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The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a First Amendment appeal from two middle school students who were ordered to remove sweatshirts emblazoned with the words “Let’s Go Brandon,” steering clear of a case that could have clarified the power schools have to police potentially offensive speech in the classroom.

Growing outrage over how Cornell University handled rape allegations from a student in 2024 has stretched across the country, from sexual abuse survivors to students on campus and now to the school’s president.

The FBI opened preliminary investigations targeting anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters in Southern California, a former FBI intelligence official alleged in a whistleblower complaint, adding that she believed the move violated the law and agency policy.

At the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s conference, authors Victor Simmons, Phill Branch, Ada Taylor and Calvin Stovall discussed strengthening Black economic power, arguing responsibility extends beyond consumer spending to corporate supply chains, institutional accountability, collaboration among Black businesses, financial education, and stronger business practices needed to keep wealth circulating within Black communities.

The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments Monday in one of the most important climate change cases to reach its docket in years, a multibillion-dollar effort to hold major oil companies like ExxonMobil liable for the damages caused by planet-warming pollution.

Newly obtained documents reviewed by CNN show Cornell University police drafted letters to wireless carriers about a week after a student now known as Jane Doe told police she had been sexually assaulted by members of the Chi Phi fraternity in 2024.

A lawsuit filed last month by a former Cornell University student alleging a gang rape at a fraternity house in 2024 has prompted the reopening of an investigation and reignited a firestorm around the scourge of sexual assaults at universities in the US and how schools, police and prosecutors respond.

Nine states have redrawn congressional maps ahead of the midterms, shifting roughly one in ten voters into new districts. Through tactics like packing and cracking, these changes—often favoring Republicans—threaten to dilute Black voters' political influence, potentially affecting representation on healthcare, schools, and civil rights issues Black communities have long fought to secure.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley announced federal job guarantee legislation proposing $25 hourly wages during a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation panel addressing Black unemployment disparities. Panelists highlighted stark income gaps affecting Black women and families, discussed healthcare coverage losses during unemployment, and emphasized community mutual aid networks as solutions to systemic economic inequities facing Black households nationwide.

A week after a cybercriminal group claimed to steal sensitive personal data on thousands of current and former FBI employees, the bureau is still assessing the extent of the damage while facing internal criticism about the agency’s handling of the incident.