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By Eduardo Cuevas, CNN (CNN) — Before the botched execution of Christa Pike, Frank Strada reportedly had a history of overseeing execution missteps in two states. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Saturday announced Correction Commissioner Strada would step down later this month following the backlash after the attempted execution left Pike on a ventilator, unconscious

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The FBI on Sunday arrested a 34-year-old California woman who has been charged with acting as an unregistered agent for China and allegedly surveilled the Taiwanese president’s son and his family, federal officials said. Wanying “Heather” Zhang, of Irvine, allegedly surveilled a close relative of a Taiwanese government

By Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — As Monica Turner trekked across the western hills of Yellowstone National Park, the cold rain was inescapable. Even the constant movement of putting one foot in front of the other as she fought through a slew of dense branches could not warm her body. It was easy to forget

By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Lindsay Clancy’s case began with a bout of insomnia and anxiety several months after the birth of her third child with her husband, Patrick, in a quiet suburb outside Boston. A few months later, all three children of her children were dead, and Lindsay Clancy was hospitalized and partially

By Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Immediately after Katiana Soenen says she was sexually assaulted as a freshman at Brown University in 2021, she struggled to understand what had happened and questioned her own actions. “I spent the first kind of like two hours after really trying to figure out if I had done something

By Taylor Galgano, Danya Gainor, CNN Ithaca, New York (CNN) — At first glance, the town of Ithaca looks like a picture-perfect college brochure: The trees are starting to flash colorful fall foliage, a man in overalls is selling fresh flowers under the sun and students crowd around small tables outside a popular bagel shop

CNN By Taylor Galgano, Danya Gainor, CNN Ithaca, New York (CNN) — At first glance, the town of Ithaca looks like a picture-perfect college brochure: the trees are starting to flash colorful fall foliage, a man in overalls is selling fresh flowers under the sun and students crowd around small tables outside a popular bagel

By Evelio Contreras, CNN Hettinger, North Dakota (CNN) — “Do you like McDonald’s?” That was the first question Marichu Castillo Villamiel was asked when she applied for a job at a hospital in Hettinger, North Dakota, a tiny town of about 1,100 people and only one grocery store. It was the interviewer’s way of checking

By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — The videos come in a barrage: Men — they are almost always men — filmed in closeup, their expressions angry, or confused, or scared. “Who are you here to meet?” says the voice behind the camera. It’s the moment of exposure, a juncture of dramatic irony: We know —

By Hanna Park, Danya Gainor, Holly Yan, Gloria Pazmino, Jeff Winter, Avery Wang, CNN (CNN) — A lawsuit filed last month by a former Cornell University student alleging a gang rape at a fraternity house in 2024 has prompted the reopening of an investigation and reignited a firestorm around the scourge of sexual assaults at

CNN By Gloria Pazmino, Holly Yan, Jessie Yeung, Isa Mudannayake, CNN Ithaca, New York (CNN) — Newly obtained documents reviewed by CNN show Cornell University police drafted letters to wireless carriers about a week after a student now known as Jane Doe told police she had been sexually assaulted by members of the Chi Phi

By Isa Mudannayake, CNN (CNN) — As outrage builds around the case involving a Cornell University student allegedly gang-raped in a fraternity house in October 2024, the university’s president has broken his silence with a statement Saturday. Here’s the latest: University president speaks out: “This is a defining moment in Cornell’s history,” Cornell’s president, Michael

By Eric Levenson and Ryan Young, CNN (CNN) — Christa Pike survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her via lethal injection on Wednesday, but her medical and legal future remain remarkably unclear. Pike is intubated, on a ventilator, and remains unconscious in a Nashville-area hospital, her attorneys said in a court filing Friday. Pike is receiving

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown, Connecticut. On December 14, 2012, six adults and 20 children were killed by Adam Lanza, who had earlier killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, in their home. The Shooter Birth date: April 22, 1992 Death date: December 14,

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Ken Urker, the partner of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who became the subject of intense media attention for her role in killing her abusive mother, has died. Urker was found dead at a residence in Raceland, Louisiana, on Thursday evening — his 34th birthday — after police responded to a

CNN By Kara Scannell, Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — CNN has obtained newly unsealed police body camera footage showing the arrest of Luigi Mangione inside a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, days after he fatally shot United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The hours of footage capture officers questioning Mangione at the fast-food restaurant on the morning

By Kara Scannell, Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — CNN has obtained newly unsealed police body camera footage showing the arrest of Luigi Mangione inside a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, days after he fatally shot United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The hours of footage capture officers questioning Mangione at the fast-food restaurant on the morning of

By Holly Yan, Jessie Yeung, Gloria Pazmino, Jason Carroll, CNN (CNN) — New York’s governor chastised what she deemed a botched investigation into the alleged gang rape of a Cornell University student and vowed to take action – including changing a state law that prevents some victims from seeking justice. Gov. Kathy Hochul criticized how

By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — The judge overseeing Lindsay Clancy’s murder case denied one of her motions aimed at avoiding a retrial. Clancy still has another motion to dismiss the case that’s pending in court, and the district attorney in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, hasn’t committed to pursuing a retrial against her. Clancy’s post-trial