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By Holly Yan, Melissa Alonso and Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — Another advocacy group is warning people of color about traveling to Florida. The alerts from groups representing Black and Latino Americans come as the state’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, is expected to enter the 2024 presidential race with a campaign built on tenets of

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN New York (CNN) — In a dance studio nestled inside a building next to New York City Hall, Tamara Bejar Hernandez counts to the beat of a traditional Tahitian dance song as a group of ladies shake their hips from left to right and gracefully glide their hands up in the

By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman and Rachel Clarke, CNN Uvalde, Texas (CNN) — Editor’s note: This story contains graphic images and descriptions of the Uvalde school massacre. The children pictured all survived and their parents asked CNN to show the images for people to see what their sons and daughters had to endure and

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — Boston is making reading on-the-go more accessible through a pilot program that will allow riders to access digital content from audiobooks to newspapers at some bus stops across the city – no library card required. The program – dubbed “Browse, Borrow, Board” – gives riders access to books, magazines

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — One couple’s dream wedding will become reality after a North Carolina man won the first top prize of $150,000 in a newly launched scratch-off game – the first time the top prize had been claimed since the game launched earlier this month. Alfred Harrell had promised his fiancée the

By Andy Rose and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — A 20-year-old woman who had been missing for more than a week in western Texas was found dead Saturday, and a man has been arrested in connection with her killing, police said. Madeline Pantoja was reported missing on May 11, vanishing with her phone and car

By Isabel Rosales, Paradise Afshar and Jaide Garcia, CNN (CNN) — A transgender teen in Mississippi missed her high school graduation after a federal judge denied a motion requesting she be allowed to wear a dress and heels under her robe. The 17-year-old, identified in court documents by her initials “L.B.,” did not attend her

By Paradise Afshar and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — British author Martin Amis, best known for the 1984 novel, “Money,” and 1989’s “London Fields,” has died, his publisher Penguin Books UK announced Saturday. He was 73. “(Amis) leaves a towering legacy and an indelible mark on the British cultural landscape, and will be missed

By Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — A New York state assemblyman and former volunteer spokesperson for the non-profit accused of lying about homeless veterans being pushed out of a hotel to make room for migrants is no longer affiliated with the foundation, he told CNN. Republican State Assemblyman Brian Maher said in a statement to

By Nicki Brown and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Seven years ago, the chance to walk at graduation was stripped from Khalil Watson, a Virginia man who was paralyzed from the neck down after being shot weeks before finishing high school. But with help from physical therapists and a robotic exoskeleton, Watson, 25, rose

By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — New York state education officials have released new guidance about recently enacted regulations that prohibit public schools from using Indigenous team names, logos or mascots. “Although rebranding might not be easy for communities, the harm that the continued use of team names, mascots, or logos connected to Indigenous peoples

By Paradise Afshar and Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — An inmate in Louisville, Kentucky, is back in custody after escaping from a police vehicle, according to the Louisville Metro Police Department. The inmate was being transported on Thursday when he kicked out the back window and jumped out on foot, according to a Facebook post

By Elle Reeve and Samantha Guff, CNN Colorado Springs, Colorado (CNN) — Members of the conservative parental rights group Moms for Liberty are known for making impassioned and sometimes spicy speeches to school boards to complain that teachers are supposedly indoctrinating students. This can include mothers, often in the group’s trademark tee, standing at a

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — The North Carolina Zoo has welcomed two litters of red wolf pups, bringing in nine new members of the world’s most endangered wolf species. The wolves were born as part of the zoo’s contribution to the American Red Wolf SAFE Program, it said on Instagram. “The first litter, born