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Millionaire philanthropist Pete Kadens is trying to do what President Biden hasn't been able to get done. Kadens has created two college-scholarship programs — Hope Toledo, in his Ohio hometown, and Hope Chicago, which he co-founded with investment-management executive Ted Koenig and launched in September in the city where he ran several businesses. The goal: [...]
After returning to metro San Francisco following a college football career, Anthony Giusti felt like his hometown was passing him by. The high cost of living, driven by a constantly transforming tech industry, ensured that even with two jobs he would never save enough money to buy a house. So he started looking elsewhere, settling [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — After three years of complaints and debate, the Army has scrapped its move to have a physical fitness test that is gender- and age-neutral, and will now allow women and older soldiers to pass while meeting some reduced standards. The decision comes after a study by the RAND research organization confirmed that [...]
Roughly 15 years before Herman Melville introduced the world to Moby Dick, a whaling ship from Massachusetts sank near the mouth of the Mississippi River. Nearly 190 years later, experts say, it's still the only whaler known to have gone down in the Gulf of Mexico, where the threat of enslavement at Southern ports posed [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Years before the Sept. 11 museum was built at the World Trade Center, a storefront visitor center across the street opened to offer tours led by victims' relatives, survivors and others with personal ties to the trauma and tragedy of 9/11. Sixteen years and five million visitors later, what is now [...]
The Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Diébédo Francis Kéré, a Berlin-based architect, educator and social activist, for a craft that is "sustainable to the earth and its inhabitants in lands of extreme scarcity," especially in Africa and his native Burkina Faso, organizers said last week. "He is equally architect and servant, improving upon [...]
The return to classrooms for the nation's school children has not meant a return to work for many of their parents who, with workdays that outlast school days, are finding crucial after-school programs in short supply. School-based providers list difficulties hiring and retaining staff as the biggest reasons they have not fully rebounded from pandemic [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Monday that a Mexican architect has been chosen as the first woman to design a wing at The Met, as the museum is known. The Met said in a statement that Mexican architect Frida Escobedo has been selected to design the renovation of The [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — When the pandemic shut schools two years ago, Scott Losavio faced a problem afflicting students, administrators and communities everywhere: What happens when all the student volunteers disappear? As service coordinator at Catholic High School in Baton Rouge, La., Losavio helps students fulfill the school's requirement to perform community service hours. Juniors must [...]
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — For nearly three months, Kristina Lemmon worked to restore the historic ceiling of an historic home here back to its former glory, and last month, the restoration artist was honored for her work. The local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution gave Lemmon a certificate for excellence in historic [...]