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2025 In Review Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look back at the events of 2025. Notable US Events January 1 – Fourteen people are killed and dozens are injured when a driver rams his pickup truck into a crowd during New Year’s celebrations on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. The FBI describe the event as

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Jim Jones Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of General (ret.) Jim Jones, former National Security Adviser to President Barack Obama. Personal Birth date: December 19, 1943 Birth place: Kansas City, Missouri Birth name: James Logan Jones Jr. Father: James L. Jones Sr. Mother: Charlotte Ann (Ground) Jones Marriage: Diane (Johnson)

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Jurors in Brian Walshe’s murder trial were shown items covered in possible blood – and other takeaways from Day 3

By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — The Massachusetts jury weighing the case of Brian Walshe saw a collection of evidence on Wednesday, including photos of items covered in what looked like blood, as prosecutors work to prove he murdered his wife around New Year’s 2023. The evidence capped the third day of witness testimony

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Pro-Palestinian protesters gather demonstrate against an organization that helps American Jews emigrate to Israel

Some New York lawmakers want to ban protests outside houses of worship after pro-Palestinian demonstration

By Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — A group of New York state lawmakers introduced a bill Wednesday to ban demonstrations outside of houses of worship and reproductive health care clinics, days after a pro-Palestinian demonstration outside a prominent Manhattan synagogue led to criticism of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s response. The bill would amend New York’s existing

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Rhonda Fisher seen in a photo released by the sheriff's office.

Her murder went unsolved for decades. DNA from paper bags now points to one of Colorado’s ‘most prolific serial killers’

By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — For nearly 40 years, the identity of the person who sexually assaulted and killed a 30-year-old woman found along a quiet stretch of rural highway south of Denver eluded investigators. Now, small pieces of preserved evidence – a pair of paper bags placed over the victim’s hands – have

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Rhonda Fisher seen in a photo released by the sheriff's office.

Her murder went unsolved for decades. DNA from paper bags now points to one of Colorado’s ‘most prolific serial killers’

KUSA, DOUGLAS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, CNN By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — For nearly 40 years, the identity of the person who sexually assaulted and killed a 30-year-old woman found along a quiet stretch of rural highway south of Denver eluded investigators. Now, small pieces of preserved evidence – a pair of paper bags placed

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speaks during a news conference addressing the media following reports that the Trump administration will be targeting Somali immigrants in the Twin Cities

After years of Trump’s attacks on Somalis in Minnesota, ICE zeroes in on the Twin Cities. Here’s what’s fueling the operation

By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — When President Donald Trump was asked about how Afghans legally in the United States might feel about his decision to pause issuing visas for them after the suspected shooter of National Guard members was identified as an Afghan national, he took aim at another country in the same breath:

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A morning view of the downtown skyline in December 2021 in Minneapolis

ICE to launch operation targeting Somali immigrants in Twin Cities, federal official says, as Trump calls community ‘garbage’

By Holmes Lybrand, Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — A new Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, will target undocumented Somali immigrants, a federal official told CNN on Tuesday, as the president has ramped up attacks against the community in recent days. The New York Times, which cited documents and an

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Luigi Mangione confers with his attorney at Manhattan Supreme Court in New York during an evidentiary hearing in the murder case of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Monday.

Body camera footage played in multi-day hearing reveals new details about Luigi Mangione’s McDonald’s arrest

By Kara Scannell, Nicki Brown, CNN New York (CNN) — When the suspect in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare Chief Executive Brian Thompson was arrested last year after a high-profile five-day manhunt, many people had a question: What was Luigi Mangione doing at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania? One of the first officers on the

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