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By AJ Willingham Design: Kenneth Fowler, CNN Today, women being able to vote is a given. A no-brainer. A natural, non-negotiable insurance of a Constitution designed to provide equality for all people. But before the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, ensuring all women the right to vote*, people invented all sorts of reasons why

By Madeline Holcombe and Chris Boyette, CNN The Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas will not issue letters of exemption for the Covid-19 vaccine on religious grounds, the diocese told pastors Monday. After “careful and prayerful consideration” based on reports from pastors in the diocese that they have received a small amount of such requests,

By Travis Caldwell, CNN Dr. Nitesh Paryani, a third-generation radiation oncologist in Tampa, Florida, recently was forced to make a decision that he says he and his family have never had to make in 60 years of treating patients. A nearby hospital was working to transfer a cancer patient to a location that had adequate

By Cheri Mossburg, CNN Four of the five Southern California families still stranded in Afghanistan are in a safe place and are in the process of being removed from the country, school officials tell CNN. Of the five families awaiting evacuation, four are in a secure place and preparing to depart, according to Howard Shen

By Rebekah Riess and Travis Caldwell, CNN Search efforts have been suspended in Tennessee following deadly flooding Saturday that left 20 people dead and hundreds of homes damaged or destroyed. “The recovery of all 20 known flood victims has been made,” the Humphreys County Emergency Management Agency said in a statement Wednesday. Families of the

By Nick Valencia and Peter Nickeas, CNN A Louisiana State Police trooper was captured on video repeatedly beating a Black motorist with a flashlight more than two years ago, according to body camera footage of the incident obtained by CNN — the latest footage linked to a state police division that is under investigation for

By Mark Morales, CNN The sister of a retired military officer who was shot and killed by police outside his New Jersey home on the Fourth of July says the department should have sent a crisis team because of his mental condition. But an attorney for one of the officers says their use of force

By Madeline Holcombe, Erica Hill and Laura Dolan, CNN Earlier this month, Mississippi ICU nurse Nichole Atherton resigned, worn down by the stress, young patients and preventable deaths that have overwhelmed the state’s hospitals during the Covid-19 pandemic. “It looks heroic,” Atherton, of Singing River Ocean Springs Hospital, told CNN. “But that’s not what it

By Melissa Alonso and Rebekah Riess, CNN A kite surfer who crashed into a beachfront home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Wednesday has died, Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Stephen Gollan said. The man, who was in his 50s, was transported to a hospital in critical condition but died from his injuries just after