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‘When Can We Go to School?’ Nearly 300 Million Children Are Missing Class.

The global scale and speed of the educational disruption from the coronavirus epidemic is “unparalleled,” the United Nations said.

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Coronavirus Updates: California Declares State of Emergency

Along with its first death, California recorded 54 cases, the most in the U.S. Now, the state faces a new challenge: a cruise ship off San Francisco with 21 sick passengers on board.

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Coronavirus Testing Offered With Just a Doctor’s Approval, C.D.C. Says

The move greatly increases the number of patients who qualify, but it’s not clear there are enough tests for those who will want them.

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Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian two-term UN chief, dies at 100

Diplomat worked to prevent Israel losing its General Assembly seat amid Arab pressure, release of US hostages in Lebanon and brokered historic cease-fire between Iran and Iraq

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Anti-Semitic targeting of Jewish student upends elite New Jersey school

New York Times explores how repercussions of students posing next to ‘I h8 Jews,’ written in 30 foot letters in the sand leads a community to shun a young Jewish girl

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Former U.N. Chief and Peruvian Diplomat Javier Pérez de Cuellar Dies at Age 100

(LIMA, Peru) — Javier Pérez de Cuellar, the two-term United Nations secretary-general who brokered a historic cease-fire between Iran and Iraq in 1988 and who in later life came out of retirement to help re-establish democracy in his Peruvian homeland,

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‘It Looks Like Some Type of War Zone.’ Survivors Grapple With Aftermath of Tenn. Tornadoes

Billy Dyer, 64, was sitting in the living room of his home in Baxter, Tenn. with his wife, Kathy, around midnight on Monday night when he got an emergency alert on his phone about a tornado. His wife got the

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Kathy Manning, ex-chair of major Jewish group, wins NC primary

Manning, first woman to chair the Jewish Federations of North America, will make second bid for a congressional seat

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