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By Chandelis Duster, Carlos Suarez and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN Florida rejected nearly 35% of social studies textbooks submitted by publishers for approval, including those that referenced social justice and “other information that was not aligned with Florida Law,” the state’s Department of Education announced Tuesday. Regarding K-12 social studies instructional materials, 66 of 101 submitted

By Cheri Mossburg, CNN The active search for those aboard a small plane that crashed off the Southern California coast is being suspended, the US Coast Guard announced Thursday. Coast Guard, Navy and US Customs and Border Protection crews covered approximately 334 square miles, locating a debris field, but none of the three people believed

By Scottie Andrew, CNN Heather Armstrong, an influential writer whose blog Dooce helped popularize mommy blogging, has died, her partner, Pete Ashdown, confirmed to CNN. She was 47. Ashdown told the Associated Press that Armstrong, who also used her maiden name, Hamilton, died by suicide. “Heather B. Hamilton (Armstrong) was a brilliant, funny, compassionate writer

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN The death following the chokehold of a street performer who was unsheltered and facing mental health challenges “is a tragedy that never should have happened,” New York’s mayor said Wednesday as he called for mental health care reform in the nation’s largest city and beyond. While his “severe mental illness …

By Michelle Watson, CNN The mother of the 6-year-old who shot his teacher at an elementary school in Newport News, Virginia, spoke exclusively Wednesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Deja Taylor told ABC’s Linsey Davis in the interview that as a parent, she accepts responsibility for the shooting and apologized to his teacher. “That is

By Steve Almasy, Laura Studley and Nouran Salahieh, CNN An Oregon bill that would decriminalize homeless encampments in public places and allow homeless people to sue for $1,000 if harassed or told to leave will not move forward. The bill, HB 3501, proposed allowing unhoused people to use public spaces “without discrimination and time limitations”

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN If you need some help deciding what to wear today, my recommendation is anything purple. Many people around the world will sport the color in honor of World Lupus Day, a global annual event that calls attention to the mysterious disease impacting more than 5 million people in the US alone.

By Sara Smart, CNN A missing 8-year-old boy who had survived for two days in a Michigan state park by eating snow was found sheltering under a log on Monday, state police announced. Nante Niemi went missing Saturday afternoon while gathering firewood for his family’s campsite in northwest Michigan’s Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, setting

By Rosa Flores, Gloria Pazmino, Norma Galeana, Andy Rose and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Hundreds of US troops are set to begin a new mission along the southern border Wednesday as officials and a surge of migrants brace “for the unknown” after a Trump-era border restriction expires late Thursday. “We are preparing for the unknown because

By Holly Yan, Tina Burnside, Caroll Alvarado, Chris Boyette, Justin Lear and LJ Spaet, CNN A breathless hunt for a killer amid famed American retail stores can be heard in emergency dispatches recorded during the outlet mall massacre in Allen, Texas. “We got shots fired at the outlet mall,” an officer tells a dispatcher Saturday

By Scottie Andrew, CNN Buddy Holly, the petit basset griffon Vendéen, has been named best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show — the first of his breed to win the prestigious contest’s top prize. The PBGV, who earlier Tuesday won the hound group, charmed judges with his confidence and calm demeanor. “He’s

By Taylor Romine, CNN The Catholic Diocese of Oakland filed for bankruptcy protection Monday after it received more than 330 legal claims of sexual abuse, Bishop Michael C. Barber announced in a letter to the parish community. The lawsuits were filed after California suspended the statute of limitations for sexual abuse between January 2020 and

By Faith Karimi, Andi Babineau and Sara Finch, CNN Kouri Richins’ husband was found dead at the foot of their bed last March. She’d just closed on a house for her business, she told investigators at the time. Around 9 p.m., she brought her husband, Eric Richins, a celebratory Moscow Mule cocktail in the bedroom

By Rebekah Riess and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN After spending 29 years in prison for the rape of his stepdaughter, a New Orleans man is free thanks to the help of the local district attorney’s office and testimony from the victim herself, who has insisted for 20 years that he is not the man who raped

By Christina Zdanowicz and Michelle Watson, CNN Police Officer Nickolas Wilt is off a ventilator one month after being shot in the head while responding to a mass shooting at a Louisville bank, the Louisville Metro Police Department said in a Facebook post Monday. “We are happy to announce that Officer Wilt is officially off

By Devon M. Sayers, CNN Officials in Southwest Louisiana have charged a 58-year-old man in connection with the shooting of a group of juveniles who were playing hide-and-seek, one of whom was injured. The incident happened early Sunday in the small town of Starks, Louisiana, near the Texas state line. Authorities say that a group

By Michelle Watson, CNN Bruce Callahan, one of two men who escaped from a Virginia jail earlier this month, was captured after he pulled a fire alarm at a university just miles from the facility he fled, officials said. Bruce Callahan was taken into custody “without incident” Monday morning on the campus of Longwood University,