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By Emma Tucker, Pooja Agrawal and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN New York will no longer require students to wear masks in schools beginning on Wednesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Sunday, citing steep declines in Covid-19 hospitalizations statewide. Individual counties and cities with higher transmission rates may still require masks in schools, and parents and guardians may

By Alaa Elassar, CNN Bohdan Andrukh was on his way to meet friends for dinner at a San Francisco restaurant last Wednesday when he received a phone call from his mother in Lviv. She was crying; the sound of a nearby explosion had woken her. The war has begun, she told Andrukh, who was far

By Keith Allen and Emma Tucker, CNN A group of people snowshoeing near Marble, Colorado triggered an avalanche that killed one person and two dogs, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC). Four people and two dogs were traveling to a home along “an unmaintained road” on Friday when the avalanche occurred, the agency

By Eric Levenson, CNN A Kentucky prisoner who pulled people from the rubble of a collapsed candle factory in December was honored by a local sheriff last week for going “above and beyond” to help people. The Graves County Sheriff’s Office awarded the “Sheriff’s Meritorious Award” on Tuesday to Marco Sanchez, a prisoner who worked

By Emmy Abbassi, CNN For Juan Hernandez, it wasn’t just beginner’s luck… The man from Uniondale, New York, recently won a $10 million lottery prize, three years after winning another prize for the same amount. In fact, Hernandez told New York Lottery officials on Tuesday that he’s “still trying to spend the $10 million” he

By Jeffrey Winter, CNN Anthony Sims has spent 24 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit. He was convicted in 1999 of killing a Chinese immigrant in Brooklyn and sentenced to 25-to-life. Sims’ friend, Julius Graves, was the single eyewitness who testified to seeing him fire the fatal shot. Sims

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN A Texas mom is doing whatever it takes to keep her transgender child safe — even if that requires picking up their lives, leaving family and friends behind and moving hundreds of miles west. In a legal opinion released publicly on February 18, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton declared that gender-affirming

By Sara Smart, CNN The Department of the Interior is moving forward with removing and replacing a derogatory term for Indigenous women used for decades across the US, the department said Tuesday. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland issued an order declaring “squaw” derogatory in November. The term has historically been used as an offensive ethnic, racial

By Giselle Rhoden, CNN The New York State Archives has uncovered nearly 200-year-old court records detailing abolitionist Sojourner Truth’s battle for her enslaved son’s freedom. Last month, archivists found the 1828 documents detailing Truth’s fight to free her youngest son, Peter, in New York. The documents included a complete court proceeding that followed the abolitionist’s

By Melissa Alonso, CNN Three people were injured Saturday night in a “partial collapse” at a house party in South Metro Denver, Colorado, authorities said. First responders were called to a home in Arapahoe County around 10 p.m., South Metro Fire Rescue (SMFR) wrote on Twitter. “A portion of the first floor collapsed into the

By John Blake, CNN A Supreme Court justice is appointed for life, is virtually impossible to impeach and has the “unbridled” ability to nullify any law through the power of judicial review. It’s that power that affirmative action supporters dread now that the high court has decided to consider the use of race in college

By Andy Rose, CNN A Missouri school board reversed an earlier decision to remove a Toni Morrison book from school shelves just days after two students filed a lawsuit. The Wentzville school board voted on Friday to reinstate “The Bluest Eye,” with only one vote against the decision. The book tells the story of an

By Paradise Afshar and Laura James, CNN A Salinas, California, police officer was shot and killed Friday night while conducting a traffic stop, local officials said during a Saturday news conference. The Salinas Police Department identified the slain officer as 30-year-old Jorge David Alvarado, a five-year veteran of the force. At around 10:45 p.m., Alvarado

By Dakin Andone, Sara Smart, Polo Sandoval and Sarah Jorgensen, CNN Cities across the United States have seen rallies in support of Ukraine this weekend as the invasion by Russian forces continues. Crowds gathered in cities including Atlanta, Washington, DC, and New York — where Olga Ladygina told CNN at a rally in Times Square