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All teachers and school personnel in Washington State — including coaches, bus drivers and volunteers — will need to be fully vaccinated as a condition of employment, Gov. Jay Inslee announced, imposing the nation's strictest vaccine mandate for schools.https://nyti.ms/2UuO9Ah 

For the first time, one of R. Kelly’s accusers testified against him in a criminal trial on Wednesday. The R&B singer led a decades-long system of sexual abuse, prosecutors say.https://nyti.ms/3z6hAIc 

Disney World in Florida is permanently retiring its free, line-skipping FastPass system and will charge $15 a person for the privilege — an added cost for what is already an expensive destination.https://nyti.ms/3mdchmm 

The Biden administration is using federal leverage to press nursing homes to vaccinate their staffs and deter states from banning school mask mandates. https://nyti.ms/37V75LI 

"I’ve been asking my friends lately, 'Do you think I’m quirky?'" Kathy Hilton, the mother of Paris and Nicky, has sent the internet into fits of adulation with her oddball asides and eccentric behavior on Bravo's "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills."https://nyti.ms/3z2Tqye 

European politicians are worried that far-right and populist movements could regain support as migrants flee Afghanistan, as they did after a wave of asylum seekers fled the wars in Syria and Iraq for Europe in 2015.https://nyti.ms/2Was5M0 

Quiénes son los talibanes, cuál es su origen, qué hicieron para tomar control de Afganistán la primera vez y porqué tantas mujeres temen este segundo avance. Tenemos una guía con las respuestas.https://nyti.ms/3z25cZq 

San Francisco’s attorney general sued three online retailers for selling “ghost guns,” untraceable firearms that can be made from do-it-yourself kits.https://nyti.ms/3AX11Pp 

Vinny Marciano was one of the best young swimmers in the U.S., a prodigy mentioned in the same breath as Michael Phelps. Then he hit reset, abandoning his down-to-the-millisecond life in the pool to pursue something more anonymous and ethereal.https://nyti.ms/3z1W5rE 

John Shear, a 4-foot-11 globe-trotting horseman, had everything he could want while overseeing the paddock of Santa Anita Park in Southern California for six decades: a reasonable living, a community, a sense of purpose.https://nyti.ms/3gcCihU 

When the final whistle blew, Coach C sped to the Alabama-Mississippi state line in a van filled with hung over or heartsick soccer players who had disgraced themselves with bad play and even worse behavior.https://nyti.ms/3yYFsgA 

Rafa, at 2½, already seems to understand that the greater the risk, the greater the thrill.https://nyti.ms/2XDCLDv 

"Freedom to him was, 'No one else should own you. I own me,'" Curt Flood's widow, Pace, recalled. "Grammatically, that's incorrect, but that's the way he would say it to make an absolute point." Flood's point changed baseball and cost him his career.https://nyti.ms/3k7vbbS 

Two things might happen after a young boxer first gets hit. They might decide that’s it, time for something else. Or, as in Brian Jimenez’s case, they go straight back to the gym.https://nyti.ms/3z2hLnD 

Soren Johnson, 6, and his brothers Killian, 8, and Hatton, 16, have no access to a swimming pool in summer. They have a creek blessed with oxbows, beavers, wild trout, and swimming holes sacred to free-range Wyoming kids.https://nyti.ms/3CY5fIf