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WASHINGTON — A long-delayed plan to dismantle Interstate 375, a one-mile depressed freeway in Detroit that was built by demolishing black neighborhoods 60 years ago, was a big winner of federal money last week, the first Biden administration grant awarded to tear down a racially divisive roadway. The $104.6 million is among $1.5 billion in [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The wave of attempted book banning and restrictions continues to intensify, the American Library Association reported last week. Numbers for 2022 already approach last year's totals, which were the highest in decades. "I've never seen anything like this," says Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom. "It's both [...]
As French chef and restaurateur Daniel Boulud puts it, "Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important — fun, food, and life." Kitchens now might not play the center-of-everything roles that they did during the early days of the pandemic. However, even if you're spending more time away, you'll likely have become a little more [...]
When a water crisis forced schools back online in Jackson, Miss., fifth-grade teacher Ryan Johnson saw reminders everywhere of pandemic times. Two and a half years after schools switched to remote learning for COVID-19, he once again logged into online learning to see kids lying in bed at home while tuning in for his classes. [...]
DETROIT — When it came time to showcase its electric Chevrolet Equinox SUV to the public this year, General Motors decided against doing so at the big Detroit auto show, as it typically would have done in the past. Instead, it unveiled the Equinox six days earlier. GM's decision symbolized just how much smaller this [...]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Nearly six years after flood damage from Hurricane Matthew displaced Thad Artis from his home in Goldsboro, N.C., he has still not been placed in permanent housing. Living alone in a motel for the last two years, growing increasingly frustrated with what he considers empty promises of swift action from government [...]
PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — David Stephens' children romped around the small patch of grass they've turned into a makeshift playground, running and laughing — seemingly without a care in the world. Their father, though, is gripped by worry about the future. He marvels at his kids' resilience, considering the losses and hardships they've endured. When floodwaters [...]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Everywhere, it seems, back-to-school has been shadowed by worries of a teacher shortage. The education secretary has called for investment to keep teachers from quitting. A teachers union leader has described it as a five-alarm emergency. News coverage has warned of a crisis in teaching. In reality, there is little evidence [...]
DENVER (AP) — The intensifying crisis facing the Colorado River amounts to what is fundamentally a math problem. The 40 million people who depend on the river to fill up a glass of water at the dinner table, wash their clothes or grow food across millions of acres use significantly more each year than actually [...]
A bankruptcy judge last week approved a $2.46 billion reorganization plan proposed by the Boy Scouts of America, which would allow it to keep operating while compensating tens of thousands of men who say they were sexually abused as children while involved in Scouting. Though legal hurdles remain, the ruling by Judge Laurie Selber Silverstein [...]