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By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — Opening statements in the high-profile murder trial surrounding the 2022 death of a Boston police officer drilled Monday into two key questions that have long dominated the case: Is the officer’s girlfriend a killer? Or is she a victim of a sprawling coverup involving law enforcement? Karen Read is

By Eric Levenson and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — The family of the Black teenager who was shot in the head after ringing the doorbell of the wrong home in Kansas City, Missouri, last year, filed a lawsuit Monday on his behalf against the White man who shot him and the residential homeowners association where

By Andy Rose and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — A historic bridge was shut down Monday morning after a train car derailed and leaned against one of the bridge’s support columns. Around 6:15 a.m. local time, “approximately five Union Pacific train cars derailed near the east end of the Union Pacific Steel Bridge in Portland,

By Rebekah Riess and Stephen Watts, CNN (CNN) — Three police officers were shot and injured by a gunman after responding to a shooting outside a home in Kenner, Louisiana, on Sunday, authorities said. The suspect, identified as 31-year-old Matthew Lathers, was eventually fatally shot by a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office sniper, Sheriff Joseph Lopinto

By John Blake, CNN (CNN) — Jim Wallis was a long-haired student activist in the early 1970s who read Marx, marched against the Vietnam War and had little use for evangelical Christianity. But one day he conducted an unusual theological experiment that would change his life. Wallis and several friends wanted to know how many scriptures in the

By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — With tension mounting over an encampment in support of Palestinians at New York’s Columbia University, police strode onto campus this month and arrested more than 100 demonstrators. On the cusp of the close of the academic year, university communities across the nation remain on edge, not only over flares

By Amanda Musa and Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed legislation Friday allowing teachers and school staff in the state to be armed in school buildings and campuses, according to the General Assembly’s website. State legislators approved the bill Tuesday, which authorizes a faculty or staff member of a school to

By Rebekah Riess and Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — Thirty-five rail cars of a train derailed in New Mexico Friday afternoon, prompting evacuations that lasted until Sunday and forcing a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 40 to close. McKinley County Fire & Rescue was dispatched around 12:40 p.m. Friday after the train derailed and caught fire

By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — A 52-year-old woman is dead and another was seriously injured after the two-person team fell 1,000 feet while ascending a mountain in Alaska’s Denali National Park on Thursday. Robbi Mecus, of Keene Valley, New York, died of injuries sustained in the fall, according to park officials. Her climbing partner, a 30-year-old woman from California, was rescued by National

By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Warren Harris Jr. said he was sorry. He directed his remorse to the families of the three men he robbed and fatally stabbed when he was 16 and high on heroin in New Orleans. Sitting at a table at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Harris, 63, talked in a video

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — As university administrators and law enforcement crack down on campus protests over Israel’s war in Gaza, they’re invoking a familiar trope: the “outside agitator.” On April 18, the New York Police Department arrested more than a hundred people in connection with pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, kicking off a wave of

By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — A school board in Pennsylvania reversed its unanimous decision to cancel a speech by former “30 Rock” actor and anti-bullying advocate Maulik Pancholy over concerns about his activism and “lifestyle.” The decision sparked a backlash from students, parents and community members who felt the board canceled Pancholy’s appearance because

By Mallika Kallingal and Andi Babineau, CNN (CNN) — Jeremy Cooper, a former paramedic in Aurora, Colorado, was sentenced to four years probation, 14 months of work release and 100 hours of community service on Friday. Cooper and another paramedic, Peter Cichuniec, were found guilty of criminally negligent homicide in December in the death of Elijah

By Rebekah Riess and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — An orca calf that spent over a month stranded in a remote lagoon on Vancouver Island off the west coast of Canada swam out of the lagoon on her own early Friday morning, according to the Ehattesaht First Nation. The seemingly trapped mammal attracted media attention,

By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A Texas woman whose conviction for illegal voting in 2016 was overturned on appeal may end up back in court. The Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office filed an appeal Thursday, asking for the state’s top court to reinstate Crystal Mason’s conviction after it was overturned in March. “Voting is

WBAL, CNN By Thomas Lake, CNN (CNN) — The recording went viral in January, provoking rage in suburban Baltimore. It seemed that Pikesville High School Principal Eric Eiswert had been caught making racist and antisemitic comments. Angry phone calls overwhelmed the front desk. Employees felt afraid. Security was tightened. Eiswert was placed on administrative leave pending an

By Thomas Lake, CNN (CNN) — The recording went viral in January, provoking rage in suburban Baltimore. It seemed that Pikesville High School Principal Eric Eiswert had been caught making racist and antisemitic comments. Angry phone calls overwhelmed the front desk. Employees felt afraid. Security was tightened. Eiswert was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation. He

By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — A multi-day storm threat is set to impact millions of people in the central US through the weekend. Forecasts show parts of Texas, Missouri and Iowa are in the direct pathway of multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and

CNN Opinion by Julian Zelizer, CNN (CNN) — Democrats are increasingly anxious about their party’s internal divisions over the Israel-Hamas war, which are threatening to hurt their chances in November. The eruption of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses and the ensuing clashes with police portend bad times ahead. While the demands of student protesters vary somewhat from school to school, they

By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! A drop in births last year brought the US fertility rate down to the lowest it’s been in more than a century, a new report found. The numbers have been trending down for decades, and the teen birth rate reached another record low. About 3.6