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By Keely Aouga and Laura Ly, CNN Actress Phylicia Rashad sent a letter to Howard University students and parents on Friday, offering “[her] most sincere apology” for tweeting in celebration of Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction being overturned. “My remarks were in no way directed towards survivors of sexual assault. I vehemently oppose sexual violence,

By Rosa Flores, Rebekah Riess, Theresa Waldrop and Deanna Hackney, CNN The city of North Miami Beach has ordered the immediate closure and evacuation of a condo building after a report submitted Friday determined the structure is unsafe, officials said. Crestview Towers, about seven miles north of the Surfside condo building that collapsed last week,

By Kendall Lanier, CNN A Texas district attorney announced that a grand jury has indicted Daniel Perry on charges including murder in the death of a man at a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020. Perry also was indicted on one count of aggravated assault and one misdemeanor count of deadly conduct stemming from the

By Madeline Holcombe and Chris Boyette, CNN Details of the investigation leading to the charges against Lori Vallow in the death of her former husband show he feared for their children’s safety​, police say, citing a mental health petition Charles Vallow filed. Arizona police released a probable cause statement Thursday with information on what led

By Carma Hassan, Omar Jimenez and Ray Sanchez, CNN A Minneapolis judge has sided with residents who sued the city over police staffing levels, saying the mayor and City Council failed to keep the adequate number of officers required by the municipal charter. Hennepin County Judge Jamie Anderson’s order to add officers to the Minneapolis

By Amanda Watts and Melissa Alonso, CNN A member of the City of Miami Fire-Rescue has lost his 7-year-old daughter in the Surfside, Florida, building collapse, officials said Friday. The girl’s remains were recovered Thursday night in the rubble by members of the department’s urban search and rescue team, Chief Joseph Zahralban said in a

By Aya Elamroussi, Melissa Alonso and Rebekah Riess, CNN The Boy Scouts of America has reached an $850 million settlement with sexual abuse victims amid bankruptcy proceedings and allegations of widespread abuse within the group, it said in news release. The deal is among the largest single settlements of sexual abuse claims in US history.

CNN’s Rebekah Riess and Travis Nichols One person is in custody after a rabbi was stabbed near a Jewish day school in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood on Thursday afternoon. Boston Police confirmed the stabbing incident at the intersection of Chestnut Hill Avenue and Washington Street, in the Brighton section of Boston. Shaloh House School Executive Director

By Faith Karimi, CNN Since Bill Cosby walked out of prison a free man after a court overturned his sexual assault conviction, observers have found themselves wondering: Could Harvey Weinstein be next? The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania tossed out Cosby’s conviction Wednesday, three years after he was imprisoned for assaulting a Temple University employee. In

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Against the backdrop of unprecedented heat waves and deadly wildfires, the West’s historic drought has ranchers fighting another problem besides water shortages: a prolific hoard of grasshoppers is competing with cattle for food. Around 93% of the West is in some level of drought this week, and a bizarre impact of

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, Alta Spells and Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman, CNN An engineering firm hired for Champlain Towers South‘s milestone recertification found “deep” concrete deterioration near the pool but couldn’t perform repairs, in part, because of concerns about stability, according to an October letter. Maryland-based Morabito Consultants also was hamstrung because it needed access to the

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN As rescuers sift through the rubble of a South Florida condo building, investigators have been searching for answers as to what triggered the collapse. Officials have confirmed 22 deaths, and dozens more remain unaccounted for. As families mourn and worry for their loved ones, residents and officials are criticizing the management

By Jay Croft and Madeline Holcombe, CNN The mayor of Miami-Dade County took another step Friday toward allowing crews to demolish the remaining units at the Surfside condo building that partially collapsed last week, but she added that it will be weeks before it can happen. Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said officials are still evaluating