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Residents and police gather outside of Newark, New Jersey, homes that were structurally damaged and had to be evacuated after an earthquake Friday. Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesA 4.8 magnitude earthquake rattled buildings across parts of the US Northeast on Friday morning, according to the US Geological Survey, with tremors felt from Washington, DC to New York City and to Maine. It was the third-largest earthquake recorded in the area in the last five decades and the strongest in New Jersey in more than 240 years, the USGS said. But with authorities reporting little or no damage, and minimal travel disruptions, people soon resumed their everyday lives. Here's what to know:

Persons: Spencer Platt Organizations: Geological Survey Locations: Newark , New Jersey, Washington, New York City, Maine, New Jersey

☆ Live updates: Baltimore bridge collapse clean up
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Adrienne Vogt | Leinz Vales | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Maryland officials are moving at "full speed" to accomplish four main priorities in the days following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, Gov. Here are the directives mandated by Moore:Continue to keep a focus on recovery efforts. The governor stressed minimizing economic impacts where possible, saying "the health of the Maryland economy and the national economy depends on it." This means families of the people presumed dead, the workers, first responders — “that means everybody,” Moore said. The governor promised to give regular updates on all of these directives but said they will take a long time to accomplish.

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Port-au-Prince CNN —They have the calm of people who have lived through terrible things. As gangs rampage in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, several children and teenagers tell CNN they have been orphaned, wounded, raped and even recruited by members of these armed groups. Some are navigating life in neighborhoods ruled by gangs, doing their best to stay out of danger. Others work for the gangs, tasked with dangerous jobs such as spying on rival groups or the gory work of disposing of bodies. Meanwhile, across the country, many more children are going hungry, according to UNICEF, as food prices spike amid the insecurity.

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti CNN —From above, Haiti’s capital city Port-au-Prince still looks serene, its white-washed homes climbing steep green hills that encircle a glittering bay. Police officers run holding their guns while confronting a gang in Port-au-Prince, Haiti March 1, 2024. Haiti’s gangs were once seen as thuggish instruments for powerful politicians and business elites. Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry at the United States International University Africa, in Nairobi on March 1, 2024. Anger toward the government for Haiti’s gangs problem is misplaced, he also said, emphasizing that the government has limited options.

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☆ Live updates: Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade shooting news
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Adrienne Vogt | Leinz Vales | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Kansas City shooting survivor Jacob Gooch, Sr., who was shot in the ankle, told "CBS Mornings" on Thursday that he overheard an altercation prior to the mass shooting following a parade and rally for the Super Bowl champions Kansas City Chiefs on Wednesday. Gooch told CBS' Gayle King that before gunfire started, he heard a woman tell a presumed shooter, "don’t do it, not here; this is stupid." Gooch said his wife and daughter then saw a gun being drawn. He told CBS his wife was shot in the calf, while Gooch was shot in the ankle and sustained breaks to a few metatarsal bones in his foot. Gooch did not specify his son’s injuries or provide an update on his son’s medical status.

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President Joe Biden departs the White House on September 15, 2023 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden's public schedule was clear Tuesday as his son Hunter Biden was in a Delaware courtroom pleading not guilty to federal gun charges. President Biden was kept abreast of the developments by his lawyers in between policy meetings with advisers. Hunter Biden hasn't been seen publicly at the White House in several months, but he is known to speak on a near-daily basis with his father. When Hunter Biden was indicted in September, the president was preparing for what the White House billed as a "major" economic address.

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Justice Arthur Engoron speaks during the trial of former President Donald Trump for Trump's civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court on Tuesday. Shannon Stapleton/Pool/Getty ImagesJudge Arthur Engoron, who is overseeing the New York attorney general’s civil case against Donald Trump, said Tuesday that the trial itself is not the venue for Trump’s attorneys to contest what he’s already ruled on. Leaving court Monday, Trump incorrectly claimed that the judge had agreed that 80% of the attorney general’s case was thrown out because of the statute of limitations. It’s one of several allegations contained in the attorney general’s civil case against Trump, but it could lead to stiff penalties for his business. The attorney general’s office is seeking to bar Trump from doing business in New York.

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☆ Live updates: Trump civil fraud trial in New York
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Aditi Sangal | Leinz Vales | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Scott Olson/Getty ImagesFormer President Donald Trump will be in attendance Monday in a New York courtroom for the start of the civil fraud trial against him, his eldest sons, their companies and Trump Organization executives. What's at stake at trial: Trump and his companies could be forced to pay hefty sums in damages for the profits they've allegedly garnered through their fraudulent business practices. The judge is expected to consider claims of business records fraud and insurance fraud alleged in the lawsuit in connection to high-profile properties, though he already determined some broad level of fraud was perpetuated. The six causes of action are falsifying business records, conspiracy to falsify business records, issuing false financial statements, conspiracy to falsify false financial statements, insurance fraud and conspiracy to commit insurance fraud. Read more about Trump's fraud trial.

Persons: Donald Trump, Scott Olson, Judge Arthur Engoron, Trump, Letitia James, What's, Engoron, James, Read Organizations: Getty, Trump Organization, New York, Trump Locations: Maquoketa , Iowa, New York

☆ Live updates: Escaped prisoner Danelo Cavalcante in custody
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Aditi Sangal | Leinz Vales | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Escaped inmate Danelo Cavalcante is shown after being captured on Wednesday. Aircraft picked up a heat signal: The aircraft picked up a heat signal around 1:00 a.m. The search resumed in the morning: "Shortly after 8:00 a.m., tactical teams converged on the area where the heat source was. Cavalcante tried to escape: "He tried to crawl through thick underbrush taking his rifle with him as he went," Bivens said. Cavalcante was taken into custody: "He was transported to our Avondale station for further processing and interview.

Persons: Danelo Cavalcante, George Bivens, —, Bivens, Cavalcante, Cavalcate Organizations: . Pennsylvania, Police, Pennsylvania State Police, Aircraft Locations: Chester County, Avondale

☆ Pennsylvania manhunt updates: Escaped prisoner Danelo Cavalcante spotted again
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Aditi Sangal | Leinz Vales | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

When Jason Mesiarik heard the gunshots that were fired during an encounter his neighbor had with escaped prisoner Danelo Cavalcante Monday night, he called police to report the incident, Mesiarik told CNN. Several law enforcement agencies have been searching for Cavalcante in the area for nearly two weeks after he escaped from prison. “I had just finished feeding our horses when I heard the gunshots a minute or two after ten and called it in,” Mesiarik told CNN. “You never hear gunshots at night and usually I’m hearing a lot larger calibers, shotguns, targets but this one sounded like a 22," he said. Pennsylvania officials said Tuesday that Cavalcante has a .22 caliber rifle that he stole from a resident's garage overnight.

Persons: Jason Mesiarik, Danelo, Mesiarik, “, ” Mesiarik, Cavalcante Organizations: CNN, Pennsylvania State Police Locations: East Nantmeal , Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania

A resident places wooden boards to protect a house in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Monday. Juan Manuel Barrero Bueno/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesOfficials in St. Petersburg, Florida, are warning residents about storm surge from Hurricane Idalia. “We are preparing as if we could get a direct hit,” Rob Gerdes, administrator for St. Petersburg, during a press conference. St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch cautioned his citizens that after Idalia potentially passes over the community, the danger will not be over. And even when it is past us we are still going to see storm surge,” Welch said.

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☆ Live updates: Trump to surrender to Fulton County authorities in Georgia 2020 election case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Leinz Vales | Aditi Sangal | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The argument, filed as a third-party brief in proceedings where Clark and Meadows seek to move the Georgia state charges to federal court, musters support for keeping the entire case in state court. A judge is set to consider arguments from Meadows and potentially Clark on Monday on moving the case, after both have asked to do so. "The conduct charged here by the Fulton County District Attorney— interference by Mark Meadows and Jeffrey Clark with the 2020 presidential election in Georgia in order to aid Donald Trump’s candidacy—bore no connection to any duty of Mr. Meadows’s, Mr. Clark’s, or Mr. Trump’s office. "Removal would be perverse, as this prosecution arises from interference with state-government operations and seeks to vindicate Georgia’s voice in a federal election, the very contest from which federal authority flows." Trump could ask for similar protection as president but has not formally asked the court to consider moving his case at this time.

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, center, speaks in the Fulton County Government Center in Atlanta during a press conference on Monday. John Bazemore/APAn Atlanta-based grand jury has indicted Donald Trump and 18 others on state charges stemming from their efforts to overturn the former president’s 2020 electoral defeat. The historic 41-count indictment unsealed Monday is the fourth criminal case that Trump is facing. All 19 co-defendants must surrender by August 25 at noon ET, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told reporters Monday after the indictment was released. “Trump and the other Defendants charged in this Indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump,” the indictment states.

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☆ Live updates: Trump indicted in special counsel's 2020 election interference probe
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Aditi Sangal | Leinz Vales | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

In November 2021, Chutkan forcefully rejected Trump’s attempts to block the House select committee investigating January 6 from accessing more than 700 pages of records from his White House. “Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President,” Chutkan wrote in her ruling. At a December 2021 sentencing hearing, she looked ahead to the 2024 election, saying that “every day we are hearing about reports of anti-democratic factions, people plotting potential violence in 2024." … He went for one man.”At a sentencing hearing on October 4, 2021, she acknowledged the nationwide attention on the Capitol riot cases. At that same hearing, she also rejected comparisons between January 6 and the 2020 protests against racial inequality.

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☆ Trump indictment live updates: Latest news on Donald Trump's charges, classified documents case
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Aditi Sangal | Leinz Vales | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

Former President Donald Trump, who faces a total of 37 counts in a federal indictment related to his handling of classified documents after he left office, is expected to travel to Miami today to meet his lawyers ahead of his court appearance tomorrow. Here's a step-by-step look at what to expect next:

Persons: Donald Trump Locations: Miami

Wagner private military company founder and financier Yevgeny Prigozhin has called for the entire Russian society to be mobilized, saying people are ready to contribute to Moscow’s war effort in Ukraine. "It is not only the mobilized who should be mobilized, those who go to the front, but all the society should be mobilized,” Prigozhin said in an audio posted on his Telegram channel, in reaction to Russia’s new electronic conscription bill. Unlike Prigozhin, the Russian government continues to deny it is waging a war in Ukraine, referring to the conflict as a "special military operation." The Wagner leader criticized Russian officials who fled the country with their wealth and said the whole "system" needs to be shaken. "The system requires global sanitation and a reduction in the number of participants in this bureaucratic community."

This video still shows a "Yars" ballistic missile loaded into a silo launcher in the Kaluga region. (Russian Defense Ministry)In a further sign of the importance it attaches to its strategic nuclear deterrent, the Russian military has loaded a "Yars" ballistic missile into a silo launcher in the Kaluga region. The Ministry of Defense released video to mark the event, just ahead of Russia's "Day of Strategic Missile Forces." It said that an "intercontinental ballistic missile of the Yars complex was loaded into a silo launcher at the Kozelsky missile formation in the Kaluga region." (Russian Defense Ministry)"The importance of this operation lies in the fact that the missile will be on combat duty as planned.

Nikita Chibrin says he still remembers his fellow Russian soldiers running away after allegedly raping two Ukrainian women during their deployment northwest of Kyiv in March. He deserted from the Russian military in September and fled to Europe via Belarus and Kazakhstan. Chibrin’s military documents, seen by CNN, show his commander was Azatbek Omurbekov, the officer in charge of the 64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade. Omurbekov, known as the “Butcher of Bucha” is under sanctions by the European Union and the United Kingdom. The Kremlin has denied any involvement in the mass killings while reiterating baseless claims that the images of civilian bodies were fake.

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