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By Maya Brown and Emma Tucker, CNN When Philadelphia’s mayor signs landmark legislation as soon as this week, the city will become the first major US city to ban police from stopping drivers for low-level traffic violations — stops that studies show target Black drivers at disproportionately higher rates. The Driving Equality Bill, passed 14-2

By David Williams, CNN It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood, despite the steady rain, as Florida’s Rollins College unveiled an enormous statue of legendary children’s TV host Fred Rogers this week. The bronze statue is more than 7 feet tall, weighs more than 3,000 pounds, and depicts the “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” star and

By Melissa Alonso, CNN Michael Johnson, son of TNT sportscaster Ernie “E.J.” Johnson, has died, his father said on social media Friday night. He was 33. “This guy we adopted from Romania in 1991 and diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy lived a miraculous life of 33 years,” the TNT anchor said in an Instagram post

By Melissa Alonso, CNN Three people were killed and another was injured early Saturday when an Amtrak train struck a vehicle at a South Carolina railroad crossing, fire officials said. A police officer reported the crash about 2:30 a.m., according to a statement from the North Charleston Fire Department. First responders found four people near

CNN, KSDK By Raja Razek and Jennifer Feldman, CNN Gunshots rang out Friday as St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones was discussing gun violence prevention during a news conference — and she did not flinch. “My son and I fall asleep to the lullaby of gunshots in the distance every night,” Jones said, responding to a

By Geneva Sands, Sonnet Swire and Christina Carrega, CNN Authorities in northern Virginia announced an increased police presence Friday amid warnings about a possible terror plot. Officials are determining the validity of the threat, according to a law enforcement source. As a precaution, federal and local law enforcement departments are investigating and moving to protect

By Alaa Elassar, CNN A Maryland man just claimed his second $2 million lottery prize, after winning the first one several years ago. The retired utility worker from Salisbury bought two “$2,000,000 Richer” scratch-off tickets from a local Exxon gas station. On the first ticket, he uncovered a $100 prize. But the second ticket hit

By Raja Razek and Jennifer Feldman, CNN Gunshots rang out Friday as St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones was discussing gun violence prevention during a news conference — and she did not flinch. “My son and I fall asleep to the lullaby of gunshots in the distance every night,” Jones said, responding to a question on

By Amy Simonson, CNN A federal judge in Utah ordered the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) and two of its affiliates to pay nearly $1 million for allegedly violating child labor laws when they employed minors on a ranch without paying them for years. The decision comes after a 2012 video

By Leah Asmelash and Scottie Andrew, CNN No other flavor wields quite as much power as the coveted pumpkin spice. For a few weeks every year, pumpkin spice has almost complete and total dominion over hungry consumers across the US. It surreptitiously infiltrates store shelves and then pantries, appearing as soon as the first tree

By Rob Frehse, CNN New York State health care workers will no longer have a religious exemption to the state’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate after a federal appeals court vacated a temporary injunction Friday. The three-judge panel in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit also sent the two court cases back to the

CNN By Mark Morales and Ralph Ellis, CNN The first witness in the civil lawsuit filed against organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally testified Friday, saying the attacks by angry White nationalists left her physically and emotionally scarred. Natalie Romero said she and friends were standing at the Thomas Jefferson statue on the

By Mark Morales and Ralph Ellis, CNN The first witness in the civil lawsuit filed against organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally testified Friday, saying the attacks by angry White nationalists left her physically and emotionally scarred. Natalie Romero said she and friends were standing at the Thomas Jefferson statue on the University

By Rebekah Riess A New Orleans man will have nearly $30,000 returned to him after it was seized by DEA agents at the Columbus International Airport in Ohio last year. According to a settlement agreement signed Thursday, the federal government agreed to dismiss its civil forfeiture case. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents seized $28,180.00 of

By Nicole Chavez, CNN The $88 million settlement announced Thursday with survivors and the families of nine people fatally shot in 2015 at a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, is a “big ‘F-you’ to White supremacists,” an attorney for the victims’ families said. White supremacists have used the number “88” as a hate

By Nicquel Terry Ellis and Jennifer Henderson, CNN Black leaders are rallying around Howard University students who have been protesting since earlier this month what they say are subpar living conditions such as mold, mice and roaches in campus dorms. Students at the historically Black college in Washington, DC, have been assembling for sit-ins at

By Christina Carrega and Dakin Andone, CNN A former Monroe, Louisiana, police officer has been indicted by a federal grand jury for kicking a man who was under arrest and then attempting to cover up the “unjustified force,” the Department of Justice said Thursday. Jared Desadier, 43, faces two counts in the indictment, including willfully

CNN By Faith Karimi and Gregory Lemos, CNN A violent week of fistfights at a Louisiana high school led to the arrests of at least 22 students last month. So a group of concerned fathers decided enough was enough. They formed a volunteer group, Dads on Duty, and began roaming the halls of Southwood High