National-World

By Raja Razek and Carma Hassan, CNN The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) disabled a website with resources for LGBTQ youth after Gov. Greg Abbott’s Republican primary challenger, Don Huffines, criticized its content in a video message posted to Twitter in August. On August 31, Huffines posted a video message to his

By Amy Simonson and Madeline Holcombe, CNN Joshua and Alexandra Price say they and their two children were mistakenly given the Covid-19 vaccine instead of a flu shot a week ago at their local pharmacy — and they are now dealing with some adverse symptoms. The Prices took their 4- and 5-year-olds to the Walgreens

By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN A larger-than-life marble statue of civil rights pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune is replacing one of a Confederate general in the US Capitol’s Statuary Hall. The daughter of former slaves, Bethune became an influential Black educator and civil and women’s rights leader. She opened a boarding school for Black children in 1904,

By Rebekah Riess, CNN A Florida man has been arrested and charged after a woman was fatally shot by her toddler while she was on a Zoom conference call, officials say. On October 7, Assistant State Attorney Dan Faggard charged Veondre Avery with manslaughter and failure to securely store a firearm in connection to the

By Steve Almasy, CNN A US Postal Service worker in Longmont, Colorado, was shot and killed Wednesday, according to a statement from police. The postal worker is the third to be killed in the US the past two days, after two USPS employees were shot dead Tuesday in a Memphis postal facility. The FBI said

By Sherry Liang, CNN A creature known as a “living fossil” — the alligator gar — has found its way to Kansas for the first time in documented history. Angler Danny Lee “Butch” Smith caught the 4.5-foot, 39.5-pound (1.37-meter, 17.92-kilogram) fish September 20 on a routine fishing trip in the Neosho River, according to the

By Eric Levenson, CNN Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s new executive order bans any entity in Texas from enforcing a Covid-19 vaccine mandate — a rule that directly conflicts with President Joe Biden’s proposed rules requiring Covid vaccines for federal workers and for large employers. The competing rules create a bind for many companies that rely

By Megan Marples, CNN Say hello to a litter of cute, newborn cheetahs. Five cubs arrived Tuesday morning at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia. The world is getting a chance to see them via the Cheetah Cub Cam, which features live footage of the den. Sometimes viewers can hear the newborns