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Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., chaired a hearing on new laws that restrict classroom discussion of gender, sexual orientation and race. Students, parents and teachers are among those who spoke.

President Biden heads to Asia Friday for a meeting of the Quad group, which includes leaders from India, Japan and Australia. The unspoken focus of the gathering is China.

The Vincent Price Museum in East L.A. features a major exhibition of Latinx artists using sound in their work, from demolishing a piano to dedicating musical oldies to incarcerated loved ones.

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg has published a memoir called Enemy Combatant. Begg says he was arrested in Pakistan without ever being charged with a crime, beaten and psychologically tortured at prison camps in Afghanistan and kept in isolation for nearly two years at Guantanamo Bay.

Poverty stricken Senegalese young men are so desperate for work and respect that they risk their lives trying to make the 600-mile voyage to Spain's Canary Islands. But it can be a problem for both Spain and Senegal.

U.N. diplomats had hoped several thousand French troops would join the new peacekeeping force in Lebanon. To their disappointment, President Jacques Chirac announces that France will add only 200 troops to its 200 peacekeepers who are already part of the U.N. force in Lebanon. Diplomats fear that France's decision will have a chilling effect on the effort to put a robust force in place.

Soccer analyst Seamus Malin says World Cup favorite Brazil failed to reach the semifinals because the squad sported too many superstars to foster real teamwork. Malin also predicts the outcome of the semifinal matches: France vs. Portugal and Italy vs. Germany.

Commentator Yvette Doss talks about doing nothing -- and the book Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America by Tom Lutz. Yvette Doss is managing editor at Ciudad magazine.

In a move to get ads past e-mail filters, spammers take a page out of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's book.

Felipe Calderon and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador both declare victory in Mexico's presidential election. Authorities say an official vote count will not be complete until later in the week. With more than 30 million votes counted, preliminary numbers showed the two men only 300,000 votes apart.