| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | School officers on leave over slaps | | The Baltimore school system's top cop and two other officers have been placed on administrative leave after the release of a cell phone video showing one of the officers slapping and kicking a young man, officials said Wednesday.
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| Nina Simone film casting criticized | | The first look at the upcoming Nina Simone biopic is out, and it's reigniting objections to a light-skinned actress playing the dark-skinned activist and jazz singer.
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| Carson doesn't see 'path forward' | | Ben Carson doesn't "see a political path forward" in the Republican presidential nomination process, and will not attend Thursday's GOP presidential debate in his hometown of Detroit, he said in a statement.
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| Abortion at the Supreme Court; all eyes on Kennedy | | When the Supreme Court meets on Wednesday to hear a challenge to a Texas abortion law -- the first major case to be heard this term with only eight justices -- all eyes will be on Justice Anthony Kennedy.
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