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A Mississippi assistant principal was terminated after reading the children’s book ‘I Need A New Butt!’ to second graders

By Amir Vera and Abby Bustin, CNN A Mississippi assistant principal was fired after reading the children’s book “I Need a New Butt!” to a class of second graders, an act the school division says violated their code of ethics. Toby Price, the now former assistant principal at Gary Road Elementary School in Byram, told

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For over 60 years, the identity of a girl whose body was found in an Arizona desert has been a mystery. Now, ‘Little Miss Nobody’ has a name

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Sixty-two years ago, a school teacher looking for rocks in an Arizona desert made a horrific discovery: the burned remains of a young girl. Her identity was a mystery and investigators called her “Little Miss Nobody.” For decades, the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office in Prescott, Arizona, along with the National Center

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Jerry Thayil

Store manager chases van after thieves steal more than 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel from family-owned gas station

By David Williams, CNN The manager of a family-owned gas station in Houston, Texas, chased off suspected thieves, who he said had already taken more than a thousand gallons of diesel fuel from the store’s underground tanks in separate incidents. Jerry Thayil, whose father owns the Fuqua Express station, told CNN the thieves hit the

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‘Europe stands with you’: EU leaders express solidarity with Ukraine after Zelensky meeting

By Antonia Mortensen, Abby Baggini, Mariya Knight and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN The Prime Ministers of Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic reaffirmed their support for Ukraine amid the ongoing Russian invasion during a meeting Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal in capital Kyiv. Following the meeting, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz

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From left to right: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

‘Europe stands with you’: EU leaders express solidarity with Ukraine after Zelensky meeting

By Antonia Mortensen, Abby Baggini, Mariya Knight and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN The Prime Ministers of Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic reaffirmed their support for Ukraine amid the ongoing Russian invasion during a meeting Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal in capital Kyiv. Following the meeting, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz

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Ukraine detains ‘hacker’ accused of aiding Russian troops amid broader struggle to secure communications

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Ukrainian authorities have detained a “hacker” who was allegedly helping the Russian military send instructions via mobile phone networks to its troops, Ukraine’s SBU security service said Tuesday. The suspect, whom the SBU did not identify, was accused of being on “thousands” of phone calls to Russian officials, including senior military

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