Yahya Abou-Ghazala

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Yahya Abou-Ghazala is a producer with CNN's investigative unit, based in Washington, DC.
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Video ‘They all have radio failure’: Hear air traffic controllers in another Newark outage 3:31
May 8, 2025
Air traffic controllers reported critical safety incidents and communications outages months before the latest Newark system failure. CNN’s Kyung Lah reports
Dozens of patrol vehicles, including a forensics van, are stationed outside of Florida State University’s student union building, the scene of a shooting, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Kate Payne)
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What we know about the Florida State University shooting suspect
Apr 19, 2025
The suspect accused of gunning down two people and injuring five others at Florida State University spent time training with law enforcement and serving on a sheriff’s advisory council in the years before his alleged attack, authorities say.
This frame grab from a video released by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, taken with a phone by one of the 15 Palestinians medics killed, shows Red Crescent emergency vehicles, their lights and sirens flashing and their logos clearly visible, seconds before they came under a barrage of gunfire from Israeli army soldiers in Tel al-Sultan, a district of the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, early Sunday, March 23, 2025. (Palestinian Red Crescent Society via AP)
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‘Dad, help me… we were targeted by the Israelis’: Audio and video capture last moments of aid workers killed in Gaza
Apr 7, 2025
A CNN review of audio and video capturing the attack, photos and satellite imagery of the mass grave, along with interviews with an eyewitness, forensic experts and family members provides a detailed account of the Israeli military’s targeting and burial of clearly marked rescue crews from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, Civil Defense, and the United Nations.
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Corporate interests pay for luxury foreign trips. State attorneys general join for free
Mar 27, 2025
Records show how corporate lawyers and lobbyists have paid to enjoy special access to state attorneys general
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Video This South Florida suburb swung to Trump. Now many residents face deportation 3:20
Mar 14, 2025
In Doral, Florida — home to more Venezuelan immigrants than any other US city — warning signs emerge for Trump over immigration policy. CNN’s Priscilla Alvarez reports
Daniel Oropeza, an immigrant from Venezuela, at the restaurant El Arepazo in Doral, Florida, last month. Oropeza is facing potential deportation after the Trump administration revoked protections for Venezuelans.
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This South Florida suburb swung to Trump. Now many of its residents are facing deportation
Mar 13, 2025
President Trump’s move to revoke deportation protections for Venezuelans has sparked a sense of betrayal in Doral, Florida, a Miami suburb that is home to more Venezuelan immigrants than any other city in the US.
Ruth Garfinkel, a laid-off employee of a USAID contractor in Durham, prepares dinner for her family.
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‘They are harming ordinary people’: Trump’s funding cuts are taking a toll in North Carolina
Mar 3, 2025
President Donald Trump’s efforts to drastically cut federal spending and slash the federal workforce are already having an impact in North Carolina.
Elon Musk at Donald Trump's inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 20.
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‘Second American Revolution’: The team behind DOGE’s government overhaul
Feb 8, 2025
As Musk’s team barrels its way through the government seeking access to sensitive information, questions are arising about the people behind DOGE
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Video ‘Catastrophic’ education cuts could hit Trump’s base 4:37
Jan 19, 2025
Some low-income communities that voted for Trump worry about GOP efforts to cut education funding. CNN’s Kyung Lah reports.
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Teacher layoffs, bigger classes: Potential federal education cuts could hit GOP’s base hardest
Jan 16, 2025
Some low-income communities that voted for him are worried about GOP efforts to cut education funding
A firefighter battles the Palisades Fire around a burned structure in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on Wednesday.
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No ‘water system in the world’ could have handled the LA fires. How the region could have minimized the damage
Jan 11, 2025
Widespread destruction from the L.A. fires was inevitable, given the drought and winds. Still, the region could have been better prepared.
NORTH SIOUX CITY, SD - NOV. 24: Morgan Speichinger walks through the backyards of her neighbors' destroyed homes five months after a June 23 flood near McCook Lake in North Sioux City, South Dakota, on Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (Photo by Rebecca S. Gratz for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Kristi Noem is Trump’s Homeland Security pick, but some South Dakota residents say she neglected her own state
Dec 11, 2024
Gov. Kristi Noem’s handling of several key issues in South Dakota offers a lens into how she may manage her sprawling responsibilities at the Department of Homeland Security.
Police arrested 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, seen here in an online photo posted in 2019.
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‘I never got the impression he would self-destruct:’ Friends of suspect in fatal CEO shooting left in shock
Dec 10, 2024
Luigi Mangione, the suspect police are questioning in the slaying of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, is an Ivy League graduate software engineer from a prominent Baltimore family who appears to have favorably reviewed the manifesto of Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, on a book website.
People cast their in-person early ballot for the 2024 general election at the Northwest Activities Center on October 29, 2024 in Detroit, Michigan.
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Mishaps in Michigan spur Trump allies to spread misleading election claims
Nov 1, 2024
In the closely watched battleground state of Michigan, election officials are under the microscope, with isolated mistakes or missteps serving as fodder for election deniers to lay the groundwork for widespread doubt of election results.
Voters cast their ballots during Michigan's early voting period on October 29, 2024 in Dearborn, Michigan.
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Chinese citizen charged with illegally voting in Michigan, authorities say
Nov 1, 2024
Michigan prosecutors charged a Chinese citizen with voter fraud and perjury after he allegedly cast a ballot in the 2024 election, authorities announced Wednesday.
Law enforcement and first responders control traffic after a shooting took place at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, on September 4, 2024. Police took a suspect into custody after the shooting on Wednesday, with students evacuated from the scene and local media reporting fatalities. CNN, citing unnamed law enforcement sources, reported that four people had been killed and 30 wounded. Other outlets reported two deaths. (Photo by CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Georgia high school shooting suspect referenced Parkland massacre in writings found in his bedroom, source says
Sep 6, 2024
Authorities searching the home of the teen accused of a Georgia school shooting this week found documents that they believe he wrote referencing past school shootings, a source says

About

Yahya Abou-Ghazala is an award-winning producer with CNN’s investigative unit, based in Washington, DC. His work with the unit involves reporting and producing in-depth investigations for both digital and television audiences. Abou-Ghazala has worked on producing short-form video investigations, long-form feature documentaries, and in-depth digital interactive stories.

In 2024, Abou-Ghazala received an Edward R. Murrow award for his production role on a multi-part series exposing decades of coordinated sexual assault cover-ups within the U.S. Coast Guard. This series led to multiple congressional inquiries into the pattern of ignored misconduct, the resignation of a top official and a USCG internal review vowing change. The investigation was also nominated for an Emmy award. Abou-Ghazala additionally received a Murrow award for his work on CNN’s OSINT coverage of the Israel–Hamas War. Abou-Ghazala’s investigation into an Israeli airstrike in Gaza that killed a Palestinian family one day after they followed evacuation orders was part of CNN’s coverage, which used open-source techniques to report on the war.

In 2024, Abou-Ghazala earned Gold at the Lovie Awards for his work on “Voice Notes from Gaza.” The digital interactive story on CNN.com used voice notes gathered from Palestinians inside Gaza to offer a window into life on the ground during the war.

Abou-Ghazala graduated from the University of Virginia where he studied Global Development.