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  • A group of about 11 mostly-armed demonstrators protesting the stay-at-home order marched around downtown Raleigh and ordered sandwiches at a Subway, Saturday morning, May 9, 2020.

    Gun-toting members of the Boogaloo movement are showing up at protests

    By Robert Kuznia, Drew Griffin and Curt Devine, CNN
    Benjamin Ryan Teeter was at his home in Hampstead, N.C., when the call to action came. It was an alert from the heart of the raging protests in Minneapolis, posted on an online forum by a fellow member of the Boogaloo movement, a loosely knit group of heavily armed, anti-government extremists.

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'Please help me before it's too late'

By Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken
Behind bars, they beg for medical attention from a giant government contractor. For some, help doesn't come -- or it comes too late. A CNN investigation exposes preventable deaths and dangerous care that government agencies have failed to stop.

One gun's path to destruction

By Scott Glover
Additional reporting by Drew Griffin, Scott Bronstein and Jose Pagliery
They were a farming family, a young hothead, and an aspiring engineer with nothing in common -- except a weapon that reached the San Francisco streets through unlicensed gun dealing.
A photo illustration of a Sig Sauer P320 pistol falling with the trigger side up.

Trigger warning

By Jose Pagliery
The Army got upgraded guns. For months, the public didn't. Now, law enforcement officers are suing over a pistol that can fire when you drop it.
An illustration shows a gymnast hanging in midair. Her arms and legs are in a split position, tied by strings to fingers on a controlling hand above. The image is like that of a puppeteer and his puppet.

A gym built on fear

By Majlie de Puy Kamp
Larry Nassar molested them. Now gymnasts describe a different kind of abuse by famed Olympic coach John Geddert.

Sick, dying and raped in America's nursing homes

By Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken
Some of the victims can't speak. They rely on walkers and wheelchairs to leave their beds. They have been robbed of their memories. They come to nursing homes to be cared for.

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