As Yale Teaching Fellow Erin Knapps helps her students sound out words, under the mentorship of veteran East Rock educator Jennifer Ryalls.

Belgium on Sunday marked 10 years since the 2016 jihadist bombings in Brussels, a trauma that still scars the country and that authorities say sharpened focus on intelligence and counter-terrorism.

Ten years after Islamic State (IS) group terrorists staged Belgium’s deadliest attack in peacetime, killing 32 and wounding more than 300, authorities vow to have learnt the right security lessons.

Remember those hard-to-watch Portland Trail Blazers games before the calendar flipped to the new year? The seemingly never-ending run of narrow defeats that saw them fight and claw and will their way ...