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By Artemis Moshtaghian, Madeline Holcombe and Amir Vera, CNN A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday temporarily suspending New York state from enforcing its vaccine mandate if health care workers claim a religious exemption. The order bars the New York State Department of Health from requiring employers to deny or revoke religious exemptions

By Maria Cartaya, CNN A Georgia school board is investigating anti-Semitic graffiti that was daubed on a boys’ bathroom wall during the most important holiday period of the Jewish faith. On Thursday, there were two swastikas and ‘Hail [sic] Hitler’ graffiti found on the wall at the Alan C. Pope High School in Marietta. A

By Randi Kaye, Danelle Garcia and Theresa Waldrop, CNN The Texas law barring abortions at six weeks of pregnancy has women’s rights advocates up in arms for a number of reasons, not least because it makes no exceptions for cases of rape or incest. For Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, that’s not a big issue, since

By Cheri Mossburg and Amir Vera, CNN Daniel and Davy Macias spent 18 months being very cautious about Covid-19. They wiped down surfaces, showered after work and even had their groceries delivered, but that didn’t stop them from contracting the virus. Davy Macias, a Southern California labor and delivery nurse, was seven months pregnant with

By Eric Levenson, CNN For 87 years, the Murdaugh family name came to represent a legal dynasty in coastal South Carolina, where three successive generations controlled the local prosecutor’s office. But in recent years, the family has been closely connected to bloody tragedy. There was a fatal boating crash in 2019, the killings of two

By Steve Almasy and Kiely Westhoff, CNN A weeklong series of protests has begun on some of the biggest college campuses in Georgia, a state where less than 50% of residents are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and the governor has left mask mandates to local officials. The protesters are demanding mask mandates at all Georgia

By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN Discovering prehistoric artifacts is amazing enough. But finding them deep in the belly of a massive alligator — that’s something else. Shane Smith, owner of Red Antler Processing in Yazoo City, Mississippi, was digging through the stomach of a 13-foot-5-inch alligator when he found a couple of objects he just couldn’t

By Amir Vera and Lauren Clabby Moore, CNN A Covid-19 surge in Kentucky has led to so many patients at St. Claire Regional Medical Center that the workers are unsure how they’ll handle the growing numbers when a medical team sent by the federal government leaves Friday. The Morehead hospital, about 65 miles east of

By Steve Almasy, CNN Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday activated up to 250 National Guard troops to help with school transportation at the start of the academic year, according to a statement from his office. On Tuesday, 90 of the Guard personnel will begin training to assist with school transportation services to address staffing

By Gregory Lemos and Melissa Alonso, CNN The two middle-school students who were arrested after allegedly planning a shooting at their school in Lee County, Florida, attempted to recruit other students to join their plot, an arrest report in the case says. “These conversations took place during classes, in the cafeteria, and through Zoom virtual

By Eric Levenson, CNN New York City began enforcing its Covid-19 vaccine passport program, known as “Key to NYC,” for most indoor activities Monday as part of the city’s broad reopening. Since August 17, the city has required that people age 12 and older show proof they have had at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose

By Paul P. Murphy, CNN The Louisiana Department of Health was aware of plans from seven nursing homes to evacuate their residents to a warehouse in Independence, Louisiana, to shelter during Hurricane Ida. Seven residents died before state health officials transported hundreds of people from the warehouse to other nursing facilities on September 2, five

By Alta Spells and Holly Yan, CNN Ray DeMonia wasn’t seeking Covid-19 treatment when he arrived at an Alabama hospital with heart problems. But the 73-year-old became an indirect victim of Covid-19 patients filling hospitals and ICU beds. The cardiac patient from Cullman, Alabama, died in a Mississippi hospital ​about 200 miles from his home