Rebekah Riess - News Editor, National Content Center
Rebekah Riess
News Editor, National Content Center
Rebekah Riess is a News Editor at the National Content Center responsible for newsgathering and providing editorial guidance for stories in the United States and Canada. Before coming to CNN in 2019, Rebekah was an assignment editor in Dallas and at Germany's ZDF.
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A woman bypassed multiple security checkpoints to get on a Delta flight to Paris. Here’s what we know
Nov 29, 2024
Investigators are trying to determine how a woman got past multiple security checkpoints this week at New York’s JFK International Airport and boarded a plane to Paris, apparently hiding in the aircraft’s bathrooms during the flight.
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America travels for Thanksgiving 2024
Nov 28, 2024
Almost 80 million people will travel over Thanksgiving, up 1.7 million compared to 2023, according to AAA.
A pregnant law school student asked to move her exams away from near her due date and was denied until her friends stepped in
Nov 24, 2024
Brittany Lovely is expecting her first child in early December. Her final exams at Georgetown University Law Center are at the same time.
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November 20, 2024 - Judge sentences Laken Riley’s murderer to life in prison
Nov 20, 2024
Jose Ibarra, the man convicted of killing Laken Riley as she jogged through the woods at the University of Georgia, was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole Wednesday, concluding a highly emotional, four-day trial.
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November 19, 2024 - Day 3 of the murder trial of the man accused of killing Laken Riley
Nov 20, 2024
Jose Antonio Ibarra is accused of killing nursing student Laken Riley while she was jogging on the University of Georgia campus on February 22.
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Day 2 of the murder trial of the man accused of killing Georgia student Laken Riley wraps up
Nov 18, 2024
The latest updates in the trial of Jose Antonio Ibarra, the 26-year-old undocumented immigrant accused of the murder of Univ. of Georgia student Laken Riley.
Prosecutors share how a smartwatch left clues in the killing of Laken Riley. Here are the key trial takeaways so far
Nov 16, 2024
About a half dozen people, including at least one of Laken Riley’s relatives, left an Athens, Georgia, courtroom to avoid seeing videos and images of the nursing student’s lifeless body.
Evidence in trial of man accused of killing Laken Riley will show the Georgia student ‘fought for her life,’ prosecutors say
Nov 16, 2024
In the nine months since Laken Riley was killed while jogging at the University of Georgia, her death turned into a lightning rod over crime and illegal immigration and cast an ominous shadow over the college town of Athens.
Laken Riley killing: Judge to decide fate of undocumented migrant accused in student’s death that fueled political debate
Nov 12, 2024
The undocumented migrant accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley — a slaying that ignited fresh debate over the border crisis — waived his right to a trial by jury Tuesday and agreed to a bench trial, in which a judge will decide his guilt or innocence.
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Homes burned, residents evacuated in California amid ‘life-threatening’ fire conditions
Nov 8, 2024
The Mountain Fire in Ventura County has quickly spread as strong winds continue in the region.
No criminal charges to be filed in suffocation death of 12-year-old boy at North Carolina wilderness camp
Nov 6, 2024
No criminal charges to be filed in suffocation death of 12-year-old boy at North Carolina wilderness camp
Man confesses to killing of Montana camper who was initially reported as victim of bear attack, authorities say
Nov 1, 2024
A man has confessed to killing a Montana camper who was initially reported to be the victim of a bear attack, authorities said Thursday.
‘All of us ended up in the water’: Victims’ relatives, survivors give emotional accounts of Sapelo Island’s gangway collapse
Oct 23, 2024
Emotional accounts from relatives of the victims and survivors of the partial collapse of a boat dock gangway on Georgia’s Sapelo Island and a newly released video of the frantic rescue efforts paint a dramatic picture of Saturday’s incident.
Helene death toll rises to at least 232 across 6 states
Oct 23, 2024
The death toll from Helene has risen to at least 227 across six states, according to CNN’s tally, after two more deaths were announced Saturday in South Carolina.
Woman who hurled racist slur at a Black University of Kentucky student pleads guilty following mediation
Oct 21, 2024
The former University of Kentucky student facing assault charges after repeatedly hurling a racial slur at a Black student on campus in 2022, on Monday in Fayette County Circuit Court pleaded guilty following mediation in court, according to her attorney Fred Peters.
