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A grand jury returned an indictment charging Bert Baker with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon

Grand jury indicts man accused of stabbing Palestinian-American with aggravated assault despite calls for hate crime charges

By Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — A man who was arrested earlier this year in connection with the stabbing of a Palestinian-American was indicted by a Texas grand jury Tuesday on aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, despite calls from Muslim civil rights advocates to have him charged with a hate crime. Austin police arrested

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Dust from the Saharan desert covers Athens in an orange haze on April 23.

Athens turns orange, Helsinki goes white as Europe’s weather springs a surprise

By Sugam Pokharel, Chris Liakos, Radina Gigova and Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — A yellow-orange haze of dust from the Sahara desert has blanketed parts of Greece, prompting authorities to issue health warnings and creating spectacular dreamlike scenes. The Greek meteorological service said weather conditions on Tuesday had favored the movement of dust from Africa

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Remains from a mother-daughter cold case were found nearly 24 years later, after a deathbed confession from the suspect

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — A West Virginia father is getting some sense of closure after authorities found the remains of his young daughter and her mother following a deathbed confession from the man believed to have fatally shot them nearly two decades ago. Benjamin Hatfield, the prosecuting attorney for Raleigh County, called it “a

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What life was like for animals in America before people learned to love pets

By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — More than 100 years before Morrissey declared that “meat is murder,” before PETA supporters disrupted runway shows featuring leather fashions, before documentaries like “Food, Inc.” galvanized viewers to reconsider their relationship to animal products, there was Henry Bergh, shouting about animal rights on street corners to anyone who would

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Columbia University sets midnight deadline for talks to dismantle protest encampment

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Kelly McCleary and Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — Columbia University President Minouche Shafik announced Tuesday evening that student organizers face a midnight deadline to reach an agreement to dismantle the pro-Palestinian protest encampment that has escalated tensions at the school and led some students to feel unsafe on campus. If no agreement

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