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Paraprofessional Jessica Wein helps Josh Nazzaro stay focused while attending class virtually from his home in Wharton, New Jersey. Without any in-school special education services for months, Nazzaro’s normally sweet demeanor has sometimes given way to aggressive meltdowns that had been under control before the pandemic. The teenager, who has autism and is nonverbal, often wanted no part of his online group speech therapy sessions, and when he did participate, he needed constant hands-on guidance from aides hired by his family.

School closings threaten gains of students with disabilities

Some schools have prioritized high-needs students in reopening plans, bringing small numbers of them back to campuses that otherwise are sticking with distance learning. But those options have only fueled further anguish when they have been reversed because of the virus, and educators say personalized video sessions remain poor substitutes for classroom experience.
BioGerm was one of three companies that gained privileged access to crucial information on the coronavirus from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention at the beginning of the outbreak, allowing them to make kits ahead of competitors. The move delayed China’s response to the outbreak and caused critical shortages of kits.

China testing blunders stemmed from secret deals with firms

Throughout Wuhan in January, thousands of people waited in hours-long lines for hospitals, sometimes next to corpses lying in hallways. But most couldn't get the test they needed to be admitted as patients. And for the few who did, the tests were often faulty, resulting in false negatives.
Jen Psaki is seen in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington.

Psaki, next White House press secretary, a veteran messenger

After four years of President Donald Trump serving as his own chief spokesperson and frequently peddling false information and conspiracy theories in the process, successor Joe Biden is pledging to return to a more traditional approach to communicating with Americans.
President-elect Joe Biden speaks Tuesday as Vice President-elect Kamala Harris listens during an event to introduce their nominees and appointees to economic policy posts at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware. Up soon for Biden: naming his top health care officials as the coronavirus pandemic rages. It’s hard to imagine more consequential picks. Biden is expected to announce his choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services next week.

Next for Biden: Naming a health care team as pandemic rages

Up soon for President-elect Joe Biden: naming his top health care officials as the coronavirus pandemic rages. It's hard to imagine more consequential picks.
China hits out at U.S. over new visa restrictions
China on Thursday accused critics in the U.S. government of "an escalation of political suppression" against Beijing following a report of new visa restrictions on members of China's ruling Communist Party and their immediate family members.
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Court: Enough evidence to send Rittenhouse to trial in Kenosha protest shootings
There is enough evidence to warrant a trial for an Antioch teen accused of killing two men and wounding a third during a night of unrest in Wisconsin, a court commissioner ruled Thursday after a contentious hearing in which the defendant's lawyer tried to show he had acted in self-defense.
This photo provided by the San Diego Air and Space Museum shows an Atlas Centaur 7 rocket on the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Florida. A mysterious object temporarily orbiting Earth is the Centaur upper stage of this 54-year-old rocket, not an asteroid after all, astronomers confirmed Wednesday. Observations by a telescope in Hawaii clinched its identity, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
NASA: Mystery object is 54-year-old rocket, not asteroid
A mysterious object temporarily orbiting Earth is a 54-year-old rocket, not an asteroid after all, astronomers confirmed Wednesday.
FILE - In this March 27, 2020 file photo, U.S. soldiers stand guard during the hand over ceremony of Qayyarah Airfield, Iraqi Security Forces, in the south of Mosul, Iraq. In a quest to root out Islamic State group hideouts over the summer, Iraqi forces on the ground cleared nearly 90 villages across a notoriously unruly northern province. But the much-touted operation still relied heavily on U.S. intelligence, coalition flights and planning assistance. (AP Photo/Ali Abdul Hassan, File)
EXPLAINER: How could US drawdown in Iraq aid IS, Iran?
The planned withdrawal of 500 American forces from Iraq by mid-January, leaving 2,500 in place, is unlikely to have an immediate impact on Iraqi forces' ability to combat remnants of the Islamic State group
New phallus sculpture appears in Bavarian mountains
German news agency dpa reports that just days after a large phallus sculpture mysteriously disappeared from a Bavarian mountainside, a similar wooden carving has appeared in its place
A crowd gathers on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020, along Rice Street near the scene where St. Paul Police shot a man earlier in the night in St. Paul, Minn. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP)
Attorney: St. Paul officer shot Black man to protect others
An attorney for a St. Paul police officer who shot and wounded a Black man who emerged naked from a dumpster says the officer was trying to protect his fellow officers and himself
California monolith erected that's similar to Utah structure
A monolith spotted in Southern California appears similar to one discovered in the Utah desert and another that was found in Romania
Chicago archdiocese to pay $1.5 million in sexual abuse suit
The Archdiocese of Chicago has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who says he was sexually abused as a child by a defrocked priest who was convicted of sexually abusing several boys
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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The Daily Herald Archive, Assignment # 37,540, Dom Najolia photo: Legendary talk show host Phil Donahue, left, interviews equally legendary talk show host Dick Cavett during his show in Chicago in September of 1975.
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Cutting your own Christmas tree may be one of the few traditions remaining relatively the same. Kai MacNicol leads her children, Max, 6, Maya, 8, and Lilly, 9, (obscured by tree) to the car with their freshly cut tree at Abbey Farms in Aurora on Saturday, November 21, 2020. “We’re trying to build a new tradition,” said the single mother from Elmhurst.
Christmas lights, Christmas trees and Christmas events take center stage in The Week in Pictures photo gallery for November 21-27, 2020.
6-year-old Dylan Schroeder of Arlington Heights reacts when he realizes that he got a surprise truck parade outside his home Sunday on his last day of chemotherapy.
Hundreds participate in surprise parade on 6-year-old's last day of chemo
Customers socially distance as they wait to get into Bath & Body Works during Black Friday shopping outdoors at Deer Park Town Center Friday November 27, 2020 in Deer Park.
Black Friday shopping at Deer Park Town Center, across the country
More than 2000 cars will pass through this COVID-19 testing site at Arlington Park in a day as people are waiting in long lines to get tested.
Testing lines, Santa visits, great weather golfing and turkey giveaways are in The Week in Pictures photo gallery for November 7-20, 2020.
The Daily Herald Archive, Assignment # 64,337, Rosemary Kaul photo: Legendary musician Glen Campbell photographed on the room of the NBC building in Chicago in September of 1982.
Through the Film Magnifier: Glen Campbell, Steve Garvey, Globetrotters, Scrabble tournaments and more
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