As the Supreme Court makes its ruling on affirmative action in higher education, California — a state that has banned it since 1996 — could signal the future for the rest of the nation going forward.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareHomer Hogues, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, died this week in Dallas, just two days after the death of his wife, according to an obituary provided by his family.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Two more police officers in New Haven, Connecticut, are being fired in connection with a 2022 incident that paralyzed Randy Cox as he was being transported in a police van handcuffed and without a seat belt.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAs an ordained Christian minister, Ontay Johnson's faith teaches love is patient and kind. After one of his children came out as a transgender woman, the husband and father of three has had to practice what he preaches.
More | Talk | Read It Later | SharePumpkin muffin saves the day (and the dog). CNN's Jeanne Moos reports on an appetizing water rescue.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA woman convicted of throwing a Molotov cocktail into a Southern California bank after becoming angry over the wait for a teller was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday, federal officials said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe Pittsburgh synagogue shooter made several suicide attempts as a young man, was involuntarily committed multiple times and has schizophrenia and epilepsy, a neurologist who examined him testified at his death penalty trial Wednesday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe family of Irvo Otieno -- who died in March while being admitted to a Virginia mental health facility -- is asking the Department of Justice for a federal investigation into his death, their attorneys announced Wednesday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe West Virginia State Police is being accused of fostering a "culture of misconduct toward women" in its ranks, including the placement of a hidden video camera inside a women's locker and shower room, according to a civil lawsuit filed Thursday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAn alligator startles a South Carolina fisherman and charges toward him on Hilton Head Island
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe Texas Department of Public Safety must release records related to last year's deadly Uvalde elementary school shooting, a district court judge in Austin ruled Thursday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAn alligator found a creative way to get inside Don and Jan Schultz's home in New Iberia, Louisiana. CNN affiliate KATC reports.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareUS medical experts will study presumed human remains that were found in the Titan submersible's wreckage a week after the vessel's catastrophic implosion. But many facets of the disaster remain a mystery.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareRichard Allen, the man charged in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls in Delphi, Indiana, confessed to the crime during a phone call with his wife while in custody, a newly unsealed court document alleges.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareKouri Richins, the Utah widow accused of killing her husband with a fentanyl overdose and then writing a children's book about grief, is being sued by her late husband's estate, new court filings show.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share94-year-old artist Salvatore Del Deo faces eviction from the beach shack in Cape Cod that he's called home for 77 years. His son, Romolo, explains why they're fighting his case.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA task force examining reparations for Black residents in California released its final report Thursday with more than 115 recommendations for how the state should compensate those harmed by slavery and "historical atrocities."
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA Virginia sheriff is facing federal fraud and conspiracy charges as the US Justice Department claims he handed out deputy sheriff badges in exchange for money to help fund his reelection campaign, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareTwo people were killed and 15 injured after a fight broke out at a large street party resulting in a shooting in Saginaw, Michigan, police say.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe international investigation into the fatal Titan submersible implosion broadened on Saturday, with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police saying it's looking into whether "criminal, federal, or provincial laws may possibly have been broken."
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareNavajo Nation police officers are searching for Native Americans who have been victimized by what the state of Arizona calls "fraudulent Medicaid providers."
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAt least 16 people were injured Wednesday when an Amtrak train collided with a truck blocking the tracks and partially derailed in Southern California, local officials said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareCNN has obtained cell phone footage of a Delta Airlines flight that made an emergency landing at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina with its ''nose landing gear up.''
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe Supreme Court's landmark decision to bar colleges and universities from considering race as a specific basis for admission will make it more difficult for schools to achieve a diverse student population, civil rights leaders and education advocates say.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareRead CNN's Fast Facts on the life of Madonna, singer and actress.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA jury has acquitted the former school resource officer who stayed outside during the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, finding him not guilty on all counts.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareChristine King Farris, the eldest sister of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., died Thursday, according to a Twitter post by her niece, Rev. Bernice King.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareDangerous air quality and hazy skies persist as smoke from Canada's raging wildfires drifts south, leaving more than 100 million people under air quality alerts across a dozen states from Minnesota to New York and down to the Carolinas.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA jury has acquitted on all counts the former school resource officer who stayed outside during the February 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida -- absolving him of wrongdoing in the rare trial of a law enforcement officer for his response to a mass shooting.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareMontana legislators are the latest lawmakers to receive "anonymous, threatening letters containing white powder," amid an FBI investigation into similar incidents across the country, according to state officials.
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