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By Danya Gainor, Lauren Mascarenhas, Isabel Rosales, Meridith Edwards, CNN (CNN) — A cell phone video showing a White police officer in Jacksonville, Florida, striking a Black man in the face during a February traffic stop before officers dragged the driver from his car has sparked outrage online as conflicting accounts of the incident have

By Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — A 55-year-old man was indicted Tuesday after authorities say he created and placed at least seven improvised explosive devices in different areas of New York City, including subway track on the Williamsburg Bridge and on Manhattan residential apartment building rooftops, according to an indictment announced Tuesday. Michael Gann, who

By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — Columbia University disciplined dozens of students this week after its Judicial Board investigated pro-Palestinian demonstrations at the university’s largest library this year and at another campus location last year – as the school tries to get millions in federal funding restored. “While the University does not release individual disciplinary

By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! The US is on the verge of dropping out of the top 10 ranking of the world’s most powerful passports. Meanwhile, an Asian superpower continues to hold onto the No. 1 position. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day. 5 things

By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington (CNN) — The control tower where a Delta Air Lines regional jet had to perform an “aggressive maneuver” to avoid colliding with an Air Force B-52 bomber isn’t staffed by the Federal Aviation Administration, but rather air traffic controllers working for a private company. It’s more common than most fliers

By Aaron Cooper, CNN (CNN) — An investigation is underway after two planes nearly collided on the runway in Mexico City, the president of Mexico said Wednesday. The AeroMéxico regional jet was coming in for landing on Monday when it flew over and touched down in front of a Delta Air Lines Boeing 737 jet

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of astronaut Neil Armstrong. Personal Birth date: August 5, 1930 Death date: August 25, 2012 Birthplace: Wapakoneta, Ohio Birth name: Neil Alden Armstrong Father: Stephen Armstrong, auditor Mother: Viola (Engel) Armstrong Marriages: Carol (Held Knight) Armstrong (June 12, 1994-August 25, 2012, his death); Janet

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is some background information about One World Trade Center. It is the tallest building in the United States and second-tallest in the Western Hemisphere. Other Facts One World Trade Center was designed to be the safest commercial structure in the world. The New York Police Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau is

By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — The long-sealed files related to the FBI’s yearslong surveillance of civil rights icon Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were released Monday by the Trump administration. Before that, the more than 240,000 pages had never been “digitized and sat collecting dust in facilities across the federal government for decades,”

By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — At the murder trial for James Craig, the Colorado man accused of poisoning and killing his wife, lawyers aren’t the only ones asking witnesses questions. Jurors, too, are able to ask witnesses questions about their testimony, thanks to a unique law in Arapahoe County, Colorado. Opening statements in the

By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Bryan Kohberger has one last chance Wednesday to give the grieving parents of four University of Idaho students he admitted to killing the answers they’ve desperately sought for nearly three years. Why did he do it? Kohberger will have an opportunity to reveal those details before his sentencing Wednesday,

By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — The dense forests near West Yellowstone, Montana, concealed the wreckage of a small plane until an unlikely beacon — a smartwatch worn by one of the victims — helped search-and-rescue crews locate the crash site, officials said Monday. Responding crews found all three people aboard the aircraft dead, the