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By Stella Chan, Cheri Mossburg and Hollie Silverman, CNN A Los Angeles Police Department officer who was under investigation for his alleged connection to a Valentine’s Day-themed image of George Floyd has been cleared of wrongdoing, according to the LAPD. The officer, who alerted his superior to the image of Floyd that said, “You take

By Jennifer Henderson and Raja Razek, CNN A New Jersey man appeared in court Tuesday after being arrested for allegedly shouting offensive language and racial slurs at his neighbors days earlier in the township of Mount Laurel. Edward Cagney Mathews, 45, faces several criminal charges, including harassment and biased intimidation and trespassing after a video

By Artemis Moshtaghian and Steve Almasy, CNN New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday he had signed an executive order declaring a gun violence emergency and told an audience in New York City he was going to sign legislation that allows for civil lawsuits against gun manufacturers, distributors and dealers for how they market and

By Christina Maxouris, CNN Julie Moore recalls harrowing experiences from the pandemic inside the Philadelphia nursing home where she works. As the virus spread throughout the facility last year, emergency responders came and went regularly, taking yet another resident running low on oxygen to the hospital. Staff members were infected and some died, leaving a

By Elle Reeve, Samantha Guff and Deborah Brunswick, CNN Keziah Ridgeway says she’s the only teacher she knows in Philadelphia who teaches critical race theory in public high school — and she teaches it in her anthropology class, as one framework among many to understand human cultures. But she also teaches African American history, and

By Leah Asmelash, CNN After months of grappling with the university over her tenureship, Nikole Hannah-Jones announced Tuesday she would not stay on at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, choosing instead, along with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, to join the faculty of Howard University, one of the most prestigious historically Black universities in the