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By Kara Nelson, Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has let Southwest Airlines off the hook for paying the remainder of a fine for the airline’s 2022 holiday travel meltdown – a service disruption that left more than 2 million passengers stranded. An order by the Department of Transportation issued late Friday said

By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — The city of Charlotte is contending with another stabbing on its light rail system, months after the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee served as a flashpoint for the crime debate in major American cities. The stabbing on Friday, which left one person seriously injured, happened on Charlotte’s LYNX

By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — The “Wicked” musical and its offshoot movies are meant to celebrate diversity and preach radical acceptance in the face of rising fascism. The protagonist, the witch Elphaba, is consistently misjudged for her bright green skin. As “Wicked: For Good” has filled theaters and its publicity tour has circled the

By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Competing for Team Canada, Ryan Wedding finished as the 24th-best parallel giant slalom snowboarder in the world at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Over two decades later, he’s now part of another distinctive group: The FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. “Make no mistake about it: Ryan Wedding is a modern-day

By Gordon Ebanks, Leigh Waldman and Maria Sole Campinoti (CNN) — A high school senior was charged with federal arson after allegedly setting fire to a sleeping subway passenger in New York early Monday morning. Hiram Carrero, 18, is accused of arson resulting in injury after authorities said he lit a piece of paper and

By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — The first week of testimony in Brian Walshe’s murder trial in Dedham, Massachusetts, has come to an end. The jury heard from about two dozen witnesses called by the commonwealth in its case against Walshe as prosecutors work to prove he killed his wife, Ana Walshe, around New

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of filmmaker Steven Spielberg. Personal Birth date: December 18, 1946 Birth place: Cincinnati, Ohio Birth name: Steven Allan Spielberg Father: Arnold Spielberg, electrical engineer and computer pioneer Mother: Leah (Posner) Spielberg, restaurateur and concert pianist Marriages: Kate Capshaw (1991-present); Amy Irving (1985-1989, divorced) Children:

By Renée Rigdon, Matt Stiles, Byron Manley, Lou Robinson, Amy O’Kruk, Rosa de Acosta, Soph Warnes, Gillian Roberts, Yukari Schrickel, Annette Choi and Amy O’Kruk, CNN (CNN) — Catastrophic and deadly flooding killed 136 people following a torrential downpour along Texas’ Guadalupe River on the evening of July 3, and into the early hours of

By Eric Levenson, Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, Holmes Lybrand, Brian Todd, CNN (CNN) — The quiet calm of a weekday morning in a Woodbridge, Virginia, neighborhood was suddenly interrupted Thursday by a loud siren, two Humvee-style vehicles and a group of SWAT-like figures in camouflage, rifles trained on a house. “This is the FBI. We

By Alaa Elassar, Amanda Jackson, CNN Kerrville, Texas (CNN) — Heartbreaking pleas for help poured into the Kerrville, Texas, police department’s Telecommunications Center as the deadly catastrophic floods swept across Texas Hill Country in the early hours of July 4. The recordings, released by the Kerrville Police Department on Friday, are uploaded in the order

By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Brian Walshe on Thursday came face-to-face for the first time with the man who had been having an affair with his wife before her death, as he took the stand to testify in Walshe’s murder trial. Washington, DC, real estate broker William Fastow is a key witness for

By Tricia Escobedo, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! It’s been more than a decade since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished without a trace, spawning competing theories about what happened. Now, the search for the missing plane is about to resume. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day. 5 things

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

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)

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN The draw for next year’s World Cup will begin at 12 p.m. ET today, with billions of soccer fans around the globe expected to tune in. President Donald Trump will attend the ceremony at the Kennedy Center alongside a star-studded lineup of athletes, musicians and political figures. Here’s what else

WCCO By Rob Kuznia, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — Everything seemed normal at Minneapolis’s Somali markets: Men sat in barber chairs, women browsed colorful garments at the boutiques and patrons sampled fried sambusas and rice dishes at the eateries, sometimes as the Muslim call to prayer was sung at low volume over the loudspeakers. But beneath

By Rob Kuznia, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — Everything seemed normal at Minneapolis’s Somali markets: Men sat in barber chairs, women browsed colorful garments at the boutiques and patrons sampled fried sambusas and rice dishes at the eateries, sometimes as the Muslim call to prayer was sung at low volume over the loudspeakers. But beneath the

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