By Liam Reilly, CNN The school board in Gloucester County, Virginia, has agreed to pay the American Civil Liberties Union $1.3 million in legal fees for representing Gavin Grimm during a legal battle over transgender bathroom rights at school, the ACLU said in a news release. The six-year lawsuit was the result of a “discriminatory
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By Ray Sanchez and Cheri Mossburg, CNN Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, was recommended for parole on Friday. After 53 years in prison, the 77-year-old inmate’s fate is now in the hands of California’s governor. Two of Kennedy’s surviving sons, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Douglas Kennedy,
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By Alaa Elassar, Miguel Marquez and Bonney Kapp, CNN Dolly Monceaux was unvaccinated when she found herself fighting the coronavirus last week from a hospital bed in a Mississippi ICU, unable to see family and struggling to breathe or sleep. “You don’t know you’re gonna get it, and then you get it and you’re sick,”
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar, Miguel Marquez and Bonney Kapp, CNN Dolly Monceaux was unvaccinated when she found herself fighting the coronavirus last week from a hospital bed in a Mississippi ICU, unable to see family and struggling to breathe or sleep. “You don’t know you’re gonna get it, and then you get it and you’re sick,”
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez and Cheri Mossburg, CNN Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, was recommended for parole on Friday. After 53 years in prison, the 77-year-old inmate’s fate is now in the hands of California’s governor. Two of Kennedy’s surviving sons, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Douglas Kennedy,
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By Keith Allen and David Williams, CNN Health officials in Houston have confirmed the city’s first pediatric Covid-19 death of a youth who did not have underlying heath conditions. The Houston Health Department (HHD) announced Thursday that a male between 10 and 19 died in late July at a hospital. The victim was not vaccinated,
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By Nimi Princewill and Ahmad Ibrahim, CNN Scores of schoolchildren who were abducted at gunpoint at a school in Nigeria’s north-central Niger State have been freed and handed over to their families, a government spokesperson told CNN Friday. The students were released after their parents paid a ransom of $140,000 (70 million naira) and gave
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By Leyla Santiago and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ban on mask mandates in schools will not remain in place, Leon County’s 2nd Judicial Circuit Court Judge John Cooper ruled Friday. The court said that under the law the defendants “did not have the authority for a blanket mandatory ban against face mask policy, that does
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By Rob Picheta and Nilly Kohzad, CNN Afghans who narrowly avoided the terror attack outside Kabul airport on Thursday have described horrifying scenes and piles of victims’ bodies at the site of the blast. Muhammad, who said he assisted US forces and worked with NATO in Afghanistan, was at the airport with his family Thursday,
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta and Nilly Kohzad, CNN Afghans who narrowly avoided the terror attack outside Kabul airport on Thursday have described horrifying scenes and piles of victims’ bodies at the site of the blast. Muhammad, who said he assisted US forces and worked with NATO in Afghanistan, was at the airport with his family Thursday,
Continue Reading By Keith Allen and David Williams, CNN Health officials in Houston have confirmed the city’s first pediatric Covid-19 death of a youth who did not have underlying heath conditions. The Houston Health Department (HHD) announced Thursday that a male between 10 and 19 died in late July at a hospital. The victim was not vaccinated,
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By Angela Dewan, CNN Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will attend a pivotal United Nations climate change conference in Glasgow this fall, organizers said in a tweet Friday, giving a royal boost to the event. The United Kingdom is hosting global leaders for the nearly two weeks of talks in the Scottish city from October 31
Continue Reading By Angela Dewan, CNN Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will attend a pivotal United Nations climate change conference in Glasgow this fall, organizers said in a tweet Friday, giving a royal boost to the event. The United Kingdom is hosting global leaders for the nearly two weeks of talks in the Scottish city from October 31
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By Nimi Princewill, CNN Emmanuel Agbenro sits helplessly inside his sparsely-decorated ward at a hospital in Nigeria. He is supposed to be having treatment for colon cancer but doctors in Nigeria have downed tools in a nationwide strike over better pay and conditions. “I’m only surviving by faith,” said Agbenro, who is supposed to be
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Perseverance rover isn’t letting any Martian dust settle under its wheels. It’s preparing to collect a core sample from another rock on Mars after its first attempt earlier this month amounted to a crumbly pile. The rover has moved on and driven 1,493 feet (455 meters) to a ridge called
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By Lauren Kent, CNN Elephants are the largest land mammals on Earth, and understanding them better could lead to some incredibly large breakthroughs in science. Researchers backed by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 innovation program are doing a deep-dive study on elephant trunks, with the aim of improving the future of robotics, materials science and
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN In the space of just a few years, an ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan has seized on the country’s instability to become one of the region’s most feared terror groups. ISIS-K has claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing attacks outside Kabul airport on Thursday, which targeted a frantic Western evacuation operation and
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By Rob Picheta, CNN In the space of just a few years, an ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan has seized on the country’s instability to become one of the region’s most feared terror groups. ISIS-K has claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing attack outside Kabul airport on Thursday, which targeted a frantic Western evacuation operation and
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By AJ Willingham, CNN “We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay.” That was President Biden’s message last night for those responsible for yesterday’s deadly attack in Kabul. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can
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