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Alaa Elassar

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Sep 13, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Alaa Elassar, Diego Mendoza, Karina Tsui, CNN

    Wisconsin Rep. Tom Tiffany grows emotional describing emergency plane landing in lake and swimming to safety (opens the original)

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    Wisconsin congressman Tom Tiffany gives an emotional recounting of how the Beechcraft K35 aircraft he was on lost power then made an emergency landing on Saturday night, describing how his plane plunged into the pitch-black dark Lake Wausau. (CNN) — Wisconsin congressman Tom Tiffany was on his way home Saturday evening following a demanding day of parades and political events when his plane plunged into the pitch-black darkness of Lake Wausau. As he was returning from the La Crosse County Linc

  2. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Dianne Gallagher, Alaa Elassar, CNN

    Her phones, wallet, car and dog were left behind. Nearly a week later, a DC mother is still missing (opens the original)

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    (CNN) — A terrified family is pleading for help in finding a woman who has been missing for nearly a week after she disappeared from her Washington, DC, home without her phones, wallet, or car. Antoinette Forbes, 53, a single mother of a young boy and a beloved sister, was last seen in person Friday, September 4, at the 3200 block of Nebraska Avenue, NW, according to the Metropolitan Police Department, which has released a missing-person poster seeking the public’s help. Police describe Forb

  3. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Alaa Elassar

    A Black man once sentenced to death for murder fights for freedom after discovering his attorney defended the Ku Klux Klan | CNN (opens the original)

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    A phone line rings. It clicks, and an automated message is recited in a woman’s strict, dull monotone. “You are receiving a call from the St. Clair Correctional Facility. To accept this call, press 5. This call will be recorded and subject to monitoring at any time.” The line clicks again and a new voice floods into the receiver. Robin “Rocky” Myers, dressed in a khaki jumpsuit, is calling from the recreation yard of an Alabama prison about 30 miles northeast of Birmingham. For a few m

  4. Article · Aug 10, 2026 · Alaa Elassar, Cindy Von Quednow

    He waited and planned for the perfect time, then set the blaze, officials say. Inside the Spokane arson case | CNN (opens the original)

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    In a matter of days, three wildfires tore through the Spokane area in eastern Washington state, blackening once-green hillsides, leveling homes and leaving behind skeletal trees and the scorched shells of cars. Hundreds of homes have been destroyed, tens of thousands of people were forced to flee, and as the fires slow, entire communities will be left to sift through ash. Now, authorities say a man is responsible for starting one of those fires — and has admitted to igniting multiple previous

  5. Article · Jul 31, 2026 · Alaa Elassar

    Officials release Nancy Guthrie ransom note and grim follow up letter in hopes someone recognizes writing patterns | CNN (opens the original)

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    Nearly six months after Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her home in the Catalina Foothills neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona, investigators released the full contents of a ransom note and a follow up investigators believe may contain clues that someone familiar with the alleged kidnappers may recognize. Law enforcement is urging the public to look at the linguistic patterns of the notes. Authorities said the messages feature “distinctive patterns of word choice, syntax, and phraseology” that re

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