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By Jarrod Wardwell, Jason Hanna and Travis Caldwell, CNN A 3-year-old boy died Sunday after being left in a hot car for nearly three hours in southern Georgia, a coroner’s office said, bringing the number of recorded heat-related deaths of children in a vehicle this year to at least six. At least three such deaths

By Sonia Moghe and Dakin Andone, CNN Disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday following his conviction last year on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges stemming from his efforts over years to use his fame to ensnare victims he sexually abused. Prosecutors had asked the judge to sentence

By Ray Sanchez, Nicole Chavez and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN A distant cry led a worker Monday evening to a tractor-trailer abandoned on a desolate country road under the blazing Texas sun on the outskirts of the city. On this barren stretch of scrubland adjacent to railroad tracks, the perilous journey north for dozens of undocumented

By Raja Razek, CNN A Colorado man required medical treatment at a hospital after he was gored by a bull bison at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, officials said. The 34-year-old man was walking with his family on a boardwalk near the Giant Geyser at Old Faithful on Monday when the bull bison charged at

By Amy Simonson and Laura James, CNN Hours after the apparent accidental death of a toddler who had been left in a car, the child’s father took his own life, authorities in Virginia said Tuesday. Chesterfield County police received a call at 11:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday indicating that an 18-month-old boy had been left

By Lauren del Valle, CNN The indictments against former top Michigan state officials for their alleged culpability in the Flint water crisis were deemed invalid Tuesday. A panel of Michigan Supreme Court judges said that prosecutors in Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office made a procedural error when a Genesee County Circuit Court judge serving as

By Tina Burnside and Jamiel Lynch, CNN One person was killed after an Amtrak train collided with a passenger vehicle in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday, according to officials. It is the nation’s third accident involving Amtrak trains in a two-day period. The accident happened around 6:22 p.m. CT (7:22 p.m. ET) at a train crossing

By Meron Moges-Gerbi and Cheri Mossburg, CNN A stretch of prime Southern California beachfront real estate was returned to the descendants of its Black owners Tuesday, nearly a century after the parcel was taken by the city of Manhattan Beach. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to give the land back to

By Tina Burnside, CNN A 1-year-old girl is dead and another child is recovering after an 8-year-old boy accidentally shot them while playing with his father’s gun, according to Escambia County Sheriff’s Office. The incident occurred on Sunday at the Lion’s Motel in Pensacola, Florida. During a news conference on Monday, Escambia County Sheriff Chip

By Jennifer Henderson, Brad Parks and Holly Yan, CNN A grandmother who was shot by her grandson before he killed 21 people at a Texas elementary school has been released from a hospital. University Health in San Antonio said a 66-year-old patient injured the day of the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School in

By Devon M. Sayers, CNN An employee at a Subway restaurant in Atlanta was shot and killed Sunday after a customer got upset about a condiment on his sandwich, Atlanta Police said. Police were called to the restaurant near Mercedes-Benz Stadium in downtown Atlanta shortly after 6:30 p.m., a news release from the police department

By Amy Simonson, Pete Muntean and Dakin Andone, CNN A team of National Transportation Safety Board investigators arrived in Missouri Tuesday to probe the derailment of an Amtrak train that left at least four people dead and sent surviving passengers scrambling from the wreckage. The derailment occurred as the train, traveling eastbound to Chicago, collided

CNN By Amir Vera and Randi Kaye, CNN Jenny and Lisa had two very different experiences when they each decided to visit the Alabama Women’s Center in Huntsville, nearly two weeks apart. Lisa, 18, was able to undergo an abortion procedure on June 10, she told CNN Monday. Jenny, 18, came in Monday unaware that

By Amir Vera and Randi Kaye, CNN Jenny and Lisa had two very different experiences when they each decided to visit the Alabama Women’s Center in Huntsville, nearly two weeks apart. Lisa, 18, was able to undergo an abortion procedure on June 10, she told CNN Monday. Jenny, 18, came in Monday unaware that the

By Lauren del Valle, Mark Morales, Sonia Moghe and Eric Levenson, CNN Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Tuesday for carrying out a years-long scheme with her longtime confidante Jeffrey Epstein to groom and sexually abuse underage girls. Maxwell, 60, did not testify in her defense during the trial late last

By Amir Vera, Joe Sutton, Amy Simonson, Amanda Musa, Travis Caldwell and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Two men have been charged in connection with the deaths of 51 migrants who were found in sweltering conditions in a semitruck in San Antonio, according to criminal complaints filed in US District Court for the Western District of Texas.