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Officials escort "Serial" podcast subject Adnan Syed from the courthouse following the completion of the first day of hearings for a retrial in Baltimore

Adnan Syed, subject of ‘Serial’ podcast, and prosecutors are requesting additional DNA testing in the case

By Rebekah Riess, Amanda Watts and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN The Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office and Adnan Syed, whose case became nationally known in the “Serial” podcast that ran in 2014, have agreed to request “additional forensic testing,” including enhanced DNA tests, in the case, the office announced. Syed is serving a life sentence after

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Three Maryland middle schoolers are charged with a hate crime for social media threats aimed at Black students

By Amy Simonson, CNN Three Maryland middle schoolers have been charged as juveniles with a hate crime after threatening Middletown Middle School’s Black students, ​a spokesperson for the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) ​told CNN Thursday. FCSO ​deputies and school resource officers responded to the school Wednesday after social media threats posted on Instagram and

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Three Maryland middle schoolers are charged with a hate crime for social media threats aimed at Black students

By Amy Simonson, CNN Three Maryland middle schoolers have been charged as juveniles with a hate crime after threatening Middletown Middle School’s Black students, ​a spokesperson for the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) ​told CNN Thursday. FCSO ​deputies and school resource officers responded to the school Wednesday after social media threats posted on Instagram and

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Gov. Greg Abbott last month directed the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate families of minors receiving gender-affirming health care

Judge issues temporary injunction barring Texas from investigating pediatric gender-affirming care as ‘child abuse’

By Andy Rose, Rosa Flores, Rosalina Nieves and Ray Sanchez, CNN A judge in Texas blocked the state from enforcing Gov. Greg Abbott’s order to investigate gender-affirming care of minors as “child abuse.” “The court finds sufficient cause to enter a temporary injunction,” Judge Amy Clark Meachum in Travis County said Friday evening. The judge

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A man is seen walking with a bicycle in a street damaged by shelling in Mariupol

Russia invades Ukraine

By Aditi Sangal, Adrienne Vogt, Meg Wagner, Melissa Macaya, Julia Hollingsworth, Jessie Yeung, Adam Renton, Jeevan Ravindran and Jason Kurtz, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.

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