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By David Williams, CNN The Martin County School District in Florida is investigating a photograph that shows a group of middle school students holding up what appears to be hand-made letters that spell out a racial slur, officials announced Wednesday. The photo, which has been widely circulated on social media, shows six students spelling the

By Dakin Andone and Jennifer Henderson, CNN Federal officials are investigating a shooting that wounded three people at a Korean-owned salon in Dallas last week as a potential hate crime, as local authorities say they believe the attack is connected to two earlier attacks at other Asian-run businesses. The FBI’s field office in Dallas, the

By Brad Parks and Eric Levenson, CNN The former Minneapolis Police officer who held down George Floyd’s legs during his fatal restraint pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter Wednesday as part of a plea deal, attorneys said. Thomas Lane, 39, was one of three former officers to face charges of aiding and abetting

By Aya Elamroussi, Artemis Moshtaghian and Rob Frehse, CNN Thirty minutes before an 18-year-old White man allegedly carried out a racist mass shooting Saturday at a supermarket in a mostly Black enclave of Buffalo, New York, he revealed his monthslong plot to some on social media. Payton S. Gendron — suspected of killing 10 people

By Jenn Selva, CNN Casey White and Vicky White paid a man to help them book an Indiana hotel room during their time on the run after the inmate and corrections officer slipped away from an Alabama jail, setting off an 11-day manhunt. The fugitives paid him $100 to use his ID card to book

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN Five students at Coosa High School in Rome, Georgia, along with their mothers, filed a federal lawsuit against the Floyd County school district claiming continued racial discrimination at the school and continued violations of their First Amendment and equal protection rights. “The Plaintiffs, who are African-American, challenge Coosa High’s deliberate indifference

By Steve Almasy, CNN A recently discovered one-third of a mile-long tunnel under the US-Mexico border has a rail track system, electricity and a ventilation system, federal officials said Monday when they announced drug charges against six people in California. The passageway was discovered early Friday by a task force led by investigators from the

By Peter Nickeas, Casey Tolan and Virginia Langmaid, CNN The 18-year-old man accused of mass murder at a Buffalo supermarket legally obtained an AR-15 style rifle, believed to be the same weapon he described modifying in a lengthy, racist rant posted online before the attack. Law enforcement officials told CNN on Tuesday there appear to

By Eric Levenson and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN A California family and sports medicine doctor with a deep interest in building community was praised as a hero after he died confronting a gunman at a church service Sunday. Dr. John Cheng, 52, was the lone person killed in the mass shooting at the Geneva Presbyterian Church,

By Scottie Andrew, CNN In 2021, parents were tired. The pandemic was still raging. Babies couldn’t (and still can’t) get vaccinated for protection from Covid-19. Many new parents weren’t taking risks with their infants’ health — or, according to the US Social Security Administration, with their names. The federal agency’s list of the top baby

WLNY By Kiely Westhoff and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN An 11-year-old girl died Monday night after being struck by a stray bullet on the streets of the Bronx in New York City, the New York Police Department announced. The girl was shot in the abdomen when a man on a scooter attempted to shoot another person

By Chris Boyette, Jamiel Lynch, Michelle Krupa and Jennifer Henderson, CNN A man has been charged with three counts of felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in a Dallas hair salon shooting last week that wounded three people, according to the probable cause affidavits obtained by CNN. On May 11, Jeremy Theron Smith, 36,

By Chris Boyette, CNN A 13-year-old boy in Utah died from injuries sustained in a dune collapse last weekend, according to Utah State Parks. Park rangers believe the teenager, Ian Spendlove of Santa Clara, Utah, had been digging a tunnel in the side of a sand dune at Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park on

By Kiely Westhoff and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN An 11-year-old girl died Monday night after being struck by a stray bullet on the streets of the Bronx in New York City, the New York Police Department announced. The girl was shot in the abdomen when a man on a scooter attempted to shoot another person running