In our news wrap Friday, states and school districts across the country are taking varying approaches to mask mandates, more than 50 wildfires are burning in Greece, the Taliban reportedly captured their first provincial capital in Afghanistan, a New Jersey gym owner became the first person to plead guilty to assaulting a police officer on Jan. 6, and a U.S. track veteran made history in Tokyo.

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