National-World

By David Williams, CNN California public schools will be required to provide free menstrual products to students under a new law signed Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The measure calls for public schools serving students in grades 6-12 to stock bathrooms with an adequate supply of tampons or pads. It goes into effect for the

By Sara Sidner and Julia Jones, CNN At 14, Ashlee Thomas was in the grips of anorexia. She weighed 85 pounds. She was hospitalized. Her heart stopped twice. Doctors thought she would not survive. But she did. And now the resident of New South Wales, Australia, is dedicating her life to helping other girls. Her

By Dakin Andone, Jennifer Henderson and Amanda Watts, CNN A Black father, his son, and their Black real estate agent have filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Wyoming, Michigan, the Wyoming police chief and six police officers after they were ordered by police officers out of the home they were touring and handcuffed. The

By Alta Spells, CNN A man suspected of a string of crimes, including taking someone hostage and firing a gun at three family members, was fatally shot by police Friday, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Shortly after 4 p.m. local time Friday, police started receiving calls of “a man armed with a gun committing

By Laura Studley, CNN A dispute over wearing a face mask led to the stabbing of an Apple Store security guard Friday, a spokesperson with the New York City Police Department told CNN. The suspect remains at large. Officers responded to the West 14th Street location in Manhattan about 6:20 pm ET, Lt. Thomas Antonetti

By Rebekah Riess, CNN A teacher at a North Carolina charter school has resigned after parents brought to light a number of alleged racist incidents, including a “racially insensitive lesson” to Black students in September, the school said. In an eighth-grade class at Winterville Charter Academy during a lesson regarding the importance of the US

By Travis Caldwell and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN As the search for Brian Laundrie continues in a Florida nature reserve, police said Friday that they have yet to find any physical evidence of Laundrie within the sprawling wilderness area. Laundrie, whose fiancé Gabby Petito was found dead in Wyoming nearly three weeks ago, has been the

By Alaa Elassar, CNN Najla Bassim Abdulelah grew up in a war. The regular sight of dead bodies and the memory of her friend being shot next to her as they walked to school stained her childhood. Children’s laughter was replaced with an incessant soundtrack of exploding bombs, and she lived with a crippling fear

By Amir Vera, CNN Jaz Kaner has never experienced an oil spill that closed beaches and waterways in Southern California. The lifelong surfer and owner of Banzai Surf Company in Huntington Beach told CNN he voluntarily closed his business after thousands of gallons of crude oil spewed into the Pacific Ocean late last week. The

By Alaa Elassar, CNN The US Marshals Service led a multiagency effort dubbed “Operation Dunder Mifflin” to verify the addresses of registered sex offenders living in the area of Scranton, Pennsylvania. The operation was presumably named in honor of the hit sitcom “The Office,” which takes place at a fictional paper company named Dunder Mifflin

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Linh Tran, CNN Nearly two weeks after a racist petition to bring back slavery circulated at her daughter’s school, Julie Stutterheim is still angry. She says it was yet another example of a racist incident at Park Hill South High School in the suburbs of Kansas City, Missouri. “She was very

By Rebekah Riess, CNN A single-engine plane crashed and caught fire on Friday during takeoff at an airport just northeast of Atlanta, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Four people on board the Cessna 210 were killed, according to Capt. Jaeson Daniels with DeKalb County Fire Rescue. The plane was taking off from DeKalb-Peachtree Airport