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Residents who'd fled have begun returning in recent days to this town outside Kyiv, where officials say Russian forces deliberately struck and bombed civilian targets. Hundreds of people are missing.

In rural farming regions, dangerous chemicals from fertilizer have made their way into water sources. For some towns, it takes millions of dollars just to get clean water for a few hundred residents.

The No Child Left Behind Act, signed into law in 2002, mandated standardized testing in the nation's public schools to establish a measure of accountability among states and school districts for the academic performance of their students. The pressures of such testing are most acutely felt among the schools which perennially have low scores, like Northwestern High School in Baltimore.

The 69-year-old cabinet member asked to be tested after learning he may have been exposed to the virus and he is not experiencing symptoms.

U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings has been on the defensive this month amidst a scandal about the student-loan industry, and accusations from Congress that her department has not provided sufficient oversight. Spellings says the industry is not entirely within her jurisdiction.

The United States and France join China, Russia, Japan and a score of other nations to confront the crisis in Darfur, Sudan. They are at a conference in Paris to support a new peace force in the war-torn Sudanese region. The conference comes after Sudan agreed to let U.N. peacekeepers into the country.

Early presidential debates offer unique opportunities as well as risks. Issue candidates get a platform, dark horses get a chance to introduce themselves, and the front-runners just try not to mess up. Two veterans of presidential campaigns talk about the objectives of early debates and how they differ from debates in the general election.

In the Apple TV+ sci-fi drama, Scott plays a man who has a chip implanted in his brain that allows him to sever his work and home lives. In reality, Scott says, it's not so easy to separate the two.

British literary magazine Granta publishes its new list of the best young American authors this month. The 21 writers — all age 35 or younger — show in their novels how the immigrant perspective is both changing American fiction, and adding intriguing depth not seen from previous young novelists.

Diplomats are expressing outrage over reports of Russian atrocities in Ukraine. In Brussels and Washington, officials announced more sanctions to step up the pressure on President Vladimir Putin.