Chechen Militant Resistance. At least six people are dead and 10 injured after militants attack parliament in the Russian republic of Chechnya.
Education. D.C. public schools have started serving an early dinner to an estimated 10,000 students, many of whom are now receiving three meals a day from the system as it expands efforts to curb childhood hunger and poor nutrition.
French Pension Protests. Masked youths clashed with police officers and set fires in cities across France on Tuesday as protests against a proposed hike in the retirement took an increasingly radical turn.
Quote of the Day "There are a few of them who come in so broken and so sick that you're amazed that they're alive. They come to realize that it wasn't their fault that they were hurt. As that shame starts to come off, the confidence comes out." Nancy Chand, a deputy public defender who acts as the attorney for women in California’s Second Chance Women's Re-entry Court program, one of the first in the nation to focus on women facing a return to state prison for nonviolent felonies, who plead guilty to their crimes and enter treatment instead. (Los Angeles Times)
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