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The school year is supposed to resume in just a few short weeks, but with the threat of a pandemic still looming large many families don’t know what to expect. Schools, meanwhile, are caught between the dire warnings of health officials and the pleading of parents who say they can no longer play teacher at home – including Northeast Ohio’s 108 Catholic schools. Frank O’Linn, the superintendent of schools for the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, told ideastream that at this point, reopening plans are being left to the schools themselves.

If the coronavirus spreads more widely, can U.S. hospitals handle such a surge in illness? Probably not — meaning public health officials would have to accurately identify who is most severely ill.

Countries around the world have imposed various travel bans to fight the pandemic. But those restrictions are contradicting international health regulations and might not be viable long-term.

It was one year ago when a student at Virginia Tech gunned down 32 of his classmates and instructors in a nightmarish killing spree. At the Blacksburg campus, students, administrators and residents gather to honor those who died.

Napoleonic Wars? The Royal Navy? Yawn. Novelist Nicola Griffith had low expectations when she started reading Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander. But soon she was tearing through the 20-volume series, reveling in the deeply rendered friendship between the characters Jack and Stephen. It's a masterpiece, she says: "Jane Austen on a ship of war."

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's offer to federal employees to resign now in exchange for pay and benefits through September can go forward.

Ireland's Supreme Court ruled that, for tax purposes, Subway bread had too much sugar to qualify as bread. The case raises questions about changing tastes, niche tax law, and what is bread anyway?

This is the second Olympics to feature surfing, but it's the first time competitors are riding waves that are a matter of "life or death," according to professional big wave surfer Garrett McNamara.

Bring on the dancing. The Metropolitan Opera has a hot new production of Camille Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila (Samson and Delilah) complete with…

Welcome to Opera Abbreviated, your very own series of podcasts designed to give you a pithy sense of the operas being presented by the Metropolitan…