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The Montalto and Hoyer families hold hands inside the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021, during Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz's guilty plea in the 2018 shootings. The Montalto's daughter, Gina Montalto, 14, and the Hoyer's son, Luke Hoyer, 15, were both killed in the massacre.

Nikolas Cruz pleads guilty to the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

The gunman's defense team is hoping to avoid the death penalty that prosecutors are seeking for the murders of 17 students and staff in Parkland, Fla.

Announcing The Winner Of The 2021 Tiny Desk Contest

Picking one winner from thousands of amazing entries wasn't easy. But one singer-songwriter rose to the top, with a song about rooting yourself in nature that stopped our judges in their tracks.

Christopher C., 17 in Chinatown, Manhattan.

Asian American teens navigate being themselves as their communities are targeted

Photographer Eric Lee interviewed Asian American teens to learn how they were handling a global health crisis that some blame on their communities.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky likens the call she got from the Biden team, asking her to lead the CDC amid a pandemic, to a hospital alarm that goes off when a patient's heart has stopped. "I got called during a code," she says. "And when you get called during a code, your job is to be there to help."

Biden's Straight-Talking CDC Director Has Long Used Data To Save Lives

Dr. Rochelle Walensky says scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were "muzzled" and "diminished" by the Trump team, especially during the pandemic. She aims to fix that.

This year's Broadway-adapted movie In The Heights, starring actors Anthony Ramos, left, and Jasmine Cephas Jones, is a rare exception to Hollywood's pattern of excluding Latino narratives.

Hispanics and Latinos Are The Biggest Moviegoers. The Big Screen Doesn't Reflect That

Nearly 20% of Americans are Latino or Hispanic and they buy more movie tickets per capita. But a new report says just 7% of all lead characters in 2019's top-grossing films were Hispanic or Latino.

The almost 40-foot 3D-printed pedestrian bridge designed by Joris Laarman and built by Dutch robotics company MX3D has been opened in Amsterdam six years after the project was launched. The bridge, which was fabricated from stainless steel rods by six-axis robotic arms equipped with welding gear, spans the Oudezijds Achterburgwal in Amsterdam's Red Light District.

Check Out The First 3D-Printed Steel Bridge Recently Unveiled In Europe

The almost 40-foot bridge, revealed last month, will now serve pedestrians and cyclists in Amsterdam's city center.

The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security have subpoenaed Peloton, the company says, for documents and information about reporting on injuries associated with one of its treadmill products.

Peloton Says It's Been Subpoenaed By DOJ And DHS Over Its Product Injury Reporting

In a filing with the SEC, Peloton said it was being investigated for its reporting on injuries associated with one of its treadmill products, the Tread+.

A screenshot from the forthcoming strategy simulation game, Political Arena.

In this case, politics is a (video) game

Political Arena is giving players a front row seat to all the ins and outs — and yeah, even the ugliness — of national politics.

Hollins University was founded in 1842 on the principle that "young women require the same thorough and rigid training as that afforded to young men."

Who belongs at a women's college in 2021? Students want admissions policies to change

Women's colleges have adapted admissions policies for a generation that increasingly identifies as nonbinary. Hollins University's exclusion of nonbinary applicants has raised hackles.

Asylum seekers camping at El Chaparral crossing port queue to be vaccinated against COVID-19 last month in Tijuana, Mexico, on the border with the U.S.

The U.S. Will Require Would-Be Immigrants To Prove They've Been Vaccinated For COVID

The COVID-19 shot joins a list of well-established vaccines required by the U.S., aimed at preventing dangerous diseases such as polio and varicella (chickenpox).

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