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Community

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Teen in mall fight faults cops for handcuffing Black youth

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FILE - Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor poses for a photo in 1982. O'Connor joined the Supreme Court in 1981 as the nation's first female justice. (AP Photo, File)

Courts & Law

Being the first: What it’s like to make Supreme Court history

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Hold For Use With Michael Melia Story Slugged Schools Teaching Race—In this Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, photograph, Alexis Knox-Miller, equity director for the Colorado Springs, Colo., school system, is shown in the board room in the district’s main office on the north side of Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Education

Some school systems pause diversity programs amid pushback

Conservative takeovers of local school boards have already altered lessons on race and social injustice in many classrooms.

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Queen Elizabeth II speaks at Windsor Castle

Health

Queen Elizabeth II tests positive for COVID; mild symptoms

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Brandon Brown moves his helmet after a NASCAR Xfinity Series auto race practice Friday, Feb. 18, 2022, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Politics & Policy

NASCAR driver Brandon Brown caught in unwinnable culture war

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Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores watches from the sideline during the first half of an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)

Arts & Entertainment

Flores hired to Steelers staff; lawsuit against NFL proceeds

The former Miami Dolphins coach has maintained his lawsuit would continue even if he found another coaching position.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy walks into the Bayerischer Hof Hotel after meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris during the Munich Security Conference, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022, in Munich. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Politics & Policy

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy calls on Putin to meet as tensions soar

Zelenskyy spoke hours after separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine ordered a full military mobilization Saturday.

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Politics & Policy

Canadian police clear Parliament street to end siege

With protesters in clear retreat, the end of the three-week protest against the country’s COVID-19 restrictions and the government appeared to be in sight.

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