Black students are still kicked out of school at higher rates despite reforms
Associated Press Before he was suspended, Zaire Byrd was thriving. He acted in school plays, played on the football team and trained with other…
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Associated Press Before he was suspended, Zaire Byrd was thriving. He acted in school plays, played on the football team and trained with other…
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Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Several programs of diversity, equity and inclusion are at risk of elimination at North Carolina’s…
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By Hamdi Alkhshali and Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — The king of New Zealand’s indigenous Māori people, Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te…
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AP Media Writer By not submitting to a press interview in the month since becoming the Democratic choice for president, Kamala Harris set the stakes…
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NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga (AP) — New Zealand’s Māori King, Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII, has died at age 69, just days after the…
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Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Zakia Khudadadi made history on Thursday at the Paris Paralympics by becoming the first athlete from the Refugee…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have confirmed attacks on military personnel and roads being blocked with vehicles in northern Sinaloa…
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Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has asked a federal court to intervene in his hush money criminal case, seeking a pathway to overturn…
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GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a solo backpacker whose body was found near a rugged and remote…
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Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Federal jurors found a Colorado man guilty of kidnapping a woman on a ranch owned by Michael Bloomberg…
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Federal authorities have announced additional arrests in a multistate pharmacy burglary ring that has led to 42 people…
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Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man has been charged in federal court with engaging in a scheme to cover up efforts to develop…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in Mexico suggested Thursday that U.S. authorities made a deal with a Mexican drug lord who turned in himself and…
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Associated Press/Report for America AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A judge has denied another attempt by Texas to call for a migrant aid group from deeper…
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SALIDA, Colo. (AP) — A man left by his group of office coworkers to complete his final push to the summit of a Colorado mountain became disoriented…
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Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says he made “an honest mistake” in failing to correct a White House fellowship…
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Associated Press The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that a Jewish family had the free-speech right to blanket their yard with signs decrying…
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Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Ecuador’s government says it has started dismantling infrastructure on a controversial oil drilling…
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AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two 18-year-old men charged with killing former “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor have pleaded…
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DALLAS (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to block a ban on firearms at the State Fair of Texas, one of the…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A former police officer in Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to five years in prison for fatally shooting a 27-year-old man…
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador is nearly 2½ years into a state of emergency that has suspended key civil liberties. But President…
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By Antonella Francini, Emmanuel Miculita, Anna Chernova and Zahid Mahmood, CNN (CNN) — French prosecutors told CNN they have requested more…
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AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Dispatching errors and the failure of two backup systems allowed a Union Pacific train to slam into 74…
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Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says a state lawmaker accused of sexual harassment by several women should give…
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An Afghan refugee who was convicted earlier this year of first-degree murder in one of three fatal shootings that shook…
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AP Aerospace Writer NASA’s record-holding astronaut is urging his two stuck-in-space colleagues to stay positive and “keep up the good work.”…
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By Daniel Wine, CNN Editor’s Note: CNN’s 5 Things newsletter is your one-stop shop for the latest headlines and fascinating stories to start and…
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Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — It’s a showdown between the world’s richest man and a Brazilian Supreme Court justice. The justice,…
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AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Swedish supergroup ABBA has asked Donald Trump to stop using their music at campaign rallies, but the…
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Federal agents in Puerto Rico say they have seized $6 million worth of cocaine and arrested two men from the Dominican…
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By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — The man suspected of killing ten people in a Boulder, Colorado, grocery store in 2021 has been deemed fit to stand…
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AP Health Writer A Boar’s Head deli meat plant in Virginia tied to a deadly food poisoning outbreak repeatedly violated federal regulations,…
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AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Eagles looked as if they were ready to return to the Super Bowl last season after beating the Bills 37-34 in…
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PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — Criminal charges are being considered for a man suspected of hitting a woman at a concert in an incident that prompted country…
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Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In a new book, former President Donald Trump threatens to imprison Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg if the tech…
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Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama can continue enforcing its ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The 11th U.S. Court of Appeals…
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Southeastern Conference will release player availability reports in football, baseball and basketball before league…
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Associated Press Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has nominated state Supreme Court Justice Raheem L. Mullins to become the next chief justice. Lamont on…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three migrants have been killed and 17 injured after they were hit by a vehicle on a highway in southern Mexico. Officials…
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Three Libertarian candidates in Iowa running for U.S. Congress will not be named on election ballots this November after a…
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Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts health officials have announced a second confirmed case of the mosquito-borne eastern equine…
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AP Basketball Writer Stephen Curry has signed a one-year extension with the Golden State Warriors for the 2026-27 season, one in which the NBA’s…
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Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Jurors in the first criminal trial linked to New Hampshire’s sprawling child abuse scandal have begun…
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Associated Press A wrongfully convicted Texas man who spent 34 years in prison for a killing in the 1980s was exonerated Thursday, saying that while…
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Health officials say two people in eastern Wisconsin and one person in northeastern Illinois have died of West Nile virus. The Wisconsin Department…
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AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Iga Swiatek and Jannik Sinner flashed their No. 1 form on Thursday with powerful performances that moved them into…
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By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — A murder suspect on the lam for months fell through the ceiling of a Memphis home as authorities closed in on…
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Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has lost twice in his battles to stay on the presidential ballot in some states and get…
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Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is restarting an immigration program that allows migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua…
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Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Prosecutors in Thailand have indicted a former national police chief in connection with an alleged cover-up of a…
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Associated Press HAIFA, Israel (AP) — A 4-year-old boy who accidentally broke a rare 3,500-year-old jar in an Israeli museum has been forgiven and…
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Associated Press FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A judge allowed bond Thursday for a Florida sheriff’s deputy who was fired and charged with…
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Associated Press GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Sharon Ellison and Fred Jernigan spent four days hiking and camping from one end of the…
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Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia voters are likely to be able to choose from six candidates for president. That’s because Secretary of…
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By Tara John, Jennifer Hauser, Abeer Salman, Eugenia Yosef and Larry Register, CNN (CNN) — Israel has agreed to a series of pauses in fighting…
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Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Attorneys for the man charged in the 2022 stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students asked a judge…
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — A woman who posted a video of herself singing outdoors in Afghanistan to protest the Taliban’s morality laws, which include a…
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Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has met with Senegal’s president as part of a trip through three…
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Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Nippon Steel Corp. is raising its capital commitment by more than $1 billion to spend on U.S. Steel’s…
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Associated Press Israel is carrying out large-scale military raids in parts of the occupied West Bank, where the decadeslong conflict with the…
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Associated Press Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says the U.S. Postal Service is ready for a flood of election mail. He says that some of the changes…
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Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. World Health Organization has announced limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for polio…
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HERNANDO, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi sheriff’s department says it has set new security procedures since an inmate escaped and fled to Chicago.…
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Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — An inmate whose escape from a Kansas prison hidden in a dog crate became the subject of a book and TV movie…
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Former New Jersey governor and unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie will teach a course on running…
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CNN By Daria Tarasova-Markina and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — A top Ukrainian pilot was killed when a US-made F-16 fighter jet…
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CNN By Jean Casarez, Zoe Sottile and Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Lawyers for Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho…
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Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have released footage showing that they boarded and intentionally set…
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AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s Division of Cannabis Control has proposed fines totaling more than $200,000 against five businesses for violating the…
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AP Business Writer The average rate on a 30-year mortgage eased for the second week in a row and remains at its lowest level in more than a year.…
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CAIRO (AP) — A local official in northern Yemen says that floods that swept through a northern district this week have killed at least 33 people…
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Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Next month’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump won’t have…
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AP Sports Writers An NFL spokesperson says Tom Brady’s pending bid to become a part owner of the Las Vegas Raiders has triggered restrictions on…
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The Kremlin says that Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Mongolia next week despite the country being a member of the International Criminal…
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AP Sports Writer DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Darlington Raceway will honor late NASCAR Hall of Famer Cale Yarborough at his hometown track where he won…
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Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. nuclear watchdog says that Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near…
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AP Health Writer A deadly food poisoning outbreak has led to the recall of more than 7 million pounds of popular Boar’s Head deli meats made at a…
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Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s electoral authority says that the former governing nationalist conservative party violated…
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By Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s assault on Gaza since the Hamas-led October 7 attack has killed more than 40,000 people, according to…
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s president has ordered an investigation into the death of a man in custody after activists alleged he…
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Consumer Product and Safety Commission says people should immediately throw out a magnetic game because it poses serious…
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By Daria Tarasova-Markina and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — A top Ukrainian pilot was killed when a US-made F-16 fighter jet…
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Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland transportation leaders have approved a contract for rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge several…
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Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Arlington National Cemetery official was “abruptly pushed aside” in an altercation with former President…
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By Duarte Mendonca, CNN (CNN) — The body of an American woman has been recovered from the sea in Norway after the replica Viking boat she was…
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STEELE, N.D. (AP) — Tornadic winds knocked nearly four dozen train cars off a track in North Dakota, part of a storm system that spurred reports of…
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Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has failed to report some child sexual abuse allegations to local law enforcement or social service…
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AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The baby in Gaza who was recently paralyzed by polio was infected with a mutated strain of the virus that…
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Associated Press IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iraq says its air defenses have shot down a Turkish drone over the northern city of Kirkuk. The incident comes…
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A strong wave was likely responsible for the capsizing of a Viking ship replica earlier this week off Norway’s…
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Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The convictions of two Hong Kong journalists who led a now-shuttered online news outlet have deepened concerns of…
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By Dana Karni, Abeer Salman and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s military said Thursday it killed five Palestinian militants,…
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Associated Press Life, death, crime and taxes will be on ballots for voters to decide this fall. More than 140 measures are going before voters in 41…
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AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Plenty of tennis players at the U.S. Open agree that there are benefits to taking a nap before a match, especially…
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AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Not even a presidential election is likely to slow the wave of fantasy novels that has been building the past…
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Police in North Carolina say one person was injured when a vehicle hit a small plane that had made an emergency landing on…
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Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — An interim government in Bangladesh has signed the instrument of accession to an international convention…
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The search for an Indian tourist who was swallowed by a sinkhole in Malaysia’s capital has entered a seventh day,…
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DETROIT (AP) — Jaguar is telling owners of about 3,000 electric SUVs to park them outdoors and away from structures due to the risk of battery…
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