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Editor’s Note: Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, has been a resident of Jackson, Mississippi, for nearly 30 years. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN. CNN  —  Headlines this week trumpeted the infuriating news that the state of Texas was …

CNN  —  Indian low-cost airline SpiceJet grounded two of its pilots after they allegedly consumed coffee and pastries inside the cockpit – a snack break that could have gone horribly wrong had one of the hot drinks spilled. A photograph showing an uncovered cup with the airline’s logo placed dangerously …

CNN  —  The man who investigators say is connected to a string of unusual animal habitat tamperings at the Dallas Zoo – including the alleged theft of two tamarin monkeys – was indicted Tuesday on felony burglary charges, court records show. Davion Irvin, 24, was indicted by a grand jury …

Islamabad, Pakistan CNN  —  Pakistani police fired tear gas into the grounds of Imran Khan’s Lahore home on Wednesday following a night of violent clashes between security personnel and the former prime minister’s supporters as attempts by authorities to arrest him stretched into a second day. A total of 69 …

CNN  —  Former US Rep. Patricia Schroeder of Colorado, a longtime Democratic congresswoman who championed women’s rights, has died. She was 82. Schroeder died Monday night in a hospital in Celebration, Florida, surrounded by her family, her daughter, Jamie Cornish, confirmed to CNN. The cause was complications from a stroke, …

CNN  —  When 19-year-old Zhang Chao decided to take a gap year at university, the digital media major planned to use the short break to work and travel before going back to school. But after spending a summer volunteering at a surf shop in Sanya, the capital of China’s Hainan …

CNN  —  Two weeks after a boat packed with migrants sank off the coast of southern Italy, there is still no peace for the living or the dead, and the missing – mostly children – continue to wash up on the beaches. The latest – a girl aged five or …

CNN  —  They were stripped down to their boxers and left barefoot. Many had their heads shaved as they were forced to run with their hands behind their back or neck. Altogether, there were 2,000 convicts who were transferred last week to El Salvador’s new “mega prison”, officially named the …

CNN  —  Millions of Californians already hammered by ferocious snowfall were hit Thursday by a new storm, with torrential rain threatening to cause dangerous flooding and the Weather Prediction Center increasing its excessive rainfall outlook for parts of the state to a level 4 of 4. “If you have feet …

CNN  —  A suspect has died after a confrontation that left three Los Angeles Police Department officers wounded Wednesday night, officials said. Police were called to the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles earlier in the day for an investigation into a parolee at large and came across the person …