| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Baby Noor: 'Miracle' no longer unfinished | | Col. Kevin Brown stood tall and proud and often ventured "outside the wire" with his soldiers in Baghdad. Under the sizzle of the Iraqi sun, I watched him meticulously pin medals on their uniforms. |
| Nelson Mandela | | The condition of South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has improved overnight, President Jacob Zuma said Thursday, as the eyes of the nation remained fixed on his progress. |
| Zimmerman trial | | Taking the stand on Wednesday, the third day of the George Zimmerman trial, a friend of Trayvon Martin testified Wednesday about the final moments of the teenager's life, saying that Martin told her someone was following him. |
| Missoni plane | | A small plane that carried Italian fashion boss Vittorio Missoni was found off the coast of Venezuela, Interior Ministry spokesman Jorge Galindo tweeted Thursday. |
| Immigration | | While the Senate is poised to pass sweeping immigration reform Thursday afternoon, top Republicans in the House are calling the Senate bill a nonstarter. |
| Boston bombing indictment | | A federal grand jury has returned a 30-count indictment against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, the U.S. attorney's office in Massachusetts said Thursday. |
| Aaron Hernandez | | Aaron Hernandez, the former NFL tight end charged with murder in the death last week of an acquaintance, is now being investigated in connection with a double slaying in Boston's South End in July 2012, a law enforcement source close to the investigation told CNN. |
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