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Two Dallas parents have filed a lawsuit against Dallas Independent School District (DISD) and several administrators, alleging their children faced retaliation for not complying with the district’s 2021 mask mandate. The parents claim staff at George Bannerman Dealey Montessori Academy subjected their fifth- and eighth-grade children to abuse and segregation, despite medical exemptions from the mandate.

Pope Francis announced that Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia in 2006 at the age of 15, will be canonized.

Disney reportedly pulled an episode from its children's series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz has withdrawn his name from his nomination as President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general.

President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and its former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

The FBI arrested Harun Abdul-Malik Yener for allegedly planning to detonate an improvised explosive device (IED) outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

Jeff Bezos is putting forward $9.4 million to develop a vaccine intended to reduce methane emissions from cows.

The House Ethics Committee announced that it will not release a report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), but may consider doing so in the future.

Several of the senators set to vote on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s appointment to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have received donations from pharmaceutical companies.