President Joe Biden's plan to create free, universal pre-K would make preschool available and affordable for 6 million more children. But that would mean hiring tens of thousands of new teachers at a time when schools are already struggling to fill existing positions. [...]
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) tells CNN's Jake Tapper that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy "is a liar and a coward" for his defense of a GOP House member who made Islamophobic comments. [...]
Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle says allegations of cocaine taking are "deeply concerning". [...]
Several people have been injured during a demonstration against the country's military rulers. [...]
Having advised seven presidents in his role as director of the NIAID, Dr. Anthony Fauci is one of America's best-known doctors, and, for many, a trusted voice on Covid-19. He became so much a part of everyday life over the past two years that people started naming their pets after him. Yet Fauci has been the target of increasingly overwrought attacks from the right for his role supporting vaccines and other proven measures to stem the pandemic. [...]
CNN's Jim Acosta speaks to Manuel Oliver, father of Parkland school shooting victim Joaquin 'Guac' Oliver, about a tweet by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) after a school shooter killed four students in Michigan. [...]
The Covid-19 pandemic will not last forever. [...]
President Joe Biden has a favorite story about his long relationship with Israel. For decades, he has been publicly recounting his 1973 meeting with then-Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir -- which he described in 2015 as "one of the most consequential meetings I've ever had in my life." [...]
Days after a 15-year-old student allegedly killed four classmates at a Michigan high school, the district's superintendent has requested an independent investigation into the incident -- the deadliest school shooting at a US K-12 campus since May 2018. [...]
Follow live text updates and BBC Radio 5 Live commentary from Sunday's Premier League games. [...]
Visiting a camp in Greece, Francis called on Europe to take responsibility for the situation. [...]
Some Black students are being told they stink while others are being called monkeys by their White peers. The n-word has been written on the walls of school restrooms as other students are the targets of racist rants on social media. [...]
For the first time in two months, the US is averaging more than 100,000 new Covid-19 cases each day, shortly after millions of Americans traveled for the Thanksgiving holiday. [...]
Officials at Antwerp zoo do not know how the pair - now in quarantine - caught the virus. [...]
The stones are believed to be from an Air India plane which crashed into the mountain in 1966. [...]
His F1 team Mercedes has been criticised for partnering with Kingspan, a firm linked to Grenfell Tower. [...]
Home Minister Amit Shah expresses "anguish" after troops fire on miners in the country's north-east. [...]
Wishma Rathnayake's death in immigration detention in Japan has fueled debate over the treatment of foreigners in the country and exposed the lack of transparency in a system where people can languish for years with no prospect of release. [...]
The return of pre-departure tests for travellers to the UK will come into force on 04:00 GMT Tuesday. [...]
Researchers discover coastal species living on debris miles from their natural surroundings. [...]