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As part of a new initiative at the school, The Ohio State University is recruiting faculty members whose focus will be addressing how race and equity issues converge with STEM education, criminal justice, economic opportunity and engagement with urban communities. Last week 10 additional faculty positions were approved through the Office of Academic Affairs for [...]
NEW YORK — The HBO Max series "The Gilded Age" has brought alive America's post-Civil War renaissance and New York City's cultural awakening in all its Beaux Arts glory. The term, which translates simply as "fine arts," was anything but simple in the hands of the city's wealthiest figures of the time — names such [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The older you are, the less you fret about aging in place. That's a key insight from a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll, which found that adults ages 65 or older feel much better prepared to age in their own homes than those 50-64, who are mostly still [...]
MAYWOOD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois childhood home of Fred Hampton, an iconic Black Panther Party leader who was shot and killed during a 1969 police raid of his Chicago apartment, has been designated a historical landmark. In a news release, organizers of the Save The Hampton House initiative, led by Hampton's son and his [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The federal government's nuclear waste repository in New Mexico has major issues in fire training and firefighting vehicles, with its fleet in disrepair after years of neglect, according to an investigation by the U.S. Energy Department's Office of Inspector General. The investigation was spurred by allegations regarding fire protection concerns at [...]
DEAL, N.J. — Deal has made a deal. And it just might satisfy everyone who had been fighting about public access to a beach in this wealthy Jersey Shore enclave in a lawsuit that had been bouncing around the legal system for three years. In a settlement this month, the borough of Deal, the American [...]
TWIN BRIDGES, Calif. (AP) — In a California forest torched by wildfire last summer, researcher Anne Nolin examines a handful of the season's remaining snow, now darkened by black specks from the burned trees above. Spring heat waves had already melted much of the year's limited snowfall across California and parts of the West when [...]
SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) — Behind a fortress wall and razor wire and a few feet away from California's death row, students at one of the country's most unique colleges discuss the 9/11 attacks and issues of morality, identity and nationalism. Dressed in matching blue uniforms, the students only break from their discussion when a [...]
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urged world finance leaders this week to "get concrete" as they look for ways to combat a looming crisis over food insecurity around the globe that Russia's war in Ukraine has made even worse. "This threat touches the most vulnerable people the hardest — families that are already spending [...]
MODESTO, Calif. — Between vast almond orchards and dairy pastures in the heart of California’s farm country sits a property being redesigned to look like it did 150 years ago, before levees restricted the flow of rivers that weave across the landscape. The 2,100 acres at the confluence of the Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers [...]