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The Lower Richland High School Class of 2021 in Columbia, South Carolina, breathed a sigh of relief as they took the stage for graduation following two tumultuous school years impacted by the pandemic. CNN's Evan McMorris-Santoro reports.

At least 20 people were injured when a tornado carved a 22-mile path through southern Alabama, officials said. The tornado struck as Tropical Storm Claudette was passing over the area, the National Weather Service said in a storm damage survey.

Iranian President-Elect Ebrahim Raisi said in his first news conference that the United States violated the 2015 nuclear agreement, known as the JCPOA, and called on President Joe Biden to return to the agreement. Answering a question by CNN's Frederik Pleitgen in Tehran, Raisi called on Biden to lift all sanctions before adding that Iran's ballistic missile program "is not up for negotiation.

Children in Brazil have been dying from Covid-19 at higher rates than nearly anywhere else in the world. Doctors and researchers say the country's higher child death rate stems from several issues but the main culprit is social inequality. CNN's Isa Soares reports.

A study by California State University, San Bernardino and the Raza Database Project indicates that Latino deaths by police are severely undercounted, in part because they are not counted in a uniform way. CNN's Josh Campbell has more.

Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows are expected to bottom out in 2021 and recover some lost ground with an increase of 10 percent to 15 percent, according to the World Investment Report 2021 published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on Monday.

Leading U.S. epidemiologist Dennis Carroll has affirmed the trustworthiness of a study indicating that COVID-19 may have appeared in the United State earlier than the documented infection. A recent research study done by the National Institutes of Health shows that the infection began in the United States at a low level as early as December 2019.

Businesses across the United States are on a hiring spree with record level of job openings, as COVID-19 restrictions continue to be eased and economic recovery gathers pace, but many employers are struggling to find people to fill the vacancies.

Eight children in a van for a youth home for abused or neglected children were killed in a multi-vehicle crash in Alabama on Saturday. The Butler County coroner says vehicles likely hydroplaned during flooding from Tropical Storm Claudette. (June 21)