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Pennsylvania school district reverses ban on books by authors of color after students fought back

By Mirna Alsharif and Liam Reilly, CNN A southern Pennsylvania school board has reversed its decision to ban anti-racism books and resources. The Central York school board unanimously approved the reinstatement of a list of anti-racism books and resources, effective immediately, spokeswoman Julie Randall Romig confirmed to CNN. The reversal comes a week after a student protest

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Former Louisiana State Police officer indicted on federal charge for allegedly beating a Black man with a flashlight

By Christina Carrega, CNN The US Justice Department on Thursday announced that a federal grand jury indicted a former Louisiana State Police officer for allegedly using excessive force with a flashlight against a Black motorist, the department said in a news release. Jacob Brown, 31, has been charged with a single count of deprivation of

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Palm Beach County school board sides with latest state quarantine policy in tense meeting that separated those without masks

By Nick Valencia and Maria Cartaya, CNN Dozens of police officers were standing by as the Palm Beach County School Board held a meeting Wednesday evening with masked and unmasked spectators watching from separate rooms, as the board said it would abide with the latest state rule that takes a “symptoms-based approach” to quarantining students.

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Nearly 10 months after Johnson was reported missing

Mary Johnson, an Indigenous woman, went missing nearly a year ago. While the FBI recently offered a reward, activists say that’s not enough

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN In the months before Mary Johnson disappeared, her sister said she wasn’t herself. Johnson and her husband, who had been living in the home of her sister Gerry Davis in Sedro-Woolley, Washington, abruptly left and moved to Marysville about 40 miles away, Davis said. She rarely answered her phone when Davis

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Mary Johnson, an Indigenous woman, went missing nearly a year ago. While the FBI recently offered a reward, activists say that’s not enough

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN In the months before Mary Johnson disappeared, her sister said she wasn’t herself. Johnson and her husband, who had been living in the home of her sister Gerry Davis in Sedro-Woolley, Washington, abruptly left and moved to Marysville about 40 miles away, Davis said. She rarely answered her phone when Davis

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The procession of fallen Officer Blaize Madrid-Evans. The 22-year-old police officer at Independence Police Department in Missouri

‘Brothers in blue’: One fallen officer’s kidney was a match to a fellow officer who was injured in the line of duty

By Amy Simonson, CNN Police officers are supposed to protect and serve. One officer’s service is living beyond his time. Officer Mark Priebe, who’s been with Missouri’s Springfield Police Department for 21 years, became paralyzed from the waist down after a suspect struck him in June 2020 with an SUV outside the police headquarters, officials

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A small crowd gathered in Salt Lake City Wednesday night to mourn Gabbi Petito

Brian Laundrie left home without phone or wallet and his parents were concerned he might hurt himself, source says

By Jenn Selva, Dakin Andone and Madeline Holcombe, CNN A source close to the family of Brian Laundrie told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Thursday that Gabby Petito‘s fiancé, who is now the subject of a federal warrant, left his parents’ Florida home last Tuesday without his cell phone and wallet. Laundrie’s parents were concerned that

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Several students sent home from South Carolina’s second-largest school district for not wearing masks

By Aya Elamroussi and Rebekah Riess, CNN Several students in South Carolina’s second-largest school district were sent home Wednesday for not complying with a mask mandate aimed at mitigating the spread of the coronavirus. Fifteen students at Thomas C. Cario Middle School in the Charleston County School District (CCSD) will continue their learning remotely until

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the new policy recognizes that quarantining healthy students is "incredibly damaging" for students' educational advancement and disruptive for families.

Florida governor says parents can send asymptomatic kids exposed to Covid-19 back to school

By Rebekah Riess and Leyla Santiago, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday announced that the state has put out a revised rule which follows a “symptom-based approach” to quarantining students, meaning asymptomatic children exposed to Covid-19 in classrooms could be sent back to school by parents. “If somebody is symptomatic, of course they stay

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