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Virginia's largest high school cancels 2 days of classes after fights
Northern Virginia's largest high school has canceled the final two days of classes in 2024 after fights at the school resulted in injuries to students and staff. Alexandria City Public Schools Superintendent Melanie Kay-Wyatt said in a letter Wednesday to families that classes would be canceled Thursday and Friday at the city's only high school, Alexandria City High School, formerly known as T.C. Williams. Kay-Wyatt said the closures were implemented amid concerns that additional fights were p
1 min read - USThe Daily Beast
Luigi Mangione’s Prison Transformation Draws Stares at Court
Luigi Mangione caught the eye of onlookers Thursday with a makeover before his extradition hearing in Pennsylvania. The Ivy League-educated suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson was clean-shaven with a haircut and an apparent eyebrow trim. Mangione, 26, looked wild-eyed with several days of stubble when he was first led into court last week after being arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, five days after the shooting in Manhattan.
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Snowfall forecast: Latest timeline, expected totals map for snow coming to Boston area
Enjoy the seasonable weather while you can because we’re in for snow in the Boston area on Friday followed by a deep freeze this weekend.
2 min read - WorldAssociated Press
7 foreign tourists hospitalized in Fiji were not poisoned by alcohol or illicit drugs, officials say
Seven foreign tourists who were hospitalized in Fiji after drinking cocktails at a resort bar were not poisoned by alcohol or illicit drugs, officials said Wednesday following a toxicology report. The cause of the tourists' illness over the weekend remains under investigation, Fiji’s Tourism Minister Viliame R. Gavoka said. “I can confirm that no illicit substances or methanol were found in the ingredients or liquor samples,” Gavoka told reporters in the capital, Suva.
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VideoFDA issues recall on popular dog treat that can kill pets
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a Class I recall — the agency’s most serious risk level — for dog treats sold both online and in stores across 19 states.According to the FDA, a Class I recall indicates “there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.”SOURCE: Mixed/Lumen
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Sex for sale on school’s out of control ski trip
A former head teacher has been struck off over a ski trip where one girl said she slept with three boys and was paid for sex by one of them.
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Putin says he pulled Russia back from the edge of the abyss
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he had pulled Russia back from the edge of the abyss after the chaos which accompanied the fall of the Soviet Union, and had built the country into a sovereign power able to stand up for itself. Putin, a former KGB spy who took the Kremlin's top job just eight years after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, is the longest-serving Kremlin leader since Josef Stalin who died at his dacha outside Moscow in 1953 aged 74. Asked by the BBC if he had looke
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