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CNN — Disgraced former South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, who has been accused of killing his wife and son and being involved in financial crimes and fraud schemes,…
Read more Disgraced former attorney Alex Murdaugh facing new tax evasion charges | CNNCNN — A transgender woman who is scheduled to be executed in Missouri next month for murdering a woman in 2003 has filed a clemency application with the…
Read more Transgender death row inmate set to be executed in January files clemency application with Missouri governor | CNNCNN — The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday upheld a lower court ruling that struck down the state’s 2018 voter ID law, agreeing with the lower court…
Read more North Carolina voter ID law had racially discriminatory intent, state Supreme Court says | CNN PoliticsCNN — The monstrous storm that walloped much of the US this week has now brought nor’easter conditions as it moves across New York and New England ahead…
Read more Heavy snow to bombard millions in Northeast this weekend as South recovers from deadly tornadoes | CNNLos Angeles CNN — At 26, Ixchel Hernandez has become the defender and protector of her family’s modest apartment. In the two decades they’ve lived in their Los…
Read more ‘This is a war’: Californians seek affordable housing alternatives | CNN BusinessAustin, Texas CNN — Texas Department of Public Safety investigators looking into the botched response at Robb Elementary School have become increasingly troubled by the actions of two…
Read more Sources: As DPS investigation of Uvalde response nears end, two officials face increased scrutiny | CNNCNN — The mother of one of the four college students killed near the University of Idaho last month expressed frustration over police communications on the status of…
Read more ‘It’s being left in the dark,’ mother of murdered Idaho student says of police investigation | CNNCNN — A severe weather system cutting through the South has left a trail of destruction in Louisiana, killing at least three people and injuring dozens of others…
Read more Tornadoes leave a trail of destruction in Louisiana and the Southeast, killing at least 3, collapsing homes and knocking out power | CNNCNN — Two police officers were shot and killed early Wednesday morning in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, officials said. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves identified the slain officers as…
Read more 2 police officers shot and killed in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi | CNNCNN — A Texas jury began deliberations Wednesday in the trial of a former Fort Worth police officer accused of murder in the 2019 shooting of 28-year-old Atatiana…
Read more Jury deliberations begin in murder trial of former Texas police officer who killed Atatiana Jefferson in her home | CNNCNN — United Nations member states have removed Iran from a key UN women’s rights group just months after it joined. The unusual reversal comes as Iran is…
Read more Iran expelled from UN commission on women | CNNCNN — Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker III, has reached a $2 million dollar settlement with the City of Louisville, resolving lawsuits Walker filed in response to “the…
Read more Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend reaches $2 million settlement with City of Louisville | CNNCNN — Federal prosecutors announced a plea deal and $2 billion forfeiture Tuesday with Danske Bank, one of Denmark’s largest banks, for illegally allowing foreign actors to funnel…
Read more Danish bank pleads guilty to multi-billion dollar fraud scheme on U.S. Banks | CNN BusinessCNN — Severe storms including suspected tornadoes have carved paths of destruction in Oklahoma and the Dallas-Fort Worth area Tuesday and injured at least seven people – part…
Read more Storms with possible tornadoes rake Oklahoma and Texas — injuring at least 7 — as blizzard conditions mount in the northern Plains | CNNUvalde, Texas CNN — Uvalde County Sheriff Ruben Nolasco does not appear to have completed an active shooter training course, according to documents CNN obtained Monday from the…
Read more State documents appear to indicate Uvalde Sheriff Nolasco has not completed active shooter training | CNNCNN — A Patti LaBelle concert at the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee was abruptly halted Saturday night when the star was rushed off the stage due to a…
Read more Patti LaBelle is rushed off the stage during a concert in Milwaukee due to a bomb threat | CNNCNN — After spending 25 years in prison on murder convictions related to the 1996 shooting death of their friend, two Georgia men were exonerated this week, after…
Read more After 25 years of wrongful imprisonment, 2 Georgia men set free after newly uncovered evidence exonerates them of murder charges | CNNCNN — Julius’ Bar, one of New York City’s oldest LGBT bars and the location of a crucial 1960s protest, has been officially recognized as a city landmark.…
Read more Julius’ Bar, the site of an essential 1960s LGBT protest, is officially a historic landmark | CNNHong Kong CNN — Semiconductor giant TSMC was feted this week by US President Joe Biden and Apple CEO Tim Cook during a ceremony to unveil its $40…
Read more As the world courts TSMC, Taiwan worries about losing its ‘silicon shield’ | CNN BusinessCNN — A former Minneapolis police officer who assisted in the fatal restraint of George Floyd was sentenced to 3 ½ years in prison Friday for his role…
Read more Former Minneapolis police officer who helped restrain George Floyd sentenced to 3 ½ years in prison | CNN
