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Shamsia Alizada dropped out of the Madwdud Academy in Kabul after a suicide bomber killed more than 40 students. But she returned — and has scored top grades on the country's college entrance exams.

The U.S. reported more than 55,000 infections Friday, pushing the total number of cases to more than 7 million. Some two dozen states saw new cases continue to rise this past week.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden boarded a train from the Downtown Cleveland lakefront Wednesday morning headed for Pennsylvania, with a stop in Alliance, Ohio. He spent the previous night in Northeast Ohio following the first presidential debate, then joined his wife Jill at a morning campaign rally by the Amtrak station.

Cleveland City Council’s safety committee on Wednesday heard a presentation from the Cleveland Peacemakers Alliance on some of its goals and programming. But the group faced criticism for what council members said was a lack of communication and transparency. The violence intervention group focuses on community engagement, retaliation prevention, and connecting people with services in the Cleveland area. The Peacekeepers are more effective if they are not associated with police or local officials, said Grady Stevenson, the city’s director of community relations.

In June, NPR reported that the department was making it harder for colleges to reconsider aid for students whose finances have changed. On Thursday, the agency reversed course.

A growing number of states that have flattened the coronavirus curve are now limiting travel from other states that have not. The tourist economy of Cape Cod in Massachusetts is caught in the middle.

Updated: 4:49 p.m., Tuesday, July 28, 2020 Akron public school children will learn virtually from home for the first nine weeks of school, the district board of education voted Monday night. Akron Superintendent David James told ideastream Tuesday that the board’s decision to go fully remote for the first grading period was made in part because the general public appears to be shirking social distancing guidelines.

Many colleges, even the elite schools, rely on summer camps for additional revenue during the summer. This year the cancellation of those camps because of the pandemic is costing them millions.

Joe Biden is the president-elect, and Donald Trump’s campaign has presented no serious evidence that would lead a judge to throw out enough votes to reverse the outcome of the election.

The Russian leader has touted Sputnik V, as the vaccine is known, but more than half of Russians say they don't want to take it.