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(CNN) A Texas school district that closed for a week after two junior high school teachers died from Covid-19 within a few days, is now requiring masks inside all of its facilities as the community is seeing surge of new cases, hospitalizations and deaths.

Connally ISD, in McLennan County , shut down all of its campuses on August 31 due to an increase of Covid-19 cases and rising absences by students and staff.

We feel instituting a mask mandate is a step towards doing this," Connally ISD Superintendent Wesley Holt said in an email to parents and employees. »

Published on Tuesday, the report is an expansion of an initial disparity review the Air Force released in December 2020.

Airman 1st Class Raymond Lopez Llaurador, 721st Security Forces Squadron defender, defends America’s Fortress at Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, Colo, Sept. 15, 2016 (Air Force photo / Airman 1st Class Dennis Hoffman).

Female officers and civilians were 38% more likely than male officers and civilians to leave the Air Force after five to 10 years of service. »

(CNN) House Democrats want to increase taxes on wealthy Americans and corporations to pay for their sweeping $3.5 trillion budget package .

In addition, lawmakers would slap a 3% surtax on individuals with adjusted gross incomes in excess of $5 million.

All told, the measures would raise an estimated $2.9 trillion, though the plan cautions that "this number remains very preliminary." »

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace repeatedly confronted Republican Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts over his opposition to the Biden administration’s new coronavirus vaccine mandates and requirements, highlighting the governor’s seemingly contradictory position on other vaccines.

The Nebraska governor, meanwhile, said he felt the government shouldn’t be mandating vaccinations.

“They've told me, if they make me take the vaccine, I'm just going to be fired.”. »