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Children from the Covenant School hold hands as they are taken to a reunification site after a deadly shooting at their school in Nashville on Monday. (Jonathan Mattise/AP)A more heartrending and quintessentially American scene is hard to imagine.A human chain of children, hand-in-hand, shepherded by police officers, fled the latest school struck by unfathomable tragedy. On Monday, it was Nashville’s turn to join the roster of cities made notorious by a mass shooting epidemic much of the country seems prepared to tacitly accept as the price of the right to own high-powered firearms. The reality of what unfolded inside was inhuman, but it can unfortunately be imagined given the gruesome insider accounts that emerged from previous school shootings — in Uvalde, Texas, last year, or at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut in 2012.Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all 9 years old, were gunned down by a shooter armed with two AR-style weapons and a handgun,…

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A mother who lost her son in a 2018 mass shooting told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that Monday’s shooting in Nashville took her back to that moment as her other son was in lockdown at a nearby high school.Shaundelle Brooks lost her son, Akilah DaSilva, during a mass shooting at a Nashville-area Waffle House in 2018. Her other son, Aldane Brooks, was placed on lockdown at a nearby high school on Monday when the shooting occurred at Covenant School.“We didn’t know if we were safe,” Aldane Brooks told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “We didn’t know if someone was coming to kill us or not.”“My heart dropped,” Shaundelle Brooks said. “Here we are again, another mass shooting,”Brooks added that she wanted to race to her son's school the moment she heard news of a shooting, but he told her to wait as they had no information as to what was going on.“We’re not safe anywhere,” Brooks…

See tourist freefall after bungee jump cord snaps in Thailand The 39-year-old tourist opted for a bungee jump after being dared to by his friends. He was left with multiple injuries after the cord snapped seconds into his jump. Source

Mia Brookes wins gold to become first British snowboard slopestyle world championVicky Gosling was crossing a road, coffee in hand, when the magnitude of achievement dawned on her. "That's it, the full house," GB Snowsport's chief executive thought. She had just learned of Ollie Davies' ski cross World Cup silver. A medal which meant that, in this season alone, Great Britain had reached the podium in every World Cup discipline it competes in on snow.Yes - Great Britain. That green and pleasant land with no world-class snow sport facilities to speak of. Nor a sliding centre for bobsleigh and skeleton, or a 400m ice track for speed skating.But what it does have is world-class winter athletes - and they have reaped the rewards for their resilience this season.Britain's athletes in snow sports, bobsleigh and skeleton alone - across both able-bodied and para disciplines - have won almost 80 medals at…

CNN  —  As the Islamic holy month of Ramadan begins, Habiba says she is “terrified” by the thought of fasting this year. After her disordered eating patterns spiraled into bulimia and binge eating disorder during her mid-teens, she says the ritual of abstaining from food and drink from sunrise to sunset can exacerbate the need to restrict her eating further and risk slipping into a toxic cycle. But making the decision to refrain from the practice feels like she is neglecting a key part of her faith, she says. “I don’t trust myself with keeping a fast because I know … I’ll start to enjoy the feelings of hunger and I’m terrified (of) what that will do to me,” said the 30-year-old UK-based Muslim editor, who asked CNN to use only her first name for privacy reasons. “I do feel sad. I feel like I’m missing out on a really…

CNN  —  Even before we reached the moon, humans had been making plans to send people to Mars, and in recent years, the dream has looked closer to becoming reality. NASA plans to have boots on the red planet in the 2030s, while Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to get there even sooner. The difficulty isn’t solely getting astronauts to Mars but also sustaining them once they’re there; you can’t simply grow potatoes in its soil – despite what Matt Damon would have you believe in the movie “The Martian.” With an atmosphere 100 times thinner than Earth’s, only half the amount of sunlight, no known accessible fresh water, and average temperatures of -81 degrees Fahrenheit, Mars is the most challenging environment in which humans have ever planned to produce food. A startup called Interstellar Lab believes it may have the solution. The Paris and Los Angeles-based company has designed a…

Written by Oscar Holland, CNNA rare print of "The Great Wave off Kanagawa," one of art history's most iconic images, fetched a record $2.76 million at a Christie's auction in New York on Tuesday. The 14.6-inch-wide artwork is now the most expensive piece by Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai ever to go under the hammer, the auction house said.Created in the early 1830s, the "Great Wave" depicts three fishing boats battling raging seas in what is today Japan's Chiba Prefecture. It is part of a genre known as "Ukiyo-e" that saw artists mass-produce works on paper using woodblock printing. Related video: The artisans keeping Japan's woodblock print tradition alive Experts are uncertain of how many copies of the "Great Wave" were initially produced, though there would have once been several thousand of them. The prints were not always as sought-after as they are today, however, and only a fraction are thought…

Houston CNN  —  When John Watson leads a fitness class, he lights up. As he puts students through their paces, his energy is palpable. And the athletes in front of him respond in kind, often breaking into cheers. But what sets his classes apart are the students he teaches: All of them have intellectual and developmental disabilities, ranging from Down syndrome to cerebral palsy to autism. Helping this population discover the physical, emotional, and social benefits of exercise is the mission of Watson’s nonprofit, Bloom Fitness. Since 2016, he and his team have helped more than 900 people with cognitive disabilities grow stronger, achieve goals, and feel a sense of community. “Wellness and movement – for this population, that’s critical,” said Watson, whose 26-year-old daughter, Emma, has cerebral palsy. Individuals with these disabilities are more likely to have higher levels of obesity than the general population and face a much…