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By Nicole Chavez, CNN Book bans in public schools kept rising during the first half of the 2022-23 school year, and nearly a third of them were the direct result of newly enacted state laws, a new PEN America report says. PEN America, a literary and free expression advocacy organization, released Thursday its latest analysis

By Gili Remen and Celina Tebor, CNN New York state education officials voted unanimously this week to prohibit public schools from using or displaying Indigenous team names, logos, or mascots to represent the school. Throughout the state, boards of education must commit through a resolution to eliminating the use of all Indigenous imagery by the

By Stephanie Elam, CNN After one of the wettest winters on record, California hillsides are exploding with color. Swaths of yellow and streaks of orange, blue and purple paint the landscape this month as the state enjoys its extraordinary flurry of flowers. It’s the superbloom. Springtime road trips on California’s highways bring plenty of “oohs”

By Dianne Gallagher, Eric Levenson and Jamiel Lynch, CNN Robert Louis Singletary, the suspect accused of shooting a 6-year-old neighbor and her parents in North Carolina after a basketball rolled into his yard, was apprehended and is in custody in Hillsborough County, Florida, according to Gaston County, North Carolina, spokesperson Adam J. Gaub. Jail records

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The US government is tracking more than 650 potential UFO cases, according to the Pentagon. Lawmakers on Wednesday viewed this declassified video from an unresolved case showing a small orb moving through the sky in the Middle East. This type of footage of so-called “unidentified aerial phenomena” often fuels speculation, but

By Taylor Romine, CNN The US Coast Guard is suspending its search for three missing Americans last heard from on April 4 near Mazatlán, Mexico, according to a Coast Guard news release. The search was suspended “pending further developments” after Mexican Navy and US Coast Guard responders “conducted 281 cumulative search hours covering approximately 200,057

By Lauren del Valle, Laura Dolan and Celina Tebor, CNN The Boy Scouts of America will begin to distribute compensation to thousands of victims of sexual abuse after emerging from bankruptcy Wednesday, the organization announced. As part of a settlement with more than 82,000 survivors of abuse, the BSA will pay out $2.4 billion from

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Ashley Killough, Ed Lavandera and Rosa Flores, CNN The most seriously injured of two teenage cheerleaders shot in a Texas parking lot this week — an incident in which one said she’d opened the wrong vehicle door — is recovering from surgery as her team prepares to compete in a world championship

By Nicole Norman, CNN A synagogue in Seattle was vandalized with anti-Israel messaging on Sunday, the eve of Holocaust Remembrance day, the Seattle Police said in a release Wednesday. “This was a coordinated and focused attack,” said Senior Rabbi Daniel Weiner, of Temple De Hirsch Sinai on Capitol Hill, who believes the timing of the

By Steve Almasy and Sara Smart, CNN A 34-year-old man who had recently been released from prison shot and killed his parents and two others Tuesday morning at a home in Bowdoin, Maine, and then wounded three other people as he drove on an interstate highway, authorities said Wednesday. Joseph Eaton was released from prison

By Mark Morales and Brynn Gingras, CNN The man who fatally shot 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis, who was in a car that mistakenly turned into his driveway, will remain in jail after a judge remanded him back to police custody at a bail hearing Wednesday. Gillis was one of several passengers in a vehicle, along with

By Rosa Flores, CNN An Oklahoma county commissioner allegedly heard on a recording of local officials that included remarks about lynching Black people and killing journalists has resigned. Jennings said his resignation is “effective immediately,” according to a handwritten letter signed by Jennings and dated Wednesday. The resignation of Mark Jennings, a commissioner in McCurtain

By Veronica Miracle, Taylor Romine and Paradise Afshar, CNN Protesters gathered outside the Antioch, California, Police Department Tuesday after a report revealed racist text messages sent among some officers and members of the public. The report from the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office named 17 police officers in the Antioch department who it said

By Nick Valencia, Ray Sanchez, Pamela Kirkland and Maxime Tamsett, CNN The family of Tyre Nichols filed a federal $550 million lawsuit Wednesday against the city of Memphis, its police department and what the suit said were “unqualified, untrained, and unsupervised” officers assigned to a special unit who brutally beat the 29-year-old Black man after

By Leah Asmelash, CNN Intersectionality. Intersectional feminism. These are phrases you may have heard, either on the news or from your local politicians. Though these terms have become commonplace over the last few years, “intersectionality” was first coined more than 30 years ago by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, as a relatively obscure concept analyzing how

By Alisha Ebrahimji and Tina Burnside, CNN Two teenage cheerleaders were shot after one said she mistook the suspect’s vehicle for her own in a supermarket parking lot near Texas’ capital — one of at least four incidents this week in which young people who’d made an apparent mistake were met with gunfire. Pedro Tello

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN A toddler crawled through a White House fence on Tuesday, prompting a swift Secret Service response. Photos of the breach show the tiny intruder being caught by officers before being quickly reunited with his parents. While security alerts were rapidly lifted, it remains unclear if the infiltration resulted in a timeout.

By Nouran Salahieh, Virginia Langmaid and Eric Levenson, CNN A Black teenager who authorities say was shot in the head by an 84-year-old White homeowner after going to the wrong Kansas City address received a positive prognosis but still faces a long road to recovery, according to his attorneys. In a new photo, 16-year-old Ralph

By Isabel Rosales, Holly Yan and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Six people — including four teenagers — have been arrested and now face murder charges in connection with the deadly rampage at a weekend Sweet 16 birthday party in Dadeville, Alabama, authorities say. Willie George Brown Jr., 19, was arrested Thursday and charged with four counts