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Month: June 2021

The pandemic is making a vicious cycle even worse for low-income students

By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Inequality has worsened across the board during the pandemic. That has proven particularly true for low-income students. Already disadvantaged to start, many remote students in lower-income households had to worry about stable internet connections, available devices to log into school sessions, and getting personalized attention and help with homework or

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A 9-year-old girl was killed and 2 boys wounded in back-to-back shootings in North Carolina. Police are now hunting for the shooters

By Tina Burnside, CNN A search for shooters is underway in North Carolina after a 9-year-old girl was killed and two boys wounded Monday evening in two drive-by shootings that unfolded minutes and blocks apart, the Statesville Police Department said. “If you saw the murder of this innocent child and injuries to the other innocent

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New video of Ethiopia massacre shows soldiers documenting executions

A CNN investigation in April 2021, in collaboration with Amnesty International, exposed the horror of a massacre perpetrated by Ethiopian soldiers in Mahibere Dego in the mountains of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, where government troops are battling regional forces. CNN has obtained and verified new images, confirming not only the identity of the victims but the army unit of the perpetrators. CNN’s Nima Elbagir reports.

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Ethiopia’s government announce ceasefire as Tigrayan troops retake region’s capital

By Bethlehem Feleke, Richard Roth, Kristina Sgueglia, Vasco Cotovio, Nima Elbagir and CNN Staff In a stunning about-turn in the devastating eight-month civil war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, the Ethiopian government declared an immediate and unilateral ceasefire after Tigrayan troops retook the regional capital Mekelle on Monday evening. Tigrayan forces on Tuesday had not

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The Florida official who set up a vaccine site for affluent ZIP codes and created a VIP list cleared of criminal wrongdoing, sheriff’s office says

By Paul P. Murphy, CNN A Manatee County Sheriff’s Office investigation has found that its county commissioner’s actions did not rise to the “level of a crime” when she created a VIP list for Covid-19 vaccines, and limited a drive to two affluent ZIP codes in her district earlier in 2021. The sheriff’s office opened

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La administración Biden cerrará algunos refugios de emergencia para niños migrantes no acompañados

Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — La administración Biden se está preparando para cerrar algunos refugios de emergencia para niños migrantes no acompañados solo unas semanas después de considerar la expansión de uno de los sitios. La medida se produce a raíz de testimonios de niños que arrojan luz sobre las malas condiciones en algunos de los

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