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By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Leyla Santiago, Mallory Simon, Linh Tran, Amara Walker, Pamela Kirkland and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN Miami-Dade County, Florida’s largest school district, voted 7-1 in favor of a mask mandate Wednesday, in defiance of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order on masks in schools and the threat of severe state penalties. The mask mandate does

By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN A school superintendent in Texas is speaking out after a teacher was physically assaulted and another harassed in incidents involving masks. The incidents happened Monday at a “meet-the-teacher” event ahead of the first day of school on Wednesday, Tom Leonard, the superintendent of the Eanes Independent School District in Austin,

By Melissa Alonso and Joe Sutton, CNN Ma’Khia Bryant, a Black teenager fatally shot by an Ohio police officer after she charged someone with a knife in April, was shot four times in the incident, an autopsy report shows. Bryant’s cause of death was gunshot wounds to the torso, and the manner of death was

By David Williams, CNN One of the last photographs taken of women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony is going up for auction in New York along with hundreds of other items found in an attic photography studio that had been abandoned for decades. The photo was taken by Geneva, New York, photographer James “J.E.” Hale

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN A mother’s claim that her children’s school was assigning Black students to certain classes has shaken up one Atlanta school community with some parents insisting the principal would never group students based on race. It’s also fueled a debate about whether the practice would even be considered legal or productive

By Scottie Andrew, CNN Despite perfecting the coconut-and-caramel combo of Samoas and the chocolate-covered breath mint that is a Thin Mint, it took decades before the bakers behind Girl Scout Cookies brought us their own version of a fudgy brownie. It’s ironic, considering that an entire rank of young scouts are known as Brownies. But

By Jason Hanna, CNN A line drive struck Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Chris Bassitt in the face Tuesday in Chicago, dropping him to his knees for several minutes before he was carted off the field on his way to a hospital. White Sox outfielder Brian Goodwin hit a pitch right back at Bassitt in the

By Melissa Alonso and Joe Sutton, CNN Quinnipiac University officials are cracking down on students who have not met the university deadline for providing their Covid-19 vaccine information with fines and suspension of Wi-Fi access. On Monday, officials at the Hamden, Connecticut, university emailed 600 students who had not submitted their vaccination status before the

By Eric Levenson, CNN John Gotti. Whitey Bulger. R. Kelly? The disgraced R&B singer’s federal trial begins Wednesday in New York as he is accused of racketeering, a charge famously applied to mob leaders like Gotti and Bulger. Robert Sylvester Kelly, 54, faces a bevy of accusations: one count of racketeering with 14 underlying acts,

By Sonia Moghe, CNN The R&B singer R. Kelly was a “predator” who used his celebrity status to lure victims to be abused, a prosecutor said in opening statements of his federal trial in New York Wednesday, calling him the center of a criminal enterprise that operated for decades. “This case is about a predator,”

By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN Only one school district in Utah has so far approved a mask mandate for students. The Grand County School District Commissioners voted Tuesday in favor of the mandate that requires masks for 30 days starting on Thursday, the first day of school for grades K-6. At the meeting, the public

By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN Detectives in California have made an arrest in a 40-year-old unsolved killing after using modern DNA technology to test evidence from the case file. Sonia Carmen Herok Stone was a 30-year-old single mother living with her daughter in Monterey County when she was killed in 1981. She had worked as