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By Leah Asmelash, CNN In the midst of a right-wing attack on creating a more inclusive education in the US, Illinois just became the first state to require Asian American history to be taught in public schools. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Teaching Equitable Asian American History Act on Friday, set to go into

By Ralph Ellis and Hollie Silverman, CNN Two bronze statues of Confederate generals will be removed from public property in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, almost four years after the statues were the flashpoint for the violent “Unite the Right” rally that left one person dead and many others injured. In a news release, the Charlottesville

By Aya Elamroussi and Kay Jones, CNN Attorneys who represent the family of Breonna Taylor have sued the Louisville Metro Police Department, saying they may have given “misinformation” to the public about the use of body cameras on the night the Black woman was killed in her home in Kentucky. More body camera footage, if

By Laura Ly, CNN A man accused of stabbing a rabbi in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood was arraigned Thursday on new hate crime charges and has been ordered held without bail pending a “dangerousness hearing” later this month, says a news release from Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins. Khaled Awad, 24, was arraigned on two

By Alta Spells, CNN A man and a woman were finishing dinner at a restaurant at the Downtown Aquarium in Houston, Texas, Thursday night when a man seated at the other end of the bar got up, approached the pair and opened fire, officials said. When police arrived at the scene of the Downtown Aquarium,

By Madeline Holcombe, Keith Allen and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Minnesota police believe that what started as a traffic altercation on a highway this week ended in the homicide of a youth baseball coach, officials said. Jay Harrison Boughton, 56, of Crystal, Minnesota, died Tuesday in the emergency room at the North Memorial Hospital after a

By Amir Vera, Carma Hassan and Keith Allen, CNN A 17-year-old who died Thursday was shot following a road rage incident after a major league baseball game in Houston, a police spokesman said Friday. David Castro and his brother were passengers in his father Paul Castro’s car on Tuesday when an unidentified suspect in another

By Miguel Marquez, Meridith Edwards and Ray Sanchez, CNN Louie Michael and his wife, Pattie Bunch, were both hospitalized last month with Covid-19 in Springfield, Missouri. An ambulance first had rushed her, with respiratory failure, to an emergency room one day; he was admitted the next night. “You may not make it through the night,”

By David Williams and Kevin Dotson, CNN Zaila Avant-garde wasn’t focused on her place in history on Thursday when she became the first African American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 93 editions of the competition. Instead, she was thinking about Bill Murray. The 14-year-old from New Orleans, Louisiana, won the 2021 crown