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Should schools get rid of homework? Some educators are saying yes

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Israel starts a tense ceasefire in Lebanon. And, Trump nominates a new CDC director.

act of war, but in this case, it could be [part of negotiations](https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=nx-s1-5788557:x). **President Trump has nominated Dr. Erica Schwartz,** a former Coast Guard doctor and Trump's deputy surgeon general under

Two Kashmir brothers: One killed by rebels, another by army 26 years later

intelligence and, at times, assisting troops in operations against the rebels. Over time, however, this relationship has frayed. Once trusted as a front-line community, the Gujjars and Bakarwals – the two main tribes

Why the hantavirus outbreak is different from COVID-19

director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), [said](/video/newsfeed/2026/5/9/who-chief-says-hantavirus-outbreak-is-not) in a statement on Saturday. Here is a a breakdown of the key differences between the hantavirus and COVID-19: ## What is the hantavirus? [Hantaviruses

‘Looked so real’: How AI is being weaponised against India’s Muslim women

intelligence, falsely claimed she was a Muslim woman “selling her body” to Hindu men. It misidentified people in the photographs and labelled her own brother as her “pimp”. “It looked so real that if someone

Trump's Truth Social lays bare narrow obsessions of an extremely online president

Act he's promoting, and more than he posted about protesters and federal agents in Minneapolis, including federal agents killing two U.S. citizens. He posted more than six times as often (105) about his various

What we know about how the U.S. government uses spyware (and what we don't)

National Cyber Security Centre disclosed that it estimates [some 100 countries worldwide](https://www.politico.eu/article/u-k-intelligence-100-nations-have-spyware-that-can-hack-britain/) have access to spyware and cyber intrusion tools that could be used against British devices and systems. ### A mystery with