Investigation into former Blount County Schools teacher accused of inappropriately touching kids continues As the investigation into a former Blount County teacher widens, Tennessee law shows the charges that fit the crimes he's accused of only offer a maximum sentence of six months behind bars for each ... 09/20/2024 - 9:57 am | View Link
COVID-19 devastated teacher morale − and it hasn’t recovered The teaching profession faces a morale – and staffing – crisis. A National Education Association survey of members found that, as of late 2022, a staggering 55% of educators were thinking of calling ... 09/19/2024 - 7:02 pm | View Link
Orange County teacher under investigation, accused of fathering teenage student’s child An Orange County teacher who allegedly fathered a child with a teenage student decades ago has been placed on administrative leave as police investigate allegations of sexual abuse. 09/13/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
Head of $65K-per-year NYC school fired longtime French teacher after answer about France’s hijab ban made her daughter cry: suit A longtime French teacher claims the Upper East Side’s elite, all-girls Spence School fired her for giving a straightforward answer about France’s controversial hijab law. 09/13/2024 - 9:36 am | View Link
Palm Beach County School District launches audit, new directives after hiring teacher fired for inappropriate student conduct WPBF 25 News is getting answers from the School District of Palm Beach County about how they hired a teacher who had, a year earlier, been fired from Broward County for inappropriate behavior with ... 09/12/2024 - 3:19 pm | View Link
Kamala Harris still has time to change direction on U. S. policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a way that could secure her the presidency, reduce further damage to Washington’s standing internationally, stop what many—including many Jews, Israelis, and Holocaust scholars—have called a genocide in Gaza, and prevent a regional war.
U. S., U. K. and United Nations officials urged restraint as tensions ramped up between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. After days of escalating conflict, Israel carried out extensive airstrikes targeting Southern Lebanon on Sept. 19 and Hezbollah retaliated on Sept. 20, prompting fears of further conflict and a wider Middle East war.
TOKYO — Shohei Ohtani’s feat of becoming the first major leaguer with at least 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a season was met with extra editions of newspapers for fans to read on their way to work on Friday morning in Japan.
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Ohtani raced past the 50-50 milestone as he hit three home runs and stole two bases in a game during the 20-4 rout of the Miami Marlins on Thursday, securing a playoff berth for the Dodgers.
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The news topped morning headlines, and “Ohtani-san” was the No.
Taiwan’s Constitutional Court upheld the legality of the death penalty but moved to limit its use, in a decision that strikes a balance between keeping the punishment’s deterrent effect and preventing its abuse.
The court on Friday affirmed the constitutionality of capital punishment but restricted its use to only the most serious crimes, while emphasizing the need for better safeguards.
First, on Tuesday, there were exploding pagers. On Wednesday, walkie-talkies began detonating, along with other electronic devices. Panic took hold of whole areas across Lebanon—particularly in Shia communities where Hezbollah are present—as devices designed to be held in the hand and close to the face blew fingers off hands and took out eyes.
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“We were confused at first,” Joumana, who was visiting loved ones at a hospital in Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Wednesday, tells TIME.
A lot has changed since my last conversation with Anwar Ibrahim 10 years ago, when he jumped on a crackly phone call between court hearings to reveal his chances of beating a trumped-up sodomy charge “didn’t look good.”
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Things looked considerably brighter for Malaysia’s Prime Minister when we caught up last month at the opening of German semiconductor giant Infineon’s new Malaysia plant.