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St. Charles District 303 parents are concerned that individual student needs are not being met as the districts elementary school class sizes increase.

Iran accuses Israel of attacking a nuclear plant that damaged equipment and caused a power outage.

Myanmar Crisis Hurts Garment Industry, Jobs, Hope April 12, 2021 FILE - Workers iron and arrange clothing at a garment factory at Hlaing Taryar industrial zone in Yangon, March 10, 2010. (REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/File Photo) Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:06:16 0:00 Pop-out player Two years ago, Li Dongliang opened his clothes factory in Myanmar. Today, he fears he will be forced to close his business and lay off 800 workers. Li’s business had already been strugglin...

Why COVID-19 Conspiracies Are So Common The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:09:53 0:00 As COVID-19 continues, psychologists and misinformation experts are studying why the pandemic has led to so many conspiracy theories. Such theories have persuaded some people to avoid facial coverings, social distancing and vaccines. Opposition to vaccines by some Americans is not new. Daniel Roberts, a 29-year-old Tennessee man, says he had not received a vaccination since he was six years old....

How to Transplant Your Garden April 12, 2021 Expert gardener Lee Reich shows his lettuce sprouts growing in a greenhouse. When conditions are ready, he will transplant them into his garden, Feb. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Lee Reich) Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:06:39 0:00 If you have never grown your own transplants for your garden, perhaps this is the year to try. First, what is a “transplant?” In gardening, transplant is the process of planting seeds inside and th...

7 Hong Kong Activists Found Guilty of Organizing Protest March 4 hours ago Pro-democracy lawmaker Martin Lee, right, arrives at a court in Hong Kong Thursday, April 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:05:24 0:00 Pop-out player A Hong Kong court has found seven pro-democracy activists guilty of charges related to anti-government protests in 2019. Among those convicted on Thursday were media business leader Jimmy Lai and 82-year-old Martin ...

Stretch, a new robot from Boston Dynamics, is designed to help warehouse workers by moving containers. Its designers say it can carry 23 kilogram boxes in existing buildings.

Pain into Beauty: Argentine Sculptor Turns Pandemic Waste into Art The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:02:59 0:00 Pop-out player Argentine artist Marcelo Toledo usually creates his works out of metal. But now Toledo is working with new materials: used masks and syringes from the COVID-19 pandemic. His aim is to create a show that explores the painful effects of the virus. Toledo has made jewelry for the musical “Evita” on Broadway in New York. He has created special pieces fo...

Fight Online Crime with Grammar April 01, 2021 share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:06:17 0:00 We have all seen them: emails with bad grammar, spelling mistakes and other problems. The writers ask us to go to a web page or open a file linked to the email. But if we do, the result is sharing personal or financial information. Here is the good news. Anyone with some knowledge of grammar can find out that these are not official messages from a bank or an internet service. We wi...

Many Asian Americans are looking out for each other and their neighbors after a woman born in the Philippines was attacked in New York City on Monday.