ICYMI: Trending stories from the past week

A violent week of fistfights at a Louisiana high school led to the arrests of at least 22 students last month. So a group of concerned fathers decided enough was enough.

Spanx CEO Sara Blakely wowed employees with two first-class plane tickets and $10,000 each to toast the company's $1.2 billion deal with an equity firm.

"Words matter, and baseball 'bullpens' devalue talented players and mock the misery of sensitive animals," a PETA executive said.

It took the scientists 14 years to find a way of extracting usable DNA from a piece of Sitting Bull's hair that was 5 to 6 centimeters long.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is rebranding itself as Meta in an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the future, what Zuckerberg calls the "metaverse."

The United States has issued its first passport with an "X" gender designation — a milestone in the recognition of the rights of people who don't identify as male or female.

"If you're overdue according to your itinerary, and you start getting repeated calls from an unknown number, please answer the phone," rescue group says.

The Wall Street Journal first reported that the government was considering payments around $450,000 to each person affected.

The basketball star wore the red and white sneakers during his fifth NBA game in his rookie season with the Chicago Bulls on Nov. 1, 1984.