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By Ray Sanchez, CNN Jessica Flores stepped out of the Port Authority Bus Terminal with her husband and their 6-year-old daughter into the unfamiliar heart of Manhattan, where giant billboards sparkled under a sweltering late summer sun. The sidewalks and traffic lanes along bustling Eighth Avenue were packed when the family emerged carrying plastic bags

By Amanda Musa and Andi Babineau, CNN The 22-year-old man accused of shooting three Dutch soldiers outside an Indianapolis hotel on Saturday has been charged in the death of one of the victims and the injury of the two others, according to prosecutors. Shamar Duncan was arrested Tuesday in connection with the shooting, which took

By Andy Rose, CNN A court filing from 16 current and former employees of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, along with the Texas State Employees Union, says the agency is “on the brink of collapse” following the state’s decision to investigate the gender-affirming care of minors as potential child abuse. The brief

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A California family says they’re thrilled after their deaf dog was rescued by emergency responders after falling 100 feet down a ravine. “It was a miracle,” Julia Plant told CNN affiliate KGTV, after Hobo, an 8-year-old Australian shepherd, was rescued. Plant was walking Hobo near their Sorrento Valley home when he

By Rebekah Riess and Alaa Elassar, CNN A Kansas teacher who argued she had a religious belief that prevented her from calling transgender or nonbinary students by their preferred names and pronouns reached a $95,000 settlement with school district officials, according to a release from the teacher’s attorneys. Pamela Ricard, who teaches math at Fort

By Rebekah Riess, Adrienne Broaddus and Zoe Sottile, CNN Cooper Roberts, the 8-year old boy severely injured in the Fourth of July parade mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, may be experiencing some cognitive loss, according to his family. Cooper’s family shared new information about his condition on Thursday, saying his rehabilitation team is seeing

By Melissa Alonso, CNN The North Carolina town of Kenly voted 3-2 to terminate the contract of its Black town manager who was at the center of an independent investigation after the town’s police force resigned. The Kenly town council reviewed the findings of an investigation in a report at an emergency meeting Tuesday and

By Alaa Elassar, CNN One student is dead and two others were injured after an apparent stabbing attack Thursday at a high school in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Jacksonville Police said a student resource officer at Northside High School requested assistance around 7 a.m. after a physical altercation between students broke out inside one of the

By Andy Rose and Ray Sanchez, CNN Prosecutors in St. Louis County, Missouri, have filed a request to vacate the murder conviction of Lamar Johnson, who has been behind bars for more than 27 years for a crime they believe he didn’t commit, officials said Wednesday. Johnson was sentenced to life without the possibility of

By Carma Hassan, Deidre McPhillips and Eric Levenson, CNN Math and reading scores for 9-year-olds in the US fell between 2020 and 2022 by a level not seen in decades, a foreboding sign of the state of American education two years after the Covid-19 pandemic began. The results were part of the National Assessment of

By Amanda Jackson, CNN A 4-year-old took a loaded handgun Wednesday to his South Texas elementary school, and his father has been arrested after the incident prompted a lockdown, officials said. School administrators at John F. Kennedy Elementary School in Corpus Christi learned a student had a weapon on campus around 9 a.m., according to