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WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans lean slightly toward expanding K-12 school discussions of racism and sexuality, according to a new poll. Still, however, roughly two-fifths of poll respondents — including similar percentages across party lines — say the current approach is about right. Still, the poll from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy [...]
NEW ORLEANS — Nearly 60 years ago, an historic black community founded as a home for newly freed slaves was demolished to expand a national park commemorating the Battle of New Orleans and Civil War casualties. Now park rangers and iris enthusiasts believe they may have found a botanical reminder — Louisiana irises and African [...]
Schools across the country are racing to make up for time they lost during the pandemic by budgeting billions of dollars for tutoring, summer camps and longer school days and trying to untangle which students need help most urgently after two years of disruptions. Many schools saw large numbers of students fall under the radar [...]
PHOENIX (AP) — Jennifer Chau was astonished last month when the U.S. Census Bureau's report card on how accurately it counted the nation’s population in 2020 showed that Asian people were overcounted by the highest rate of any race or ethnic group. The director of an Asian American advocacy group thought thousands of people would [...]
RICHMOND, Va. — It's a crime that siphons untold billions from the economy — but many people have never heard of it. Business Email Compromise scams involve criminals hacking into email accounts, pretending to be someone they're not and fooling victims into sending money where it doesn't belong. Although they get far less attention than [...]
PHOENIX (AP) — Karla Finocchio's slide into homelessness began when she split with her partner of 18 years and temporarily moved in with a cousin. The 55-year-old planned to use her $800-a-month disability check to get an apartment after back surgery, but she soon was sleeping in her old pickup protected by her German Shepherd [...]
Last Mile Food Rescue in Cincinnati started shopping in November for a refrigerated box truck to move perishable donations from food retailers to distribution sites. The purchase would take some of the pressure off overstretched volunteers, who would have to make three or more runs in their cars to haul as much food as a [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Nursing home residents are subjected to ineffective care and poor staffing, while facility finances are shrouded in secrecy and regulatory lapses go unenforced, according to a report last Wednesday that called for wholesale changes in an industry whose failures have been spotlighted by the pandemic. To anyone who saw the scourge [...]
NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Residents of a five-story apartment building near Miami evacuated this week after an engineer said its foundation was unsound, as officials heighten focus on the safety of aging buildings following last year's deadly Surfside condominium collapse. The evacuations were at the Bayview 60 Homes tower, built in 1972 in North [...]
Power outages from severe weather have doubled over the past two decades across the U.S., as a warming climate stirs more destructive storms that cripple broad segments of the nation's aging electrical grid, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data. Forty states are experiencing longer outages — and the problem is most acute [...]