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A private autopsy concluded Friday that Stephon Clark, the 22-year-old black man who was killed by police in Sacramento, was shot seven times from behind. The autopsy, commissioned by Clark's family and performed by Dr. Bennet Omalu, concluded that of the eight bullets that entered Clark's body, not one entered from the front; the eighth shot hit Clark from the side.

President Trump has been cleaning house of late, and no one in Washington is safe. Two Cabinet secretaries have been dismissed via Twitter, while the ones who remain in their posts have been directed to reassign dozens of career government officials for nebulous reasons. Meanwhile, public perception of Trump's performance in office remains sour.

On Friday, SpaceX did a friend a favor — far above the stratosphere.

The aerospace startup, helmed by Elon Musk, executed yet another rocket launch Friday morning, achieving liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Santa Barbara, California. The Falcon 9 rocket was en route to orbit to drop off 10 satellites for communications firm Iridium, CNN explained.

The rocket that took flight Friday had actually been used before, Space.com noted, and took flight exactly one year after SpaceX's first successful reused rocket launch. Читать дальше...

March Madness returns Saturday with the semifinal round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. The Final Four showdowns will be No. 11 Loyola-Chicago vs. No. 3 Michigan, and No. 1 Kansas vs. No. 1 Villanova.

Noor Salman, the widow of the man who killed 49 people at an Orlando nightclub, was found not guilty by a Florida jury Friday of all charges against her in relation to her husband's rampage.

On Thursday night, Scott Foster expected to head over to the United Center for a nice meal and a press box view of the Chicago Blackhawks as they faced the Winnipeg Jets down on the ice.

Democratic Rep. Elizabeth Esty (Conn.) is facing scrutiny over her handling of abuse allegations made against her former chief of staff. In a series of interviews this week, Esty acknowledged paying a severance to Tony Baker, her former chief of staff, after another one of her staff members accused him of verbal and physical abuse.

It's college acceptance season, and if it were up to CNN's Alisyn Camerota, things would be shaking out a little differently.

The U.S. military announced Friday that two coalition personnel had been killed by an improvised explosive device in Syria. Five more were injured. The casualties are the first known combat-related losses for the coalition this year, Reuters reported.

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Russia on Thursday ordered the expulsion of 60 U.S. diplomats in retaliation after Washington kicked out 60 Russian diplomatic workers over Moscow's suspected involvement in the poisoning of a former Russian spy in England. Russia gave the Americans until April 5 to leave the country, and additionally ordered the closing of the U.S. consulate in St. Petersburg. Moscow also expelled another 90 diplomats from other countries that had booted Russians over the March 4 nerve agent attack on ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia... Читать дальше...

This Sunday is Easter, the culmination of the week in which Christians commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus and celebrate what this means for our salvation. However, the connection between Christ's death and our salvation — and how these events can reconcile God and humanity — isn't exactly intuitive.

Ann Coulter may well be right that in most respects President Trump is a "shallow, lazy ignoramus," but he's undeniably a kind of genius at one thing: driving his political opponents into a kind of self-destructive madness.

On its face there is nothing especially noteworthy about President Trump's appointment of Ronny Jackson as the secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs except for the fact that the former White House physician has an extremely cool-sounding name. He is not, like Ben Carson at HUD, someone who knows absolutely nothing about his new job or, like Scott Pruitt at the EPA, someone who seems dead set on sabotaging its mission from his bedroom at the home of a lobbyist.

The Trump administration has opened a whole new front in its war on immigration.

The Navajo Nation is America's largest Native American reservation, home to some 250,000 people. Straddling the borders of New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, the territory stretches across the southwest's sprawling mountains, deserts, and canyons.

My pregnancy, I thought, was off to a healthy start. I was still exercising four to five days a week, albeit not as rigorously, and eating healthy foods. Sure, due to first trimester nausea, my usual lunch of salad with lean proteins had become something more like a sandwich — and I occasionally let myself indulge with a little mayo and white bread. I was pregnant, after all!

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday named Utah's federal prosecutor John Huber as lead of the investigation into a series of allegations against the FBI. Sessions decided against appointing a special counsel, unless Huber later recommends one, a letter from the attorney general to three Republican chairmen explained.