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By Brian Todd and Caroll Alvarado, CNN The mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher in a Newport News, Virginia, elementary school appeared in court for the first time Friday after being charged in the incident. Deja Taylor did not enter a plea to charges of child neglect and recklessly leaving a loaded

By Dakin Andone, CNN Tony Montalto sat in a Florida courtroom and watched in disbelief as his 14-year-old daughter’s killer received a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole after a jury was unable to reach unanimous agreement that her murderer should be put to death. “It was the third worst thing

By Lauren Lee, CNN People of color in the US face heightened risks of harm from climate-induced disasters. Now, non-profits are pushing to remedy that disparity with more equitable approaches to disaster preparedness, response and recovery. “Until we really address the root issues of climate injustice, we’re going to continue to see a disproportionate impact

By Dianne Gallagher, CNN The father of a former NFL player who killed six people, including two children, in a South Carolina mass shooting before killing himself, is suing the university where his son played football. Alonzo Adams filed the wrongful death lawsuit in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, against South Carolina State University. His son,

By Sara Smart, Danny Freeman and Zoe Sottile, CNN Police are on the hunt for the people behind a “dime and dash” theft in northeast Philadelphia. At around 6 a.m. Thursday, thieves broke into an unmarked trailer left in a Walmart parking lot, the Philadelphia Police Department told CNN, and made off with about 2

By Taylor Romine, Ashley Killough and Ed Lavandera, CNN As the Texas pardons board considers a request from Gov. Greg Abbott to pardon a man convicted last week of fatally shooting a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally, newly unsealed documents show the Army sergeant talked about killing people and shared racist comments on

CNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN More than 100 temperature records could be broken across the Midwest and Northeast today as some cities brace for temperatures as much as 30 degrees above normal. View this map to see if you may be impacted by the possible record-setting heat. Here’s what else you need to know to

WANF, MICHAEL HARPER, FULTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, CNN By Chris Youd, CNN The family of Lashawn Thompson, an inmate who died in the Fulton County Jail last year, is demanding a criminal investigation into his death and for the facility to be closed and a new one to be built. Family attorney Michael Harper, speaking

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN More than 100 temperature records could be broken across the Midwest and Northeast today as some cities brace for temperatures as much as 30 degrees above normal. View this map to see if you may be impacted by the possible record-setting heat. Here’s what else you need to know to Get

WCCO, MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT, CNN By Paradise Afshar, CNN The city of Minneapolis has reached settlements totaling more than $8.8 million in two civil lawsuits that accuse former police officer Derek Chauvin of using excessive force in two incidents that happened nearly three years before he killed George Floyd during an arrest. The plaintiffs, John

By Paradise Afshar, CNN The city of Minneapolis has reached settlements totaling more than $8.8 million in two civil lawsuits that accuse former police officer Derek Chauvin of using excessive force in two incidents that happened nearly three years before he killed George Floyd during an arrest. The plaintiffs, John Pope and Zoya Code —

By Chris Youd, CNN The family of Lashawn Thompson, an inmate who died in the Fulton County Jail last year, is demanding a criminal investigation into his death and for the facility to be closed and a new one to be built. Family attorney Michael Harper, speaking at a news conference Thursday, blamed unsanitary conditions

By Ed Lavandera, Andy Rose and Ashley Killough, CNN A rural Texas county voted Thursday afternoon to drop discussion for now of possibly defunding the county’s library system after a federal judge ordered it to return more than a dozen banned books to library shelves. By a unanimous vote, the Commissioner’s Court in Llano County,

By Andy Rose, CNN An explosion and fire at a dairy farm this week near Dimmitt, Texas, killed thousands of cattle and injured one person, according to Castro County authorities. About 19,000 cattle had been at the South Fork Dairy when Monday’s explosion happened, Castro County Sheriff Salvador Rivera told CNN in an email. “The

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Classes at a Colorado high school have resumed after two teachers died over the weekend after experiencing symptoms of bacterial meningitis, according to school administrators. The two teachers at Eaglecrest High School in Aurora, 24-year-old Madelaine Michelle Schmidt and 63-year-old Judith Briere Geoffroy, experienced symptoms of bacterial meningitis before their deaths,