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By Alaa Elassar and Leigh Waldman, CNN Greenwood Lake, New York (CNN) — John Towsen and his wife, Riley Kellogg, watched in horror last Sunday as the flames in nearby trees inched closer and closer to their home of nearly five years. Suddenly, they realized they had no choice but to evacuate. “We didn’t know

By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of screenshots. A growing list of unopened texts and emails. Yet another notification that your phone’s storage is almost full. That’s the reality for many of us in the digital age. But be warned: If your device is filled with too much digital clutter, it

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Laken Riley, 22, left home at 9:03 a.m. on February 22 with her iPhone for a February morning jog. She brought her smartwatch and noise-canceling AirPods along for the run. Just 25 minutes later, she was dead. Her house’s Ring camera footage captured Riley, wearing a ponytail and

By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — Asheville, North Carolina, residents now have safe drinking water after a boil notice was lifted Monday, more than seven weeks after Tropical Storm Helene struck on September 27. Helene hit western North Carolina as a tropical storm, causing devastating flood damage and harm to its water system. The storm

By Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — Darlene Medley says she can’t trust the water coming from the faucets at her Syracuse, New York, home if she wants to keep her children safe – even as the city says it’s safe. She is worried the lead pipes might poison her 8-year-old twin boys, just like the

By Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — Charles Manson suggested he was a killer long before he became the infamous cult leader who instructed his followers to commit a series of heinous murders, known as the Manson Murders, that terrorized 1960s Los Angeles and shocked the nation. “See, there’s a whole part of my life that

By Dalia Faheid, Taylor Romine and Ray Sanchez (CNN) — The US Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation of Illinois’ Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office four months after a deputy fatally shot Sonya Massey while responding to her call about a possible prowler outside the 36-year-old Black woman’s home. The July 6 encounter between

WICS, SANGAMON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, CNN By Dalia Faheid, Taylor Romine and Ray Sanchez (CNN) — The US Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation of Illinois’ Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office four months after a deputy fatally shot Sonya Massey while responding to her call about a possible prowler outside the 36-year-old Black woman’s

Essay by Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — Weddings used to be simple affairs. Take the wedding of President Rutherford B. Hayes, who married Lucy Webb the day before New Year’s Eve in 1852, in a ceremony hosted at Webb’s family home in Cincinnati. The wedding was a plain one: roughly 30 guests, no fancy venue,

By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — Irene Silverman was suspicious of the lanky young man renting an apartment in her limestone townhome in New York City. The 6-foot-1 tenant with dark hair and green eyes barely spoke. Every time he went through the foyer and up the marble stairs, he shielded his face from the

By Ashley R. Williams, Rebekah Riess, Holly Yan, Nick Valencia, Amanda Musa, Devon M. Sayers and Rafael Romo, CNN (CNN) — About a half dozen people, including at least one of Laken Riley’s relatives, left an Athens, Georgia, courtroom to avoid seeing videos and images of the nursing student’s lifeless body. Emotions ran high among

By Maria Aguilar Prieto, CNN (CNN) — Forty-six years after a double homicide case in western Massachusetts went cold, an unexpected tip has led to an arrest, officials announced Wednesday. Authorities charged 71-year-old Timothy Joley with two counts of murder on October 29 in connection to the 1978 deaths of Theresa Marcoux, 18, and Mark

By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Melissa Lucio was two days away from being put to death in Texas for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter when an appeals court intervened in 2022. Now, a judge says Lucio never committed the crime at all. “Applicant is actually innocent; she did not kill her daughter,” state

By Ashley Killough, Ed Lavandera and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday said the execution of a man convicted of murder in the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter could move forward, even as a state house committee seeks to subpoena the man for his testimony and its bipartisan members

By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — A former NFL linebacker was arrested on Thursday and charged with assaulting law enforcement during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, according to court records. Antwione Williams, 31, who was drafted by the Detroit Lions in 2016 and later played for the XFL’s DC Defenders, now

By Rebekah Riess, Devon M. Sayers, Holly Yan, Nick Valencia, Amanda Musa and Emma Tucker, CNN Athens, Georgia (CNN) — Loud sobs echoed about the courtroom Friday where an undocumented migrant is on trial accused of murdering college student Laken Riley earlier this year. Members of the gallery passed tissues between rows and covered their

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By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — After the suicide of a nonbinary student last February spurred a monthslong federal investigation, the US Department of Education found Title IX violations in an Oklahoma public school district including multiple failures to respond to notices of sexual harassment. The DOE’s Office of Civil Rights announced a resolution

By Christopher Dawson, CNN (CNN) — The 2024 presidential race brought unprecedented vitriol into the public sphere, leaving many transgender people feeling especially marginalized and vulnerable. Campaign rhetoric demonized the transgender community, stoking prejudice and fear. With the election outcome now decided, the prejudice lingers. And in the transgender community, fear has turned into panic

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — The Fulton County Jail in Atlanta unconstitutionally subjects inmates to “inhumane, violent and hazardous conditions” that threaten their safety, a US Justice Department official said Thursday, announcing the results of a 16-month investigation. Housing units flooded by broken toilets; infestations of roaches and rodents; exposed wiring; a lack