He and his classmates from a historically Black college in Greensboro, N.C., desegregated a Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960, inspiring similar protests across the nation.

Brent Simpson is the first police officer known to have C.T.E. He showed signs of the disease in the last few years of his life.

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The Category 2 hurricane isn’t expected to make landfall. Still, it’s drawing notice as the first named storm to reach hurricane strength this year.

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