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By Rob Frehse and Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN A federal judge has overturned the opioid settlement of more than $4 billion that gave the Sackler family broad protection against civil litigation and resolved all outstanding civil suits against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma. The Bankruptcy Court lacked the statutory authority to give the Sackler family those protections

CNN, WJZ By Amy Simonson, Amir Vera, Gregory Lemos, Leslie Holland and Kay Jones, CNN Two suspects are in custody and have been charged in the ambush shooting of a Baltimore police officer who was sitting in her patrol car, authorities said. The two suspects were charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Baltimore

By Emma Tucker, CNN Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot did not purposefully conceal any information about a botched raid in 2019 at a social worker’s home as the woman stood naked and handcuffed in her living room as officers searched her residence with guns drawn, according to the findings of an independent probe released on Thursday.

By Amy Simonson, Amir Vera, Gregory Lemos, Leslie Holland and Kay Jones, CNN Two suspects are in custody and have been charged in the ambush shooting of a Baltimore police officer who was sitting in her patrol car, authorities said. The two suspects were charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Baltimore Police Officer

By Sonia Moghe, CNN A third teen pleaded guilty in the death of Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors as her father watched on in court, marking the beginning of the end of a two-year-long legal battle that her parents have said has prevented them from being able to grieve in peace. Majors was an 18-year-old

By Nick Valencia, Jaide Timm-Garcia and Melissa Alonso, CNN A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Mayfield Consumer Products on behalf of candle factory workers alleging they were told they would be fired if they left work ahead of last week’s deadly tornadoes. One of the tornadoes ripped into the Mayfield factory, killing at least

By Ray Sanchez and Carma Hassan, CNN Kim Potter, the former officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in suburban Minneapolis, told a state court judge Thursday that she’ll testify in her own defense. Potter, 49, could take the stand as early as Friday — one day after her former police chief,

By Lauren del Valle and Eric Levenson, CNN A former assistant and an expert on false memories testified for Ghislaine Maxwell’s defense on Thursday as her legal team got its first opportunity to call witnesses to the stand. The former assistant, Cimberly Espinosa, testified for just under two hours about the roughly six years she

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday that falls on the third Monday in January. Facts January 16, 2023 – Martin Luther King Jr. Day. King’s actual birthday was on January 15. Timeline April 8, 1968 – Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) introduces legislation for a federal holiday

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of George Tenet, former director of the CIA. Personal Birth date: January 5, 1953 Birth place: Flushing, NY Birth name: George John Tenet Father: John Tenet, restaurant owner Mother: Evangelia Tenet Marriage: A. Stephanie Glakas-Tenet Children: John Michael Education: Georgetown University, B.S.F.S., 1976; Columbia University,

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look into the life of musician and songwriter Bruce Springsteen. Personal Birth date: September 23, 1949 Birth place: Freehold, New Jersey Birth name: Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen Father: Douglas Springsteen, bus driver Mother: Adele (Zerilli) Springsteen, legal secretary Marriages: Patti Scialfa (June 8, 1991-present); Julianne Phillips (May 13, 1985-March 1,

CNN By Lauren Lee, CNN When refugees arrive in the US, they face unique challenges. “They’ve been dumped in a new country where they don’t know the language, don’t know the culture, and they all of a sudden have to survive,” said Stephanie Giddens, founder and executive director of Vickery Trading Company. “They need extra

By Lauren Lee, CNN When refugees arrive in the US, they face unique challenges. “They’ve been dumped in a new country where they don’t know the language, don’t know the culture, and they all of a sudden have to survive,” said Stephanie Giddens, founder and executive director of Vickery Trading Company. “They need extra resources,

By Pamela Kirkland and Dakin Andone, CNN The juvenile court records of Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who refused in 1955 to give up her seat to a White person on an Alabama bus, have been sealed, destroyed and expunged following a judge’s ruling. Colvin, now 82, was arrested when she was 15 for

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Three companies have been accused of illegally discharging about 25,000 gallons of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean off the Southern California coast in October, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. Oil company Amplify Energy and its subsidiaries Beta Operating Company and San Pedro Bay Pipeline Company “acted negligently in at least six

By Casey Tolan, CNN In a dramatic reversal, a 90-year-old, seriously ill federal inmate serving life in prison for a nonviolent marijuana trafficking crime will go free after a judge granted him compassionate release on Tuesday — overturning his previous order denying release. Horacio Estrada-Elias, who was the subject of a CNN investigative story in