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By Jason Hanna and Travis Caldwell, CNN A jury has found the three White men who killed Ahmaud Arbery in 2020 guilty of all charges in their federal hate crimes trial, backing prosecutors’ case that the men chased the 25-year-old through the streets of a Georgia neighborhood because he was Black. Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael

By Liam Reilly, CNN An Uber driver found dead near Pittsburgh was robbed and killed by her passenger, with key moments of the incident recorded on the car’s dash camera and leading to an arrest, according to a criminal complaint. Police were called to a wooded area last Saturday, where they recovered the body of

By Amanda Jackson, CNN A resident at a college dorm in Utah decided to try to make rocket fuel on his kitchen stove, leading to a fireball causing serious property damage, according to police. Now, 22 students are displaced from their dorm in Provo, Utah. The experiment mishap occurred at the on-campus housing at Brigham

By Amir Vera, CNN Defense attorneys rested their case Monday in the federal civil rights trial of three former officers involved in George Floyd’s death. All three officers have testified about their points of view on May 25, 2020, when Floyd, a Black man, was fatally restrained. With each vantage point now on record, the

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the Kentucky Derby. The Derby is traditionally run on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. May 7, 2022 – Rich Strike wins the 148th running of the Kentucky Derby. The horse entered the race at 80-1 odds – the biggest long-shot in the

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Personal Birth date: March 6, 1926 Birth place: New York, New York Birth name: Alan Greenspan Father: Herbert Greenspan, stockbroker Mother: Rose (Goldsmith) Greenspan Marriages: Andrea Mitchell (1997-present); Joan Mitchell (1952-1953, annulled) Education: New York University, B.S., 1948; New

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march in Alabama. Facts Throughout March of 1965, a group of demonstrators faced violence as they attempted to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, to demand the right to vote for black people. One of the pivotal days was March 7, when

By Chris Boyette and Andy Rose, CNN A skydiving instructor whose parachute did not open during a jump on Saturday has died, according to the Texas center where he worked. “Skydive Houston, along with the greater skydiving community at large, is deeply saddened by the loss of our tandem instructor and friend,” Skydive Houston skydiving

By Laura Studley, CNN One man died and another was injured after they were struck by subway trains in different areas of New York City within hours of each other Saturday night, the New York Police Department (NYPD) said. In the first incident, a 35-year-old male was walking between train cars on the southbound J

By Jacob Lev and Ralph Ellis, CNN Austin Cindric took the checkered flag to win the crash-filled 64th annual Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on Sunday. The 23-year-old Cindric slightly beat out Bubba Wallace to win his first career NASCAR Cup Series victory. Wallace finished second, with Chase Briscoe, Ryan Blaney and Aric Almirola

By Claudia Dominguez, Tina Burnside and Emma Tucker, CNN An elementary school student in South Carolina brought a loaded handgun to his school because he wanted to “shoot zombies,” Detective J.C. Brewington from the Laurens Police Department said in a news conference on Friday. A staff member of the elementary school in Laurens found a

By Emma Tucker and Pooja Agrawal, CNN At least six people have been stabbed or slashed on the New York City subway since the unveiling of a new transit safety plan on Friday, the New York City Police Department said. Officials have vowed to combat crime and address homelessness in the city’s transit system as

By Tina Burnside and Taliah Miller, CNN A Florida woman has been charged with first-degree murder after police say she allegedly stabbed her husband more than 140 times. Joan Burke, 61, who is being held without bond, appeared before a Palm Beach County judge on Sunday via video conference, according to court documents obtained by

By Pooja Salhotra and Theresa Waldrop, CNN A 21-year-old female student at SUNY Potsdam was shot and killed near the upstate New York campus Friday night, state police and university officials said. The victim, identified as Elizabeth Howell, was found on College Park Road, state police said in a news release. She was pronounced dead

By Laura Studley and Emma Tucker, CNN Three young brothers died in Michigan after the car they were in struck a curb and rolled into an iced-over retention pond in Holland, Ottawa County Sheriff’s Lt. Eric Westveer said. The mother of the three boys swerved her Chevy Tahoe into oncoming traffic on Thursday around 11a.m.,