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Finance Ministry seeks salary reforms, placing focus on teacher competence rather than seniority; union leaders threatens strikes, as school grapple with shortage in instructors

Resistance is the hobgoblin of antiviral medicine, even with antivirals as effective as Paxlovid.

Those in North America have the best shot at seeing the shower at about 1 a.m. on the East Coast or 10 p.m. on the West Coast. (Image credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

The calculations of one mother in Beirut shows the struggles to feed a family amid Lebanon’s years-long economic collapse.

Tourists — one of the mainstays of the Cuban economy — are returning, but the recovery is slow and some say mismanaged.

The strawberries were purchased between March 5 and April 25 at various U.S. retailers, including Aldi, Kroger and Walmart and at Co-op stores in Canada.

Official notice given to family of As’ad al-Rifa’i, who confessed to killing three people in central city with Subhi Sbeihat, who will also receive similar order in coming days

Irma Garcia was one of two teachers killed at Robb Elementary last week. Then, two days later, her husband of 24 years died of a heart attack, leaving their four children without parents. (Image credit: Jae C. Hong/AP)

In the wake of the horrific massacre at Uvalde, a hot debate is emerging at the federal level about what to do about the scourge of gun violence. Unfortunately for Americans, that debate is raging north of their nation’s border

Leaders gathering in Brussels sought to maintain unity against Russia and its invasion of Ukraine despite internal divisions over a proposed oil embargo on Moscow and differences over how much military equipment to provide Kyiv.