchorage police responded to the 300 Block of Gambell Street in reference to a shooting, according to a news release from the department. When they arrived, officers

By Rachel Trent, CNN There are some new faces on “Sesame Street” and they’re bringing a new layer of diversity to the decades-old children’s show. The show dropped its Family Day episode Thursday on HBO Max (which, like CNN, is owned by WarnerMedia) and YouTube. The episode featured a family with two gay dads. On

By Jacob Lev and Ray Sanchez, CNN Buffalo Bills wide receiver Cole Beasley, in a challenge to the National Football League’s new Covid-19 training camp and preseason protocols, tweeted that he’d rather retire than get a vaccine. “Everyone — Hi, I’m Cole Beasley and I’m not vaccinated!,” he wrote in a post Friday that he

By Alaa Elassar, CNN A baby born weighing less than a pound has beaten the odds and celebrated his first birthday, becoming the most premature baby to survive, according to Guinness World Records. When Richard Scott William Hutchinson was born five months prematurely — recognized by Guinness as the world’s most premature baby — his

By Claudia Dominguez, CNN Police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, are searching for the suspects involved in an early Saturday mass shooting that left two people dead and four injured. The shooting occurred at around 2 a.m. in a parking lot, police said in a news release. There was an argument between unidentified individuals as a

By Rachel Trent, CNN It was a quick turnaround for federal employers to recognize Juneteenth as a new federal holiday. But some cities were ready with new statues honoring George Floyd, whose killing by police in Minneapolis last year sparked a nationwide racial justice movement. In New York City, Terrence Floyd, George Floyd’s brother, unveiled

By Hollie Silverman and Dakin Andone, CNN Police in Show Low, Arizona, on Saturday shot a suspect who they say struck multiple cyclists with a vehicle during a bicycle race. According to a news release from the Show Low Police Department, six victims were taken to a hospital — four of them are in critical

By Kelly Murray and Deanna Hackney, CNN Three people died and multiple people were injured when an SUV hit a transit bus head-on in Georgetown County, South Carolina. The three people who were killed include the two SUV occupants and one person from the bus, who are not being identified at this time. At least