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Continue ReadingBy Faith Karimi, CNN A suspect is in custody after a shooting left one student dead in North Carolina. It was the second shooting in three days at a high school in the state. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5
Continue ReadingBy Faith Karimi, CNN A suspect is in custody after a shooting left one student dead in North Carolina. It was the second shooting in three days at a high school in the state. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5
Continue ReadingBy Faith Karimi, CNN A suspect is in custody after a shooting left one student dead in North Carolina. It was the second shooting in three days at a high school in the state. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5
Continue ReadingBy Faith Karimi, CNN A suspect is in custody after a shooting left one student dead in North Carolina. It was the second shooting in three days at a high school in the state. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5
Continue ReadingBy Faith Karimi, CNN A suspect is in custody after a shooting left one student dead in North Carolina. It was the second shooting in three days at a high school in the state. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5
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By Nicole Chavez, CNN A Texas high school principal who found himself in the middle of a controversy over critical race theory was placed on paid administrative leave this week. James Whitfield, principal of Colleyville Heritage High School in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, was placed on leave Monday, a month after a community member at
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, CNN Camilla Akbari boarded a 7:43 p.m. New Jersey Transit train on Wednesday night from New York Penn Station hoping to get to her mom’s place in Princeton, New Jersey. It’s a trip that generally takes about an hour. This ride, though, took about 14. Amid torrential downpours and flooding, the 24-year-old
Continue ReadingBy David Williams, CNN A Texas school district is closing all of its schools until after the Labor Day holiday after two junior high teachers died of Covid-19 complications in the same week. In an email to parents on Monday, Connally Independent School District said that was closing all of its campuses due to an
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By Sonia Moghe, CNN For the first time since R. Kelly and Aaliyah’s 1994 wedding, the minister who officiated spoke publicly about it as he testified Wednesday under subpoena at Kelly’s criminal trial. On the day after the 27th anniversary of their wedding, Nathan Edmond, 73, a Chicago-area ordained minister, testified that he officiated for
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By Emma Tucker, CNN A new pro-gun law in Texas that went into effect Wednesday allows most Texans who legally own a firearm to carry it openly in public without obtaining a permit or training, a measure that experts say will make it more challenging for law enforcement to protect the public from gun violence.
Continue ReadingBy David Williams, CNN A Texas school district is closing all of its schools until after the Labor Day holiday after two junior high teachers died of Covid-19 complications in the same week. In an email to parents on Monday, Connally Independent School District said that was closing all of its campuses due to an
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Stuart, CNN An Oregon schools superintendent was fired during a Monday night school board meeting, after he enforced the state’s mask mandate in the district’s public schools, according to a report from the Malheur Enterprise newspaper, which had reporters in attendance at the meeting. Adrian School District Superintendent Kevin Purnell was terminated after
Continue ReadingBy Lauren M. Johnson and Ariane de Vogue, CNN A Texas high school valedictorian, who went viral after she changed her speech to speak out against the state’s newly passed abortion law, reacted to the news that the abortion ban will not be stopped by the courts. “It’s very sad to see, and it is
Continue ReadingBy Claudia Dominguez and Jason Hanna, CNN One student was fatally wounded Wednesday in a shooting at a high school in the North Carolina city of Winston-Salem, and the suspect is in custody, officials said. The shooting happened at Mount Tabor High School on the city’s northwest side. Police officers and Forsyth County sheriff’s deputies
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Continue ReadingBy Claudia Dominguez and Jason Hanna, CNN One student was fatally wounded Wednesday in a shooting at a high school in the North Carolina city of Winston-Salem, and the suspect is in custody, officials said. The shooting happened at Mount Tabor High School on the city’s northwest side. Police officers and Forsyth County sheriff’s deputies
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By Eric Levenson and Stella Chan, CNN A Colorado grand jury indicted three police officers and two paramedics involved in the August 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who was stopped by police while walking home from a store, placed in a carotid hold and then injected with ketamine, Colorado Attorney General
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson and Stella Chan, CNN A Colorado grand jury indicted three police officers and two paramedics involved in the August 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who was stopped by police while walking home from a store, placed in a carotid hold and then injected with ketamine, Colorado Attorney General
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By Nicole Chavez, CNN A new Texas law aimed at restricting discussions of race and history in schools has some educators second guessing themselves and forgoing civics-related activities to avoid running afoul of it. HB3979, one of the legislative efforts to ban critical race theory in American classrooms, went into effect Wednesday as schools in
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