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Alisha Ebrahimji

Alisha Ebrahimji

Social Discovery Producer and Journalist at CNN Online

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Alisha Ebrahimji
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Maui officials release list of missing people from Lahaina wildfire - CNN

With nearly 400 people still unaccounted for after catastrophic wildfires ravaged most of Maui earlier this month, Hawaii officials released a list of names, hoping the public can help identify any of the missing individuals. The “validated list” – curated by the FBI – includes 388 names and was released on Thursday, Maui County said. At least 115 others are confirmed to be deceased in the deadliest US wildfire disaster in over a century. “We’re releasing this list of names today because we kno…
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2-year-old orphaned in parade shooting was shielded by his father a...

By his father’s final act of heroism, Aiden McCarthy survived Monday’s carnage at a July Fourth parade in suburban Chicago. But the 2-year-old now is left to grow up without either of his parents -- an orphan of America’s bane of mass shootings.
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He spent three decades in prison for a murder he didn't commit. Now...

Joaquin Ciria has spent more than half his life behind bars for the murder of his friend in San Francisco, a crime he maintained he didn’t commit.
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California legislators propose law to stop police from using rape k...

San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin is partnering with legislators on a proposal to ban victim DNA from being entered in searchable databases that could eventually identify them as criminal suspects in unrelated, future cases.
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High school students stage a walkout after they say they were force...

Samuel Felinton shuffled into his high school auditorium last week for what his teacher told him was a mandatory assembly. Little did he know, the guest speaker was an evangelical preacher holding a Christian revival assembly.
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A Canadian restaurant had to close its dining room because it accep...

A restaurant in Alberta was forced to briefly close its dining room after the health department found patrons were showing photos of dogs instead of proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test, as mandated by the Canadian province.
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New York teacher is arrested for allegedly administering a Covid-19...

A teacher in New York was arrested on New Year’s Eve for allegedly unlawfully administering an injection that detectives believe was a Covid-19 vaccine, police say.

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There was no big winner in Wednesday's Powerball drawing. The jackp...

There were no winners in the final Powerball drawing of 2021, and the jackpot grew to $483 million, according to the game operator.
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Two officers survived a tornado that battered their patrol cars. Th...

Two officers were caught in a deadly tornado that ripped through a Kentucky community and -- after surviving a beating from Mother Nature -- rescued a severely injured young girl by carrying her out of harm’s way on an old door.
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Sleeping in cars, teaching on Zoom and several cancellations ... - CNN

When Mick Sturla left for vacation to South Africa, he had no idea his eight-day stay at a safari lodge would turn into a mad dash to get back home to the United Kingdom and involve sleeping in a rental car underneath an airport terminal due to new and evolving restrictions tied to the Omicron coronavirus variant.
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He faked PPP loan applications, got the money, then spent it on a L...

A Houston man was sentenced to nine years in prison for using money he got from Covid-19 relief funds to buy cars, a watch and a pay off a home loan, the Justice Department announced.