Darran Simon

Senior Writer, CNN Digital

Darran Simon is a senior writer with CNN Digital, where he covers national and international breaking news.
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Darran Simon
Darran Simon

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PARIS, FRANCE - DECEMBER 20 : Notre Dame de Paris. The Catholic cathedral Notre Dame de Paris, on the edges of the Seine on December 20, 2015 in Paris, France. (Photo by Frédéric Soltan/Corbis via Getty Images)
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This is what makes Notre Dame cathedral so iconic
Apr 16, 2019
Notre Dame cathedral, a treasure of French Gothic architecture, is one of the most famous symbols of Paris, attracting 12 million visitors and pilgrims yearly.
A rare 1943 copper penny is expected to be sold at an auction by Heritage Auctions on Sunday. Organizers expect to fetch at least $170,000 for the coin a high school student in Pittsfield, Massachusettes discovered in the change he received from his school cafeteria in 1947.
Courtesy Heritage Auctions
Rare 1943 copper coin fetches a pretty penny in auction: $204,000
Jan 11, 2019
Don Lutes Jr. kept the 1943 copper penny he stumbled upon in his high school cafeteria seven decades ago in a safe behind a wall in his Massachusetts home.
A rare 1943 copper penny is expected to be sold at an auction by Heritage Auctions on Sunday. Organizers expect to fetch at least $170,000 for the coin a high school student in Pittsfield, Massachusettes discovered in the change he received from his school cafeteria in 1947.
Courtesy Heritage Auctions
Rare 1943 copper coin could fetch a pretty penny in auction
Jan 10, 2019
Don Lutes Jr. kept the 1943 copper penny he stumbled upon in his high school cafeteria seven decades ago in a safe behind a wall in his Massachusetts home.
FILE - In this Nov.24, 2005 file photo shows unidentified members of the gang Mara Salvatrucha who are incarcerated in the National Penitentiary of Tamara, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The deadliest prison blaze in a century has drawn attention to an unfortunate U.S. export to Central America, street gangs. Prisons in Honduras and elsewhere in Central America are teeming with inmates who belong to gangs that have their roots in Southern California. Refugees of the regions civil wars sowed a new breed of violence on the streets of Los Angeles in the 1980s. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix,File)
ESTEBAN FELIX/AP
What is MS-13? The ‘transnational’ street gang on the FBI’s radar
Mar 3, 2017
MS-13, also known as La Mara Salvatrucha is one of the largest criminal organizations in the US, and members of the international gang have been convicted of crimes ranging from racketeering to murder.

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Throughout his career, Simon has covered a range of stories, from the rebuilding of public schools in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to mudslides and wildfires in California and violence in Camden, New Jersey. He has previously written for Newsday, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Times-Picayune and The Miami Herald.

He is a Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma 2019 Ochberg Fellow. He is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He was born in London and raised in Guyana, New York and New Jersey.