US President Donald Trump announced that US forces had carried out a large-scale military assault on Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro, .

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The use of restraint and seclusion in K-12 schools has been scrutinized and criticized for decades, including by the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Government Accountability Office, and several research articles published by the National Institutes ...

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Joseph Ibrahim has received funding from Commonwealth and State Health Departments for research, education and consultancies. He was an expert witness for the Coroner's Court in South Australia for the Inquest into a resident's death at Oakden and provided ...

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Venezuela declared a state of emergency, calling U.S. strikes "extremely serious military aggression." Venezuelan President Maduro was arrested.