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CHICAGO — Army recruiters struggling to meet enlistment goals say one of their biggest hurdles is getting into high schools, where they can meet students one on one. They received a recent boost from a recruiting advocate whom school leaders couldn't turn away: the secretary of the Army. During three days of back-to-back meetings across [...]
Researchers at The Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business found that an individual’s political ideology largely determined how the person perceived COVID-19-era fixtures such as social-distancing floor markers and Plexiglas barriers. The study, which was published recently in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, found that conservatives were more likely than liberals to reject the [...]
DENVER (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said her agency will work to restore more large bison herds to Native American lands under an order that calls for the federal government to tap into Indigenous knowledge in its efforts to conserve the burly animals that are an icon of the West. Haaland was expected [...]
CHOWCHILLA, California (AP) — Joseph Sena has spent nearly half his 27 years in prison for manslaughter. For almost as long, he's been striving to make himself a better man than when he first arrived. He has taken courses in creative writing, addressed his addictions, and attended school in prison, hoping to be judged fit [...]
SHAMONG, N.J. — Sprawling across 1.1 million acres of pine trees, sandy soil, remote wetlands and home to rare plants and animals, the New Jersey Pinelands is the personification of the free-as-a-bird Great Outdoors. Locals speak passionately of walking or riding through the woods that their parents or grandparents introduced them to, hiking, fishing, hunting [...]
According to a survey, colleges and universities have been slow to create policies, educational programs or restrictions on sports betting among high-risk students. The findings by The Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism were announced amid an aggressive expansion of sports gambling and abundant advertising at some college campuses — on scoreboards and banners at [...]
What used to be a rare one-two punch of consecutive hurricanes hitting about the same place in the United States weeks apart may happen more often, according to a new study that claims climate change will make back-to-back storms more frequent and nastier in the future. Using computer simulations, scientists at Princeton University calculated that [...]
BALTIMORE — Using $2 million in federal grant funding, Baltimore officials will start developing a plan to reconnect black neighborhoods by potentially demolishing a stretch of thoroughfare that displaced hundreds of families amid a failed highway construction project decades ago. The city's so-called "Highway to Nowhere" was designed to connect the downtown business district to [...]
NEW YORK — Bulletproof vests and drones. Pickup trucks, walkie-talkies and tourniquets. These are just some of the items that individuals and non-profits have donated to buy and ship to Ukraine, where sometimes they are then used by those fighting Russia's invasion. "We've had these discussions countless times," said Igor Markov, a director of the [...]
WASHINGTON — Soy, oat, almond and other drinks that bill themselves as "milk" can keep using the name, according to draft federal rules released last week. Food and Drug Administration officials issued guidance that says plant-based beverages don't pretend to be from dairy animals — and that U.S. consumers aren't confused by the difference. Dairy [...]