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By Shawn Nottingham and Nick Valencia, CNN (CNN) — A man who Atlanta police say held a gun to the head of a bus driver is in custody after the hijacked bus led authorities on a rush hour chase Tuesday, and another person found shot on the bus has now died, officials say. Police said they will not

By Denise Royal and Carlos Suarez, CNN (CNN) — A federal district court has blocked Florida from enforcing a law that bans medical care for transgender children, calling it “unconstitutional.” “Gender identity is real,” District Judge Robert Hinkle wrote, going on to say Florida’s law banning care for transgender youth and restricting it for transgender

By Associated Press, CNN Concord, New Hampshire (AP) — Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage student to have her husband killed in 1990, accepted full responsibility for his death for the first time in a videotaped statement released Tuesday as part of her latest sentence reduction request. Smart,

By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — The NAACP in Virginia and five students filed a federal lawsuit against the Shenandoah County school board in response to their vote last month to restore the names of two schools that previously honored Confederate leaders – nearly four years after a decision was made to change them. ”By

By Christina Maxouris, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — A 34-year-old man with an extensive criminal record shot and wounded three people in a popular downtown Atlanta food court Tuesday, before he was shot by a police officer and taken into custody, officials said. The victims, all three of whom are alive and being treated at area

By Dakin Andone and Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — Gabby Petito once asked Brian Laundrie to stop calling her names, according to a letter she wrote released in a collection of FBI documents, signaling tensions between the couple prior to the 2021 road trip that would end with Laundrie killing his 22-year-old fiancée. “Brian, you

By Danny Freeman, CNN (CNN) — The man accused of fatally shooting Philadelphia journalist Josh Kruger last October pleaded guilty to third-degree murder on Monday, according to court documents. Robert Davis, 20, was sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison for the murder charge based on a negotiated plea deal, as well as 1

By Sydney Bishop, CNN (CNN) — For many graduates, their college degrees come at the end of at least four years spent roaming the campus. Max, a 6-year-old tabby, is no different. Except now, he’s a Doctor of Litter-ature. He’s been visiting Vermont State University’s Castleton campus ever since his owner, Ashley Dow, began letting

KCAL, KCBS, CNN By Jillian Sykes and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — At least 25 people were arrested after setting up multiple pro-Palestinian encampments on UCLA’s campus Monday that police said were unlawful, according to a statement from the UCLA Police Department. As a result of the encampments, the group damaged a fountain, spray-painted brick walkways, tampered with fire safety equipment,

By Jillian Sykes, Holly Yan and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — A total of 27 people were arrested after setting up multiple pro-Palestinian encampments on UCLA’s campus Monday that police said were unlawful, according to a statement from UCLA leadership. At least six University of California Police Department personnel and other safety officers were injured during confrontations with protesters, including one

By Josh Campbell and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Violent crime dropped by more than 15% in the United States during the first three months of 2024, according to statistics released Monday by the FBI. The new numbers show violent crime from January to March dropped 15.2% compared to the same period in 2023, while murders fell 26.4% and

By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — For most of its early history, the word “queer” meant unusual or out of the ordinary. Then it was co-opted as a homophobic insult for much of the 20th century before people from LGBT communities reclaimed the term. Then, LGBTQ activists who identified as queer showed that they were proud to be different. LGBTQ activist groups like

By Carlos Suarez and Denise Royal, CNN (CNN) — Four Miami-Dade police officers have been indicted by a grand jury in connection with a 2019 shootout with suspects in a hijacked UPS truck that resulted in the deaths of a hostage delivery driver and a bystander, the Miami-Dade Police Department said Tuesday. The chaotic December

By Carlos Suarez, Denise Royal and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Federal investigators accuse a south Florida man of traversing two continents, stealing license plates and obscuring a security camera to kidnap his estranged wife at her apartment in Spain earlier this year. But the man and his former attorney say he has never stepped

By Lauren Mascarenhas, Christina Maxouris, Joe Sutton and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — The Port of Baltimore’s shipping channel is fully operational again, response officials announced Monday, more than two months after a massive cargo ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, killing six construction workers and cutting off access to the crucial shipping

By Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — The Rev. James Lawson Jr., a civil rights icon who trained activists in nonviolent protest, died Sunday, according to the pastor at Holman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles, where Lawson was reverend emeritus. Lawson died in Los Angeles, Rev. Christian Washington told CNN Monday. He was 95.

By Maria Sole Campinoti and Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — Two men have pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection to the overdose death of a 1-year-old boy and the hospitalization of three other children at a day care in the Bronx, New York, last year. On the morning his trial was set to begin in Manhattan

CNN By Rafael Romo, Belisa Morillo and Laura Weffer, CNN (CNN) — An alleged multistate human trafficking ring forcing immigrant women into prostitution. The mysterious killing of a former police officer in South Florida. Attacks against police officers in New York. The arrest of a drug dealer in Chicago. Local and federal officials say these apparently unrelated