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By Sonia Moghe and Dakin Andone, CNN Harvey Weinstein’s criminal sex act and rape convictions have been upheld by a New York appellate court. All appellate judges concurred in the opinion. In a statement, Weistein spokesperson Juda Engelmayer said his legal team was “disappointed, but not surprised.” “We are reviewing all of our options and

By Amir Vera, Rebekah Riess, Holly Yan and Chris Boyette, CNN Texas State Sen. Roland Gutierrez raised questions in a news conference on Thursday about whether information on 911 calls from inside Robb Elementary School was relayed properly to responders at the scene of the shooting. Gutierrez said he spoke with the agency that regulates

By Mark Morales and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN The 18-year-old suspect in the Buffalo, New York, supermarket shooting that killed 10 people pleaded not guilty to the 25-count indictment against him, his attorney said in court Thursday afternoon. Peyton Gendron, who was dressed in an orange jumpsuit and shackled at his hands and feet, was asked

By Jason Hanna and Amanda Watts, CNN The gunman who killed two doctors and two others at an Oklahoma medical building Wednesday did so after he blamed one of the physicians for causing him pain from a recent back surgery, a police chief said Thursday. The shooter, Michael Louis, who police said killed himself after

By Taylor Romine, CNN A 16-year-old boy was arrested this week after police learned he was allegedly recruiting students to carry out a mass shooting at a high school in Berkeley, California, authorities said Wednesday. Police received a tip on May 21 of the teen’s alleged plot targeting Berkeley High School, which also included a

By Nicole Chavez and Laura Studley, CNN A panel in California considering reparations for Black Americans released its first report Wednesday detailing the “innumerable” harms of slavery in the state that “have snowballed over generations.” In a 500-page interim report, the California Reparations Task Force detailed California’s involvement in slavery and how it continues to

By Tina Burnside and Kate Conerly, CNN A man searching a Florida lake for Frisbees may have died as a result of a possible alligator attack, according to a news release from Largo Police Department. The victim, who authorities have identified as 47-year-old Sean McGuinness, was discovered along the shoreline of Taylor Lake in Largo,

By Tina Burnside and Melissa Alonso, CNN Severe weather is being blamed for a parasailing accident that claimed the life of an Illinois woman and injured two children in the Florida Keys on Memorial Day, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). The incident occurred on Monday near Pigeon Key in Monroe

By Amir Vera and Amanda Watts, CNN Baltimore has sued the nation’s largest maker of so-called “ghost guns” that are easy to assemble, untraceable and increasingly used in violent crime across the country. The city accuses Polymer80 of causing a “public health crisis,” according to a news release Wednesday. Officials also said the company “intentionally

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Educators across the country are scrutinizing security plans to see what more they can do to protect students after the killing of 21 people — including 19 children — in one of the deadliest school shootings in American history. It’s an exercise that experts say may do little to prevent another

By Rachel Ramirez and Sharif Paget, CNN Memorial Day boaters captured the scene on video as a massive rockfall crashed into the waters of Lake Powell. The dramatic rockslide happened on the Utah side of the lake — the second largest reservoir in the country — where water levels have continued to plunge due to

By Natasha Chen and Dakin Andone, CNN Since 22-year-old soccer player Katie Meyer died by suicide in her Stanford University dorm room on March 1, her parents have experienced grief in tidal waves. Steve Meyer said he and his wife, Gina, cry every day, and they don’t know when the tears will come. It could

By Leah Asmelash, CNN The stereotype that Black people don’t swim is one oft repeated, but for Nathan Fluellen, it wasn’t one that was true. Fluellen grew up in a Black middle class neighborhood in Chicago, where everyone knew how to swim, he told CNN. What he never saw, though, was Black people surfing. “I

By Paradise Afshar and Melissa Alonso, CNN The families of two Utah teenagers have filed a lawsuit challenging a state law that bans transgender women and girls from participating in school sports. The suit asks the court to declare the ban unconstitutional and block its enforcement. It was filed Tuesday in the Third Judicial District

CNN By Omar Jimenez, Meridith Edwards, Travis Caldwell and Christina Maxouris, CNN No students or staff will be returning to Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, the site of a tragic massacre last month, Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Superintendent Hal Harrell reaffirmed Friday. “We’re not going back to that campus,” Harrell said during a special

By Aaron Cooper, Shimon Prokupecz and Eric Levenson, CNN Pedro “Pete” Arredondo, the embattled Uvalde school police chief who led the flawed law enforcement response to last week’s school shooting and has remained out of the public eye since, spoke exclusively to CNN on Wednesday and declined to answer substantive questions about the massacre. According

By Paradise Afshar, CNN A 9-year-old girl is recovering at a hospital in Washington state after being attacked by a cougar while playing hide-and-seek outdoors with her friends, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. Lily Kryzhanivskyy was attacked Saturday as she jumped out to surprise her friends, the department said in a

By Devon M. Sayers, CNN One of America’s most prolific slave trading ports is to open as a museum after more than two decades of planning in Charleston, South Carolina. The International African American Museum will open the weekend of January 21, 2023, the museum announced Wednesday. The 150,000-square-foot facility will be at the former