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By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Meridith Edwards, CNN Robin Steenman pulled her daughter out of public school over a mask mandate last year. She’s now in private school and misses public school. But Steenman is keeping her out not because of masks, but because of lesson plans she says make students feel bad about their race.

By Jason Hanna, Leyla Santiago and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN The FBI visited Brian Laundrie’s family home in North Port, Florida, again on Thursday afternoon amid the ongoing search for him. Two FBI agents arrived to the home in a black SUV and brought a large brown paper bag inside. They did not depart with the

By Alisha Ebrahimji, Liz Stark and Ella Nilsen, CNN The ivory-billed woodpecker, along with 22 other species of birds, fish, mussels and other wildlife, is set to be declared extinct and removed from the endangered species list, US wildlife officials announced Wednesday. “For the species proposed for delisting today, the protections of the (Endangered Species

By Aya Elamroussi and Alexandra Meeks, CNN The board of California’s second-largest school district unanimously approved a mandate Tuesday that all eligible students and staff must be vaccinated against Covid-19 by late December. The measure impacts students ages 16 and older and employees of the San Diego Unified School District and says they must be

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN A man in northeastern Illinois died from rabies about a month after apparently being infected by a bat he found in his room, marking the first human case of the virus in the state since 1954, health officials said Tuesday. The man, who was in his 80s, woke up last month

By Amy Simonson, Melissa Alonso and Jennifer Henderson, CNN When the Martinez family moved into their new home in Virginia Beach, Virginia, five years ago, they had dreams of raising their children and making a life in their new neighborhood cul-de-sac. “The minute we found this home, I loved it,” Jannique Martinez told CNN. “It

By Andy Rose, CNN Three former members of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, have entered guilty pleas for providing alcohol at an initiation event where a pledge died. Sam Martinez, 19, died of alcohol poisoning in November 2019, according to the Whitman County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. Maxwell Rovegno,

By Andy Rose and Amanda Jackson, CNN A rescue team in Wyoming said the heavy attention paid to the Gabby Petito case helped them find remains believed to be of another missing person that vanished in the same national forest where Petito’s remains were found. Remains matching the description of Robert “Bob” Lowery were found

By Rebekah Riess and Amir Vera, CNN The children of a housekeeper who worked for embattled South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh have filed a motion for his arrest and detention until the money he allegedly embezzled from her estate is returned. Gloria Satterfield — who spent more than two decades as the Murdaugh family housekeeper

By Christina Maxouris, CNN Don Varnadoe called the upcoming anniversary trip he was preparing to embark on with his wife the “trip of a lifetime.” Varnadoe, who worked as a real estate agent in St. Simons Island, Georgia, had been looking forward to it for months, watching train videos at work in anticipation. The couple