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By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — A lucky player could win an estimated $835 million in Wednesday’s Powerball drawing and secure the game’s second largest prize of the year. Wednesday’s grand prize, which could also be paid in the United States as a one lump-sum payment of $357.9 million before taxes, trails the $1.04 billion

By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — After spending decades in prison for a gruesome murder, Christa Pike was set to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years. But something went wrong. The 50-year-old survived two ostensibly lethal doses of the drug pentobarbital, spent more than a week in the hospital and returned

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — It took about 90 seconds for a routine report of ice and turbulence to be replaced by a desperate “Mayday, mayday!” and then silence, as a private jet plunged more than 27,000 feet over the course of one minute toward a Florida roadway. Inside, a pilot and

By Dalia Faheid, Chris Boyette, Isabel Rosales, CNN (CNN) — A convicted murderer who escaped a Tennessee jail was apprehended in Missouri and brought back into custody, officials said –– nine days after he breached the prison fence and drove off in a stolen truck. The manhunt to find Jacob Morley, 28, ended on Tuesday,

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Oscar-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Personal Birth date: November 17, 1942 Birth place: New York, New York Birth name: Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese Father: Charles Scorsese, worked in the garment industry Mother: Catherine (Cappa) Scorsese Marriages: Helen Morris (1999-present); Barbara De Fina (1985-1991,

By Dalia Faheid, Chris Boyette, Isabel Rosales, Maria Aguilar Prieto, CNN (CNN) — A nine-day, three-state manhunt for a convicted murderer who fled both by foot and with two stolen vehicles came to an end Wednesday when the Tennessee prison escapee got stuck in the mud in Missouri and was captured. Jacob Morley was serving

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of astronaut Fred Haise. Personal Birth date: November 14, 1933 Birth place: Biloxi, Mississippi Birth name: Fred Wallace Haise Jr. Father: Fred Haise Sr. Mother: Lucille (Blacksher) Haise Marriages: Frances Patt (Price) Haise (1979-February 7, 2022, her death); Mary Griffin Grant (June 4, 1954-1978,

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — In September, as election season entered its stretch run, researchers from the Center for the Study of Organized Hate, a DC-based think tank, began noticing a bizarre and disturbing variant of AI slop on X. One post depicted a Muslim family at an airport, overlaid with a floating sign

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — It took about 90 seconds for a routine report of ice and turbulence to be replaced by a desperate “Mayday, mayday!” and then silence, as a private jet plunged more than 27,000 feet over the course of one minute toward a Florida roadway. Inside, a pilot and

By Emma Tucker, Isa Mudannayake, CNN (CNN) — The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer accused of running over an undocumented immigrant from Mexico with a vehicle was released on a $30,000 bond Monday after appearing in court for a bond hearing, according to his attorney. A grand jury indicted Mario Alberto Morales Friday on

By Eric Levenson, Nicki Brown, CNN Plymouth, Massachusetts (CNN) — The judge overseeing the case of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of murdering her three children, said Monday he would like to schedule her retrial for March – though prosecutors remained non-committal about whether they plan to retry her on first-degree murder charges. Prosecutor

By Eduardo Cuevas, Isa Mudannayake, Karina Tsui, Martin Goillandeau, CNN (CNN) — More than a dozen people were killed and over 90 others injured over a Halloween weekend marred by gun violence, with multiple shootings across the country upending celebrations. One mass shooting in California occurred as people went to get last-minute costumes at Spirit

CNN By Holly Yan, Aaron Cooper, Alexandra Skores, Pete Muntean, Amanda Jackson, CNN (CNN) — In the blink of an eye, a private jet plummeting 450 feet per second nosedived into a Florida roadway, bursting into flames and killing all nine people on board. “It was a cataclysmic plane crash,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said. “It

By Cindy Von Quednow, Aaron Cooper, Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — A private jet traveling from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas careened into the ground in Palm Beach County, Florida, Sunday afternoon, leaving a deep crater and burning debris just feet from nearby homes and businesses and killing all nine on board, officials say. Video

By Isa Mudannayake, CNN Four people were killed and approximately 15 others were injured after multiple overnight shootings in one of Dallas’ vibrant nightlife neighborhoods, police said. The incidents occurred at three locations, all in the city’s Deep Ellum neighborhood east of downtown. Several live music venues in the area had advertised Halloween events for