#Portland, Oregon schools reach tentative agreement with teachers’ union, ending strike

#Portland, Oregon schools reach tentative agreement with teachers’ union, ending strike

Portland Public Schools (PPS), Oregon’s largest public school district, announced Sunday that it has reached a tentative agreement with the Portland Association of Teachers (PAT), ending a three-week strike.  In a news release, PAT said its tentative agreement with the school district includes “expanded language on target class sizes and caseloads including new committees to…

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#China Box Office: Disney’s ‘Wish’ Goes Unfulfilled, Local Thriller ‘Across the Furious Sea’ Opens to M

#China Box Office: Disney’s ‘Wish’ Goes Unfulfilled, Local Thriller ‘Across the Furious Sea’ Opens to $25M

Local crime thriller Across the Furious Sea, directed and co-written by Cao Baoping, dominated China’s box office over the weekend with a $24.7 million two-day opening kicking off on Saturday. The film’s strong start continues a recent market trend of Chinese moviegoers favoring well-told local crime stories.  But it was another weekend of struggle for Hollywood filmmaking…

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#Cindy McCain says Gaza ‘on the brink of famine’

#Cindy McCain says Gaza ‘on the brink of famine’

Cindy McCain, director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), said Sunday that Gaza, a strip controlled by the militant group Hamas, is “on the brink of famine” amid the militant group’s war with Israel.  During an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” moderator Margaret Brennan mentioned recent information published by UNICEF, the U.N….

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#Three Palestinian men shot in Vermont

#Three Palestinian men shot in Vermont

Three Palestinian men were shot and injured near the University of Vermont on Saturday in what authorities suspect could be a hate-related crime. The Burlington Police Department said in a press release that two of the three victims are in stable condition while the third sustained “much more serious injuries.” The three men, who are…

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#4-year-old American hostage released by Hamas, Biden says

#4-year-old American hostage released by Hamas, Biden says

President Biden announced on Sunday that a four-year-old American Israeli citizen, Abigail Idan, was among the 13 hostages released on Sunday from Gaza. “Two days ago, two days ago, one of our fellow Americans, a little girl named Abigail, turned four years old. She spent her birthday, that birthday… held hostage by Hamas. Today, she’s…

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#Christie concedes some credit to Biden, while criticizing deal as ‘lopsided’ toward Hamas

#Christie concedes some credit to Biden, while criticizing deal as ‘lopsided’ toward Hamas

2024 Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie said on Sunday that President Biden deserves credit for helping release the hostages in Gaza, but he criticized the deal as “lopsided” in favor of Hamas. “Look, I think that any time there’s return of hostages, that’s incredibly helpful. And President Biden and his administration has played a role…

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#How school boards became one of democracy’s front lines

#How school boards became one of democracy’s front lines

Since the pandemic, Americans are paying closer attention to school boards and their meetings than ever before, but the rubber-meets-the-road government bodies — an original colonial creation — are no strangers to controversy. Nick Melvoin got elected to Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education in 2017 and has not seen a break in…

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