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By Jessica Schneider, CNN The FBI is broadening its outreach to historically Black colleges and universities at the same time the agency’s director announced that one minor will be charged with making dozens of racist threats earlier this year against more than 50 HBCUs across the country. “We have worked with state prosecutors to ensure

By Scottie Andrew, CNN As our language evolves, so does Scrabble: Now, you can use hundreds of new words, from “ambigram” to “zedonk,” to spell your way to victory in the beloved board game. Hasbro and Merriam-Webster have added more than 500 new words to the official Scrabble dictionary, which consists of all of the

By Nick Watt, CNN A group of veterans has filed a lawsuit to force homes to be built for them on land now used for elite sports facilities in Los Angeles. Fourteen unhoused veterans and the National Veterans Foundation filed a complaint in Central California’s federal district court against the Department of Veterans Affairs on

By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman, Rachel Clarke and Rebekah Riess, CNN Angry relatives of some of the children killed in the Robb Elementary School massacre are demanding that the acting police chief from that day, Lt. Mariano Pargas, quit his role as a Uvalde county commissioner. “He was made aware that people were injured

By Leah Asmelash, CNN Yale and Harvard law schools, two of the premier law schools in the country, have each held a spot on the U.S. News & World Report’s list of best law schools for decades. Now, the schools are bowing out. Every year, U.S. News releases a list of the country’s best colleges,

By Susannah Cullinane and Andi Babineau, CNN A Black middle school student told CNN he was angry when his teacher, a White man, told his class that his race “is the superior one.” Videos of the conversation in a Pflugerville, Texas, classroom were posted on social media last week. The teacher seen in the video

By Kristina Sgueglia and Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN A condo explosion in Gaithersburg, Maryland, left a dozen people injured, two of them critically, kicking off a massive search-and-rescue operation Wednesday, the Montgomery County fire chief said. The “significant” blast resulted in a structural collapse, Montgomery County Fire Chief Scott Goldstein said. Light smoke continued to

By Amir Vera, Eric Levenson and Andi Babineau, CNN More questions than answers continue to plague the Moscow, Idaho, community after the fatal stabbing of four University of Idaho students — and police said they cannot assure the community is safe. Moscow Police Chief James Fry gave an update Wednesday, saying two additional roommates were

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, Brad Parks, Steve Almasy and Adrienne Broaddus, CNN Darrell Brooks was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of extended supervision Wednesday for driving his SUV into a crowd of Christmas parade attendees in Waukesha, Wisconsin, last year, killing six people and wounding dozens. In a clean sweep for the

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Apple launched a new iPhone feature this week that promises to let users contact emergency dispatchers when cell phone service is unavailable. It functions using a network of satellites orbiting above Earth at 16,000 mph. When CNN tested the tool’s reliability, it showed lifesaving potential — but also revealed some significant

By Jamiel Lynch and Chenelle Woody, CNN The man accused of killing an Alabama college student in 2019 could face the death penalty if convicted after being indicted by a grand jury on three counts of capital murder, Alabama’s attorney general announced. Aniah Blanchard was a 19-year-old student at Southern Union State Community College who