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Utah Cross-Country Championships Feature Firsts, Streaks
Sports
— Oct 27, 2026
Utah’s high school cross-country championships brought major milestones: Lehi won its first boys’ 6A title since 1995, while Viewmont and Canyon View captured their first girls’ state championships in 5A and 3A. North Summit’s girls extended their 2A streak to six titles, Maple Mountain’s boys repeated in 5A, and Lone Peak’s girls won a fifth straight 6A championship.
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Haze Shuts Timor-Leste Schools, Singapore Pollution Peaks
Indonesian
— Oct 14, 2026
Smoke from Indonesia’s wildfires pushed Singapore’s PM2.5 pollution to its highest level this year, while Timor-Leste suspended in-person schooling for three days. Singapore has not ordered school closures, drawing criticism as Malaysia closes schools in affected areas; Indonesia says it has mobilized additional firefighting resources.
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Dana Whitfield
Indonesia should prioritize stopping these fires instead of letting smoke keep harming kids across the border.
UN warns 100,000 Lebanese students at risk as school year nears
Lebanese
— Sep 4, 2026
Thousands of children in southern Lebanon remain displaced six months into the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, with many living in public schools repurposed as shelters as the new school year approaches on September 15. The fighting has killed more than 4,300 people and wounded about 12,000, with over 340,000 displaced at the peak, and nearly 80 public schools still serving as shelters as authorities scramble to reopen classrooms.
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Sam Okafor
schools still being used as shelters means there's nowhere for those kids to even go once classes start. Where's the plan for that?
Yellow school bus faces new reality nationwide
United States of America
— Aug 21, 2026
The yellow school bus was adopted in 1939 by a national group of state transportation officials for visibility, becoming an enduring symbol of American schooling and peaking in the 1980s with more than 60% of students riding it. Over the decades it evolved from rural roots in Georgia, aided desegregation efforts, and featured ongoing safety upgrades and famed long-serving drivers, even as later trends show growing segregation in some districts.
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Microsoft Reportedly Urges Trump Admin Not To Ban Chinese Data Center Parts
Simon August · 4 min · 1h
