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Catherine DiGioia, the district’s Teacher of the Year, has worked at Lincoln-Bassett for the her entire eight-year career in teaching and supports students ages 4 to 12 years old with “diverse learning needs,” according to a school district news release. She is a special education teacher in a self-contained classroom, which is where students with disabilities or intensive needs are placed for learning for the majority of the school day. Since starting at Lincoln-Bassett in 2018, DiGioia has “played an integral role in developing and expanding the school’s special education program for self-contained classrooms,” the district said. Originally, there was only one…

The United States and several Latin American countries said they would send humanitarian aid and rescue personnel to Venezuela, after two major earthquakes struck west of Caracas on Wednesday night, killing at least 32 and injuring hundreds more.“I have instructed all agencies of our government to get ready to move quickly. We will be there for our new and great friends,” President Trump wrote in a social media post on Wednesday night.By early Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a social media post that the State Department was immediately deploying search and rescue teams, medical resources and humanitarian…

London’s schools, some decades or over a century old, are baking in 90-degree heat. In France, teachers have covered windows with blankets or chalk and let children play in water outside. Most students are just glad to kick off their shoes.“I feel like I’m in an oven,” said one of them, Raya Petrova, 7, whose teachers were desperate to keep their London classrooms cool without air-conditioning. “It is really hot.”Extreme heat is broiling much of western Europe, but class is still in session for millions of students in countries such as Britain and France, where few schools are air-conditioned. The…

It was a sunny Wednesday in early June. Yet the persistent buzzing from the Heirs Energies gas plant in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State and the intense heat radiating from its flare stack shrouded the atmosphere in a haze of soot and smoke. A towering yellow flame burned continuously, illuminating the area even in broad daylight. Dozens of motor mechanics and spare-parts dealers, including Mrs Nkiru and her husband, whose shops are located only a few metres from the facility, have grown accustomed to the constant noise and heat. Gas flares are a common sight across Nigeria’s oil-rich…

IBM says it has created the world’s first known chip tech below 1 nanometre – but it will be some time before it’s ready for production.

NewsFeedA 32-year-old Palestinian man has been killed by Israeli forces as they raided his home near the town of Salfit, in the occupied West Bank.Published On 25 Jun 202625 Jun 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 25 June 2026 Cholesterol carried by low-density lipoprotein (LDL) drives heart disease and is cleared by liver cells expressing the receptor LDLR. A cell-signalling mechanism has been discovered through which high cholesterol promotes the enzyme-mediated degradation of LDLR. Blocking this enzyme restores LDLR levels in liver cells, suggesting a new strategy for treating high cholesterol.

Key events20th over: New Zealand 70-0 (Latham 39, Conway 28) It’d be just like Stokes to finagle a first-over wicket and he’s on the money immediately, Latham edging and scabbing one. But then Conway lasers a drive to the fence at cover. the over ceding six.“Now this is why I love the Guardian OBO!” says Victor Manley. Early doors chat about the structure of words. My favourite phonaesthetic word (don’t pretend like you don’t have one), is ‘bicycle’ which both suggests momentum and a certain clicky machine unreliability. PLUS, as if that weren’t enough, the ‘cyc’ element kinda looks like…

Indian action star Ajay Devgn is returning to the precinct he knows best. The actor will lead Chauhaan, a feature from director Neeraj Yadav and production houses Jio Studios and Colour Yellow Productions. A theatrical release date of October 1, 2027 has been slated. You can see a first look at Devgn above in a teaser trailer to announce the movie, which the makers say is set in a “gritty and action-packed world.” No further plot details right now, but in the teaser we protestors in Jammu and Kashmir city Pulwama lining up to take on army guards, with Devgn,…

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during the 62nd Munich Security Conference (MSC) on February 14, 2026 in Munich, southern Germany. Heads of state and government as well as foreign and defence ministers from all over the world are expected to attend the security policy talks from February 13 to 15, 2026. (Photo by THOMAS KIENZLE / AFP) Top US diplomat Marco Rubio warned on Thursday that a deal with Iran would not come at any price, as he sought to reassure Gulf allies that it would not undermine their security. Rubio was in Bahrain as part of a…