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Man accused of fatally stabbing woman in her Manhattan apartment pleads guilty to murder, burglary charges

By Emma Tucker and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — The man who fatally stabbed a 35-year-old woman inside her New York apartment after following her home in 2022 has pleaded guilty to murder and burglary charges, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday. Assamad Nash, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder and

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Los Angeles school board will ban students from using cell phones during the school day. But questions loom on how to do it

By Holly Yan and Debra Goldschmidt, CNN (CNN) — Students in the nation’s second-largest school district will no longer be able to use cell phones during the school day after the Los Angeles Unified School District’s board voted 5-2 in favor of the ban Tuesday. The move highlights a frustration shared by educators across the

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Harriet Tubman led a raid that freed more than 700 enslaved people. A South Carolina church has built a statue in her honor

By Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — In the early hours of June 2, 1863, Union army gunboats idled along the banks of South Carolina’s Combahee River, waiting to give the signal to the enslaved people hiding ashore. When the boats sounded their steam whistles, more than 700 men, women and children fled the plantations along the river to race

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Father whose murder conviction was overturned in son’s hot-car death is released from prison and moved to jail

By Dave Alsup and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — Justin Ross Harris, a Georgia father whose murder conviction for the hot-car death of his 22-month-old son was overturned by the state’s Supreme Court in 2022, has been released from prison, according to prison records. Harris was released from Macon State Prison on Father’s Day – nearly 10 years

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Brooklyn pastor ‘Bling Bishop’ sentenced to 9 years for fraud and extortion, US attorney says

By Nic F. Anderson, CNN (CNN) — Lamor Whitehead, a flashy Brooklyn pastor nicknamed the “Bling Bishop,” was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison after being convicted of using a parishioner’s retirement savings and trying to extort a businessman, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced. Whitehead was found guilty

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Pastor Robert Morris applauds after President Donald Trump spoke at Gateway Church's Dallas campus in June 2020.

Megachurch accepts senior pastor’s resignation after allegations of past inappropriate relationship with a minor

WFAA, CNN By Jillian Sykes, CNN (CNN) — A Dallas-area megachurch accepted the resignation of senior pastor Robert Morris on Tuesday after allegations of a past inappropriate relationship with a 12-year-old surfaced last week. In a statement obtained by CNN affiliate WFAA, the Board of Elders of Gateway Church said that prior to June 14, they didn’t have

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University of Michigan, CUNY failed to respond to hostile incident complaints in October 7 aftermath, federal report finds

By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — The University of Michigan failed to properly investigate dozens of incidents of alleged antisemitic behavior on campus over the past four years, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Education. The agency also expressed concern about lax response by the City University of New York to

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