5 things to know for Dec. 28: Covid, Crime, Japan & China, Denver shootings, Somalia
CNN By AJ Willingham, CNN It’s been an interesting year for just about everything — art and fashion included. The biggest cultural…
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‘We’ve seen lifelong friends kill each other:’ How a state capital became one of the deadliest US cities
By Peter Nickeas and Priya Krishnakumar, CNN Photographs by Edmund D. Fountain for CNN Around Thanksgiving, this crisis-plagued state capital saw a…
Continue Reading Denver shooting suspect wrote about a murderous rampage in a series of books under a pseudonym
CNN, KUSA By Eliott C. McLaughlin, Joe Sutton, Lucy Kafanov, Amir Vera and Ashley Killough, CNN The suspect in Monday’s metro Denver shooting…
Continue Reading Four people killed after airplane crashes in San Diego County, FAA says
CNN, KGTV By Joe Sutton, CNN Four people were killed Monday evening when an airplane crashed in the El Cajon area of Southern California, according…
Continue Reading The US just hit a record average of daily new Covid-19 cases
By Holly Yan and Amir Vera, CNN The US hit a seven-day average of 265,427 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, blowing past the country’s previous…
Continue Reading The US just hit a record average of daily new Covid-19 cases
CNN By Holly Yan and Amir Vera, CNN The US hit a seven-day average of 265,427 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, blowing past the country’s…
Continue Reading Four people killed after airplane crashes in San Diego County, FAA says
By Joe Sutton, CNN Four people were killed Monday evening when an airplane crashed in the El Cajon area of Southern California, according to the…
Continue Reading A gunman killed 5 people and wounded others in a shooting spree across the Denver area, police say
By Joe Sutton, Eric Levenson, Amir Vera and Caroll Alvarado, CNN A gunman killed five people and wounded several others, including a police officer,…
Continue Reading 1865 magazine clipping, Bible removed from second time capsule found at former site of Robert E. Lee statue
CNN By Sara Smart, CNN A second time capsule recently found buried beneath the pedestal of the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Virginia, was opened…
Continue Reading 14-year-old girl fatally shot by LAPD called US ‘safest country in the world,’ father says
CNN By Ray Sanchez, CNN Valentina Orellana-Peralta’s dream of becoming an American citizen and studying robotics ended days before Christmas on…
Continue Reading Teacher sinks full-court basketball shot and earns superhero status from her students
By Sara Smart, CNN What started out as a promise of hot chocolate turned into a viral video for a Washington, DC, teacher. Kathleen Fitzpatrick,…
Continue Reading 2 children killed and 4 others injured in hit-and-run, Florida authorities say
By Sharif Paget, CNN Two children were killed and four others were hospitalized Monday afternoon after a hit-and-run crash in Broward County,…
Continue Reading Judge schedules January 13 hearing to consider resentencing trucker who was given 110 years in fatal crash
CNN, KDVR, KUSA By Ralph Ellis, Ashleigh Killough, Leslie Perrot and Lucy Kafanov , CNN A district court judge in Colorado has scheduled a hearing…
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NATO says its jets scrambled 290 times due to Russian planes
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO says its fighter jets were scrambled hundreds of times this year to intercept aircraft flying too close to its borders. Most…
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Kentucky’s death toll from tornadoes rises to 77
Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says the state’s death toll from devastating tornadoes earlier this month…
Continue Reading Second time capsule found at former site of Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond
By Amir Vera and Paul P. Murphy, CNN A second time capsule was found where the Robert E. Lee statue once stood in Richmond, Virginia, a Virginia…
Continue Reading An American teacher held in Libya for 6 weeks is now back home in the United States
By Hilary Whiteman, CNN An American teacher detained in Libya for more than six weeks has returned to the United States after the Libyan foreign…
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US officials recommend shorter COVID isolation, quarantine
By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are cutting isolation restrictions for asymptomatic Americans who test…
Continue Reading Judge schedules January 13 hearing to consider resentencing trucker who was given 110 years in fatal crash
CNN, KUSA, KDVR, KMGH By Ralph Ellis, Ashleigh Killough, Leslie Perrot and Lucy Kafanov , CNN A district court judge in Colorado has scheduled a…
Continue Reading 1,450 Afghan kids were evacuated to the US without their parents. Some are ‘never going to be reunited with family’
By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN An 8-year-old sobs every night after her aunt puts her to bed. A 17-year-old wakes up clutching his pillow and calling…
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