Multiple high school students in Texas are facing disciplinary action after they created a social media group pretending to auction off their Black peers. The group, called “N***** Auction” on the app Snapchat, was started by a handful of students at the Aledo Independent School District, just outside of Fort Worth. One student bid $100
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Click here for updates on this story NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (WFSB) — A data breach has impacted Yale New Haven Health. On Friday, the healthcare system announced that Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven is among many hospitals nationwide that were impacted by software issues at Elekta. Elekta is the company that provides the
Continue Reading A Nevada death row inmate is scheduled to die by lethal injection at the beginning of June, but he’s fighting his sentence, and in a recent court filing, he said he’d prefer to die by firing squad rather than a deadly drug cocktail. In a document filed this month, attorneys for Zane Floyd, sentenced to
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When Apple unveiled its colorful new iMac line at a virtual product launch earlier this week, reactions were divided: They’re beautiful. They’re ugly. What is with that ‘chin’? The event was one of the most exciting product launches from any tech company in a while. Apple introduced an entirely new product — its AirTag location
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Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas suggested on Tuesday that Democrat Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia House minority leader and gubernatorial candidate, had initially supported a boycott of Georgia in response to the state’s controversial new elections law. At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on voting rights, at which Abrams testified, Cotton said, “March 31st,
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TONIGHT: Shower and storms will be on the way back in tonight after 6-7 PM. Once those return, they’ll stay with us for the remainder of the night, with lows falling to near 50. SATURDAY: Showers will spill over into the morning Saturday, but move east by midday. A breezy northerly wind will keep
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Columbia police are looking for a teenager who ran away from home, department spokeswoman Brittany Hilderbrand said on Friday.
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A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. Anticipation is building for the Facebook Oversight Board’s looming decision on whether to keep or reverse a ban on former President Trump’s account. The board has said the decision will be announced “in the coming
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The US has more than 9 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine ready to be administered if federal health officials lift their recommended pause of the one-shot vaccine, CNN has learned. President Joe Biden’s coronavirus adviser Jeff Zients told CNN there are more than 9 million doses that have already been distributed to
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Former Manchester United star Ryan Giggs, who is the manager of the Welsh national football team, has been charged with assaulting two women and “coercive and controlling behaviour,” police said on Friday. Giggs has been charged with “causing actual bodily harm to a woman in her 30s and common assault of a woman in her
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The Smithsonian Institution announced on Friday that it will reopen seven of its museums and the National Zoo to the public next month, kicking off a phased reopening after it temporarily closed its facilities because of the pandemic. The National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, will reopen on May
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Parents who were exposed to radiation from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster did not pass genetic changes caused by radiation exposure on to their children, a new study has found. The 1986 reactor explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant forced a region-wide evacuation, sending radioactive fallout billowing across Europe. While the explosion itself
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The United States is sending search and rescue gear to help Indonesia search for a submarine that went missing with 53 crew members on board, a defense official tells CNN. Three C-17 aircraft are expected to depart Dover Air Force Base Friday with watercraft and underwater search and rescue gear to assist with ongoing efforts
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House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn has been fined for violating the procedure of going through the metal detectors installed off the House floor, the first Democrat to receive such a fine. The House Ethics Committee confirmed in a statement Friday that Clyburn had been fined, one day after the South Carolina congressman told CNN about
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Honda became the latest automaker to promise an emissions-free future. In his first press conference as CEO of the Japanese automaker, Toshihiro Mibe said Friday the company “will strive” to sell only battery-electric vehicles and fuel cell electric vehicles by 2040 in the three major markets where it primarily sells cars — North America, China
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Protests over deputies’ fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. kicked off for a third straight day Friday in North Carolina’s Elizabeth City, with demonstrators calling for authorities to release officers’ body camera footage of Wednesday’s killing. Demonstrators stood in the streets early Friday afternoon, blocking a few intersections in a commercial section of the city
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WAUKESHA, Wisconsin (WDJT) — A former Waukesha South High School student who brought two pellet guns to school agreed to a plea deal. Tyrone Smith, who was 17 at the time of the incident, allegedly pointed the weapon at a student’s head and was shot after police said
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A fresh manicure makes Trevor Wilkinson feel a little more like his true self. And now, after a fight that lasted most of his senior year, the teenager can breathe easily in his Texas high school knowing that he fought for the right to be unapologetic about who he is. Wilkinson, 18, an openly gay
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Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast ever and one of the world’s greatest athletes, is leaving endorsement powerhouse Nike for a deal with Athleta, the athletic clothing unit of Gap Inc. Biles is a significant signing for Athleta’s marketing efforts. She’s the first woman to capture five all-around gymnastic world championship titles, and the winner
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Another gender reveal party turned dangerous, this time in New Hampshire, with an explosion that shook nearby homes. The partygoers detonated around 80 pounds of explosives, Kingston police said in a statement. They used an explosive called Tannerite, a target used for firearms practice that also comes in a gender-reveal variety. After Kingston police arrived
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