## Julian Assange leaves jail on his way to enter plea deal with the U.S.

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The agreement will free Assange and end the yearslong legal battle over the publication of a trove of classified documents.

Assange was charged by criminal information — which typically signifies a plea deal — with conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, the court documents said.

Wikileaks posted footage to X of Assange boarding a plane at Stanstead Airport near London at 5 p.m. (12 p.m.

A plane believed to be carrying Assange landed early Tuesday in the Thai capital Bangkok to refuel.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange looking out of the window as his plane approaches Bangkok on Tuesday.

Stella Assange, a lawyer, also told the Reuters news agency that she would seek a pardon on her husband's behalf.

Court documents revealing Assange's plea deal were filed Monday evening in U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands. »

### ‘Extremely low pay’ cited at U.S. Senate hearing as prime reason for teacher shortage • Michigan Advance

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Arthur — the 2021 Utah Teacher of the Year — testified on Thursday at a hearing in the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on the challenges facing public school teachers.

The special education teacher spent most of his career in education as a paraprofessional.

“By all means, raise teacher pay, but do not assume that it will solve teacher shortages or keep good teachers in the classroom. »

### Death of 12-year-old at N.C. wilderness camp ruled a homicide

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The death of a 12-year-old boy at a North Carolina wilderness camp for troubled adolescents has been ruled a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Monday.

The camp has said it routinely placed children in bivvies overnight for their safety when they arrived.

The asphyxia finding was a “diagnosis of exclusion, meaning all other reasonable causes of death” were ruled out, it said. »

### Social Security to drop obsolete jobs used to deny disability benefits

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A reliance on outdated jobs “undermines trust in the rest of the process” of applying for disability benefits.

The list of jobs has been used for decades as part of Social Security’s process for assessing the work capacity of disability benefit applicants.

It was not immediately clear how Social Security would address such cases that relied on the outdated jobs data. »

### Man dies after being struck by roller coaster at Ohio amusement park

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Man dies after being struck by roller coaster at Ohio amusement park.

A 38-year-old man has died days after he was hit by a roller coaster at an Ohio amusement park, officials confirmed on Monday.

Arntanaro Nelson, of Wilmington, Ohio, suffered a "traumatic injury" Wednesday night at the Kings Island theme park in Mason, according to a Mason Police Department incident report. »

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