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Mourners hold candles Monday during a vigil in Farmington

98-year-old woman and her daughter among 3 victims killed by New Mexico student who fired randomly, hitting cars and homes

By Steve Almasy and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A 98-year-old woman and her 73-year-old daughter were among the three people killed by an 18-year-old high school student who roamed through his neighborhood Monday firing indiscriminately at homes and passersby in their vehicles, according to authorities in the northwestern New Mexico town of Farmington. In

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Jenna Barbee addressed the issue at a Hernando County school board meeting last week.

Florida teacher under investigation for showing Disney movie with gay character says she didn’t know LGBTQ restriction applied to her class

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A Florida teacher under a state investigation for showing a Disney movie featuring a gay character said she wasn’t aware the state’s controversial law banning instruction about certain LGBTQ topics had been recently expanded to apply to her grade level. The legislation was first passed in March 2022 and

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Gunman who killed 3 people and injured 6 in Farmington, New Mexico, was 18 years old and used three firearms, police say

By Steve Almasy and Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — The 18-year-old gunman who shot and killed three people and wounded six others, including two law enforcement officers, in Farmington, New Mexico, used three guns, the city’s police chief said Monday in a video news statement. Police Chief Steve Hebbe said the assailant, who was killed

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Firefighters try to control a back burn as the Carr fire continues to spread towards the towns of Douglas City and Lewiston near Redding

More than a third of the area charred by wildfires in Western North America can be traced back to fossil fuels, scientists find

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Millions of acres scorched by wildfires in the Western US and Canada — an area roughly the size of South Carolina — can be traced back to carbon pollution from the world’s largest fossil fuel and cement companies, scientists reported Tuesday. The study by the Union of Concerned Scientists,

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A still from body camera footage released by the Liberty County Sheriff's Office shows the bus and driver on the side of the highway.

DOJ reaches agreement with Liberty County Sheriff’s Office after April 2022 traffic stop with Black lacrosse players

By Jamiel Lynch and Zoe Sottile, CNN The US Department of Justice has reached an agreement with a Georgia sheriff’s office, resolving a racial discrimination complaint after police allegedly stopped a bus of Black female lacrosse players from Delaware State University last year. In April of 2022, the university’s women’s lacrosse team was on a

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Caden Cox

The first known athlete with Down syndrome to play in a college football game is suing his alma mater over alleged discrimination

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Caden Cox made history in 2021 during his time as a student athlete at Hocking College as the first known player with Down syndrome to play in and score during a college football game. Two years later, the 23-year-old is suing his alma mater for alleged discrimination, assault and harassment he

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Jenna Barbee is a teacher in Hernando County's Winding Waters K-8 school.

Florida teacher says she is under investigation after showing 5th grade class Disney movie with gay character

By Melissa Alonso and Isabel Rosales, CNN A fifth-grade teacher said she is being investigated by the Florida Department of Education after she showed her students “Strange World,” a 2022 animated Disney movie featuring a character who is biracial and gay. Jenna Barbee, a teacher in Hernando County’s Winding Waters K-8 school, told her story

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Venezuelan migrant Enderson Amaya Blanco shows bracelets assigned throughout the detention process

A Venezuelan dad made a dangerous trek to the US to provide for his kids. Here’s what he encountered at an El Paso detention center

By Gloria Pazmino and Norma Galeana, CNN “Welcome to the United States.” This was the greeting Enderson Amaya Blanco dreamed of hearing after trekking thousands of miles through dangerous and deadly terrain to take his chances at freedom in the US. The young father is one of thousands of migrants who turned themselves in to

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Migrants stand near the border wall after crossing the US border with Mexico near Ciudad Juarez

Fewer than expected migrants arrived at the border after Title 42 expired, but officials remain on high alert

By Nouran Salahieh, Polo Sandoval, Rosa Flores, Andrea Cambron and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Despite warnings of a potential crush of migrants that sent thousands of federal personnel to the southern border and US cities scrambling to prepare, the days after the expiration of Title 42 saw a much narrower influx of migrants than expected. Officials

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Special education teacher Olivia Michelson

Teachers in Oakland, California, reach agreement with school district on ‘common good’ demands as strike continues

By Tina Burnside and Zoe Sottile, CNN More than a week after public school educators in Oakland, California, hit the picket lines, the teachers’ union announced it has reached an agreement with the school district on four “common good” demands on Saturday night. The Oakland Education Association, which represents the teachers, announced the agreement in

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