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Laura Jackson became seriously concerned about her daughter and math when the girl was in third grade. While many of her classmates flew through multiplication tests, Jackson's daughter relied on her fingers to count, had difficulty reading clocks and burst into tears when asked at home to practice math flashcards. At school, the 9-year-old had [...]
LOUIS (AP) — Violent crime across the country decreased last year — dropping to about the same level as before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic — but property crimes rose substantially, according to data in the FBI's annual crime report released earlier this week. The report comes with an asterisk: Some law enforcement agencies [...]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Two newly created national wildlife refuges in Tennessee and Wyoming will help protect habitats for threatened and endangered species such as toads, bats, shrimp and salamanders, federal officials say. The Wyoming Toad Conservation Area and the Paint Rock River National Wildlife Refuge in Tennessee are the result of "decades-long, locally led efforts [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of Social Security recipients will receive a 3.2 percent increase in their benefits in 2024, far less than this year's historic boost. The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, means the average recipient will receive more than $50 more every month beginning in January, the Social Security Administration announced last week. The AARP [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — If people really looked for history at the New York City building where the Triangle Shirtwaist factory once existed, they could find it. There are plaques pointing out that it was the site of a horrific fire in 1911 that became a catalyst in the American labor movement’s fight for workplace [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — As soon as the federal pandemic relief started arriving at America's schools, so did the relentless calls. Tech companies by the dozens wanted a chance to prove their software was what schools needed, adding that they wouldn't take a dime from district budgets: Schools could use their new federal money. As a [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inside a high school classroom, Bryan Martinez jots down several purchases that would require a short-term savings plan: shoes, phone, headphones, clothes and food. His medium-term financial goals take a little more thought, but he settles on a car — he doesn't have one yet — and vacations. Peering way into his [...]
TOMS RIVER, N.J. — A New Jersey town where childhood cancer cases rose is trying to overturn a settlement between the state and the corporate successor to the company that dumped toxic waste into the water and ground for decades, turning part of the community into one of America's worst pollution cleanup sites. Toms River [...]
The U.S. Census Bureau's career staffers valiantly conducted the 2020 census under unprecedented challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic, but new privacy protocols meant to protect the confidentiality of participants degraded the resulting data, according to a report released earlier this week. Key innovations, such as encouraging most participants to fill out the census questionnaire online [...]
PROVINCETOWN, Mass. (AP) — A 95-year-old painter and his family threatened with eviction from the Provincetown, Mass., dune shack they have helped care for and occupy for nearly eight decades have won a reprieve. A legal team representing the painter worked out an agreement with federal officials that allows Salvatore Del Deo and his family [...]