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Black New Yorkers may have the lowest vaccination rates, but community groups refuse to give up

By Athena Jones, Aaron Cooper and Keely Aouga, CNN Months after the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine, Miriam Vega is still in a battle to persuade some people to get the shot. “It’s extremely challenging fighting the misinformation we’re fighting. You know, Facebook, we’re fighting Twitter,” the CEO of the Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health

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Florida’s largest school district votes in favor of mask mandate, defies governor

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Leyla Santiago, Mallory Simon, Linh Tran, Amara Walker, Pamela Kirkland and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN Miami-Dade County, Florida’s largest school district, voted 7-1 in favor of a mask mandate Wednesday, in defiance of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order on masks in schools and the threat of severe state penalties. The mask mandate does

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A Texas school superintendent speaks out after parents accosted 2 teachers over masks

By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN A school superintendent in Texas is speaking out after a teacher was physically assaulted and another harassed in incidents involving masks. The incidents happened Monday at a “meet-the-teacher” event ahead of the first day of school on Wednesday, Tom Leonard, the superintendent of the Eanes Independent School District in Austin,

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After Kabul’s fall, Pen Farthing says he’s not leaving until his team and their animals are safely out of Afghanistan

By Gabriel Kinder, CNN The Taliban’s takeover of Kabul means that Nowzad — the non-profit that has spent nearly 15 years reuniting stray dogs with the soldiers who rescued them — no longer has a future in Afghanistan. That’s according to the organization’s founder, Pen Farthing, who now has a new mission: finding safe homes

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After Kabul’s fall, Pen Farthing says he’s not leaving until his team and their animals are safely out of Afghanistan

By Gabriel Kinder, CNN The Taliban’s takeover of Kabul means that Nowzad — the non-profit that has spent nearly 15 years reuniting stray dogs with the soldiers who rescued them — no longer has a future in Afghanistan. That’s according to the organization’s founder, Pen Farthing, who now has a new mission: finding safe homes

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