[ad_1] CNN — It was late in the evening Saturday when Brandon Tsay heard the “distinct sound of metal” in the lobby of Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio, a dance hall in Alhambra, California, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper Monday evening. Tsay, whose family had owned the business for three …
Read More »Tyre Nichols’ family attorney says video shows police beating Nichols like a ‘human pinata’
[ad_1] CNN — Attorneys for the family of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who died after a traffic stop in Memphis, Tennessee, said video footage shows the cops’ “non-stop beating” of Nichols. “He was defenseless the entire time. He was a human piñata for those police officers. It was an …
Read More »Pandemic unemployment benefits fraud likely tops $60 billing. House GOP to start investigating next week
[ad_1] CNN — More than $60 billion may have been paid out in fraudulent unemployment insurance benefits during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report released Monday by the US Government Accountability Office. The watchdog agency, however, warned that the estimate has limitations and should be interpreted with caution. The …
Read More »Charles McGonigal: Former high-level FBI official charged in alleged schemes to help sanctioned Russian oligarch and conceal payments from ex-Albanian intelligence employee
[ad_1] New York CNN — The former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York field office was charged in two separate indictments Monday for allegedly working with a sanctioned Russian oligarch after he retired and concealing hundreds of thousands of dollars he received from a former employee of an …
Read More »Iran’s regime is trying to execute its way out of trouble
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in today’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, CNN’s three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. Istanbul, London and New York CNN — The cries of the women outside a Tehran courthouse swell to a collective wail. The …
Read More »Monterey Park, California shooting: Police are investigating motive after massacre leaves 10 dead and a city reeling during Lunar New Year celebrations
[ad_1] CNN — Investigators in Monterey Park, California, are still searching for the motive of a gunman who killed 10 people and injured 10 others during a shooting inside a ballroom dance studio Saturday night, devastating the majority-Asian community on the eve of its Lunar New Year celebration. Terror continued …
Read More »Biden offers condolences to victims of California mass shooting, acknowledges impact on AAPI community
[ad_1] CNN — President Joe Biden offered his condolences to the victims of a mass shooting in California that left 10 dead, while acknowledging the impact on the Asian American and Pacific Islander community in a statement on Sunday. “While there is still much we don’t know about the motive …
Read More »Mother of activist fatally shot by law enforcement at Atlanta police training facility says she feels angry and powerless
[ad_1] CNN — The mother of an activist fatally shot by law enforcement in Atlanta earlier this week said she feels angry and powerless as protests over the shooting erupted Saturday. See video from the scene of ‘Cop City’ protest in Atlanta The activist – 26-year-old Manuel Esteban Paez Terán …
Read More »Monterey Park, California mass shooting: 10 people killed at a dance studio
[ad_1] CNN — Authorities are scrambling to find whoever killed 10 people Saturday night in Monterey Park, California, as the city’s large Asian American community was celebrating Lunar New Year weekend. Officers responded to a dance studio around 10:22 p.m. Saturday and found people “pouring out of the location, screaming,” …
Read More »Biden campaigned on abolishing the federal death penalty. But 2 years in, advocates see an ‘inconsistent’ message
[ad_1] CNN — Two years into his presidency, Joe Biden has taken few substantial steps to live up to his campaign promise to abolish the federal death penalty, disappointing advocates who see a mixed bag of policies from the White House and the Justice Department. “It makes me feel like …
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