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By Sara Smart, CNN A pregnant California woman turned her front lawn into a delivery room, and the proof is on her Ring doorbell camera. Last Thursday, a week before her due date, Emily Johnson, 31, began having contractions every 10 minutes. “They were pretty low and slow they weren’t anything to be worried about,”

By Sherry Liang, CNN A dinner of Mars-grown vegetables, bread baked on a shuttle, and insects for dessert may be on the menu for future astronauts. Systems to grow plants and bake bread in space are among the winning submissions of NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge, announced in late October. Teams of inventors brainstormed solutions

By Sarah Moon and Steve Almasy, CNN Six teenagers were wounded in a shooting involving multiple suspects at a small park close to a high school in Aurora, Colorado, police Chief Vanessa Wilson said Monday. Six students who attend nearby Aurora Central High School went to the hospital. One student drove themselves, Wilson said. The

By Gregory Lemos, CNN The 40-year-old woman who was killed alongside her dog overnight this summer at a popular park in the heart of Atlanta was stabbed dozens of times, the Fulton County Medical Examiner has said, in a crime that remains unsolved. Katherine Janness’ cause of death on July 28 in Piedmont Park was

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Students at Howard University have reached an agreement with university officials after a month-long protest over housing conditions on campus. Wayne Frederick, the president of the historically Black college in Washington, DC, said Monday afternoon that the agreement between the school and the students who occupied Blackburn University Center over

By Devon M. Sayers, Alta Spells, Joe Sutton and Amir Vera, CNN A Georgia Bureau of Investigations firearms examiner confirmed Monday Ahmaud Arbery was shot at close range. Brian Leppard, a firearms and toolmark examiner for the GBI, testified about his investigation of the two guns submitted into evidence, a .357 Magnum and a 12-gauge

By Eric Levenson, Carma Hassan and Brad Parks, CNN Kyle Rittenhouse provoked the fatal shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year by pointing his AR-15-style weapon at Joseph Rosenbaum, prosecutors said Monday in closing arguments of his homicide trial. “That is what provokes this entire incident,” prosecutor Thomas Binger said. “When the defendant provokes this incident,

By Travis Caldwell and Joe Sutton, CNN With hospitals throughout Colorado facing increases in Covid-19 hospitalizations, state officials announced that attendees of large public indoor events in certain jurisdictions must be vaccinated in order to help curb the virus’ spread. Gatherings of more than 500 people in parts of metro Denver will require attendees to

By Elizabeth Joseph and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Police in Savage, Minnesota, are investigating a racist video shared widely on social media where a young girl is seen spewing hateful, racist slurs toward a Black high school student, encouraging her to take her own life. Nya Sigin, a Black student at Prior Lake High School, told

CNN, KTRK By Amir Vera, CNN The 9-year-old boy who was injured at the Astroworld Festival died Sunday, according to family attorney Ben Crump. The death toll from the chaotic concert now stands at 10. Funeral services for some of the victims began over the weekend as dozens of lawsuits have been filed over the

By Laura Studley and Amanda Watts, CNN A victim in a Michigan plane crash died while saving his eldest daughter’s life, a family friend and business partner said. Mike Perdue, one of four people who died in a light-commuter plane crash near Beaver Island Saturday, shielded his daughter during it, Ryan Wojan told CNN. “He

By Alaa Elassar, CNN The publisher of the video game Call of Duty: Vanguard has issued an apology after receiving criticism from Muslim players who noticed pages of the Quran lying on the floor during a gameplay scene. The pages from Islam’s holy book were seen scattered on the floor. In Islam, the Quran is

By Susannah Cullinane, CNN Federal agents conducting a marine operation in Florida unexpectedly found themselves involved in an air rescue, when they spotted a pilot climbing out of his sinking aircraft. The plane went in the water off Cedar Key, about a hundred miles north of Tampa along Florida’s Gulf Coast Tuesday. Photos provided by

By Theresa Waldrop, CNN A hog named Papa Pig kept York County, South Carolina, deputies busy one night last week. The sheriff’s office tweeted that two lanes of a road in the county were closed because of “a large pig blocking the road & causing onlooker delays” Thursday evening. Deputies stayed with the pig to

By Kay Jones and Alaa Elassar, CNN Four people were killed in an overnight shooting in Arizona. Multiple calls came in around 12:45 a.m. Sunday from a “rather large trailer park community” regarding shots fired, Tucson Police told CNN. Officers responded to the scene and found three people dead around the trailer where the shooting

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN Imagine running 26 miles. Now imagine running 26 miles every day for 95 consecutive days. That’s what one Vermont ultra runner did last year while the world went into lockdown, and it has earned her the female world record for the most consecutive days spent running a marathon distance — 26.2

By Kay Jones and Amanda Jackson, CNN A Southwest Airlines employee was taken to a Dallas hospital Saturday after being assaulted by a passenger at Love Field Airport, according to the airline and the Dallas Police Department. The female passenger “verbally and physically” assaulted the female operations agent shortly after being asked to get off

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Michael Chertoff, former secretary of Homeland Security. Personal Birth date: November 28, 1953 Birth place: Elizabeth, New Jersey Birth name: Michael Chertoff Father: Gershon Chertoff, rabbi Mother: Livia Chertoff Marriage: Meryl (Justin) Chertoff (1988-present) Children: Two Education: Harvard University, BA, 1975; Harvard University, JD,