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By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Sexual assault survivor advocates are pushing for an extension or a more permanent way to seek legal accountability for abusers after more than 2,500 lawsuits were filed under the New York Adult Survivors Act before its one-year window to sue closed Thursday. The law, which Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul

By Taylor Romine, Susannah Cullinane, Alberto Moya and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Search crews in southern Alaska located the remains of another person who went missing in a November landslide, the state’s Department of Public Safety said in a news release Friday, leaving a 12-year-old as the last person still unaccounted for after the

By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN (CNN) — Sean “Diddy” Combs was hit with a second lawsuit in as many weeks, accusing him of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman who claims she was also a victim of alleged “revenge porn” by the music artist. The civil suit filed under the New York Adult Survivors Act names

By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been accused of a 1993 sexual assault under a New York law that’s set to expire this week, according to a court document filed Wednesday. The “plaintiff was sexually assaulted by Defendant Eric Adams in New York, New York in 1993 while

CNN, WABC By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been accused of a 1993 sexual assault under a New York law that’s set to expire this week, according to a court document filed Wednesday. The “plaintiff was sexually assaulted by Defendant Eric Adams in New York, New York in

By Chris Youd, CNN (CNN) — After “fighting for months” for access to the footage, the family of a Black man who died after being tased by an Alabama police officer in July was finally able to view body camera video from the incident Wednesday. “This is one of the worst videos of a police killing that I have ever witnessed,” family attorney Harry Daniels told reporters at a news conference following the viewing. “And I’ll put it right up there with George

By Ray Sanchez, CNN New York (CNN) — When Americans sit down for Thanksgiving dinner, 7-year-old Jean Luis Hernandez will be in the single room he shares with his family in a once-elegant Manhattan hotel, missing his beloved grandparents in Venezuela. “He thinks about them all the time,” said Lucelys Garcia, 27, the boy’s mother.

By Raja Razek, Aya Elamroussi and Caroll Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Kentucky residents who evacuated after more than a dozen freight train cars derailed, spilling molten sulfur, can now return home safely as the fire has been extinguished and the air monitored, train operator CSX said Thursday. At least 16 cars were involved in the

By John Miller, Elizabeth Wolfe and Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — Investigators have identified the married couple killed Wednesday in a fiery explosion near the US-Canadian border that prompted a massive law enforcement response. Kurt P. Villani and his wife Monica Villani, both 53, died in the car crash on the US side of the

CNN By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — A former Obama-era National Security Council official was arrested Wednesday after a series of videos shared widely on social media showed him using hate-laden, Islamophobic language against an employee working inside a New York City food cart, police said. Stuart Seldowitz, 64, pleaded not guilty Thursday to two

By Isabel Rosales and Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — Newly released video shows a 62-year-old man struggling with an Atlanta police officer and saying “I can’t breathe” moments before he is tased. The man died less than two hours later, and now his family is calling for the former officer to be prosecuted. The Fulton

By Macie Goldfarb, CNN (CNN) — A couple and their dog had to be rescued as water began to fill their sailboat while they were 90 miles off Florida’s Gulf Coast, according to a news release from the US Coast Guard. Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg received a digital selective calling alert at about 11 a.m. Saturday