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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — New York state’s Education Department has updated guidance for its schools to support the rights of transgender and gender-expansive students. The guidance, issued last week, offers information and tips to help school staff if a student comes out to them – understanding gender identity and normalizing name, pronoun and

By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — The captain of Sensation, the fishing boat that lost out on over $3 million in earnings when tournament officials disqualified its 619.4-pound blue marlin due to “mutilation,” told CNN on Tuesday he believes they won the tournament fair and square. “We worked hard, we felt like what we did

By Laura Ly and Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN (CNN) — The early-morning fire at an e-bike store in lower Manhattan that left four dead was caused by lithium-ion batteries, the city’s fire commissioner said Tuesday. “It is very clear that this was caused by lithium-ion batteries and e-bikes. There is a very large number of

By Alta Spells, CNN (CNN) — Parents of two of the three children killed during the shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville expressed their pain and loss in filed declarations asking the court to deny Freedom of Information Act requests for the release of the school shooter’s writings. “I have no desire to write

By Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — A Utah woman accused of killing her husband before she authored a children’s book about grieving a loved one, is suing his estate to obtain proceeds from his business and their family home, a new court filing shows. Kouri Richins, 33, is being held without bail on charges of

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — Major insurance companies are pulling out of some states entirely to limit their risks where natural disasters are common. Uninsurable places are growing across all 50 states, but it’s now especially difficult to find reasonable homeowners’ insurance in California, Florida and Louisiana due to the likelihood of damaging hurricanes

By Omar Jimenez, CNN (CNN) — Juneteenth has become a day to celebrate freedom in the United States, but the survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre are still fighting to be free from a terror that happened over a century ago. “We just heard people running and screaming and could smell smoke, seeing houses

By Nouran Salahieh, Eric Levenson, Priscilla Alvarez and Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Sonar picked up banging sounds on Tuesday from underneath the water in the North Atlantic Ocean while searching for a submersible with five people onboard that went missing two days earlier on a dive to the Titanic wreckage, according to an internal

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — A submersible carrying five people to see the remains of the Titanic at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean is still missing despite a massive search operation – but banging sounds were reportedly heard in the area. Canadian P-3 aircraft detected underwater noises on Tuesday, but the US

By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — Six teenagers were shot after a Juneteenth celebration Monday outside downtown Milwaukee, police said. The Milwaukee Police Department responded around 4:21 pm near Rose Park after four females and two males between the ages of 14 and 19 years old were injured by gunfire, Police Chief Jeffrey B. Norman

By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — A dog was stabbed in New York’s Central Park on Saturday following a “verbal dispute” between dog owners, the New York City Police Department said. The dispute started when a couple walking their two dogs encountered a man walking his three dogs in the park, NYPD Officer Antonio Antenucci

By Eric Levenson and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — A fishing crew lost out on over $3 million in tournament prize money after the 619.4-pound blue marlin they caught was disqualified due to “mutilation” caused by a shark or other marine animal, according to a statement from the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament. The crew

By Brandon Miller, Nick Thompson and Jennifer Gray, CNN (CNN) — El Niño is a climate pattern that originates in the Pacific Ocean along the equator and impacts weather all over the world. Warm water normally is confined to the western Pacific by winds that blow from east to west, pushing it toward Indonesia and

By Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN (CNN) — Approximately 100 letters containing a white powder have been received by state legislators and public officials across Kansas, officials said, setting off an investigation that includes state and federal agencies. Preliminary tests on a small sample of the letters show “the substance is presumptively negative for

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — Despite Juneteenth’s storied history, the holiday was largely overlooked by non-Black Americans until recent years. The momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement propelled Juneteenth into the national spotlight, building on a decades-long push by activists and leaders to get recognition for the landmark occasion. In 2021, Juneteenth became the latest federal

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — Many Americans have been reveling in optimism as back-to-back holidays and celebrations take place across the country. On Sunday, dads were honored for Father’s Day, and today, the focus shifts to Juneteenth parades and ceremonies. Additionally, women and space enthusiasts are recognizing the achievements of Sally Ride — 40

By Devon M. Sayers, CNN Charleston, South Carolina (CNN) — At the site of one of the world’s most prolific slave ports, a museum designed to “simultaneously hold the sensations of trauma and joy” is set to open next week honoring the many thousands of Africans forced to leave home under barbaric conditions as it

By Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — Investigators are searching for suspects after a mass shooting Sunday at a Juneteenth celebration left one person dead and at least 22 others injured in suburban Chicago. Gunfire broke out after midnight in a parking lot in Willowbrook, Illinois, as an “unknown number of suspects fired multiple rounds from

By Zenebou Sylla and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — Two state troopers were shot, one fatally, in a multi-scene shootout with a man who initially fired bullets into state police vehicles outside police barracks in central Pennsylvania, authorities said. Brandon Stine drove his pickup truck to the barracks in Mifflintown Saturday morning, got out of