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By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Mexico’s green, white and red flag has become a defining symbol of the protests in Los Angeles. Demonstrators have waved flags from Mexico and other Latin American countries, as well as US flags, to express solidarity with immigrants and denounce the Trump administration’s raids, provoking the ire of the

CNN By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — As protesters against federal immigration raids have clashed in recent days with law enforcement, the Los Angeles Police Department’s Central Division sent out a warning: “Less Lethal munitions have been authorized,” officials wrote on X, ordering crowds in Downtown Los Angeles to disperse. “Less lethal munitions may cause

CNN By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Late Sunday, as protesters against federal immigration raids clashed with law enforcement, the Los Angeles Police Department’s Central Division sent out a warning: “Less Lethal munitions have been authorized,” officials wrote on X, ordering crowds in Downtown Los Angeles to disperse. “Less lethal munitions may cause pain and

By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — As protesters against federal immigration raids have clashed in recent days with law enforcement, the Los Angeles Police Department’s Central Division sent out a warning: “Less Lethal munitions have been authorized,” officials wrote on X, ordering crowds in Downtown Los Angeles to disperse. “Less lethal munitions may cause pain

By Chelsea Bailey, Julia Vargas Jones and Kyung Lah, CNN (CNN) — Estrellazul Corral joined protests outside the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center every day this weekend to demand justice for the dozens of migrants detained by armed ICE agents in armored vehicles who targeted jobsites in the city’s predominately Latino communities. After hours of

By Josh Campbell, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — A relative state of calm in Los Angeles began to crumble early Sunday afternoon as demonstrators confronted federal authorities guarding a downtown detention facility where chaos erupted as National Guard soldiers deployed tear gas on an increasingly agitated crowd. An already tense situation began to escalate as

By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Because of a weird glitch between the brain and the body, nearly one-third of people will experience sleep paralysis — making some see demons and witches. This is what you can do about it. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day:

CNN By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Because of a weird glitch between the brain and the body, nearly one-third of people will experience sleep paralysis — making some see demons and witches. This is what you can do about it. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Brian Wilson, musician, producer, composer and co-founder of the Beach Boys. Personal Birth date: June 20, 1942 Death date: June 11, 2025 Birth place: Inglewood, California Birth name: Brian Douglas Wilson Father: Murry Gage Wilson, machinist Mother: Audree Neva (Korthof), pianist Marriages:

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of Harvard University alumni have signed on to a legal message of support for their alma mater, CNN has learned, an unprecedented effort to back the school as it challenges the Trump administration’s decision to halt more than $2.2 billion in federal funding. More than 12,000 Harvard alumni

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at Juneteenth, the oldest known US celebration of the end of slavery. On June 19, 1865, over two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, enslaved African Americans in Texas were told they were free. Knowledge of the celebration spread as families

By Dakin Andone, Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — Editor’s note: An Oklahoma judge granted a temporary stay of execution Monday to John Hanson. Find the latest on his case here. Over the next four days, four inmates in four states are scheduled to be put to death – a cluster that, while not abnormal –

By Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — Several people are receiving medical treatment after a skydiving plane with 20 passengers and crew on board crashed in Coffee County, Tennessee, about 60 miles south of Nashville, according to the City of Tullahoma, where the crash occurred Sunday afternoon. Three people were airlifted to hospitals for medical treatment

By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Every parent wants their children to be happy and healthy, but admit it: If they just happen to grow up to be professional athletes or tech entrepreneurs, so much the better. Well, it turns out that the key to raising an ultra-successful kid is not something

By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — The last time Whitney Decker saw her three daughters, she gave them each a hug and kiss goodbye, not realizing it would be the last time she saw them alive. The sisters, 5-year-old Olivia, 8-year-old Evelyn and 9-year-old Paityn Decker, were found suffocated to death at an abandoned campsite

By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — An Oregon teen arrested last month in connection with an alleged mass shooting plot targeting a mall in southwestern Washington subscribed to a “nihilistic violent extremist ideology,” according to officials. Similarly, FBI officials said Guy Edward Bartkus, the man accused of bombing a Palm Springs, California, fertility clinic last

By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — At 83, Paul Kuntzler, a pioneering LGBTQ rights activist, vividly recalls joining a picket line outside the White House that would change the course of American history. “I was just 20 and was the only minor in a tiny gay rights movement consisting of about 150 people in five

By Karina Tsui, Zoe Sottile, Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has signed a presidential memorandum deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen to Los Angeles to disperse protests that began in response to immigration raids, the White House said in a statement Saturday night. Immigration authorities and demonstrators have clashed for two days in the

By Zoe Sottile, Taylor Romine, Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Grant Hardin, the one-time Arkansas police chief who escaped from prison where he was serving sentences for murder and rape, has been recaptured, according to the Izard County Sheriff’s Office. Hardin, 56, had been on the run for more than 10 days after breaking out