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The District 87 school board held a public meeting on Wednesday to review and adopt the district's 2025 budget. The $95 million budget comes with a $3 million deficit, and a working cash balance of $20 million.

We look at President Biden's role in new — and still fragile — cease-fire between Israel and Gaza, as well as the near certain demise of the January 6 Commission.

a new method for accessing the Internet. The new wireless system will be a major benefit to schools, hospitals and businesses. The FCC set aside a large portion of the radio spectrum, dedicated to letting computers communicate with each other over the airwaves.

The National Transportation Safety Board says a preliminary investigation has not yet determined the cause of last year's crash of an Egyptian airliner off the coast of New York. But NTSB Chairman Jim Hall said there were no unresolved safety issues. Egyptair flight 990 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in October killing all 217 people on board. Egyptian officials said more work needed to be done, mainly on the Boeing 767's elevator control system. Speculation about the cause of the crash has centered on one of the plane's co-pilots and the possibility that he deliberated plunged the aircraft into the sea. NPR's Guy Raz reports

Robert talks with Matthew Wald, a reporter for the New York Times, about the fire that brought down ValuJet Flight 592 last May. Airline safety experts are testifying this week at a hearing of the National Transportation Safety Board. Wald discusses what occurred at the hearing today, including speculation that the fire on board the plane may have started on the ground. The question of who should bear the responsibility for the accident has come into play in today's testimony; ValuJet, as the air carrier, or Sabretech, the company responsible for packing the oxygen generators now being blamed for starting the fire. There are some indications now that language difficulties among the Sabretech loading crew may have contributed to the confusion surrounding the loading and packaging of the generators.

The helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant highlighted an aviation problem: It's difficult for pilots to recover after entering clouds by mistake. New virtual reality technology aims to change that.

District 87 is adding a new administrative position to help students with crisis prevention and intervention as part of a major district…

Throughline's Ramtin Arablouei speaks with Bill Burns and Cyrus Field IV on the makings of the first transatlantic cable.

National expert says Trump administration has no authority to demand records

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