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. I have two fourth graders who have been in virtual learning since last spring. My daughter has excelled; she has a really engaged teacher who is on top of her technology and has been able to manage her students online well (relatively speaking). My son has been struggling. His teacher has trouble with the technology, and she doesn’t engage her students. My son has an IEP, which includes PT/OT/speech, as well as reading intervention and designated paraprofessional minutes each day. He also has been diagnosed with ADD but is unmedicated. He has always tested below grade level in all of his ...

President Donald Trump refuses to concede the 2020 election. In meetings with lawyers and political allies, some of whom openly advocate martial law, he has discussed ways to seize voting machines and block implementation of the election results. Now he’s planning a showdown on Jan. 6, when Congress meets to certify the votes of the Electoral College. There’s almost no chance that Trump, by staging this fight, could keep the presidency. But he might manage to do something else: lose the Senate. Advertisement Control of the Senate hinges on two Jan. 5 runoff elections in Georgia. Democrats...

Q. First steps: My sister is the stereotypical internet social justice warrior (cares a lot about the “right things,” but kind of focuses on the minutiae that irritate people). She has also recently married a (very nice!) woman with an 8-year-old son, and is now very focused on being a good parent. Unfortunately, she seems kind of … pessimistic about my nephew? He’s a nice kid from what I’ve seen last year and over Zoom, but he’s a kid. So he misbehaves. He fibs. He gets into disputes with other children. Every time he does my sister gets on the phone to me to talk about how this...

• Former California Rep. Duncan Hunter, another early Trump 2016 supporter who pleaded guilty last December to embezzling campaign funds. Prosecutors had charged Hunter with using more than $250,000 in campaign money on a number of lifestyle expenses, including taking an Uber at 7:40 a.m. on a weekday from the apartment of “Individual 18,” who was notably not his wife, to his D.C. office. Advertisement Advertisement • George Papadopoulos, the zero-qualification doofus who served as a “foreign policy adviser” to the Trump 2016 campaign, who pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to feder...

The Russian hack of SolarWinds—which affected at least 18,000 of the firm’s customers, including several federal agencies—has revived a long, unsettled debate in national security circles: When Americans are hit with a massive cyberattack, should the U.S. government strike back? At first glance, the answer seems obvious: Of course, we should strike back—an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth—or how else will we deter the hackers, and others like them, from striking again? Advertisement On reflection, though, the question turns more complicated. Compared with the rest of the world, t...