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School Funding Up In Teacher Protest States; Parkland Superintendent Keeps Job

Also in this week's education roundup: a new head for Federal Student Aid, and a California law aims to make charter schools more transparent.

Members of the European Parliament have voted to abolish daylight saving time in the EU. Here, workers remove the calendar dial of Prague's astronomical clock during a renovation of the building in 2017.

European Parliament Moves Toward Ending Daylight Saving Time

Under a proposal, each EU member state would need to choose either "summertime" (daylight saving time) or "wintertime" (standard time). The change would go into effect in 2021.

The lame-duck session of Congress will extend into late December now that bipartisan negotiators have passed a short-term extension of government funding. They have until Dec. 21 to finalize a spending deal.

Congress Punts Shutdown Fight Deep Into December

Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill are still fighting over President Trump's demand to include $5 billion for a border wall in the annual spending bill and have until Dec. 21 to get a deal.

Wisdom, the 68-year-old albatross, has still got it going on. Here she is incubating her egg this week at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.

Wisdom The Albatross, World's Oldest Wild Bird, Lays Another Egg

Wisdom is known to be at least 68 years old and nests each year at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. She survived a tsunami and is believed to have laid nearly 40 eggs over her life.

Cheese is packaged for sale at Widmer's Cheese Cellars in 2016 in Theresa, Wis. Record dairy production in the U.S. has produced a record surplus of cheese causing prices to drop.

Nobody Is Moving Our Cheese: American Surplus Reaches Record High

Americans consumed almost 37 pounds per capita in 2017, but that wasn't enough to reduce the country's 1.4 billion-pound cheese surplus. The stockpile of cheese started to build several years ago.

A downgrade in the nation's credit rating could lead to higher borrowing costs for the U.S. Treasury, companies and consumers.

A Warning About U.S. Credit Rating Could Signal Higher Interest Rates

A major credit rating agency is warning that a prolonged government shutdown could mean that it will reconsider the nation's AAA rating. That could lead to higher borrowing costs.

Protesters celebrate after listening to a judgment during a rally demanding the abolition of South Korea's abortion law outside of the Constitutional Court in Seoul on Thursday.

South Korean Court Strikes Down Decades-Old Abortion Ban

The country's Constitutional Court overturned the ban enacted in 1953. Despite South Korea's heavily Christian population, in recent years anti-abortion sentiment has softened.

Julian Assange's cat wears a striped tie and white collar as it looks out the window of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2016.

The Mystery Of Julian Assange's Cat

Assange was arrested Thursday after the Ecuadorian Embassy in London said he was no longer welcome. But what happened to the self-proclaimed master of "counter-purrveillance?"

People walk in El Paso, Texas after crossing the border between the U.S. and Mexico at the Rio Grande.

1A Across America: Boiling Point At The Border

About a year after President Trump said he was ending family separations at the border, questions about the treatment of migrant children and families remain.

Police Sr. Sgt. Paddy Hannan holds an AR-15 style rifle similar to a weapon a gunman used to kill 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Dozens of gun owners handed over their weapons in the first of more than 250 planned buyback events around New Zealand.

New Zealand Starts Gun Buyback Program In Response To Christchurch Mosque Shootings

In response to the March shootings that left 51 people dead, the nation's gun buyback program asks owners of now-banned weapons to turn them in to police departments for cash.

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