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Number of international students attending American colleges up 12%

WASHINGTON (AP) — International students attended American universities in surging numbers last year, rebounding from a pandemic slump with the help of a 35 percent jump in students coming from India, according to a study released earlier this week. Overall, the number of international students in the United States grew by 12 percent in the [...]

By |2023-11-16T13:01:17-05:00Wednesday, November 15, 2023|

U.S. Census Bureau estimates world’s population at 8 billion

The human species has topped 8 billion, with longer lifespans offsetting fewer births, but world population growth continues a long-term trend of slowing down, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The bureau estimates the global population exceeded the threshold Sept. 26, a precise date the agency said to take with a grain of salt. The [...]

By |2023-11-16T13:01:31-05:00Wednesday, November 15, 2023|

Nonprofits making progress in reducing homelessness among veterans

ATLANTA (AP) — Along a busy Atlanta residential road, a 68-year-old Vietnam War-era Army veteran has found what he calls a "match made in heaven." Harold Tilson Jr. found himself homeless earlier this year but for the past few months has been living in transitional housing run by the non-profit Veterans Empowerment Organization, or VEO. [...]

By |2023-11-16T13:01:37-05:00Wednesday, November 15, 2023|

Kroc gifts $1.8 billion to Salvation Army

First-class recreation centers in low-income neighborhoods — dozens of them, scattered around the nation — was the vision of Joan Kroc, billionaire philanthropist and heiress to the McDonald’s fortune of her husband, Ray. When she died in 2003, Joan Kroc surprised the Salvation Army when she left what amounted to $1.8 billion — roughly half [...]

By |2023-11-15T15:00:43-05:00Monday, November 13, 2023|

Mexico’s hurricane reconstruction plans prioritize military barracks

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s government laid out hurricane reconstruction plans last week for the resort city of Acapulco that give as much priority to building military barracks as re-opening hotels. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he hoped owners would be able to reopen as many as 35 of the resort city’s 377 hotels [...]

By |2023-11-15T15:01:59-05:00Monday, November 13, 2023|

Ohio State engineering school reaches record high enrollment

Ohio State University’s College of Engineering has a record number of students, according to the university’s Autumn Semester Enrollment Report. This fall the total number of students, including all of OSU’s campuses, in the College of Engineering is up 3.3 percent compared to last year to 11,111 students. The figures include undergraduate and graduate students. [...]

By |2023-11-08T14:12:36-05:00Tuesday, November 7, 2023|

Born after Superstorm Sandy, flood control projects are underway

HOBOKEN, N.J. — A decade after they were first envisioned in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy’s destruction, two of the largest flood control projects designed to protect the densely populated cities of New Jersey that lie just outside New York City finally got underway last week. A project in Hoboken, which was inundated by flooding [...]

By |2023-11-02T12:46:19-04:00Wednesday, November 1, 2023|

New organic rules announced by USDA tighten restrictions on livestock and poultry producers

DES MOINES, Iowa — Livestock and poultry producers will need to comply with more specific standards if they want to label their products organic under final rules announced last week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA's new Organic Livestock and Poultry Standards are being implemented after years of discussions with organics groups, farming [...]

By |2023-10-31T15:19:48-04:00Monday, October 30, 2023|
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