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Saturday
The Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office said Saturday that Assistant Director of Corrections Vicki White disappeared while escorting an inmate being held on capital murder charges. The inmate is also missing. Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office via AP hide caption
Laine Hardy has been accused of putting a listening device in his ex-girlfriend's college dorm room at Louisiana State University. Amy Harris/Invision/AP hide caption
A judge has declined to throw out Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking conviction. Elizabeth Williams/AP hide caption
Title 42 was meant to slow COVID at the border. It's being used to manage migration
May Day demonstrators march through downtown Los Angeles last year. Thousands of people took to the streets across the nation that May 1 in rallies calling for immigration reform, workers' rights and police accountability. Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP hide caption
Firefighters search what's left of John's Animal World on Saturday in Andover, Kan., after a tornado hit the area. Jaime Green/AP hide caption
The University of Southern California has settled lawsuits with 80 former students, mostly gay and bisexual men, who accuse a male former school doctor of sexual misconduct. The agreement for an undisclosed sum follows settlements by the Los Angeles school to pay more than $1 billion to thousands of women who say they were sexually abused by another male doctor at the student health center. Richard Vogel/AP hide caption
J.R. Chester, an advocate with the Texas Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, says she hopes the state's updated sex education curriculum will lead to more open conversation between parents and kids. Keren Carrión/KERA hide caption
Texas got a sex ed update, but students and educators say there's still a lot missing
Friday
Shinese Harlins-Kilgore, cousin of Latasha Harlins and CEO of the Latasha Harlins Foundation, receives a hug from Lora King, daughter of Rodney King and CEO of the Rodney King Foundation, during the 30th anniversary of the Rodney King Civil Unrest HOPE Community Bus Tour Press conference in Los Angeles. Latasha, 15, was fatally shot in a liquor store. Gabriella Angotti-Jones/for NPR hide caption
Blank forms for the Powerball lottery sit in a bin at a grocery store, in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 12, 2021. Charlie Neibergall/AP hide caption