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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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
After delaying college for two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jaden Todd said he wasn’t sure that a four-year school was the right place to start. “I was extremely concerned that I forgot how to learn,” he said. Community college appealed as a stepping stone, but he also had heard stories of students who [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Kenneth Williams spent his entire life in Brooklyn, but it wasn’t until a night in 2018, when he crossed a narrow footbridge in shackles, that he learned about New York City’s last floating jail. He remembers the murky East River water below him, the stench of mold and a sinking feeling [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]