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[ad_1] CNN  —  The mother of University of Virginia running back Mike Hollins, who was hospitalized in a shooting that killed three football players Sunday, says her son was trying to warn others before being struck by gunfire. Hollins, a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is one of two people …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Imprisoned Russian dissident Alexey Navalny has been transferred into a solitary prison cell, according to tweets from himself and his staff, in what he described as a move designed to “shut me up.” Navalny, a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, explained what happened in a …

[ad_1] CNN  —  A US District Judge has sentenced a former lawyer to 15 months in prison after she made a Molotov cocktail and threw it at an empty New York Police Department vehicle during a anti-Brooklyn police brutality protest in 2020. Urooj Rahman, 34, was sentenced on Friday by …

[ad_1] CNN  —  The historic seditious conspiracy trial of five alleged Oath Keepers – a closely watched test of how the Justice Department is prosecuting US Capitol rioters – is nearing an end with closing arguments scheduled to begin Friday. The trial began more than seven weeks ago and has …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Five days after four University of Idaho students were found stabbed in their off-campus home last weekend, a deep sense of apprehension and grief is affecting the community as authorities work to identify a suspect. The university’s often-packed parking lots had many empty spots Thursday after scores …

[ad_1] CNN  —  After more than three hours of oral arguments in a single case last week, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts uttered the traditional closer, “The case is submitted.” But the hearing wasn’t over. Roberts, a details man who usually hews to script, had forgotten that a lawyer …

[ad_1] CNN  —  American basketball star Brittney Griner has been transferred to a penal colony in Yavas, in the western Russian region of Mordovia, her lawyers said Thursday, ending days of speculation over her whereabouts. Her lawyers, Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov, thanked everyone who has reached out in support. …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Alabama death row prisoner Kenneth Smith’s execution was called off Thursday night, a state corrections official announced, citing time constraints caused by a late-night court battle. The execution was called off at approximately 11:20 p.m. local time “due to the time constraints resulting from the lateness of …

[ad_1] CNN  —  One US Customs and Border Protection agent is dead and two others injured after a shootout with suspected drug smugglers off the coast of Puerto Rico, according to agency spokesperson Jeffrey Quiñones. “An agent that was transported directly to a hospital in Mayagüez, we were told just …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Two of the four University of Idaho students who were killed on Sunday were last seen alive ordering at a late-night food truck in Moscow, Idaho, at about 1:41 a.m., the food truck’s live Twitch stream shows. In the video, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves order $10 …