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Black Santas are appearing in US Disney parks this season for the first time

By Natasha Chen, Without an official announcement or fanfare, US Disney parks are including a Black Santa Claus in Christmas celebrations this year for the first time in the company’s 66-year theme park history. At both Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, and Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, a Black Santa has been spotted at certain meet-and-greets and at after-hours Christmas parties. A Disney spokesperson told CNN that Santa Claus is represented in various ways in local and regional communities and around the world — and in that spirit, Santa Claus will reflect the diversity of surrounding

Rittenhouse is latest symbol of a nation divided on guns, crime and protest

By Stephen Collinson, Three days after his acquittal in a polarizing case in Wisconsin, Kyle Rittenhouse is now a teenaged avatar for a nation divided over the nature of justice, the societal role of guns and violence in political discourse. The sight of Rittenhouse, 18, walking free on Friday after shooting dead two men and wounding another last year in unrest sparked by the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, also opened a fresh debate over state laws on self-defense and the concept of vigilantism. The case’s political reverberations are already rocking a tense political environment ahead of 2022 elections and even the 2024 presidential

For Black residents of Ahmaud Arbery’s hometown, trust in the justice system is on trial right alongside his accused killers

By Dakin Andone, Carrying signs that read “Justice for Ahmaud,” the demonstrators marched past majestic live oaks draped with Spanish moss. They chanted Ahmaud Arbery’s name as they wound through the streets, past a hardware store, several homes, a convenience store. They rounded the corner by the floral shop, calling for those watching from the sidewalk to join them. They soon stopped on a lawn of the Brunswick African American Cultural Center, 10 miles from the residential block where Arbery was shot to death. It was the fifth day of testimony in the trial of the White men accused of killing the Black jogger,

CDC recommends Covid-19 boosters for all adults

By Jamie Gumbrecht, Jacqueline Howard, Maggie Fox and John Bonifield, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky endorsed the use of Covid-19 vaccine boosters Friday for all adults. Walensky made her recommendation just hours after CDC vaccine advisers voted unanimously to recommend booster doses of Pfizer/BioNTech’s and Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccines for all US adults six months after they finish their first two doses. The recommendations simplify previous, complicated guidance for boosters. Earlier Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration authorized boosters of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines for everyone 18 and older. “CDC continues to encourage the 47 million

FBI gauges threats against educators and school board members

By Christina Carrega and Evan Perez, The FBI is working to assess the number of threats made against school board members and teachers, using a tracking tool that it says will help implement a directive from Attorney General Merrick Garland that has come under criticism from Republicans. An internal memo to the FBI’s counterterrorism and criminal investigators says the bureau is using a “threat tag” system that will help gauge how much of a problem the threats pose around the country. The FBI memo, released by Republican critics, was a follow up to Garland’s October memo that directed federal officials to team up

Biden touts electric vehicle provisions of infrastructure law as way to compete with China

By Arlette Saenz and Maegan Vazquez, President Joe Biden traveled to Detroit on Wednesday to tout the electric vehicle provisions of the recently signed bipartisan infrastructure law, making the case that his plan is a way to compete with China’s stronghold in the electric vehicle market and boost domestic supply chains. “For most of the 21st century we led the world by a significant margin because we invested in our people. We invested in ourselves. But something went wrong along the way. China and the rest of the world are catching up. Well, we’re about to turn that around in a

Two men convicted of killing Malcolm X to be exonerated

By Peniel E. Joseph, The exonerations, after 56 years, of two Black men convicted of the assassination of Malcolm X rights a grave miscarriage of justice and opens new questions about race and America’s criminal justice system. Spurred by decades of effort by historians and further accelerated by the widely acclaimed 2019 Netflix documentary series, “Who Killed Malcolm X,” the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office reopened the investigation into Malcolm X’s February 21, 1965, assassination. I participated in this film as an on-air historical analyst. Two of the men found guilty in 1966, Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam (formerly Norman 3X Butler

Harris says she does not feel misused or underused as vice president

By Kate Sullivan and Betsy Klein, Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday she does not feel misused or underused in her role as vice president, following CNN reporting that many in the vice president’s circle believe she is being sidelined and that key West Wing aides are exasperated by what they see as entrenched dysfunction and lack of focus from Harris and her staff. “We’re getting things done, and we’re doing it together,” Harris told ABC in an interview that aired on “Good Morning America.” Harris pointed to the President signing one of his biggest legislative victories — the bipartisan infrastructure package — into law on

Fate of Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for employers now at conservative-leaning appeals court

By Ariane de Vogue, Kaitlan Collins and Paul LeBlanc, The Biden administration’s vaccine mandate targeting businesses with more than 100 employees is now before the conservative-leaning Ohio-based 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which could soon decide its fate. Late Wednesday, the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which has blocked the mandate, transferred its case to the 6th Circuit, where 34 challenges filed nationwide will be consolidated after that court was picked through a lottery on Tuesday. The Justice Department is expected to file a motion with the 6th Circuit to try to vacate the order blocking the mandate. In

How political organizers are channeling parents’ education frustrations

By Gabe Cohen, Watching from her home in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Clarice Schillinger wasn’t surprised when Glenn Youngkin — riding parents’ fears and frustrations with schools — won the Virginia governor’s race. She says she saw the writing on the wall. “I hope that the race in Virginia really woke a lot of people up and said, OK, there is a groundswell of parents,” Schillinger said. Tense school board meetings across the country illustrate the political divides playing out in public schools right now, from debates about the teaching of critical race theory to the enforcement of mask and vaccine mandates. But beyond the weekly fireworks,

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