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WASHINGTON (AP) — The formal end of the national public health emergency last week was largely a symbolic and psychological step, representing the country's formal emergence from the COVID-19 pandemic. Behind the scenes, however, several core aspects of America's pandemic-era emergency safety net also came to a close, from extra food assistance to automatic re-enrollment [...]
For two decades, scientists have been comparing every person's full set of DNA they study to a template that relies mostly on genetic material from one man affectionately known as "the guy from Buffalo." They've long known, however, that this template for comparison, or "reference genome," has serious limits because it doesn't reflect the spectrum [...]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Postal carriers have more worries than snow, rain or the gloom of night keeping them from their appointed rounds. They're increasingly being robbed, often at gunpoint, from Maine to California. Robberies of postal carriers have exploded, surging 78 percent to nearly 500 in 2022, according to data provided by U.S. Postal [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — As schools across the country struggle to find teachers to hire, more governors are pushing for pay increases, bonuses and other perks for the beleaguered profession — with some vowing to beat out other states competing for educators. Already this year, governors in Georgia and Arkansas have pushed through teacher pay [...]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The federal Health and Human Services Department often failed to perform required background checks on workers at emergency holding centers for migrant children who crossed the United States-Mexico border alone during a surge in 2021, the agency's internal watchdog has found. The inspector general's report released last week raises questions about [...]
Test scores in history and civics have declined slightly for eighth grade students, according to results that show an increasing number of children lack a basic understanding of either subject. The scores were released this week by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The same assessment reported in October that every single state had seen [...]
First came the good news. After taking classes at a community college, Ricki Korba was admitted to California State University, Bakersfield, as a transfer student, but when she logged on to her student account, she got a gut punch: Most of her previous classes wouldn't count. The university rejected most of her science classes, she [...]
CORDOVA, N.M. — Ever since missionaries started building churches out of mud 400 years ago in what was the isolated frontier of the Spanish empire, tiny mountain communities such as Cordova relied on their own resources to keep the faith going. Thousands of miles from religious and lay seats of power, everything from priests to [...]
EAST PALESTINE (AP) — Jeff Drummond spends days and nights alone in a tiny room with fake wood paneling, two small beds and a microwave atop a mini refrigerator that serves as a nightstand — his pickup truck parked just outside the door at the roadside motel where he's taken refuge since early February. Shelby [...]
HONOLULU (AP) — Demolition will soon begin on a resort once favored by Elvis Presley and other Hollywood royalty before it was heavily damaged by a hurricane three decades ago. The Coco Palms Resort on the island of Kauai will be torn down for a new 350-room hotel, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported. The resort is [...]